United States Stories for 2018

FCC To Suspend Most Operations Thursday if the Partial Government Shutdown Continues 398
Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares 346
Facing Soil Crisis, US Farmers Look Beyond Corn and Soybeans 143
NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party 87
As More Retailers Ban Paper Money, It's Making Things Awkward For Customers Without Plastic 698
As China Option Fades, Bill Gates Urges US To Take the Lead in Nuclear Power, For the Good of the Planet 257
Vermont Will Give You $10K If You Move There and Work Remotely 187
EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution 400
Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive 271
FCC Says It is Investigating CenturyLink 911 Outage 143
New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion 148
There's A Lot At Stake In The Weekly US Drought Map 100
Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US 382
NYPL's Chief Digital Officer Says Public is Better off When Libraries Are 'Risk Averse' About Tech 78
Top Amazon Boss Privately Advised US Government on Web Portal Worth Billions To Tech Firm 56
US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown 370
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun 371
Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data To the Public; Requires Federal Agencies To Publish 'Non-Sensitive' Info in 'Machine-Readable' Format 89
Trump Signs Legislation To Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 billion 120
Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In 113
Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers 520
Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment 117
FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch 119
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
China Launched More Rockets Into Orbit In 2018 Than Any Other Country 58
Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities 54
Amazon's Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase 132
Uber Resumes Testing Self-Driving Cars Nine Months After Deadly Crash 32
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
Business Communication Service Slack, in Compliance With US Regulations, Broadens Ban on Users in Sanctioned Nations 43
US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies 54
US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling 129
All Copyrighted Works First Published In the US In 1923 Will Enter Public Domain On January 1st 276
Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US 75
Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says the US Wasted Trillions on Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure 594
Hackers Swipe Card Numbers From Local Government Payment Portals 15
T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network 31
Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast 114
AT&T Opens 5G Network in 12 US Cities, Announces Pricing For First 5G Mobile Device and Service 59
US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds 190
Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 388
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number 157
California Requires New City Buses To Be Electric by 2029 142
More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year 325
Google To Invest $1 Billion in New Campus in New York City 35
The Decline of American Peyote 81
People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles 262
One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal, America's Democrats Warn 'The Fight Continues' 152
Experts Urge US To Continue Support For Nuclear Fusion Research 234
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Reportedly Be Cleared By US National Security Panel 32
In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers 479
Chinese Hackers Breach US Navy Contractors 61
Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses 151
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam 63
The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules 304
Apple To Build $1B Austin Campus, Add Thousands of Jobs in US Expansion 189
President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip 351
Facebook Settles Oculus VR Lawsuit With ZeniMax 26
FCC Gives Carriers the Option To Block Text Messages 107
Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers 141
Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out 229
Amazon Fires Employees Over Data Leak As It Fights Seller Scams, Report Says 48
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs 335
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds 82
Walmart Is Reportedly Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot 78
At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds 46
GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China 91
Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company 80
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore 164
Can the US Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? 255
Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? 256
US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems 72
Amazon Targets Airports For Checkout-Free Store Expansion 66
FCC To Probe Whether Carriers Gave Inaccurate Broadband Coverage Data 57
Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint 121
'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' 83
Trump's Pick To Be the Next Attorney General Has Opposed Net Neutrality Rules For Years 120
DHS Looking Into Tracking Monero and Zcash Transactions 38
California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses 563
The FTC's Top Consumer Protection Official Can't Go After Facebook -- or 100 Other Companies 75
Facial Recognition Has To Be Regulated To Protect the Public, Says AI Report 55
China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada 200
FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate 171
Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions 163
Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy 346
Google's 'Shadow Workforce' of Contractors Demands Higher Wages, Equal Benefits in a Letter To CEO Sundar Pichai 104
Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago 131
China Announces Punishments For Intellectual-Property Theft 67
House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign 163
Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables 481
Robot Janitors Are Coming To Mop Floors At a Walmart Near You 86
Trump Agrees Not To Raise Tariff Levels on Chinese Goods; China Agrees To US Purchases. Two Sides To Start Broader Negotiations. 322
George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, Dies At 94 408
DHL To Invest $300 Million To Quadruple Robots In Warehouses In 2019 23
Airbnb Will Start Designing Houses In 2019 30
