Turns out there's no money in the banana stands. At the moment, the banana market around Amazon’s downtown Seattle headquarters is a bit of a mess.* According to the Wall Street Journal, they’re tough to find in grocery stores in the area, and some restaurants have stopped selling them. And it’s all because Amazon has been handing out free bananas to anyone and everyone.

This is the same process that happened with the commission’s proposal to kill the 2015 net neutrality rules. An initial draft was published last month, and yesterday we got to see the revised draft that ended up being voted on. In between, there were plenty of comments made for the FCC to look at: 2.6 million as of today. (Though tens of thousands appear to be fake.)

Bitcoin, long recognized for its stability and security, tends to falls short when it comes to newer innovations. Meanwhile, smart contracts platform ethereum is drawing increasingly more attention. But what if you could combine those two networks and come up with the best of both worlds? That is what blockchain startup RSK Labs has long sought to do. The company’s blockchain solution, RSK (or Rootstock), aims to draw on the strengths of the bitcoin network, while bringing new options, like fl...

Reported hate crimes against Muslims in the United States rose dramatically, again; Trump fires Comey; in a boost for rights, France elected Emmanuel Macron to the presidency, but the far-right’s unprecedented share of the vote should be a wake-up call for France; the crisis in Venezuela deepens; worrying trends in Indonesia; and a campaign to stop anti-gay attacks in Chechnya – get the background from HRW’s Facebook Live Q & A. 

Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai unveiled his plans to reverse net neutrality last month, and the proposal is expected to face an initial vote on May 18th. While net neutrality supporters have displayed their opposition to Pai’s continued stance against the 2015 ruling in a few creative ways, this weekend a campaign aimed to hit the chairman close to home — literally.

We’ve known for a while now that Google is working on a mysterious new operating system known as “Fuchsia.” Unlike Android or Chrome OS that are based on Linux, Fuchsia is built on a new, Google-built kernel called “Magenta” instead. It turns out Fuchsia has come a long way from the command line form it existed in when it was first uncovered last August. Google has since added an early user interface to its new operating system featuring a card-based design, as can be seen in Ars Techi...

For several weeks, journalists and NGOs have been drawing attention to a campaign of terror against the LGBT community in Chechnya, a Muslim-majority region of Russia in the Caucasus. Detentions, torture and even murders have been reported - but the authorities deny the claims. Our correspondent Elena Volochine managed to talk to some of the victims, who gave chilling accounts of persecution.

High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by these corpses

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today called on member nations of the U.N. Security Council to step up their diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea after recent provocations from the rogue regime. "We have said this before and it bears repeating; the policy of strategic patience is over," Tillerson said during an open session on North Korea, adding it was time to "adopt a new approach."

President Trump paid tribute Monday to more than one million Armenians killed during the Ottoman Empire, but followed his predecessors in stopping short of calling the century-old killings a genocide. Mr. Trump called the deaths “one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century,” with about 1.5 million Armenians “deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths” beginning in 1915.

Chinas first unmanned cargo spacecraft today successfully completed automated docking with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab, state media reported. The Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft successfully completed automated docking with the orbiting space lab at 12:23 PM (local time), according to Beijing Aerospace Control Centre.

The docking of six North Korean ships at a port in northern China has raised questions over a Chinese ban on coal imports from the nuclear-armed state. The ships docked Thursday and Friday at a port in the city of Tangshan in northern Hebei province, near Beijing. All six North Korean ships were loaded with anthracite coal, according to a daily docking plan published on the port of Jintang's website. Unloading times of up to six hours were listed for the ships.

A Republican lawmaker who voted to eliminate Internet privacy rules said, "Nobody's got to use the Internet" when asked why ISPs should be able to use and share their customers' Web browsing history for advertising purposes. US Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) was hosting a town hall meeting when a constituent asked about the decision to eliminate privacy rules. The person in the audience was disputing the Republican argument that ISPs shouldn't face stricter requirements...

In his video, Dotcom called the demo “a first walkthrough of how the features work and how the site looks.” The first screen of the demo self-proclaims the system a “trusted global distribution of digital goods.” The preview began with Dotcom unveiling a smooth interface which he called Bitcontent. It allows users of his platform to monetize any file by uploading it to a “Bitcache container” and charging a price in bits to download or stream it. He showed a four-step process which al...

In the gray half-light of dawn, eight figures creep through the dry pine forest near Quincy, California. Seven of them wear camo uniforms bearing the logos of various government agencies: U.S. Forest Service, National Guard, California Fish & Wildlife, Plumas County Sheriff. Most have blackened faces and assault rifles at the ready. An 11-year-old Belgian Malinois named Phebe and her K9 handler lead the way.

With Lent underway, and the original series "Finding Jesus" back on CNN, you're going to hear a lot about Jesus. You may hear revelations from new books that purport to tell the "real story" about Jesus, opinions from friends who have discovered a "secret" on the Web about the son of God, and airtight arguments from co-workers who can prove he never existed. Beware of most of these revelations; many are based on pure speculation and wishful thinking. Much of wh...