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US Library of Congress launches AI tool that lets you search 16 million old newspaper pages for historical images
The AI lets you search through 16 million historical newspaper pages for images that help explain the stories of the past. ...
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Russia's most notorious troll farm reportedly used deepfakes to push a fake news outlet on Facebook
Facebook and Twitter say they've removed a network of accounts behind a fake news outlet run by fictitious journalists with ...
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The US is banning TikTok and WeChat — but the benefits won’t outweigh the costs
The Trump administration’s recently announced bans on Chinese-owned social media platforms TikTok and WeChat could have ...
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Moving Tiktok’s ownership to Microsoft will benefit tech giants — not users
In what seems to be a common occurrence, Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is once again in the headlines. After months ...
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Microsoft might buy TikTok — here’s what’s going on
Update (04/08/2020): President Donald Trump said last night that if a US-based firm buys TikTok, the government should get ...
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Biggest challenges and opportunities of expanding a tech business across Europe
Europe's market can hinder growth. We spoke to several entrepreneurs to find out what business challenges they're facing ...
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EU top court bans US-EU data sharing deal over surveillance fears
The EU's Court of Justice has struck down its Privacy Shield pact with the United States due to concerns about US surveillance. ...
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Here’s how cities can clean up the mess made by dockless e-scooters
It is no secret that micromobility is booming. Last mile solutions have greatly altered urban life and, according to Mckinsey, ...
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Space exploration is expensive, but it's worth the price
I am one of the few African-American aerospace engineers who helped design the Apollo spaceships that took men to the Moon. ...
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US companies will soon be allowed to work with Huawei again (kind of)
The consequences resulting from the Huawei ban last year are manifold. While the most prominent effect for consumers has ...
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Civil unrest pushes US gun stocks to outpace tech's biggest companies
Big tech might thrive in pandemics, but the firearms industry is growing even faster as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests ...
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Should the moon be privatized? The US says yes
Private industries have helped drop the cost of launching rockets, satellites and other equipment into space to historic ...
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Trump extends the Huawei ban to 2021
In case you were hoping the Donald Trump's government would ease its restrictions on Huawei anytime soon, I've got some bad ...
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How to check the status of your coronavirus stimulus payment
The US government is sending out $1,200 checks as part of a coronavirus relief package. Here's how to check the status of ...
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Trump calls dibs on outer space with his latest executive order
Donald Trump's latest executive order comes straight out of science fiction: He's officially called dibs on outer space. ...
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The world is relying on Big Tech to fight COVID-19 — can they handle it?
As we grip with the realities of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, an unsettling realisation has begun to coalesce: The ...
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US looks to block Huawei from banks after Trump ban fails
Politicians from both sides are reportedly ready to submit a bill that would ban US banks from processing "signfiicant transactions' ...
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How to legally protect your ideas when hiring freelancers in the US
Freelancers are a great way to get a job done quickly, but you'll need to make sure you keep ownership over your intellectual ...
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What if we fuck up the Moon too?
US Vice President Mike Pence yesterday gave a speech at NASA's Langley research center in Virginia where he told employees ...
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US to inject $300M into research for cleaner transport tech
The Trump administration has just announced that it's set up a $300 million grant to research clean vehicle technologies. ...
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Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI ...
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Russian military hackers go after the Ukrainian quid that Trump tried to pro quo
The 2020 US Presidential campaign has officially kicked off in Russia. Russian leader Vladmir Putin's military hackers recently ...
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Trump's chief technology officer is treating AI regulation like the net neutrality repeal
Did you ever notice how the Trump administration's chief science and technology officer Michael Kratsios never talks while ...
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Ethereum dev indicted for delivering cryptocurrency talk in North Korea
Virgil Griffith, the Ethereum developer arrested after allegedly traveling to North Korea to speak at a cryptocurrency conference, ...
