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Judge orders Uber to search servers, work harder to find Waymo’s 14,000 files
"In 42 years, I've never seen a record this strong. You are up against it."
Lawyers win again in latest privacy class-action settlement
iOS address book deal, if split evenly among class members, pays 53 cents each.
Mini-review: Asus cranks out another excellent $700 Ultrabook
There are a couple issues, but overall you get good features for the price.
Ajit Pai says broadband market too competitive for strict privacy rules
FCC Chair ignores lack of home Internet competition in argument against privacy rules.
Posting Persona 5 spoilers could get you hit with account suspension
Strict restrictions seem counterproductive in today's media environment.
Report: Google plotting a Google Home/Google Wifi combo device
Google wants a Google Wi-Fi and a Google Home in every room—why not just combine them?
Taser stuns law enforcement world, offers free body cameras to all US police
Company also changes name to Axon to reflect its primary body-camera product.
Flattr micropayment service gets acquired by Adblock Plus
Adblock CEO says he seeks an Internet "that is fair and still profitable."
Liberal and conservative book buyers like different kinds of science
Does this mean anything? Only that we read science that reinforces our beliefs.
Getting antibiotics as a baby may have lasting effects on brain, behavior
Mouse study backs up human observations showing long-term changes.
HTC Vive’s first-ever price drop saves you $100 today only
One-year anniversary celebration includes $7/month software subscription offer.
How do you deal with CS:GO gambling? Legitimize it
Faceit's ECS league partners with Genius Sports to provide data to regulated bookmakers.
LG G6 review: LG’s “personal best” still can’t compare to Samsung
Recommending the G6 is hard when Samsung is building a better version of the same phone.
North Korea tests missile in what may be step toward mobile ICBM
Next up appears to be another nuclear test.
This six-year-old video from SpaceX is both prescient and pure troll
"Rise up and take the power back, it's time that the fat cats had a heart attack."
Amazon outbids Twitter for rights to livestream Thursday Night Football games
But you must be a Prime member to watch.
Microsoft opens up on Windows telemetry, tells us most of what data it collects
Windows telemetry is getting a lot more transparent.
Spotify finally lets artists restrict new albums to premium subscribers
Plus Kanye West is the first artist to have an album go Platinum on streams alone.
Uber’s Levandowski really doesn’t want to talk about any Waymo documents
Showing a privilege log “would violate... the right against self-incrimination.”
Invader Zim will return to TV “soon-ish” with creator, original cast
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Lawmakers propose law requiring warrants to search electronics at US border
"Americans' constitutional rights shouldn’t disappear at the border."
Utah Supreme Court ruling bars direct sales of Teslas through a subsidiary
State regulators can prohibit an auto manufacturer from having an interest in dealerships.
Scientists capture video of dolphins risking death to eat octopus
There's a strategy for avoiding tentacles that keep fighting even when detached.
Uber exec accused of stealing IP from Google made $120M, but worked on the side
Google hammers on Levandowski, who remains in charge of Uber's self-driving cars.
Trump move to kill privacy rules opposed by 72% of Republicans, survey says
Privacy is partisan for lawmakers, but not necessarily for the rest of us.
Valve discusses user-centric changes to Steam’s game discovery problem
Upcoming updates should up the power of power users' upvotes.
Samsung’s Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written
Researcher calls it the "worst code [he's] ever seen."
Microsoft will hand early Scorpio look to its biggest Xbox One critics
Specific date/time and source suggest a highly technical breakdown is forthcoming.
Louisiana Tech University patents file folders, then goes trolling
University patent moved to "Micoba LLC," then used to sue 11 companies.
Amid “muffled sobs,” ex-prosecutor pleads guilty to illegal wiretapping
"I intentionally forged court orders that allowed me to wiretap cellphones…"
IoT garage door opener maker bricks customer’s product after bad review
Startup tells customer “Your unit will be denied server connection.”
BioWare says Mass Effect: Andromeda bugfixes and improvements are coming
Fixes for single-player (including animation skipping!) and multiplayer are on tap.
Yooka-Laylee review: Better than a ’90s platformer
Yooka-Laylee changes just enough to support its compelling platforming.
Android 7.1.2 leaves beta, arrives on Pixel and Nexus devices
The Pixel C gets the Pixel skin and a new recent apps screen; everyone else gets bug fixes.
Apple is completely redesigning the Mac Pro… again
New design coming sometime in 2018, along with a new Apple-made external display.
Russia: Maybe reusing rockets isn’t a crazy capitalist idea after all
"The main thing is to ensure a competitive product," a Russian official said.
Lighter weight, lower drag, and more power—the Jaguar F-Type SVR
Part supercar, part muscle car, part driftable wildcat.
Formula 1: A technical deep dive into building the world’s fastest cars
F1 drivers experience similar g-force to Apollo astronauts during Earth re-entry. Here’s how they design and make the cars.
HP Elitebook x360 review: A work laptop you’ll like using at home
No matter where you’re working, HP’s newest business notebook has your back.
Did Reddit’s April Fool’s gag solve the issue of online hate speech?
Nations battled, voids came and went, and one million pixels said a lot about humanity.
President Trump delivers final blow to Web browsing privacy rules
ISP privacy rules are dead as Trump signs repeal instead of issuing veto.
Ceiling-fan efficiency provokes 1st lawsuit against Trump Energy Secretary
Energy standards for a variety of commercial equipment were approved by Obama’s DOE.
Found: Quite possibly the most sophisticated Android espionage app ever
Discovery of Pegasus for Android comes 8 months after similar iOS app was found.
Yahoo+AOL = Oath? LOL OMG WTF
And you though Altaba and Tronc were bad…
Letting unauthorized immigrants get driver’s licenses makes roads safer
California bill may have averted 4,000 hit-and-run accidents in 2015, study suggests.
Pushing apps to the edge, Fly.io puts middleware in the cloud
New service puts logic closer to users, aims to be "global load balancer" for apps.
This is what emulated Breath of the Wild looks like at 4K resolution
CEMU emulator upscales the Wii U version on a PC very nicely.
Hieronymus Bosch action figures are the greatest thing from any dimension
Fantastical, mystical worlds of a Medieval Dutch artist are now in glorious plastic.
Tesla: No algorithm prevents sudden acceleration into fixed objects
Lawsuit claims thousands of Teslas "could potentially accelerate out of control."
Russia’s hack of State Department was “hand-to-hand” combat
State-sponsored hackers are going increasingly brazen and confrontational.
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