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Priest Outed Via Grindr App Highlights Rampant Data Tracking

When a religious publication used smartphone app data to deduce the sexual orientation of a...

Hoe No! Facebook Snafu Spells Trouble for Gardening Group

Facebook's algorithms sometimes flag "hoe" as “violating community standards," apparently referring to a different word,...

Biden: ‘Killing People’ Remark Was Call for Big Tech to Act

The White House says platforms such as Facebook haven't done enough to stop misinformation that...

Microsoft Exchange Email Hack Was Caused by China, US Says

The Microsoft Exchange hack was first identified in January and was rapidly attributed to Chinese...

EXPLAINER: How Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos Will Soar Into Space

When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, the former Amazon CEO...

That Was Fleeting: Twitter Kills off Ephemeral Messages

Twitter is disappearing its disappearing tweets, called fleets, after they didn't catch on.

Billionaire Richard Branson Reaches Space in His Own Ship

Branson and five crewmates reached an altitude of about 53 miles over the New Mexico...

Unopened Legend of Zelda Game from 1987 Sells for $870,000

"The Legend of Zelda marks the beginning of one of the most important sagas in...

No ET, No Answers: Intel Report Is Inconclusive About UFOs

A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs just released makes at least one thing clear:...

‘There Is Stuff’: Enduring Mysteries Trail US Report on UFOs

The U.S. government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects.

Brief, Global Internet Outages Blamed on Software Bug

Akamai, which runs one of the internet's main content-delivery systems, said the outage was not...

Winning Auction Bid To Fly in Space with Jeff Bezos: $28M

It will be the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket with people on...