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Greece suspends extradition of alleged launderer for Bitcoin 'stolen' from Mt Gox
The alleged head of a cryptocurrency exchange police say laundered $4B worth of Bitcoin has been thrown a lifeline while ...
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Alleged Bitcoin extortionist extradited to US for ties to 'Dark Overload' hacker crew
An alleged member of “The Dark Overload,” hacking group — which demanded Bitcoin ransom payments from victims — ...
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Federal study: Facial recognition systems most benefit middle-aged white males
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology today released its 2019 report on facial recognition. And there are ...
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Teen SIM-swapper allegedly stole $1M, bought custom jewelry with Bitcoin
A 19-year-old SIM-swapper has been charged for allegedly stealing more than $1 million in cryptocurrency.
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FBI and US Marshals warn of heinous scammers demanding payments via Bitcoin ATMs
The United States Marshals and Federal Bureau of Investigation don't want you to forget about Bitcoin scammers pretending ...
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Elon Musk testifies he wasn't calling the person he accused of marrying a preteen a pedophile
“I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, ...
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Vitalik stands by Ethereum dev arrested for advising North Korea on cryptocurrency
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly pledged to sign a petition supporting the release of fellow dev Virgil Griffith. ...
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Hackers demand $14M in Bitcoin to unlock systems for 110 nursing homes across US
The IT services company responsible for some 80,000 computers powering care facilities and nursing homes across the US can't ...
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OneCoin’s 'lawyer' allegedly earned $50M for laundering $400M
The lawyer that allegedly laundered funds on behalf of cryptocurrency scam OneCoin reportedly earned $50 million for doing ...
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New York judge rules US government can intervene in $7M Bitcoin scam
The US government will be able to intervene in a civil case against Jon Barry Thompson, a man charged with running a fraudulent ...
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Brooklyn man sentenced to 18 months in prison after running fraudulent ICOs
A man in the US has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after running two illegal cryptocurrency Initial Coin Offerings ...
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Microsoft pledges to honor California's CCPA privacy law across the US
Microsoft has pledged to honor California's landmark digital privacy law — the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — ...
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Australia reportedly wants to grill Facebook about its 'cryptocurrency' plans
Facebook may have to divulge further details about its plans after failing to lessen regulatory concerns in Australia.
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China’s tech race with the US heats up as it readies to launch its digital currency
China has approved a law to regulate cryptography as it readies to launch its own digital currency. But, what does this mean ...
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Ajit Pai wants to abolish federalism so Verizon and AT&T can throttle your data
When AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and other telcom giants purchased a net neutrality repeal from FCC shill Ajit Pai, it must ...
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Bitfinex wants to subpoena former banking exec to recover its 'lost' $880M
iFinex, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, wants to subpoena an ex-banking executive of a trust company ...
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Nicolas Maduro refuses to give up on Venezuela's state cryptocurrency El Petro
It seems that the government of Venezuela isn't ready to give up on its state-issued cryptocurrency ambitions.
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Nevada man charged for allegedly running $11M Bitcoin Ponzi scheme
A man in the US has been charged for allegedly operating an $11 million Bitcoin Ponzi scheme.
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US hospitals opt for paying hackers to survive Ryuk ransomware attack
Cybercriminals are targeting hospitals across the globe with ransomware. Some of the hospitals are giving in to the attackers' ...
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US detains Bitcoin fraudster to prevent him from escaping to Canada
A Canadian man alleged to have conned an Oregonian woman out of $230,000 worth of Bitcoin is being held in prison so that ...
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Man charged with running Bitcoin–powered fake ID cartel gets a year in US prison
A man charged with creating fake IDs in a major Bitcoin-powered distribution ring has been sentenced to one year and one ...
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Over 13.7M US medical test records found unsecured on servers
Medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world, including echocardiograms and X-rays, are stored on insecure ...
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US government knows you’re buying opioids with Bitcoin — and it doesn’t like it
The US government has released a series of advisory notes, one of which specifically looks at the role played by cryptocurrencies ...
