News Stories for 2019

Trump Signs Traced Act Into Law in Bid To Help Put an End To Robocalls 60
Major US Companies Breached, Robbed, and Spied on by Chinese Hackers 118
Fireworks, Long a German New Year's Eve Tradition, Are Losing Their Luster 135
US Retailers Rush To Comply With California Privacy Law 54
Syd Mead, Visionary 'Blade Runner' Artist and Futurist, Dies at 86 28
Huawei's Revenue Hits Record $122B in 2019 Despite U.S. Sanctions 130
Uber, Postmates Sue California to Block Gig-Worker Law 218
China's Huawei Gets India Nod To Participate in 5G Trials 34
Tech Startups Face New Investor Mandate: Profits Over Discounts 67
Unintended Perk of the Online Mattress Boom: Never-Ending Free Trials 270
CNBC Reports Open Source Software Has Essentially 'Taken Over the World' 103
Rector Says There Is a 50% Chance That Notre Dame Cathedral Will Not Be Saved 157
Microsoft Wants Schoolchildren Playing Minecraft To Learn Math 39
Washington Post Writer Calls 2019 'The Year of OK Boomer', Calls for Inter-Generational Kindness 515
Superphones, Hyperloops, and Other Tech Predictions That Haven't Happened (Yet) 39
Google/NASA/Maxar Images Reveal This Decade's Engineering Accomplishments As Seen From Space 18
How Should Students Respond To Their School's Surveillance Systems? 138
Would Social Media Have Made Life Worse For Richard Jewell? 81
FSF-Approved Hyperbola GNU/Linux Forking OpenBSD, Citing 'User Freedom' Concerns 135
Los Angeles Is Considering Make Uber and Lyft Go All-Electric 108
UK Government Accidentally Doxxes Award Winners 27
Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Project Has Failed in its Current Form, says Swiss President 43
Spotify Joins Twitter in Suspending Political Ads in 2020 54
US Tests Ways To Sweep Space Clean of Radiation After Nuclear Attack 78
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 21
Trump Could Mandate Free Access To Federally Funded Research Papers 194
New Law Finally Bans Bullshit Cable TV Fees 49
'I Asked My Students To Turn In Their Cellphones and Write About Living Without Them' 77
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS 49
Shopify CEO Says Long Hours Aren't Necessary For Success 35
The Story of the World's Loneliest Tree 24
Free Returns Come With an Environmental Cost 58
China To Complete Beidou Competitor To GPS With New Launches 23
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 70
Wikimedia Says It is Deeply Concerned About India's Proposed Intermediary Liability Rules 50
Worker Fired For Declining a Face Scan Awarded $23,200 59
YouTube Goes To War With Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency 134
How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes To Brooklyn a Year 71
Electric Bikes and Scooters Will Stay Illegal In New York Thanks To Governor Cuomo 82
Why Do 88% of Americans Use a Second Screen While Watching TV? 138
Tesla Patents New Chemistry For Better, Longer-Lasting and Cheaper Batteries 26
Huawei Reportedly Got By With a Lot of Help From the Chinese Government 47
Washington's New Anti-Robocall Law Won't Stop the Calls. Here's Why. 88
Holiday Season Online Shopping Hit a New High in the US This Year 30
New Rule Would Make it Possible To Track and Identify Nearly All Drones Flying in the US 72
Turkey's Wikipedia Ban Violates Rights, Top Court Rules 42
The US Government Has Approved Funds for Geoengineering Research 150
Electric Buses on London's 100 Route Will Play a Soundtrack To Alert Pedestrians To Their Presence 148
'Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security' 772
Pentagon Wants Open-Source 5G Plan in Campaign Against Huawei 64
Colleges Are Turning Students' Phones Into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands 148
If You Bought a Real Christmas Tree, You Paid 15 Cents To the Christmas Tree Promotion Board 109
Mysterious Drones Flying Nighttime Patterns Baffle Colorado Officials 82
Watch Santa Travel Across 3D Globe Via NORAD's Santa Tracker 41
Mike Bloomberg Is Plowing Millions of Dollars Into a Secretive Tech Firm Called Hawkfish 62
Bushfires Release Over Half Australia's Annual Carbon Emissions 70
Baltimore Police Back Pilot Program for Surveillance Planes, Reviving Controversial Program 31
Malware Broker Behind US Hacks is Now Teaching Computer Skills in China 12
The Next Big Streaming Trend? Recommendations From Actual People 36
Randy Suess, Computer Bulletin Board Inventor, Dies at 74 28
Proposed CO2 Capture System Could Reduce Truck Emissions By 90 Percent 83
The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower 137
