Senator Ron Wyden plans to introduce new legislation that would stop law enforcement agencies from purchasing data they would ordinarily require a warrant or court order to obtain, the Senator's office told Motherboard. Recently agencies have bo ...

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy ...

Uber on Thursday said it would let drivers across the state of California set their own rates as a function of the company’s price “multiplier” — used in Uber’s so-called “surge” pricing. The move builds on a pricing experiment that began in January ...

Apple technologies and data are being used to track the reopening of the U.S. economy amid the global coronavirus health crisis. For example, CNN has built a tool tracking Apple Store reopenings and re-closures as a way of visualizing the virus' ...

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revealed that David Fincher’s “The Social Network” is the best film of the last decade.

Despite the name, it’s not a new CSI show.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed an administrative complaint with Detroit's police department over what the advocacy organization claims is the country's first known wrongful arrest involving facial-recognition technology.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

App developers will also have to self-report their app permissions.

The recovery of the Coronavirus pandemic is of immense importance for the health of the world’s economy. Therefore, it is crucial to know the Covid-19 recovery progress of different countries by using Data Science. A question asked often is: Which co ...

The world has only six months in which to change the course of the climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate catastrophe, one of the world’s foremost energy expert ...

Tesla says its Model S Long Range Plus is the first electric vehicle to achieve over 400 miles of EPA-rated range. The company said in a news release Monday that the vehicle has "an official EPA-rated range of 402 miles, representing a nearly 20 ...

Battlefield 6 will be more inspired by the "setting and direction" of Battlefield 3, says insider

Certain vending machines that sell Coca-Cola now accept Bitcoin. As reported by The Australian Financial Review, about 1,200 vending machines in Australia and New Zealand have started to accept cryptocurrencies, chief among them Bitcoin. The deal com ...

Don’t wash your food with bleach. Don’t eat or drink cleaning products. These lifesaving warnings may seem like common sense, but a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests Americans are throwing common sense out the window ...

Platforms' policies on misinformation and violent talk bump up against the power of presidents.

President Donald Trump has threatened to close down social-media platforms that he argues censor conservative voices after Twitter on Tuesday tagged some of his messages with a fact-check warning. "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms to ...

"You know what, you can never sell this NASA and SpaceX team short." On Thursday and Friday, senior managers from NASA, SpaceX, and the space agency's international partners held long meetings to review all of the aspects of an upcomin ...

One restaurateur gives each bag a personal touch, printing out a small note with a simple message: Grubhub orders are killing his business.

Let's play a game of bad news, good news, bad news. Bad news first: 2020. Literally all of it. Every second. Every waking moment of 2020. It's grim, I know. Bushfires, pandemic, murder hornets. When will it end? But the good news: Apparentl ...