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Arizona’s Anti-Monopoly Bill Takes Aim at Apple and Google
Photo: Chris Delmas/AFP (Getty Images) Arizona legislators just passed an anti-monopoly bill in a 31-29 vote, which could have big…
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Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies
Republican Senator Rand Paul appears before a Facebook logo at a Fox News/Facebook hosted presidential primary debate in 2015; used…
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iOS 14.5 Beta Adds Item Tracking to the Find My App
Photo: Sam Rutherford Apple’s Find My app has long been a handy way of keeping track of your iPhone, MacBook,…
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Brave Is Launching a Search Engine to Take On Google
Photo: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo, Screenshot: Brave Just a few months after rolling out what can probably be called the first privacy-preserving…
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Cloud Gaming’s Missing Piece Is 5G
Graphic: Elena Scotti (Photos: Shutterstock) When my brother and I were kids, our family took a lot of road trips.…
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Roku Makes ‘Alliance’ With Nielson For Better Ad Targeting
Photo: Gizmodo On Monday, Roku announced a new “strategic alliance” with the market research giant Nielsen, that sees the connected…
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Uber Is Spinning Out Postmates’ Robotics Division Into Its Own Company
Photo: Spencer Platt / Staff (Getty Images) After acquiring the delivery startup Postmates for $2.65 billion last year, Uber Technologies announced…
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Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting A Microsoft Email Product to Steal Data
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers…
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Facebook Oversight Board May Seek to Examine Its Algorithm
An activist of environmental NGO Avaaz wearing a mask depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a banner reading “Regulate me”…
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Researchers Create Tiny, Cicada-Like Drones
Screenshot: Kevin Yufeng Chen When we think of drones, we imagine massive, quadrotor machines that buzz around like manic seagulls.…
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