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Fast-and-loose culture of esports is upending once staid world of chess

Grandmasters and upstarts are reinventing the game online, becoming its most visible ambassadors and arguably its first entertainers.

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Zuckerberg tells Europe: regulate social media or China will set rules

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg wants Europe to regulate social media on political advertising and privacy — or risk losing ground to “authoritarian” rules from China.

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Cute videos, but little evidence: Police say Amazon Ring isn't much of a crime fighter

Hundreds of police departments have signed agreements with Ring to gain access to footage filmed on home surveillance cameras

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A museum's narwhal tusk disappeared in the 1980s. The FBI wants your help to find it.

In the late 1800s, famed explorer Robert Edwin Peary returned from an Arctic excursion with a unique souvenir: the long, sword-like tusk of a narwhal. Then it went missing.

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U.S. officials: Using Huawei tech opens door to Chinese spying, censorship

The closest U.S. ally, Britain, disagrees with U.S. warnings that any use of Huawei technology exposes a country to digital espionage.

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Earth just had its hottest January in recorded history

The record highlights a worrisome trend as the planet continues to warm at an accelerated pace.

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Meet the material of the future that's 200 times stronger than steel

Now there's a free manual on how to make the material of the future.

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World's biggest mobile tech show cancelled due to coronavirus fears

The world's biggest mobile technology fair has been cancelled over worries about the coronavirus epidemic.

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Facebook's Twitter account hacked

The Saudi hacker group OurMine apparently tweeted from Facebook's account. It claimed credit last month for a takeover of key NFL accounts.

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Juice jacking: Why you should avoid public phone charging stations

Hackers can load malware into charging stations at place like airports and malls, allowing them to steal the data of unsuspecting users, experts warn.

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On Facebook, anti-vaxxers pushed a mom not to give her son tamiflu. He later died.

Facebook groups that routinely traffic in anti-vaccination propaganda have become a resource for people seeking out a wide variety of medical information.

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Iowa caucus app was rushed and flawed from the beginning, experts say

"Someone was not paying attention or on a deadline," said one analyst who was able to examine the app.

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Call of the wild? African penguins share some linguistic patterns with humans.

Researchers found that, as outlined in Zipf's law of abbreviation, vocal sounds that penguins use the most tend to be shorter.

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Astronomers want to see a supernova. A dimming star is giving them hope.

Betelgeuse has created a sense of suspense in the astronomy world, which is hoping to someday observe a nearby supernova in real time.

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Iowa Democratic Party blames app 'coding issue' for delay in caucus results

Officials said in a statement Tuesday that the problem had been fixed and that it hoped to release the vote tally on Tuesday.

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Amazon workers protest proposal to raise bar for shareholder resolutions

An employee-led group says an SEC proposal would discriminate against smaller investors and employees awarded company stock.

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Google breaks out YouTube ad business for first time

Google bought the video platform in 2006, building it over the years into a dominant player in the internet video market.

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After Big Tech, can Big Privacy be the next big thing?

Privacy-focused technology companies are offering a variety of services, from personal data scrubbing to business-focused software meant to help companies comply with the law.

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Not so 'Lonesome?' Galápagos tortoise subspecies thought extinct lives on.

Conservationists working on Ecuador's Galápagos Islands have discovered a young female tortoise that is partially related to Lonesome George.

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Conspiracy theories swirl over canceled Iowa poll, pushed by Sanders and Yang supporters

Recent discussions around the race for the Democratic nomination highlight how social media remains easily manipulated by passionate Americans.