Technology Stories for 2020

T-Mobile Data Breach Exposed Phone Numbers, Call Records 14
Adobe Now Shows Alerts in Windows 10 To Uninstall Flash Player 61
New Train Hall Opens at Penn Station, Echoing Building's Former Glory 88
A Year After Microsoft Ended All Support for Windows 7, Millions of Users Are Still Not Upgrading 239
Study Finds More Than $100 Billion Spent on App Stores in 2020 23
Global Digital-Tax Detente Ends, as US and France Exchange Blows 70
Google's 'Cloud Print' Service is Shutting Down Soon 60
Google Pilots a Search Feature That Aggregates Short-Form Videos From TikTok and Instagram 19
Police Turn To Car Data To Destroy Suspects' Alibis 194
Brexit Deal Mentions Netscape Browser and Mozilla Mail 194
Tech Giants Are Giving China a Vital Edge In Espionage. 108
Canon Patents an Osmo-style Camera With Interchangeable Lenses 25
US To Allow Small Drones To Fly Over People at Night 165
Tesla To Make India Debut 'Early' Next Year 33
Tesla Update Turns Cars into Boomboxes, Adds Three In-Car Videogames and Customizable Honking 83
Due to Popular Demand, GM May Build More of Its 'Hummer EV' Electric Pickups 96
Basecamp Releases Hotwire for Building Web Applications Using 'HTML Over the Wire' 60
The Site of Hawaii's First Tesla Supercharger? Probably Larry Ellison's 3,400-Person Island 31
How Astronauts on The ISS Got a Visit from Santa 28
Will America's Next President Break Up Facebook? 171
America Creates a 770-Mile Corridor for Testing Supersonic Aircraft Up to Mach 3 75
IBM Will Pay $24.25 Million To Resolve FCC Probes 13
Quantum Computer Makers Like Their Odds For Big Progress 31
Apple's China App Store Sheds Videogames as Beijing Tightens Internet Control 79
Japan To Phase Out Gasoline-Powered Cars, Bucking Toyota Chief 209
Citrix Devices Are Being Abused as DDoS Attack Vectors 17
Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows 65
Redox OS 0.6 Released With Many Fixes, Rewritten Kernel Memory Manager 63
Atomic-Scale Nanowires Can Now Be Produced At Scale 13
Sony Publishes An Official Linux Driver For PS5 DualSense Controllers 12
Laptops, Desktop Sales See 'Renaissance;' Shortages Won't Ease Until 2022 61
VISA Continues Pornhub Ban, To Allow Card Use On Some of Its Parent's Sites 83
Facebook Managers Trash Their Own Ad Targeting In Unsealed Remarks 13
NYC is Paying $2 Million For Anti-Plagiarism Software After Firing Teachers 44
Volkswagen CEO Says Apple Can Mount Major Challenge With Auto Push 38
'Free Speech' Reddit Clone Voat Says It Will Shut Down on Christmas 167
BMW Backtracks: 'We Do Not Draw on Warranty Status' For Targeted Ads 29
ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers For Cheating 82
Nuro Becomes First Company To Receive Commercial Autonomous Vehicle Permit From California DMV 44
Twitter Will Make Joe Biden's @POTUS Account Start With Zero Followers 151
China Wants Hefty Fines For Viral Video Creators Who Binge Food and Drinks 99
Russia Lawmakers Pass Bills That Could Block Social Media Sites 25
Oracle's Hidden Hand Is Behind the Google Antitrust Lawsuits 51
Signal Says Cellebrite Cannot Break Its Encryption 14
Authorities Don't Need To Break Phone Encryption in Most Cases, Because Modern Phone Encryption Sort of Sucks. 61
DeepMind's AI Agent MuZero Could Turbocharge YouTube 22
Google CEO Criticises Antitrust Regulation 30
Facebook Says It's Standing Up Against Apple For Small Businesses. Some Of Its Employees Don't Believe It. 37
5G Auction Shatters Record as Bidding Tops $66 Billion 32
Google Told Its Scientists To 'Strike a Positive Tone' in AI Research 51