The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster 167
Judge Strikes Down NYC Law Limiting Uber, Lyft Driver Cruising Time 27
T-Mobile/Sprint Deal Is Good Actually, Feds Tell Court In States' Lawsuit 17
Tesla Stock Hits 'Funding Secured' $420 Price 121
Boeing Fires CEO Dennis Muilenburg 103
Amazon's Choice' Isn't the Endorsement It Appears 44
Why So Many Japanese Children Refuse To Go To School 199
Two Top Scientists Warn That The Amazon, and Earth, Have Reached a Tipping Point 281
Code.org Boasts It's 'Served' an Hour of Code To 910+ Million Students 19
Mysterious Green Liquid Oozing Onto Highway Identified 74
Tech News Site 'The INQUIRER' Is Shutting Down 39
Many of Kubernetes 2,000 TODO Comments Appear to Be Forgotten 49
Bloomberg Fined $7.6M For Re-Publishing Info From Fake Press Release 88
Retired US General Claims Revolutionary Transport Technology, Warns China Could Dominate Space 161
DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think? 83
The U.S. Navy Bans TikTok from Government-Issued Mobile Devices 26
YouTube's Top Earner For 2019? An 8-Year-Old Who Made $26M 43
Many Security-Critical Military Systems Are Now Using Linux 78
Good News For Climate Change: India Gets Out of Coal and Into Renewable Energy 196
President Trump Officially Adds a New Branch to the U.S. Military: Space Force 249
FDA Approves First-Ever Ebola Vaccine 34
Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance 32
Wawa Announces Data Breach Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Stores 30
Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Declining, As CDC Confirms Vitamin E Acetate As Main Culprit 107
WeWork's Sudden Fall Reveals the Cracks in the Startup Economy 47
US Government Lists Fictional Nation Wakanda as Trade Partner 65
Contractor Admits Planting Logic Bombs In His Software To Ensure He'd Get New Work 117
Enormous Methane Leak From Ohio Gas Well Was One of Worst In American History, Satellites Reveal 72
Multiple States Are Investigating Intuit Over TurboTax Free File Marketing 36
Why the Second-Hand eBook Market May Never Take Off 55
Finland Is Making Its Online AI Crash Course Free To the World 18
Virginia Has Big Plans For Electric School Buses In 2020 59
SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon's Internet-Beaming Satellites 42
Robocall Fines Rise To $10,000 Per Call Under Newly Passed Law 62
Some Farmers Have Discovered That Online Stardom Can Be More Lucrative Than their Crops or Livestock 68
The New Payday Lender Looks a Lot Like the Old Payday Lender 78
What's it Like To Install a Weather Station at the Top of the World? 21
How Classroom Technology is Holding Students Back 87
Depression and Suicide Linked To Air Pollution In New Global Study 64
Harvard CS50 Team: We 'Feel More Comfortable' About Harshly Punishing Cheaters 113
Uber Settles Federal Investigation Into Workplace Culture 22
House Impeaches President Trump For Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Congress 1183
House Calls 'Save the Internet Act' One of Its Biggest 2019 Accomplishments 49
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times 25
UK To Create Regulator To Police Big Tech Companies 16
Bitcoin Was the Best Investment of the Decade 139
Hundreds of 'Pink Slime' Local News Outlets Are Distributing Algorithmic Stories and Conservative Talking Points, Investigation Finds 228
Australia Endures Hottest Day on Record 166
Former NASA Engineer Thwarts Porch Pirates Again With 'Glitter Bomb 2.0' 94
Over 100 PBS Local Stations Start Streaming Today On YouTube TV 35
How a Whale Crashed Bitcoin To Sub-$7,000 Overnight 228
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
Mozilla To Add Second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Provider in Firefox 67
UK Proposes Plan To Ban Sales of Locked Mobile Phones 36
Apple and Google Named In US Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths 108
California Coastal Waters Rising In Acidity At Alarming Rate, Study Finds 112
Visa Warns That Hackers Are Scraping Card Details From Gas Pumps 88
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
Nuclear Fusion Startup Raises $100 Million To Design and Build a Demo Power Plant 141
Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground For Prime Shipments 48
Wildfires Have Changed. It's Time the Science Did Too. 19
Economists Got the Decade All Wrong. They're Trying To Figure Out Why. 322
Amazon Learns a New Skill: Making Money From Alexa 21
Why Won't Foxconn Tell Wisconsin What It's Building? 98
