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Section 230 gives platforms like YouTube broad immunity for user content.

Safety and immune responses look good, but do these vaccines work?

Card trick priming technique used by illusionist Derren Brown inspires psychologists.

Short, clever, blood-soaked: You have not played a pixelated Metroidvania like this.

Hack also exposed phone numbers, email addresses, and other PI for 130 users.

Chinese-built Model 3s will switch to an iron phosphate cell chemistry this year.

It has super high specs and a laser-beam “gamer” aesthetic.

Ongoing attack hitting unsecured data leaves the word “meow” as its calling card.

Mozilla’s VPN is available now for Windows, Android, and iOS.

The world's most valuable automaker says it hopes to deliver 500,000 cars in 2020.

Remember when Netscape said Internet Explorer was a problem?

BioNTech, Pfizer announce deal for 100 million doses of coronavirus inoculation candidate.

Five-year effort represents important progress on four-decade-old question.

Group seeks solution to White House concerns over video app.

Twisted claims 200 miles of range, but beware, it's not going to be cheap.

AT&T email about phone shutoffs was so confusing some users thought it was a scam.

A promising new series from Christian Ditter, best known for the 2017 comedy Girlboss.

For now, SN5 is still alive.

Model of gel-cutting reveals why slicing is better than dicing.

Wisconsin subsidiary of shipbuilder Fincantieri to build FREMM-based FFG(X).

QAnon posts are too often linked to dangerous, real-world harms.

Random sampling paints a picture of where the pandemic was in late spring.

FCA was Waymo's first OEM partner in 2016, deal will continue post-merger with PSA.

China copies NASA description of landing as "seven minutes of terror."

Easy-to-miss script can give attackers a new access should they ever be booted out.

DOJ alleges the hackers started work in 2009, hit military contractors.

We're not getting any new Ryzen 9 models—but 3, 5, and 7 get integrated GPUs.

Current Steam owners unaffected; new players must use Epic Games Store (or consoles).

Pai helped kill FCC caps on intrastate prices, now says states must act.

Majority holds that forwarding DMCA warnings to sites is responsibility enough.

Heavy molecules reveal wave-like properties after scattering from light beam.

2-in-1 Windows PC is fun and functional—but embarrassingly hefty.

Dealmaster also has deals on Bose headphones, Anker chargers, and more.

The 3.9L naturally aspirated V12 will go from idle to redline in 0.3 seconds.

Brazil is second only to the US in counts of cases and deaths.

This one-off EV features seven electric motors and 2,300lbs of downforce.

The new OnePlus phone looks great, but it’s only launching in Europe and India.

Slow progress is forcing self-driving startups to tighten their belts.

New mines are coming, but the potential for recycling is huge.

Multiple reports make it obvious that facts aren't driving pandemic management.

As much as we detest the usual F2P model, we wish EA had done this one differently.

ATM maker is investigating the use of its software in black boxes used by thieves.

The Fold2 should get a bigger front screen, a hole-punch camera, and a glass cover.

Social network still has trouble separating “opinion” from disinformation.

Landscapes that are not too dense and not too sparse comprise a “Goldilocks zone.”

Every booster still undergoes detailed inspections between launches.

“The mission is a catalyst.”

The work could offer helpful clues in developing an effective vaccine against COVID-19.

ZFS features—with no command-line management.

After taking a five-month break, the botnet returns with a short burst of activity.