Verizon's Nationwide 5G Can Be Slower Than Its LTE Network, Tests Show 27
After 11 Years, Australia Declares Its National Broadband Network Is 'Built and Fully Operational' 106
France Bans Use of Drones To Police Protests In Paris 23
Elon Musk Says He Once Considered Selling Tesla To Apple, Tim Cook Didn't Want To Take a Meeting 99
How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners 71
New York Halts Use of Facial Recognition in Schools 51
2,000 Parents Demand Major Academic Publisher Drop Proctorio Surveillance Tech 66
Facebook's Small Advertisers Say They're Hurt by AI Lockouts 62
Microsoft and Google Join Facebook's Legal Battle Against Hacking Company NSO 22
Google, Facebook Agreed To Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Action, Draft Lawsuit Says 29
Firefox To Ship 'Network Partitioning' As a New Anti-Tracking Defense 65
Elon Musk Says Tesla's Full Self-Driving Subscription Arrives In Early 2021 88
Stanford Algorithm Decided To Vaccinate Only Seven of Its Frontline COVID-19 Workers, Out of 5,000 Doses 126
Apple Targets Car Production By 2024 and Eyes 'Next Level' Battery Technology 110
T-Mobile Won't Claim it Has a More Reliable 5G Network Following Ad Board Decision 8
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Ban Kazakhstan's MitM HTTPS Certificate 45
US Relief Package Provides $7 Billion for Broadband 71
Its Official: America's Space Force is Better than Its Other Military Branches at 'Call of Duty' 69
Google Buys Company Whose Software Turns Old PCs Into Chromebooks 75
Facebook's Criticism of Apple's Tracking Change Called 'Laughable' by EFF 46
Should America's Next President Abolish the Space Force? 330
Amazon's Answer To SpaceX Starlink Delivers 400Mbps In Prototype Phase 77
Apple-Criticizing Banner Ads Now Added to Some of Facebook's iOS Apps 82
US Space Force Members Are Now Called 'Guardians' 132
FAA and Boeing 'Inappropriately Coached' Pilots In 737 MAX Testing 83
Tech Giants Will Block Kazakhstan's Web Surveillance Efforts Again 47
DOJ Case Against Google Likely Won't Go To Trial Until Late 2023, Judge Says 29
How Toxic Fumes Seep Into the Air You Breathe on Planes 75
Where Tech Workers Are Moving 238
Terence Eden Resigns From Google AMP Advisory Committee, Says AMP is 'Poorly Implemented, and Hostile To the Interests of Both Users and Publishers' 49
A Successful Experiment Gets Us One Step Closer To a Quantum Internet 42
Google Kills Android Things, a Smart Home OS That Never Took Off 40
Google Sued by States for Abuse of Search-Market Dominance 15
Google Wins EU Approval for Fitbit Bid Amid Tech Crackdown 11
Gun Detection AI is Being Trained With Homemade 'Active Shooter' Videos 293
Google Waives $1.5 Billion DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount 15
Facebook Hits Back at Apple With Second Critical Newspaper Ad 109
LiquidPiston's 'Inside-Out' Rotary X-Engine Wins Army Research Contract 97
AI Just Controlled a Military Plane For the First Time Ever 47
Boring Company Proposes Massive Vegas Expansion Following Monorail Bankruptcy 128
Up To 3 Million Devices Infected By Malware-Laced Chrome and Edge Add-Ons 17
Why Google's Big 'Four Year' Android Update Promise Is a Little Misleading 54
Google Will Officially Support Running Chrome OS On Old PCs 63
Texas Plans To Sue Google for Alleged Anticompetitive Behavior 38
Facebook Said It's Developing A Tool To Read Your Brain 81
Facebook Wades Into 'Fortnite' Maker's Dispute With Apple 46
Dutch Prosecutors Find a Hacker Did Successfully Log Into Donald Trump's Twitter Account 96
Australia Sues Facebook Over Its Use of Onavo To Snoop 28