America's Air Force Seeks Commercial Technologies For 'Space Domain Awareness' 27
Is Microsoft's Chromium Edge Browser Better Than Firefox and Chrome? 113
America's FCC Votes Unanimously To Divide 'Safety Spectrum' Into Wifi and Auto Applications 64
Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay To Subscribe To YouTube? 177
Do You Remember the Y2K Bug? 241
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
Google Has $100 For Teachers Who Steer 20+ Children To 'Google CS First' 25
YouTube's Algorithm Made Fake CNN Reports Go Viral 63
Emotion Recognition Tech Should Be Banned, Says an AI Research Institute 65
Reputation Management Firms Bury Google Results By Placing Flattering Content 53
Billboard Is Changing Its Albums Chart To Count Video Plays From YouTube 16
AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
Mozilla To Force All Add-on Devs To Use 2FA To Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks 21
Australia's Bushfires Have Emitted 250m Tonnes of CO2, Almost Half of Country's Annual Emissions 91
New Zealand Orders 1,300 Square Feet of Skin From US To Help Burned Volcano Victims 65
Crows Could Be the Smartest Animal Other Than Primates 130
Lawsuit Forces CenturyLink To Stop Charging 'Internet Cost Recovery Fee' 43
Less Than 10 Percent of Americans Are Buying $1,000 Smartphones, Report Says 126
Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search 53
988 Will Be the New 911 For Suicide Prevention 66
FTC May Try To Delay Facebook's Plan To Integrate its Apps 9
Russian Police Raid NGINX Moscow Office 138
Larry Page Is Quietly Funding Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine 57
Verizon Lays Off More Yahoo/AOL Employees 44
Genetic Database That Identified Golden State Killer Acquired By Crime Scene DNA Company 39
Maze Ransomware Was Behind Pensacola 'Cyber Event,' Florida Officials Say 5
Glassdoor Rankings Find Tech Workplaces Are Less Popular this Year 34
YouTube Unveils a Stricter Harassment Policy 152
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Seven Times Faster Than In 1990s 282
Nikon Is Killing Its Authorized Repair Program 109
Vietnam's Richest Man Bets $2 Billion To Sell Cars To Americans 77
Facebook Fired a Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts 21
Greeks Set To Face Heavy Fines If They Don't Spend 30% of Their Income Electronically 187
Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement 84
Five Cities Account For Vast Majority of Growth In Tech Jobs, Study Finds 110
Disney Becomes First Studio To Surpass $10 Billion At Worldwide Box Office 62
WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux 48
College-Educated Workers Are Taking Over the American Factory Floor 159
E-Scooter Company 'Unicorn' Goes Bust After Spending Big On Facebook Ads 65
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal 25
Scientists Dodge FDA To Offer a $1 Million Anti-Aging Treatment in Colombia 145
The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand's Lungs 51
China Tells Government Offices To Remove All Foreign Computer Equipment 127
Oceans Losing Oxygen at Unprecedented Rate, Experts Warn 201
Free Software Foundation Offers Benefits and Merchandise In Its Annual Fundraiser 27
Chinese Newspaper Touts Videogame Where Players 'Hunt Down Traitors' in Hong Kong 96
Open-Source Security Nonprofit Tries Raising Money With 'Hacker-Themed' T-Shirts 11
81-Year-Old Donald Knuth Releases New TAOCP Book, Ready to Write Hexadecimal Reward Checks 39
Uber Loses $1.4 Billion in Value After Acknowledging Thousands of Sexual Assaults 76
Can We Kill Fake News With Blockchain? 164
Reddit Bans 61 Accounts, Citing 'Coordinated' Russian Campaign To Interfere In UK Vote 135
The U.S. Considers Ban on Exporting Surveillance Technology To China 73
Hour of Code Will Teach Kids How To Use AI To Judge Who Is 'Awesome' Or Not 42
Trump Administration Drops Plans For Mandatory Face Scans of Citizens 31
FTC Finds Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users 11
Bernie Sanders Unveils $150 Billion Plan To Expand High-Speed Internet Access 275
Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find 38
Scientists Fed an Ancient Earth Organism Space Metals. It Started 'Dancing' 43
Netflix Is Spending $420 Million on Indian Content, CEO Says 52
A Two-Hour Fan-Made Audio Drama About BioShock 17
Nestle Cannot Claim Bottled Water Is 'Essential Public Service,' Court Rules 75
The Case For Portland-To-Vancouver High-Speed Rail 153
Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing 19
