Hackers can use lasers to ‘speak’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home
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Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you.
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Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
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Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire wearable device maker Fitbit
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In a new report, Penn State political scientists suggest that radicalization on YouTube is driven by communities that form around right-wing content more than the recommendation engine
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Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack
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Stealthy Russian hacker group resurfaces with clever new tricks
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Google Pixel 4 and 4XL review: More than the sum of its sensors
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Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests
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This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
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Stories of twenty-five people who are racing to save us
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The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt
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Rwanda's Mara X, Z are the first smartphones made fully in Africa
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TikTok is the latest window into China’s police state
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Can a machine learn to write for the New Yorker?
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The US court allowed the Federal Communications Commission to kill net neutrality because washing machines can’t make phone calls
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Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The $2,000 phone of the future is here—please don’t break it
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All hands on deck—In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government
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Facebook to exempt opinion and satire from fact-checking
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The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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Norway does not plan to block China's Huawei Technologies from building the country's 5G telecoms network
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Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
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How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX problems
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Facebook’s suspension of ‘tens of thousands’ of apps reveals wider privacy issues
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Jack Conte, Patreon, and the plight of the creative class
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A look inside Apple’s A13 Bionic chip and what it tells us about the future of mobile technology
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Google's Wing will test deliveries using drones from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christianburg, Virginia
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Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard
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Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
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Russian propaganda stoking 5G health fears in Australia
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Kickstarter’s year of turmoil - Multiple employees involved with a "Kickstarter United" effort to unionize have been fired over the past week
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The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghostwriter Natalie
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The science is clear; we've more to fear from baby monitors than 5G
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Hong Kong protestors using Mesh messaging app China can't block: Usage up 3685%
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Apple will give indie repair shops the tools to fix iPhones
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Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
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With over 10,000 people registered to attend from all over the world and 300+ speakers – Techfestival isn't playing around
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Amazon has ceded control of its site to third-party sellers. The result: thousands of banned, unsafe or mislabeled products.
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Apple readies camera-focused pro iPhones, new iPads, larger MacBook Pro
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Amazon ends controversial practice of using tips to meet drivers’ wage guarantees
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When limiting online speech to curb violence, we should be careful
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What does Amazon's "Top Brand" badge actually mean?
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Verizon to sell Tumblr to WordPress owner Automattic
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The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud
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How YouTube radicalized Brazil
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Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company in tech
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Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnell’s campaign account after pressure
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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