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iPod Touch gets surprise refresh - and Apple is positioning it as a GAMING device

Humans started walking on two feet because of LIGHTNING, bizarre study claims

China’s saber-rattling on rare-earths trade has US officials looking for options

Advanced Linux backdoor found in the wild escaped AV detection

Hackers actively exploit WordPress plugin flaw to send visitors to bad sites

Trump, steamed over delays, pulls plug on electric carrier catapults

Eternally Blue: Baltimore City leaders blame NSA for ransomware attack

Deepfakes are getting better—but they’re still easy to spot

The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones

The Hybrid System That Spots Tornadoes

A Tale of Two Surveillance States

Facebook’s Dystopian Definition of ‘Fake’

Motorola One Action does Geekbench with Exynos 9609 chipset

Motorola Moto Z4 debuts with Snapdragon 675 and 48MP camera

New Sony Xperia 1 promo videos highlight camera performance

Meizu 16Xs announced with triple camera, UD fingerprint reader and Snapdragon 675

Verizon announces pricing for Motorola Moto Z4

Microsoft to open flagship store in London on July 11

Nokia to launch new phones next Thursday

Oppo Reno Z debuts with waterdrop notch, Helio P90

Huawei reinstated in the SD Association

Palo Alto Networks to buy container security startup Twistlock, which had raised $63M+, for $410M, and serverless security startup PureSec, which raised $10M (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

As bars check IDs with PatronScan, its manufacturer, Servall Biometrics, touts a global database with 40K+ banned patrons, amid fears of enabling discrimination (Susie Cagle/OneZero)

Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde says the company is looking into how white nationalists and supremacists use the platform to determine if they should be banned (VICE)

Google says it is rolling out the ability for Google Maps to show speed limits and speed cameras in over 40 countries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Chevron executive is secretly pushing anti-electric car effort in Arizona

Amazon removes books promoting dangerous bleach ‘cures’ for autism and other conditions

Mark Zuckerberg May Face Contempt Charge After Ignoring Subpoena

IBM Sells Face Recognition Surveillance to a Dictatorship

IEEE bans Huawei Scientists reviewing papers

Google Maps adds ability to see speed limits and speed traps in 40+ countries

Google still plans to kill Chrome's existing adblock APIs

Japan bombed an asteroid and now it's preparing to collect the debris

Government Prosecutor Caught Sending Emails With Tracking Software To Reporters And Defense Attorneys

Google bans marijuana delivery companies from selling weed directly through their apps

Cuba legalizes private Wi-Fi networks in bid to boost connectivity

Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than Ever

FCC Cuts Bogus Data From Yearly Broadband Report, Acts Like Nothing Happened

U.S. Wants T-Mobile to Create New Competitor as Part of Deal

North Face tried to scam Wikipedia to get its products to the top of Google search

Google "Brain Implants" Could Make Learning Obsolete in 20 Years, Says AI Expert: We could have implants in our heads that automatically download all knowledge into our brains.

Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Served a Summons If He Sets Foot In Canada - The Facebook founder and CEO Sheryl Sandberg snubbed international lawmakers, again, at a committee hearing in Canada on Tuesday.

A Terrible Patent Bill is On the Way

America's tech giants are fighting to change California's new privacy law

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to face leadership vote

'We're Not Being Paranoid': U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones

Hundreds of Thousands of ‘Pirate’ Sites Disappear Following Takedown Notices

42 Million Dating App Records Exposed Online, Leaking User IP Addresses and Location Data

“We believe the internet can be better,” Mozilla to the International Grand Committee

DIY Facial Recognition for Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster - Someone is making dubious claims to have built a program for detecting faces in porn and cross-referencing against social media, with 100,000 identified so far.

You Can Now Tell Alexa to Delete Your Voice Recordings

It’s Official: Video Game Addiction Is Real

The 14 Most Profitable Places to Sell Your Photos Online

How to Force Rotate Into Landscape Mode on iPhone

Should You Use a Fingerprint or a PIN to Lock Your Phone?

RoadWayve Uses LED Messages to Communicate with Other Drivers

Optimize Your PC for Gaming With These 4 Vital Tweaks

5 Ways to Make Your PC Glow With Programmable LEDs

Don’t Buy a Raspberry Pi Until You’ve Seen CrowPi All-in-One Kit (Review and Giveaway!)

6 Ways to Check Which Versions of .NET Framework Are Installed

Uber To Start Banning Riders With Low Ratings

Terry Pratchett Warns Of Online Fake News In 1995 Interview, Bill Gates Shoots Him Down

Twitter And Facebook Crack Down On Iran-Linked Disinformation Scheme

5G: Finally, it's here in the UK - but so what?

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to face leadership vote