The US Is Suspected of Killing a Terrorist In Syria Using Missile With Knife Warhead 227
Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules 20
Advocates Call For FTC Probe of 'Kidtech' 2
New Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections 43
Lawmakers Are Ready To Crack Down on Robocalls 87
The One-Traffic-Light Town With Some of the Fastest Internet in the US 95
Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million 26
Huawei Launches New Legal Challenge Against US Ban 69
FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time 54
US Shows a 'Concerning Lack of Regard For the Privacy of People's Biometrics' 58
Even 50-Year-Old Climate Models Correctly Predicted Global Warming 407
Climate Change is Forcing One Person From Their Home Every Two Seconds, Oxfam Says 184
How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America 90
2020 US Census Plagued By Hacking Threats, Cost Overruns 66
He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk In North Korea. The US Arrested Him. 244
Huawei Manages To Make Smartphones Without American Chips 123
Ring Reportedly Outed Camera Owners To Police With a Heat Map 102
Russia To Upgrade Homegrown Encyclopedia After Putin Pans Wikipedia 205
Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet Are Producing Massive Waterfalls, Raising Scientists' Concerns For Sea Level Rise 176
Firefox 71 Arrives With Better Lockwise and Tracker Blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows 53
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Flooding a Struggling Recycling System With Cardboard 172
DHS Wants Airport Face Recognition Scans To Include US Citizens 104
Coal Power Becoming 'Uninsurable' As Firms Refuse Cover 270
Prominent Tech Execs Sign Renewed Commitment To Paris Agreement 131
Doctors Are Turning To YouTube To Learn How To Do Surgical Procedures 59
'Laziness Has Won': Apostrophe Society Admits Its Defeat 198
Public Libraries Drop Overdue Book Fines To Alleviate Inequity 279
Can We Save Coral Reefs Using Underwater Loudspeakers? 26
Can AI Predict the Stock Market? No, But the Attempt Was Interesting 87
The File /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Matters For Your Privacy (and Devuan Fixed It) 147
Jimmy Wales' New Social Network Skyrockets To 345,000 Members, Will Hire Journalists 132
Earth is Getting Windier -- Which Helps Wind Turbines Generate More Green Energy 63
With Suction Cups and Lots of Luck, Scientists Measure Blue Whale's Heart Rate 19
Walmart Dodged US Tax on $2 Billion by Routing Cash Through Multiple Countries, Whistleblower Says 226
Manhattan Attorney Announces Arrest Of United States Citizen, Who Works For Ethereum, For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions 102
Only a Few 2020 US Presidential Candidates Are Using a Basic Email Security Feature 88
The World May Already Have Crossed a Series of Climate Tipping Points 341
High-Paid, Well-Educated White Collar Workers Will Be Heavily Affected By AI, Says New Report 147
Oracle Responds To Wage Discrimination Claims By Suing US Department of Labor 125
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Still Rising, UN Report Says 263
AT&T and Verizon Agree To Change Their eSIM Practices 15
Cable Execs Now Falsely Claiming Cord Cutting Is Slowing Down 59
RISC-V Foundation Moving To Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears 76
Consumers are Confused by 5G 150
Health Concerns Mount As More Old Sewer Pipes Are Lined With Plastic 95
Transport Canada Official Says 737 MAX MCAS System 'Has To Go' 130
Psilocybin For Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy By FDA 89
Report Finds Infants and Toddlers Using Screens in 'High Amounts' 45
YouTube Masthead, Rolling Out To All Users, is a Massive Auto-Playing Video Ad for TV 58
Billionaire Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access 130
OK Boomer, Who's Going To Buy Your 21 Million Homes? 422
How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class 220
India's Ominous Future: Too Little Water, or Far Too Much 91
Google Fires 4 Workers Active In Labor Organizing 125
US Tech Sector Skews Younger Than the Workforce As a Whole, Study Finds 118
Vegan Sues Burger King For False Advertising, Alleging 'Impossible Whopper' Cooked With Beef Fat 350
US Police Already Using 'Spot' Robot From Boston Dynamics In the Real World 36
Smartphone Videos Can Now Be Analyzed To Locate a Shooter 40
The California DMV Is Making $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Info 62

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