Facebook Attacks Apple's iOS Changes in Full-Page Newspaper Ads 114
TikTok Has Been Quietly Sending Job Applicants' Personal Data to China 60
Gmail Is Broken Right Now, One Day After a Massive Outage 73
Intel Report Shows Tech Companies Still Struggle With Diversity 354
Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps 6
French and Russian Trolls Wrestle For Influence In Africa, Facebook Says 34
Walmart Will Use Fully Driverless Trucks To Make Deliveries In 2021 59
Senator Tries To Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures 34
Microsoft and Industry Partners Seize Key Domain Used In SolarWinds Hack 18
Microsoft Office Is Now Updated For M1 Macs 61
AWS Introduces New Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering 20
Hackers at Center of Sprawling Spy Campaign Turned SolarWinds' Dominance Against It 49
High-Frequency Traders Push Closer To Light Speed With Cutting-Edge Cables 186
Facebook To Move UK Users To California Terms, Avoiding EU Privacy Rules 67
'Google is Getting Left Behind Due To Horrible UI/UX' 269
Europe Triples Down on Tough Rules for Tech 54
Germany Orders Electric Air Taxis To Carry Emergency Doctors 50
Reddit Is Buying TikTok Rival Dubsmash 20
How Europe's Night Trains Came Back From the Dead 89
Apple Launches New App Store Privacy Labels So You Can See How iOS Apps Use Your Data 7
Here's the 5G Glossary Every American is Apparently Going To Need 73
Amazon's Zoox Unveils Robotaxi for Future Ride-Hailing Service 41
FTC Launches Sweeping Privacy Study of Top Tech Platforms 16
Google Delays Return To Office and Eyes 'Flexible Work Week' 27
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform 134
Tech Firms Risk Fines of 10% of Sales in EU Power Curb Bid 13
Google Services Including Gmail, YouTube Suffer Major Outage 104
Are Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles the Future of Autos? 350
Creator of DirectX Dies at Age 55 94
Why Apple, Cloudflare, and Fastly Proposed a New Privacy-Focused DNS Standard Called 'Oblivious DoH' 64
Here Comes the Google Chrome Change that Worries Ad-Blocker Creators 119
NVIDIA Apologizes, 'Walks Back' Threat to Withhold GPUs From Reviewer 111
Google Plans to Calculate 'Criticality' Scores for Open Source Projects 40
Twitter Disabled 'Likes' and 'Replies' on False Trump Tweets. Inadvertently. 191
Facebook Says Hackers Backed By Vietnam's Government Are Linked To IT Firm 11
Google Will Let You Limit the Alcohol and Gambling Ads You See 31
Norman Abramson, Pioneer Behind Wireless Networks, Dies At 88 7
Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company In Departure Notes 104
Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem, Chip Chief Says 51
'Cyberpunk 2077' Finally Shows What DLSS Is Good For 69
CISA and FBI Warn of Rise in Ransomware Attacks Targeting K-12 Schools 13
Twitter App Code Indicates That Live Video Broadcasting App Periscope May Get Shut Down 11
Microsoft Will Start Force Upgrading Windows 10 For Some Users 232
Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Test Builds Includes Promised x64 Arm Emulation 30
'We Need a Broadband Internet Pricing Equivalent of Nutrition Labels' 94
Gmail Will Now Let You Edit Office Documents Directly From Email Attachments 28
Facebook Hit With Antitrust Probe For Tying Oculus Use To Facebook Accounts 29
Brave Browser-Maker Launches Privacy-Friendly News Reader 12
MasterCard, VISA To Stop Processing Payments On Pornhub 114
Apple Shifts Leadership of Self-Driving Car Unit To AI Chief 11
'This Is a Bad Time to Build a High-End Gaming PC' 177
India Cabinet Approves Setting Up a 'Massive Network' of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 16
