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We live in a world of refuse—not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but…
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China’s efforts to purge its government of CIA moles has been aided significantly by a massive database of personnel…
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Microsoft’s underwater Northern Isles data center has risen again from the ocean depth, the company announced on…
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Data analytics company Palantir—the firm co-founded by venture capitalist Peter Thiel most notorious for its work…
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Palantir, the surveillance firm founded by conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, has landed a contract with the feds…
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Google’s $2.1 billion deal to acquire fitness tracker manufacturer Fitbit has attracted the attention of antitrust…
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January 2019 is nearly over and—for now—so is the month-plus federal government shutdown that blanketed national…
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Mark Zuckerberg and his data-hoarding creation Facebook remain in the crosshairs this week as scrutiny over its…
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, fresh off of not apologizing for the social media giant’s failure to prevent sketchy…
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Facebook held an open meeting at 10am Tuesday morning in Menlo Park. The whole company was invited to gather and ask…
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Facebook has booted Cambridge Analytica, a data firm once hired by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, and its…
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The Pentagon accidentally left at least 1.8 billion publicly accessible posts it scraped from social media sites,…
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In the summer of 2015, Alexandra Franco got a letter in the mail from a company she had never heard of called…
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We rarely stop to think of just how many people the world’s airlines transport on any given day, never mind form a…
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An Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) investigation just revealed an awfully Orwellian fact: the FBI is working…
4/25/16 7:15PM
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Wikipedia is a voluntary organization dedicated to the noble goal of decentralized knowledge creation. But as the…
2/17/16 2:37PM
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Do you work for a big company? Have you been having back pain? Your company probably knows about it already thanks…
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Police departments, like everyone else, would like to be more effective while spending less. Given the tremendous…
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