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US is the only country making high-band spectrum the core of 5G rollout, which may leave it behind in mid-band tech needed to cover less populated areas in 5G
A spate of breakups and makeups in self-driving industry in 2019 may be a sign of industry consolidation, as many expect the enabling tech to become a commodity
Developers say they have mixed feelings about the "Sign In With Apple" button and Apple's decision to make it mandatory for apps with other sign-in systems
Survey of 34K+ LGBTQ+ youth across the US: 76% prefer to seek mental help by text or chat; 81% say having a safe social networking space online is very valuable
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Wyoming's laws exempting some digital tokens from state securities rules, and cryptocurrency from state property taxes, spawned dozens of crypto LLCs there
Cellebrite Now Says It Can Unlock Any iPhone for Cops
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A look at Cloudflare's Project Galileo, which supports ~600 orgs, including human rights groups and journalists, with free DDoS protection and other defenses
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Google Says It Won’t Kill Ad Blockers. Ad Blockers Disagree
Jigsaw Bought a Russian Twitter Troll Campaign as an Experiment
Bridgestone’s New Tire Makes Driving Electric as Quiet as It Should Be
A Top Voting-Machine Firm Calls for Paper Ballots
Radiohead Dropped 18 Hours of Unreleased Music to Screw Pirates
Hackers Stole a Border Agency Database of Traveler Photos
Inside an Amazon sorting facility, where humans work alongside mobile robots, known as drives, fueling Amazon's push toward widespread same-day delivery
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Amazon announces Alexa Conversations, which will enable Alexa to utilize multiple skills within conversations by asking follow ups to the initial question
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Apple’s ‘Find My’ Feature Uses Clever Cryptography
‘Sign In With Apple’ Protects You in Ways Google and Facebook Don’t
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US Companies Help Censor the Internet in China, Too
Another MacOS Bug Lets Hackers Invisibly Click Security Prompts
The World Slime Convention
Researcher outlines how he discovered and exploited the now-patched KeySteal flaw in macOS to access and decrypt keychain passwords without admin privileges
Apple Just Patched a Modem Bug That’s Been in Macs Since 1999
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If China Really Wants to Retaliate, It Will Target Apple
Google's new policies for Chrome extensions and Drive API will limit the ability of extensions and 3rd party apps to access personal data, starting this summer
Facebook Removes a Fresh Batch of Iran-Linked Fake Accounts
NATO Group Catfished Soldiers on Facebook to Discover Troop Movements
Profile of HobbyKidsTV, a family-run children's YouTube channel with 3M+ subscribers and adult moderators protecting its kid hosts and viewers from predators
All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It
Airbnb to give NYC data on 17K+ listings, plus data on every listing between Jan. 1, 2018 and Feb. 18, 2019 that could have potentially violated NY rental laws
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices. We don’t own our kindle content and can’t repair our devices on our own.
EU's nationalist, far right parties, expected to make gains in the European parliament election, are generally opposed to EU's efforts to regulate Big Tech
Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps
Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005
How the US-China Trade War Could Hike iPhone Prices
Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems
Inside Facebook's new robotics lab, where the company is teaching robots to walk on their own, hoping the lessons learned can advance the company's AI efforts
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
Meteorologists say interference from 5G phones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts by 30%, equivalent to the quality of predictions in the 1980s
Bluetooth’s Complexity Has Become a Security Risk
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After exploding bear repellent sent 20+ workers to the hospital, Amazon is building special warehouses for hazardous items, with first set to open this summer
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