United States Stories for 2016

Seattle Region Home To 10 of Nation's 30 Most Competitive Neighborhoods For House Hunters 84
FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report 404
Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor 157
US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] 821
8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions 267
Florida Senator: No Permit Needed For Driverless Cars In Florida 131
Chinese Traders Charged With Insider Trading on Hacked Information 28
Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows 122
Panasonic To Invest Over $256 Million In Tesla's US Plant For Solar Cells 30
T-Mobile Is Killing the Remaining Galaxy Note7 Units Today 109
The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming 131
US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work 98
GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress 511
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
IBM On Track To Get More Than 7,000 US Patents In 2016 34
US Government Targets Pirate Bay and Other 'Piracy Havens' 82
Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology 37
Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' 185
After Insisting For Years That Facebook Is Not a Media Company, Zuckerberg Says Just Not a 'Traditional' One 52
Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy 65
A Ham Radio Software Company Has Been Blacklisting Users For Leaving Negative Reviews 177
Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas 338
Google Employee Sues For $3.8 Billion Over Confidentiality Policies 102
Microsoft Wins $927 Million Pentagon Contract To Provide Technical Support 137
Samsung Note 7 User Base Still Larger Than LG V20, OnePlus 3T Combined 29
White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots 635
Chicago Electronics Recycler Faked Tear-Downs, Sent Hazardous Waste To Overseas Landfills 91
US Fails To Renegotiate Arms Control Rule For Hacking Tools 31
Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist 492
Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 192
Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President 1069
IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump 600
House Committee Urges Congress To Pass Stingray Surveillance Legislation 25
A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations 55
The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets 212
Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? 432
EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock 147
US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change 534
U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards 134
China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US 199
President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks 531
YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel 55
Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection 103
Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea 406
GM Expands Testing, Production of Self-Driving Cars In Michigan 31
White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack 715
Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories 415
Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit From Yahoo Deal 52
Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here 488
Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report 551
Most Businesses Pay Ransomware Demands, IBM Finds 69
Amazon Delivered Its First Customer Package By Drone 90
California To Adopt First US Energy-Saving Rules For Computers 171
Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues 244
UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds 83
First Offshore Wind Farm In US Waters Delivers Power To Rhode Island 196
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump 244
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change 858
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
Google, Cuba Sign Deal Allowing Faster Access To Company's Data 42
American Express Will Give All Parents 20 Weeks Of Paid Leave 179
Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter 59
The DEA Has Been Secretly Paying Transport Employees To Search Travelers' Bags 165
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast 139
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
Verizon Says It Will Not Push Samsung's Update That Disables Galaxy Note7 Because Of User Inconvenience 192
President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election 557
White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law 48
Samsung May Permanently Disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones In The US As Soon As Next Week 193
US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 497
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 113
Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years 267
Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says 277
NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years 99
Bitcoin Could Rise By 165% To $2,000 in 2017 Driven by Trump's 'Spending Binge' and Dollar Rally 255
Supreme Court Considers When US Patent Violations Are 'Induced' Abroad 31
China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency 416
California State Senator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Reporting of 'Superbug' Infections, Deaths 75
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month 170
Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP 133
Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System 36
The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News 360
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 90
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
FCC Calls Out AT&T, Verizon For 'Zero Rating' Their Own Video Apps 56
Facebook Commits Millions to Help Silicon Valley's Have-Nots 58
US Economy Added 178,000 Jobs in November; Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.6 Percent 533
International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains 53
Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump 184
Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users 203
Mozilla Puts New Money To Use Fighting For 'Internet Health' 110
FDA Approves Large Clinical Trial For Ecstasy As Relief For PTSD Patients 151
Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' 233
FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails 153
Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans 555
San Francisco's 58-Story Millennium Tower Seen Sinking From Space 242
Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability 30
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 155
The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump 590
Russia Falls Behind In Annual Space Launches For First Time Ever 93
This Cyber Monday Was the Biggest Online Shopping Day, Ever 56
'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away 147
EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands 72
EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline 351
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps 524
Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways 178
Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System 141
Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? 400
Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump 1430
An Underground Ice Deposit On Mars Is Bigger Than New Mexico 113
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say 272
Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines 299
Edward Snowden Loses Norway Safe Passage Case 73
Russian Hacker Conspiracy Theory is Weak, But the Case For Paper Ballots is Strong 286
Personal Data For More Than 130,000 Sailors Hacked: U.S. Navy 57
Google Sends State-Sponsored Hack Warnings To Journalists and Professors 69
Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' 667
Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] 1321
Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe 72
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471
China Breaks Patent Application Record 28
US Navy's High-Tech Ship Loses Power In Panama Canal 143
American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom 126
Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity 559
Surveillance Firm 'Geofeedia' Cuts Half of Staff After Losing Access To Twitter, Facebook 31