FCC Orders Equipment Removed in Step Aimed at Huawei, ZTE 56
Weather Service Faces Internet Bandwidth Shortage, Proposes Limiting Key Data 67
Google, Dell, and Intel Form New Computing Group for Transforming Cloud and IT Tools 12
France Fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M For Dropping Tracking Cookies Without Consent 36
Cruise Begins Driverless Testing In San Francisco 39
French Army Gets Ethical Go-Ahead For Bionic Soldiers 121
Tesla Full Self-Driving System's Beta Developer Settings Leaked 57
Adobe Releases the Last Flash Update Ever 57
Google CEO Pledges To Investigate Exit of Top AI Ethicist 83
After Years of Fighting It, Nest Will Work With Samsung's SmartThings 20
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization 122
YouTube Waits Until a Month After the Election To Act on False Claims of Election Fraud 419
Twitter Users Complain of Timelines Being Overrun With 'Promoted Tweets'; Twitter Says It's Intentional 91
First Electric Air Taxis Set To Fly in Singapore by 2023 28
Germany, France, 11 Other EU Countries Team Up For Semiconductor Push 45
Samsung Plans To Ditch Power Adapters Just 3 Months After Mocking Apple Over the Same 134
France To Build New Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier 244
Toyota Announces New All-Electric SUV, Says It's Their 'First Step' For Battery-Electric Cars 104
Pornhub Ends Unverified Uploads and Bans Downloads 123
Google Says It is Expanding Fuchsia's Open Source Model 79
Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Dies At 97 48
Senate Votes To Advance Nomination of Trump FCC Nominee 94
Google's Look To Speak Taps Gaze-Tracking AI To Help Users With Impairments Communicate 11
Spam Calls Grew 18% This Year Despite the Global Pandemic 89
Tripadvisor's App, and More Than 100 Others, Have Just Been Blocked in China 71
Cloudflare and Apple Design a New Privacy-Friendly Internet Protocol 90
Apple Launches $549 AirPods Max Over-Ear Headphones 118
Electric-Car Companies Now Comprise Half the Worth of the World's 10 Most Valuable Automakers 159
The World's First DNA 'Tricorder' In Your Pocket 54
Pornhub Might Lose Visa and Mastercard After NYT Exposé 157
California Partners With Apple and Google For COVID-19 Contact Tracing On Phones 61
SpaceX Gets $886 Million From FCC To Subsidize Starlink In 35 States 129
Uber Sells Its Self-Driving Unit To Aurora 18
Google, Online Platforms Told by EU To Explain Search Rankings 89
Missing Credit Card Payments May Be an Early Sign of Dementia, Study Says 114
Kazakhstan's Government Begins Intercepting HTTPS Traffic In Its Capital 126
Google Considers 'Severe' Penalties For Allegedly Deceptive Chrome Extension Maker 29
TikTok Misses US Deadline For Sale Without Punishment 36
One In Six Cadillac Dealers Opt To Close Instead of Selling Electric Cars 186
Google Fiber Rolls Out Insanely Fast 2Gbps Service In Two Lucky US Cities 91
Chrome OS 87 Adds Tab Search and Bluetooth Device Battery Levels 17
Chrome's New 'Cache Partitioning' System Impacts Google Fonts Performance 27
Microsoft is Testing a Cortana 'File Skill' To Find Files Faster in Windows 10 45
This Robot Can Rap 29
Divers Discover Nazi WW2 Enigma Machine in Baltic Sea 48
Ant, Grab Win Singapore Digital Bank Licenses Along With Sea 15
Trump Signs Another Executive Order on Governmental AI Development 62
EU Privacy Rule Would Rein In the Hunt for Online Child Sexual Abuse 66
More Than 500,000 Full Electric Cars Sold So Far This Year In Europe 314
Google Fires AI Ethics Co-Lead Timnit Gebru 318
