Technology
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Canada declares internet a necessity. But can it deliver?
The country's telecommunications regulator wants to bring high-speed internet to all of its citizens within the next 10 to 15 years. But other countries and tech leaders with similar promises have found such projects expensive and challenging.
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Breakthroughs Voices How news sites' online comments help fuel hatred
Online news outlets and social networks share responsibility for letting hateful messages fester in their comment spaces, contributing to further degenerating our politics.
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First Look Why Elon Musk wants to add 'boring' traffic tunnels to his portfolio
In a series of tweets, Tesla CEO announces a plan to start a 'boring company' that will dig tunnels to assuage traffic congestion issues.
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First Look Tiny tunes: Scientists create diamond radio receiver on atomic level
Using a system the size of only two atoms as a building block, researchers at Harvard University were able to create the world's smallest radio receiver.
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Will a Tesla rival win the race to offer self-driving cars?
Upstart Lucid Motors hopes to manufacture an electric vehicle with full autonomous driving by late 2018, but analysts aren't sure how many consumers will react.
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First Look Facebook's Instant Articles error: Another problem for news in the social media age?
The company apologized Friday for accidentally undercounting traffic, at a time when viewer analytics are becoming increasingly important for digital journalism.
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First Look Why Evernote is backpedaling its new privacy policy
The notetaking company says that despite the implications of its proposed policy change, it remains devoted to user privacy.
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Indiana University tech tool 'Hoaxy' shows how fake news spreads
A free tool known as 'Hoaxy,' developed by Indiana University's Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, aims to provide a better understanding of how fake news makes its way across the internet.
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Breakthroughs Voices This lunch-companion app can help burst your political bubble
Connect, a service that helps people of different ideological, socioeconomic, or demographic backgrounds, arrange face-to-face meetings.
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Netflix hack: White hats, or digital robber barons?
OurMine claims to hack large organizations in order to help improve their network security. But is this collective rooted in benevolence or profit?
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First Look EU court slams indiscriminate data collection, opening challenge to British cyber law
The law requires telecommunications companies to store the web and message history of Britons for the government to access. But Europe's highest court ruled such a law is unjustifiable in a democratic society.
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Google updates algorithm to filter out Holocaust denial and hate sites
Under increasing pressure over the spread of fake news, some social media and web search companies are moving towards valuing information integrity in their results.
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First Look Twitter in turmoil: Does the departure of another top executive hint at trouble?
One pessimistic analyst warned that Twitter is 'toast' and that its shares are not even worth $10, partially because there are so many fake accounts on the platform.
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First Look Privacy groups: 'Serial offender' Google deceived consumers with 2016 policy change
Consumer Watchdog and Privacy Rights Clearing House last week asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate and punish Google for its privacy policy revision in June.
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December 22, 2016
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Jade (l.) and Camden Evans sit on the lap of their dad, Heath Evan, as they watch an elaborate display of Christmas lights flash and blink to a soundtrack of holiday music at a home in Jenks, Okla.
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First Look Facebook to flag 'worst of the worst' fake news with fact-checking partners
The social networking giant says it will make it easier for users to report fake news, flag fake stories with the help of fact-checkers, and disrupt financial incentives that drive fake news.
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Are we seeing a turning point in Trump's relationship with Silicon Valley?
The announcement that Silicon Valley executives Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick will advise Donald Trump as part of his Strategic and Policy Forum came the same day as a genial meeting between tech industry leaders and the president-elect.
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First Look Why SpaceX is delaying its first human crewed flight
The commercial spaceflight company, SpaceX, plans to send humans into space in 2018, months after the launch was originally scheduled.
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First Look What Yahoo users can do to protect their data after billion-account breach
The new breach was likely separate from a 2014 incident, which Yahoo attributed to state-sponsored cybercriminals.
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Google publishes national security letters after US lifts gag order
After a gag order was lifted earlier this year, the tech giant published secret subpoena-like documents – with the government's blessing.
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Yahoo says 1 bln accounts exposed in newly discovered security breach
The cyber attack, the largest in history, has been blamed on attackers working on behalf of a government, and could jeopardize Verizon Communication Inc's pending $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo's core internet business.
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Trump tells anxious tech leaders: 'We're here to help'
After facing fierce opposition from tech leaders during the campaign, the president-elect will now meet with them quarterly.
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First Look True menace or 'straw man'? Tech debates Trump's Muslim registry idea.
Depending on its specifics, experts say, the final policy could be both constitutional and precedented – even if critics find it offensive and ineffective.
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Google's autonomous car spin-off: A tech firm, not an automaker
The new subsidiary of Alphabet will focus its efforts on developing self-driving technology, not the manufacturing of cars themselves. But it will need partners in the auto world to do that.
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Breakthroughs Voices The neoliberal consensus is crumbling. What happens next?
The dominant economic model of the West for the past seven decades faces challenges from both the left and the right. Will the neoliberal narrative be replaced by one that aims to create more than just market value?
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