Facebook's Latest Experiment: Helping You Find Free Wi-Fi Hotspots 32
Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency 600
US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds 105
US Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers 59
President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden 534
One Third of California's Trees Are Dead 393
New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption 215
Privacy Group Sues The FBI, Demanding Details About Biometric Database Sharing 16
Amazon Now Sells Cars 59
IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period 124
When a City Has Gigabit Internet, Prices For Slower Speed Tiers Drop: Study 42
The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham 297
President Obama On Fake News Problem: 'We Won't Know What To Fight For' 531
France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 328
NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election 667
Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei 472
SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites 121
Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' 805
FCC Abides By GOP Request To Stop What It's Doing, Deletes Everything From Meeting Agenda 119
Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10 212
Schneier: We Need a New Agency For IoT Security 165
Chinese Scientists Become First To Use CRISPR Gene-Editing On Humans 114
US Navy Denies Pirating Software on 550K Computers, Says It Had Bought Licenses For 38 Machines 170
US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations 173
Google To Prohibit Fake News Websites From Using Its Ad-Selling Software 294
US Finalizes Rules That Require Quiet Hyrbid and Electric Cars To Make Noise At Low Speeds 361
China Threatens To Cut Sales of iPhones and US Cars if 'Naive' Trump Pursues Trade War 742
Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? 430
'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 182
US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados 90
President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership 355
Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? 412
The Internet Association, Whose Members Include Amazon, Facebook and Google, Writes Open Letter To Donald Trump 19
Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team 820
FBI Operated 23 Tor-Hidden Child Porn Sites, Deployed Malware From Them 176
UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks 108
AT&T Will Offer a Lower-Quality Video Option But Without a Discount 48
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition 1066
How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality 235
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump's Win 160
Russia Says it Was in Touch With Trump Campaign During Election 469
iOS WebView Bug Can Force iPhones To Make Calls While UI Freezes 22
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win 1368
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook 499
Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? 1081
General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants 320
Donald Trump Wins US Presidency 2837
Google Searches For 'President Impeachment', 'Canada Immigration', 'Nuclear Shelter' Skyrocket After Trump's Victory 332
What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science 382
Alphabet's 'Project Wing' Drone Service Nixes Starbucks Partnership 20
Ireland Will Bring the Fight Over Apple Taxes To the EU Court 71
Samsung Takes Out Full-page Ads on WSJ, NYTimes, and WaPo To Apologize For Note 7 Defects 98
US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories 436
Slashdot Asks: Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time? 598
Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot 303
The Sega Genesis Is Officially Back In Production 117
Uber, Lyft, Zipcar Offer Free Or Discounted Rides To Polls On Election Day 65
DirecTV Now Leak Reveals Channels, Promotions of AT&T's Upcoming TV Service 45
Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine 209
FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton 733
IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message 414
Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election 360
US Government Launches Code.gov To Showcase Its Open Source Software 57
Samsung Washing Machines Recalled For Risk of 'Impact Injuries' 96
Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt 234
Every Year of Smoking Causes About 150 New DNA Mutations That Can Make Cancer More Likely, Says Study 158
Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law 248
White House, 35 States To Boost Electric Vehicle Charging Stations 72
Why America Needs India's Rockets 112
LinkedIn, Glassdoor Add Tools To Reveal Your Pay Potential 57
World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected To Launch In 2018 156
Trump Organization Owns More Than 3,600 Domain Names, Many of Which Bash Trump 224
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Are Exploiting Newly Discovered Flaw In Windows OS 111
President Obama Announces Semiconductor Industry Working Group To Review US Competitiveness 111
The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped 139
Uber Drivers Are Company Employees Not Self-Employed Contractors, Rules British Court 230
Tablet Shipments Decline For Eighth Straight Quarter, No Company Surpassed 10 Million Units 127
Cable TV Price Increases Have Beaten Inflation Every Single Year For 20 Years 112
It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says 476
The Next President Will Face a Cybercrisis Within 100 Days, Predicts Report 122
CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T 67
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns 214
Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems 152
AT&T Service Outages Hit The Midwest Friday 21
US Bank Regulator Notifies Congress of Major Data Security Breach 48
City ISP Makes Broadband Free Because State Law Prohibits Selling Access 54
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race 197
FBI Probes Newly Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails and Reopens Investigation 822
Comma.ai Shelves Self-Driving Device After Regulatory Warning 65
Feds Charge 61 People In Indian-Based IRS Phone Scam Case 139
Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' 317
Oracle Will Officially Appeal Its 'Fair Use' Loss Against Google 99
A Radiologist Has the Fastest Home Internet In the US 135
FCC Imposes ISP Privacy Rules and Takes Aim At Mandatory Arbitration 51
Hotel CEO Openly Celebrates Higher Prices After Anti-Airbnb Law Passes 310
New Study Shows HIV Epidemic Started Spreading In New York In 1970, Clears the Name of 'Patient Zero' 380
Comcast Sues Nashville To Halt Rules That Give Google Fiber Faster Access To Utility Poles 95
Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas' 1028
Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity 340
Yahoo Scanning Order Unlikely To Be Made Public: Reuters 61
Largest Auto-Scandal Settlement In US History: Judge Approves $15 Billion Volkswagen Settlement 128
AT&T Is Spying on Americans For Profit, New Documents Reveal 161
Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases 41
AT&T's $85B US Bid For Time Warner Sparks Antitrust Fears in Washington 116
Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns 647
US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns 163
Amazon May Handle 30% Of All US Retail Sales 70
American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website 210
Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? 361
Journalist Cleared of Riot Charges in South Dakota 79
'Anonymous' Hacker Indicted As His Hunger Strike Continues 67
WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point' 338
AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence 184
Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech 235
Prosecutors Say NSA Contractor Could Flee To Foreign Power 44
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Thinks Space Can Be the New Internet 90
First New US Nuclear Reactor In 20 Years Goes Live 344
Target Passes Walmart As Top US Corporate Installer of Solar Power 57
US Army 'Will Have More Robot Soldiers Than Humans' By 2025, Says Former British Spy 114

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