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SEC unsurprisingly slaps Russian firm with $270K fine for misleading ICO promotions
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled a fine with a Russian firm that was pushing initial ...
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Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra reportedly facing EU competition probe
The European Union’s antitrust regulators are “currently investigating potential anti-competitive behavior” amid concerns ...
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Moonday Mornings: Coinbase stored 3,420 passwords in plain text
Welcome to Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork's wrap-up of cryptocurrency and blockchain news from the past few days that you can't ...
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Criminologist: Trump acts like a criminal when denying climate change
While much of the world now recognizes the need for immediate action, there are still those who question the scientific consensus ...
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Fentanyl dealer to forfeit $4M in Bitcoin and quadrillions of bank notes
A dark web kingpin has forfeited $4 million, including Bitcoin and 100 quadrillion Zimbabwe bank notes after selling drugs ...
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Silk Road site admin extradited to US hit with 78-month prison sentence
Irish man Gary Davis, also known as “Libertas,” has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for helping to run the now ...
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Senate Intelligence Committee: Russia targeted all 50 US states ahead of 2016 elections
In a heavily redacted report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee today says Russians targeted election systems ...
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US man faces up to 5 years in prison for selling $2 million worth of Bitcoin online
A federal grand jury has indicted a New Jersey man for selling over $2 million worth of Bitcoin through an unlicensed money ...
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US watchdog preps BitMEX probe over alleged illegal cryptocurrency trade
Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
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Nations must double down on AI R&D — or risk falling behind
There’s a clear comparison between the space race of the 1960s and the present-day surge in national AI development.
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Engineer nabbed smuggling US military-grade chips to China faces 219 years in prison
The electrical engineer is facing up to 219 years in federal prison after being found guilty of trying to smuggle military-grade ...
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Trump says Huawei can resume trade with US companies
US president Donald Trump said today that he'll allow companies to sell equipment to Huawei. He met the Chinese president Xi ...
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Swede facing extradition to US over $11M Bitcoin investment scam
A Swedish citizen has been charged with securities, wire fraud, and money laundering in a scheme that saw him encourage victims ...
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US authorities seize over $200,000 worth of Bitcoin in suspected drug ring
US authorities have seized more than $200,000 worth of Bitcoin after arresting three Boston-based men on charges of conspiring ...
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California man gets 10 years for selling drugs for Bitcoin on dark web
A US man who sold narcotics on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
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Kik raised $98M with a potentially illegal ICO. Now it wants your money to fight the SEC
Kik has resorted to begging the public for money to keep fighting the SEC over claims it illegally sold unregistered securities. ...
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The Earth’s magnetic north pole is shifting rapidly, but the northern lights will stay where they are (for now)
Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our ...
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President Trump expected to sign executive order effectively barring Huawei from the United States
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week that would ban US companies from using equipment from firms ...
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10 things we learned from the Democratic candidates' Instagrams
With the US presidential election only 18 months away, we took to Instagram to analyze the candidates for the Democratic ...
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The CIA wants you to believe it traded assassinations and espionage for likes and shares
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a bit of a reputation. Depending on what side you're on, it's either a necessary ...
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AI is helping regulators keep tabs on new industrial farms and their waste discharging habits
Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses satellite imagery to rapidly pinpoint industrial livestock farms, manifold ...
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Romanian duo convicted in US for using cryptocurrency malware-mining to steal millions
Two Romanian residents have been convicted of infecting over 400,000 individual computers with malware in order to mine ...
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Bittrex: New York’s denial of our BitLicense application contained 'factual inaccuracies'
Seattle-based cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex is “saddened and disappointed” by the New York Department of Financial ...
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CabbageTech owner charged with running $200K cryptocurrency and cash swindle
The operator of New York-based company CabaggeTech has been accused of defrauding investors out of more than $200,000 in ...