Google Set To Win EU Approval For Fitbit Takeover Next Week 9
US Broadband Speeds Jumped 90% In 2020. But No, It Had Nothing To Do With Net Neutrality. 90
Drone Footage Shows the Shocking Collapse of the Arecibo Observatory 112
US Used Patriot Act To Gather Logs of Website Visitors 34
YouTube Will Remind Users To 'Keep Comments Respectful' Before Posting 117
AutoX Becomes China's First To Remove Safety Drivers From Robotaxis 37
Trump Administration Claims Facebook Improperly Reserved Jobs for H-1B Workers 123
AstraZeneca and Oxford's Stories Clash on COVID-19 Vaccine 56
Facebook Will Take Down Misinformation About Covid Vaccines 147
AWS Engineer Puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 -- and It Thrashes Surface Pro X 107
US States Plan To Sue Facebook Next Week 38
Trump To Congress: Repeal Section 230 Or I'll Veto Military Funding 511
New Electric Cars Have Problems In Latest Consumer Reports Survey 140
Google Says Its News Showcase Will Add Free Access To Paywalled Stories 13
Is Sony Developing a Dual-GPU PS5 Pro? 60
Google Illegally Spied On Workers Before Firing Them, US Labor Board Alleges 116
FBI Warns of Email Forwarding Rules Being Abused in Recent Hacks 10
Malicious npm Packages Caught Installing Remote Access Trojans 20
iPhone Zero-Click Wi-Fi Exploit is One of the Most Breathtaking Hacks Ever 114
Uber in Talks To Sell Air Taxi Business To Joby 17
Elon Musk Would Consider Having Tesla Acquire a Legacy Automaker 111
Microsoft's New Windows Feature Experience Packs Are Smaller Updates To Windows 10 30
Massachusetts Lawmakers Vote To Pass a Statewide Police Ban On Facial Recognition 50
Ford Calls On Automakers To Support California Fuel Economy Deal 168
Reddit Reveals Daily Active User Count For the First Time: 52 Million 78
Hector Martin Promises To Bring Linux To the M1 Chip 139
Google Maps Takes on Facebook With Launch of Its Own News Feed 33
Amazon Is Laying the Groundwork for Its Own Quantum Computer 13
Google Launches Android Enterprise Essentials Aimed at SMBs 14
Microsoft Removes 18 Malicious Edge Extensions for Injecting Ads Into Web Pages 15
Companies Urged To Adjust Hiring Requirements for Cyber Jobs 164
Verizon Wiring Up 500K Homes With FiOS To Settle Lawsuit 25
Chinese Submarine Reaches the Deepest Place On Earth 112
Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Case Fan To Prevent Overheating 118
Apple Hires Former Venture Capitalist Josh Elman For App Store Discovery Role 10
Australia Demands Apology From China After Fake Image of Soldier Posted On Social Media 145
Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby 32
Nikola Stock Plunges As Company Cancels Badger Pickup Truck 66
Global Smartphone Sales Declined 5.7% in Third Quarter of 2020 35
From Thailand To Indonesia, Taxes Tighten for Digital Businesses 8
Facebook Buys Customer-Service Software Maker Kustomer For About $1 Billion 13
Facebook, Google to Face New Antitrust Suits in US 19
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Will Step Down on January 20 103
How Lion Air's Boeing 737 Max Experienced a Near-Crash The Day Before 2018's Fatal Crash 73
What Hunting Bigfoot Taught a Republican Congressman about Misinformation, Political Extremists, and Grift 180
Will Tesla Update Bring Remote Access To Car Cameras? 59
Conspiracy Theorists Who'd First Popularized QAnon Now Accused of Financial Motives 152
Raspberry Pi Used To Hack Tesla Model X SUV Key Fob 43
Facebook Removes Temporary Algorithm Change That Had Blocked Misinformation 143
Developer Successfully Virtualizes Windows for Arm on M1 Mac 114

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