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Twitter releases massive data trove on foreign influence campaigns

The data includes more than 10 millions tweets as well as images, GIFs, videos and live broadcasts, Twitter said.

17/10/2018

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Barry Diller warns that media companies won't catch Netflix

"The movie business, for all intents and purposes, is dead," Diller said on the day Netflix reported it had reached 137 million subscriptions.

17/10/2018

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Ocean plastic is a big problem. Blockchain could help.

The nonprofit Plastic Bank offers cryptocurrency in exchange for collected plastic waste.

17/10/2018

Ireland

Facebook hack affected 3 million Europeans, Irish official says

Facebook could face a sizable fine due to the E.U.'s General Data Protection Regulation.

16/10/2018

USA

Tech figureheads lead tributes to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen | The Cube

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died of cancer aged 65

16/10/2018

World News

Facebook bans false information about voting ahead of midterms

The social networking company announced the change in policy on Monday, three weeks before the Nov. 6 midterm elections, as voter mobilization efforts are heating up.

16/10/2018

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Facebook posts may point to depression, study finds

The findings raise significant privacy issues, the researchers said.

16/10/2018

World News

How much does space travel cost?

With the rise of private spaceflight, costs are falling — but leaving the planet is still far from cheap.

16/10/2018

USA

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65

Allen died in Seattle from complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his family said in a statement released by Vulcan Inc, a company Allen founded to pursue his various interests.

16/10/2018

World News

Watch what happens when a drone smashes into an airplane wing

Dramatic experiment spotlights the growing risk of collisions between drones and other aircraft.

15/10/2018

World

Donald Tusk tears through Paris on a scooter

European Council President Donald Tusk impressed everyone by cruising through the Paris on a fashionable electric scooter.

15/10/2018

World News

Driverless car hype gives way to e-scooter mania among technorati

Millions of dollars in funding and billions of dollars in valuations have made scooters the next big thing since the last big thing.

15/10/2018

World News

Fake software update turns computers into cryptocurrency miners

Cryptojacking, which uses unsecured computer systems to mine cryptocurrency, has rapidly emerged as a popular tool with hackers looking to

15/10/2018

World News

Watch Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot do parkour and try not to squirm

Some people find the bot's remarkable agility unsettling.

15/10/2018

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Tech titans feud over funding for homeless

'Homelessness is all of our responsibility,' Salesforce chief Marc Benioff tweeted to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.

13/10/2018

World News

Soyuz astronauts' emergency descent was a harrowing, high-G ordeal

A ballistic re-entry is "basically an unguided, uncontrolled free fall."

11/10/2018

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DNA databases can now identify most Americans

"Genetic genealogy databases act like a GPS system for anonymous DNA," one researcher said.

11/10/2018

World News

Facebook takes down hundreds of U.S. news pages for spam

The removal is an escalation of the company's battle against fake or sensationalist news stories.

11/10/2018

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Dow Jones opens with triple-digit losses after global markets plunge overnight

President Donald Trump blamed the Federal Reserve for the market plunge, saying the Fed was "going loco."

11/10/2018

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Google wants to help screen those incessant robocalls

It's robots fighting robots as Google uses its artificial intelligence to respond to spam calls.

11/10/2018