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US regulator blacklists Colorado trader for orchestrating $1.5M Bitcoin scam
A man in the US has been barred from trading following his alleged involvement in a Bitcoin scam that resulted in losses ...
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EU wants tech independence from the US, but it’ll be tricky
The European Union and its citizens seem increasingly unhappy with the current flow of data, privacy violations, and the ...
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The top 3 blockchain employers are old-school corporates, our data shows
Despite the crypto-winter causing widespread layoffs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, there are still plenty ...
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Study: Nearly half of all Americans have a family member who's been incarcerated
There's nearly a 50/50 chance that you've got a family member who spent at least one night one jail. This, according to the ...
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Cryptocurrency exchange WEX/BTC-e tied to Bitcoin ransomware hackers, report
PricewaterhouseCoopers has made a connection between the SamSam ransomware hackers and infamous cryptocurrency exchange WEX ...
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Chinese cyberattacks on the US are on the rise again after a years-long truce
After a few years of slowdown, it looks like China's back to hacking US entities, according to a report by Crowdstrike, a ...
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Why Huawei CFO’s arrest is sparking tension between the US and China
While Huawei is selling tons of phones worldwide, it's facing a grim time in the US with plenty of lawsuits and governmental ...
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Study: Trump's bravado isn't an anomaly, it's the culmination of a century-long political trend
To outsiders, President Trump’s brazen speech and unconventional style may make him seem like an outlier, the sum of leftover ...
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Blockchain investment still lags behind fintech despite record-breaking 2018
European blockchain technology companies had a record year in terms of VC investment in 2018, although overshadowed by funding ...
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Project A119: Inside the United States' secret plan to blow up the Moon
It was the height of the Cold War. At odds were the United States and the former Soviet Union, both attempting to posture ...
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The future of war is cyber
Gone are the days where battles are fought in person-to-person conflicts. In the coming years, most wars will be waged via ...
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Poll: Cable news viewers more likely to believe political falsehoods than print, public radio consumers
It should surprise no one that where we gets our news plays a significant part in determining what we believe to be true. ...
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Researchers found a psychological link between conspiracy theories and creationism
According to studies and researchers, teleological thinking also links to beliefs in conspiracy theories and creationism. ...
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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 ...
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Fortnite bests Russia and Japan to become world's 8th most-populated place
Epic Games today revealed that the number of players registered in Fortnite is now around 200 million. Let that number ...
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South Korea's lost generation of gamers offer a preview of what's to come
South Korea is bending under the weight of an epidemic. In the world's most wired country, it's not opioids or hallucinogens ...
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Facebook Ad Library: Only 3 'Brexit' ads for whole month. Yeah, right!
Facebook may well look back on 2018 as its annus horribilis. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, to a data breach ...
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Spooky data visualization reveals most haunted cities in the US
It’s that time of year when humans as well as their pets dress up in Halloween costumes and discussions around trick-or-treating, ...
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Germany wants a global 'minimum tax' for tech giants' revenue
Germany's finance minister, Olaf Scholz finally supports global minumum tax on tech giants. France and Germany push for the ...
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People keep dying taking selfies, this study reveals how
A new study revealed common selfie-related deaths. Including drowing, animal attacks, and falling off a cliff. It suggested ...
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Tattoodo wants to be the Booking.com of getting inked
Tattoodo has launched a platform that will allow people from across the world to find and book their next tattoo online.
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Study: Air pollution responsible for 'huge' drop in intelligence
Air pollution could be a leading cause in a societal reduction in intelligence levels, according to new research. A study ...
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VP Mike Pence unveils detailed plans for Space Force
VP Mike Pence today revealed more info about the Space Force, including what steps we'll need to take even if Congress approves ...
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Alexa isn't the shopping behemoth Amazon hoped it would be
Voice shopping was supposed to be the future. Remember? Both Amazon and Google touted a world where barking a simple command ...
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Secret TSA program spies on unsuspecting passengers
An investigation revealed over the weekend that the American Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is secretly monitoring ...
