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• Alt-right activist handcuffs herself to Twitter NYC office after being banned [Update]: She's been freed from her handcuffs

  Laura Loomer has locked herself to the front door of Twitter's New York City offices in a protest against her account being ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Russia to build Moon colony by 2040: NASA says hold my beer

  Russia's federal space agency intends to establish a lunar colony by the year 2040. NASA, meanwhile, announced today that it'd have a continuous human presence there within a decade. The Moon race is on y'all. The flag of the United States of America remains the only territorial ...

  • Tristan Greene

• ACLU demands FBI explain request to wiretap Facebook Messenger

  The ACLU wants to know why the Department of Justice tried to force Facebook to hack its own users and undermine the security ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google's CEO is going to Washington DC – He should stay there

  Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, is reportedly headed to Washington DC to testify before the House Judiciary committee on matters ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Here's why low-credibility news seems to dominate Twitter

  Twitter has a bot problem that appears to be getting worse. A team of scientists from Indiana University recently conducted ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Uber fined €1M for 2016 data breach by Dutch and British privacy watchdogs

  The Dutch Data Protection Authority and UK's Information Commissioner's Office have fined Uber over €1M the company's data ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Report: Google quietly asks for donation back from GOP politician accused of racist remark

  Google asked for a political donation back last week after controversial comments by US senator Cindy Hyde-Smith began making ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Pentagon remains hellbent on using a single-provider cloud for Project JEDI

  Oracle's Project JEDI bid protest was dismissed today but the US government. With nothing left to stand it in its way, it ...

  • Tristan Greene

• White House pushes ridiculous 'assault' video to defend reporter ban

  While the internet discusses whether or not the version of events put forth by the White House and Infowars is legit the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• EU’s investigation into Google AdSense is coming to a close

  Margrethe Vestager, EU's Competiton Commissioner, confirmed at Web Summit in Lisbon that the probe into Google AdSense would ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• China’s president wants to make the internet ‘fairer’ — for China

  Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a fairer share for China in the global internet. The great economic power seeks greater ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Everything you need to vote in the 2018 midterm elections today

  It's that time again, my fellow Americans. Voting day is here in the United States. This time, it's the 2018 midterm elections. ...

  • Rachel Kaser