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Feds Investigating Data Deals Facebook Struck With Big Tech Firms
Federal prosecutors are investigating partnership deals Facebook forged with some of the world’s largest technological companies. A grand jury subpoenaed…
Read More »Charity Backed By Silicon Valley Tech Titans Gave $500K To Fusion GPS-Linked Group
A former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who has worked with Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele quietly formed a pro-democracy nonprofit…
Read More »United Launch Alliance Set to Launch WGS-10 for U.S. Air Force [Live Stream and details]
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., (March 13, 2019) — A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket is in…
Read More »Twitter Makes Big Changes As Execs Work To Improve Online ‘Conversations’
Twitter is rolling out a new prototype that executives say is designed to make the social media platform a friendlier…
Read More »Facebook Drops Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Big Tech Campaign Ad
Facebook removed several ads Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign published on the company’s social media platform, Politico reported Monday. The…
Read More »Are You A Trump Supporter That Wants To Eat In Peace? There’s An App For That
An app developer launched a program designed to tell customers which restaurants and business are safe for Trump supporters following…
Read More »Watch: SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in the Atlantic
Crew Dragon undocked from the International Space Station early Friday morning and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on March…
Read More »FACT CHECK: Does Bitcoin Eat Up More Electricity Than What All Solar Panels Produce Each Year?
David Wallace-Wells, columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine, said in a recent interview with Vox that mining the digital cryptocurrency…
Read More »Zuckerberg Announces Big Changes To Facebook. Here’s What People Should Expect
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the Silicon Valley company will begin completely reorienting its platform over the next…
Read More »Chinese Allegedly Hacking U.S. Universities Doing Naval Research
Chinese hackers have been targeting U.S. universities to steal research about military equipment, security experts said. Most of the universities…
Read More »Second HIV Positive Patient Reported Cured, Giving Hope That Disease Will Soon Be History
A second individual suffering from human immunodeficiency virus appears to have been cured according to reports, marking a major breakthrough in scientific…
Read More »Google Refuses To Remove App Letting Saudi Men Control Their Wives’ Travel
Google is refusing to remove a feature in the company’s app store allowing Saudi men to track the whereabouts of…
Read More »SpaceX Docked Its ‘Crew Dragon’ Capsule with the Space Station This Weekend
At 2:49 a.m. EST on March 2, SpaceX launched Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at…
Read More »SpaceX Sends Dragon Crew Capsule to Space Station and Back [Video]
The ability for the United States to send its astronauts into space ended with the shuttle program in 2011, but…
Read More »The quest for autism’s causes, and what it reveals about all of us
By Emily Willingham, Knowable Magazine As alarm grew over autism prevalence at the turn of this century, there was much…
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