In recent months, Facebook has been secretly meeting with White House officials and wireless carriers about launching its controversial Free Basics program in the United States. The idea of this actually happening isn’t just bad. It’s terrifying.

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Submitted on October 6th 2016 by Gozzin with 6 comments

Transcripts of private speeches by US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are released by the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.

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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by larylin with 3 comments

A proposal to stop sales of new combustion-engine cars by 2030 has gained cross-party support in Germany's Bundesrat, the country's upper house of parliament, Der Spiegel reported.

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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by baron778 with 1 comments

The media don’t understand chan culture, and that’s made it easy for the channers to have a surprisingly easy time manipulating everyone.

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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by hedman

Fight for the Future is dedicated to protecting and expanding the Internet's transformative power in our lives by creating civic campaigns that are engaging for millions of people.

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Submitted on October 6th 2016 by Gozzin with 1 comments

The upcoming U.S. presidential election can be rigged and sabotaged, and we might never even know it happened. This Election Day voters in 10 states, or parts of them, will use touch-screen voting machines with no paper backup of an individual's vote; some will have rewritable flash memory. If malware is inserted into these machines that's smart enough to rewrite itself, votes can be erased or assigned to another candidate with little possibility of figuring out the actual vote.

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Submitted on October 6th 2016 by spacepopper with 1 comments

Artificial intelligence might thwart art forgers once and for all.

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Submitted on October 5th 2016 by gladsdotter

Samsung said it would permanently discontinue production and sales of its embattled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. Potential losses to Samsung could wipe out the mobile division’s operating profits for the fourth quarter, according to one estimate.

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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by montyHall with 3 comments and with 2 Related Links:

1. R.I.P Samsung Galaxy Note 7. It’s over. Added by gladsdotter on October 11th 2016.

2. Samsung Ends Production Of Galaxy Note 7 Smartphones Added by gladsdotter on October 11th 2016.

WikiLeaks series on deals involving Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Mr Podesta is a long-term associate of the Clintons and was President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1998 until 2001. Mr Podesta also owns the Podesta Group with his brother Tony, a major lobbying firm and is the Chair of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington DC-based think tank.

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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by grandtheftsoul with 15 comments and with 4 Related Links:

1. Dear Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, I Am Not Sidney Blumenthal. By Kurt Eichenwald Added by AdelleChattre on October 12th 2016.

2. The Russians are helping. Added by Appaloosa on October 12th 2016.

3. Hillary Clinton Smeared Poor Americans, Called Them "Bucket Of Losers" Added by spaceghoti on October 11th 2016.

4. Wikileaks exposed the fact that Hillary Clinton is STILL against gay marriage in private. Added by spaceghoti on October 11th 2016.

Earlier this year, we wrote about Australia's refusal to allow researchers to check e-voting software being used in that country. The situation in Argentina seems to be even worse.

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Submitted on October 7th 2016 by messi with 2 comments

Now that Tesla is venturing further into the energy industry by ramping up its energy storage division, ‘Tesla Energy’, and with solar through its proposed merger with SolarCity, the company is not just causing serious concern to established automakers and big oil, but also traditional energy companies like coal mining corporations.

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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by drunkenninja with 1 Related Links:

1. Coal Miner’s CEO Calls Tesla a ‘Fraud’ and Elon Musk Tweets It Added by drunkenninja on October 11th 2016.

We increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills? A computer one hundred times more accurate and one million times faster than a human will make 10,000 times as many mistakes. by Tim Harford.

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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by gladsdotter

Vertical farming is turning out to be nearly 10 times more efficient than traditional agriculture. The development is being described as an agricultural evolution as opposed to a revolution.

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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by drunkenninja

Today, thanks to the insecure Internet of Things, we're reaching a point where the internet really could be crashed. But we can stop it if we try.

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Submitted on October 7th 2016 by sjvn

Shares drop amid reports that some replacement smartphones have caught fire.

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Submitted on October 10th 2016 by dynamite with 1 comments

A powerful cyber-attack came close to destroying a French TV network, its director-general tells the BBC.

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Submitted on October 10th 2016 by TNY

When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type. “Roman,” she wrote. “This is your digital monument.”

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Submitted on October 6th 2016 by Appaloosa

Google suffered a setback in an age discrimination suit this week.

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Submitted on October 10th 2016 by TNY

US officials formally accuse Russia of cyber attacks on political organisations "to interfere with the US election".

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Submitted on October 7th 2016 by baron778

Now head of the embattled SolarCity, Lyndon Rive, Elon Musk's cousin, wants to see panels atop every rooftop in America. But is he flying too close to the sun?

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Submitted on October 10th 2016 by TNY with 1 comments