On September 6th, 2020 with 27 comments
A new article examines a study which suggested fresh asphalt is "a significant, yet overlooked, source of air pollution," (as reported by Science). "In fact,...
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On September 6th, 2020 with 80 comments
Forbes reports:
Firefox is exploring subscriptions and other "value exchange" services to ease its financial dependence on rival Google, according to the...
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On September 5th, 2020 with 55 comments
An anonymous reader shares a fascinating true-crime story from Pittsburgh. Smithsonian magazine reports:
Like nuclear power plants and sensitive computer...
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On September 5th, 2020 with 82 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Japan's SoftBank was reportedly the "Nasdaq whale," that bought billions of dollars in individual stock options...
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On September 4th, 2020 with 25 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Pentagon said Friday it will stick with Microsoft for a major cloud contract that has been disputed in court...
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On September 4th, 2020 with 12 comments
As schools start around the US, many face a problem with getting all their students connected for virtual classes. To help with that crisis, T-Mobile has...
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On September 4th, 2020 with 40 comments
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it could cost an estimated $1.8 billion to remove and replace Huawei and ZTE equipment that's in US...
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On September 4th, 2020 with 31 comments
Mozilla will add a new security feature to Firefox in October that will make it harder for malicious web pages to initiate automatic downloads and plant...
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On September 3rd, 2020 with 182 comments
The Trump administration will decline to pay tens of millions of dollars owed to the World Health Organization (WHO) in annual dues as part of the U.S.'s...
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On September 3rd, 2020 with 20 comments
A Swiss region that has billed itself as a hub for high-tech finance said Thursday that it plans to accept cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ether for tax payments...
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On September 3rd, 2020 with 71 comments
The Justice Department plans to bring an antitrust case against Google as soon as this month, after Attorney General William P. Barr overruled career lawyers...
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On September 3rd, 2020 with 210 comments
Monica Chin, reporting for The Verge: On Monday, Dana Simmons came downstairs to find her 12-year-old son, Lazare, in tears. He'd completed the first...
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On September 3rd, 2020 with 5 comments
Google announced Wednesday that its cloud wing has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop artificial intelligence solutions for...
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On September 2nd, 2020 with 4 comments
Out of scores of federal civilian agencies, only a handful of them have official programs to work with outside security researchers to find and fix software...
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On September 1st, 2020 with 34 comments
When authorities arrested Graham Ivan Clark, who they said was the "mastermind" of the recent Twitter hack that ensnared Kanye West, Bill Gates and others, one...
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On September 1st, 2020 with 158 comments
Police across Canada are increasingly using controversial algorithms to predict where crimes could occur, who might go missing, and to help them determine...
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On September 1st, 2020 with 83 comments
Walmart today officially unveiled its new membership service and Amazon Prime rival, which it's calling "Walmart+." The $98 per year service will combine free,...
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On August 31st, 2020 with 133 comments
Elon Musk is now the third-richest person in the world. Musk passed Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg Monday as shares of Tesla continued their unrelenting...
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On August 31st, 2020 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: AT&T is once again looking to sell its DirecTV unit, a business that has lost billions of dollars in...
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On August 31st, 2020 with 48 comments
New export controls on technologies that Beijing deems sensitive are threatening to derail efforts by American companies to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations...
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On August 31st, 2020 with 162 comments
Confronting a climate crisis that threatens the fossil fuel industry, oil companies are racing to make more plastic. But they face two problems: Many markets...
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On August 31st, 2020 with 27 comments
US internet service provider CenturyLink has suffered a major technical outage on Sunday after a misconfiguration in one of its data centers created havoc all...
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On August 31st, 2020 with 48 comments
Amazon received federal approval to operate its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones, a milestone that allows it to expand unmanned package delivery, the Federal...
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On August 31st, 2020 with 207 comments
America's House of Representatives proposed a new structure for the U.S. Space Force in what's being called "the Starfleet amendment". Space News reports:
Be
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On August 29th, 2020 with 25 comments
Machine learning "can even bring ancient statues to life, transforming the chipped stone busts of long-dead Roman emperors into photorealistic faces you could...
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On August 28th, 2020 with 77 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The dominance of major U.S. tech stocks in recent years has pushed the sector past another milestone as it is...
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On August 28th, 2020 with 22 comments
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced a lawsuit Thursday against Instacart, claiming the grocery delivery service collected millions of...
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On August 28th, 2020 with 59 comments
nickwinlund77 shares a report from Phys.Org: A new study finds that Earth's water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at...
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On August 27th, 2020 with 116 comments
Portland-based Powell's Books, the world's largest new and used bookstore, says it won't sell on Amazon anymore, "declaring that the online retail giant...
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On August 27th, 2020 with 45 comments
An anonymous reader shares an opinion piece from Wired, written by Kevin Xu and Jordan Schneider. Xu is the author of Interconnected, investor and advisor of...
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