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The Federal Communications Commission released a plan on Tuesday to dismantle landmark regulations that ensure equal access to the internet, clearing the way for internet service companies to charge users more to see certain content and to curb access to ...[Read more]
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We've all heard that the problem with the web is fake news, i.e. unsubstantiated or erroneous content that's designed to mislead or sow confusion.
The problem isn't just fake news--it's the homogenization of the web, that is, the elimination or marginaliz ...[Read more]
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The European Parliament has rejected proposals to place copyright restrictions on photos of public places. The proposals would have forced members of the public to secure permission from architects or rightsholders before sharing selfies taken in front of ...[Read more]
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A new poll has found that 60 percent of registered voters support the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality rules, even as the agency’s current leadership is in the process of repealing them.
The survey from Politico and Morning Con ...[Read more]
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For years, one of the greasier lobbying and PR tactics by the telecom industry has been the use of minority groups to parrot awful policy positions. Historically, such groups are happy to take financing from a company like Comcast, in exchange for... ...[Read more]
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“My Friend Cayla” is your child’s new high-tech best friend. The doll tells your child what she’d like to do or places she’d like to go. She loves the song “Let it Go,” for example, and dreams of going to Disneyland. But My Friend Cayla isn� ...[Read more]
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Legendary NSA whistleblower William Binney (and creator of NSA's global surveillance system) confirmed to Fox News, that President Trump is "absolutely right" to claim he was wiretapped and monitored... he was. ...[Read more]
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WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever batch of confidential documents on the CIA, revealing the breadth of the agencyâs ability to hack smartphones and popular social media messaging apps such as WhatsApp. ...[Read more]
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"Year Zero" introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of "zero day" weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. and European company products, include Apple's iPhone, Google's Androi ...[Read more]
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Physicists have produced the first-ever blueprints for a large-scale quantum computer that could herald a technological revolution in computing.
If the industrial blueprint works, it could see the first super-fast quantum machine being built within a deca ...[Read more]
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Donald Trump has called for a shutdown of the Internet in certain areas to stop the spread of terror.
In a speech at the U.S.S. Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on Monday, Trump referenced the use by ISIS of social media as a recruitment tool. ...[Read more]
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