Facebook Filtering Users’ Timelines Stokes Concerns of Censorship and Data-Mining
Facebook has a long and checkered past concerning the way the company decides what a user sees in his or her timeline. Now,...
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Net Neutrality Will Regulate Internet Rates Despite Promises
When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler launched the opening salvo in the battle to regulate the Internet, he said time and time again that...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Brings More Privacy and Big Changes to the Desktop
The release of Ubuntu 16.04 last week is good news for computer users who are upset over the recent development of Microsoft turning...
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Have Oil Prices Hit Bottom?
Is $40 oil and $2 gas the new normal? Investors and traders seem to think so. ...
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Real Reason Behind Apple Case: War on Encryption
After months of legal battles, a public relations war, and congressional testimony over whether Apple should help the FBI break into an iPhone...
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Goldman Sachs’ Warning Dents Crude Oil Price
False optimism has driven oil prices higher. They are now set to come down. ...
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Reddit Quietly Warns Users of Surveillance Request
Last week, a major player in the social media forum world used a legal hack to alert its subscribers that it had been...
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FBI v. Apple Case: Government Smoke and Mirrors
After a month of claiming — in court documents, sworn testimony, and public statements — that “Apple has the exclusive technical means” to access the...
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EPA Boss: Coal Regulations Are About the Politics of Power
n a classic case of exercising power for the sake of power, Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), admitted that...
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FBI, DOJ Postpone Hearing in San Bernardino iPhone Case
The FBI and Apple will not get their day in court. At least not yet. The hearing over whether Apple must weaken the...
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Apple Engineers Could Refuse to Help FBI in San Bernardino Case
In the FBI vs. Apple battle over encryption, Apple's lawyers have said that the company will take this all the way to the...
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Obama Ignores Experts; Calls for Backdoors for Encryption
As the FBI and Apple wage battle over the rights of private citizens to protect their data and communications by using encryption, both...
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FBI vs. Apple: More Than Meets The Eye
The FBI said it had no choice but to seek a court order to force Apple to create a backdoor into the iOS...
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World’s Largest Coal Company Could Disappear
The world's largest private-sector coal company will miss making $70 million in interest payments for lack of money. Government regulations play a part...
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U.S. Energy Agency Predicts Still Further Declines in Oil and Gas Prices
Predicting future oil prices is like trying to pin the tail on a skittish donkey in the dark. ...
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