Trump Admin Takes First Steps To Overhaul H-1B Visa That Tech Companies Use To Hire Internationally 252
NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants 636
In China, Your Car Could Be Talking To the Government 73
NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company 83
US Life Expectancy Falls Further 336
Democrats Demand Info On Law Enforcement's Use of Amazon Facial Recognition Tool 54
Microsoft Wins $480 Million Military Contract To Bring HoloLens To Battlefield 59
US iOS Users Targeted by Massive Malvertising Campaign 61
Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer 344
DOJ Made Secret Arguments To Break Crypto, Now ACLU Wants To Make Them Public 105
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief 61
Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit 277
After 12 Draws and a Day of Tiebreakers, Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana To Win World Chess Championship 89
Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking 203
A UK Commons Committee Chair Says He's Seen Evidence a Facebook Engineer Flagged Russian Entities Pulling Billions of Points of Data Every Day in 2014 127
'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net' 554
Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low 673
Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract 128
Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China 387
The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website To Unmask a Cybercriminal 82
Cyber Monday Is Set To Be a $7.8 Billion Day, Breaking Online Records 46
Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping 153
The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin 149
Washington DC Made GitHub Its Official Digital Source For Laws 66
What's the Next Big Thing in Tech? It's Up To Us 87
Your Credit Score Isn't a Reflection of Your Moral Character. But the Department of Homeland Security Seems To Think It Is. 336
Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes 314
US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei 185
The Mystery Font That Took Over New York 72
CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice 194
Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For 53
Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX 225
Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps 135
Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress 407
Department of Commerce Could Be the First US Entity To Broadly Regulate an Aspect of AI 51
Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds 354
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
NASA Considers Selling Seats on the Spacecraft Used For International Space Station 75
Michael Bloomberg Donates Record $1.8 Billion To Johns Hopkins University; Donation Will Be Devoted Exclusively To Undergraduate Financial Aid 134
Compelling New Suspect For DB Cooper Skyjacking Found By Army Data Analyst 111
Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal 165
Dutch Government Report Says Microsoft Office Telemetry Collection Breaks EU GDPR Laws 87
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 72
Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars 204
Jeff Bezos To Employees: 'One Day, Amazon Will Fail' But Our Job is To Delay it as Long as Possible 129
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy 78
Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange 452
Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' 64
Senators Ask Four Major Carriers About Video Slowdowns 108
FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking 234
The US Military is Making Balloons That Hover at the Edge of Space, Indefinitely 35
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' 337
Amazon Is Getting More Than $2 Billion For NYC, Virginia Expansions 105
Amazon Picks New York, Northern Virginia For HQ2 [Update: Confirmed] 224
Should Comcast Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations? 103
The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook 142
US Chip Cards Are Being Compromised In the Millions 106
More Than 50 Nations Launch 'Paris Call' To Fix Hate Speech and Cyberattacks; China and Russia Not Among Signatories, Trump Administration Reluctant To Sign 313
US Overtakes China in Top Supercomputer List 74
'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' 346
Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says 391
When No One Retires 414
Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? 189
Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? 240
US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online 74
The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights 158
Strategy Guide Company Prima Games Is Shutting Down 50
'Amazon's HQ2 Was a Con, Not a Contest' 147
Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise 169
US Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS's Mail Scanning Service 80
Microsoft Aims To Bring Internet To Rural Tribal Lands In Washington, Montana 53
Google Pledges To Overhaul Its Sexual Harassment Policy After Global Protests 295
Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? 332
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters 452
Gates Foundation Spent $200 Million Funding Toilet Research 123
Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App 122
In a First, Amazon Begins Mailing 70-page Printed Holiday Toy Catalog To US Homes 108
San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless 528
Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection 118
Blockchain-Based Elections Would Be a Disaster For Democracy 168
Foxconn Denies Looking To Transfer Chinese Workers To Incoming Wisconsin Factory 61
Three European Countries Block Tax On Tech Giants 56
Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know 344
In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center 230
Energy Cost of 'Mining' Bitcoin More Than Twice That of Copper Or Gold 165
Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials To Use Weak Passwords 197
US Regulator Demands Companies Take Action To Halt Robocalls 161
Edward Snowden Says a Report Critical To an NSA Lawsuit Is Authentic 70
Amazon Is Hiring Fewer Workers This Holiday Season, a Sign That Robots Are Replacing Them 94
7-Eleven Tests Cashier-Free Shopping In 14 Stores 90
Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules 56
Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel 217
File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders 125
Chinese Chip Firm Fujian Jinhua Denies Stealing IP From Micron 58
Amazon In 'Advanced Talks' To Open Headquarters In Washington DC Area 101
Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead 135
Twitter Deletes Over 10,000 Bots That Discouraged US Midterm Voting 177
Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. 205
Tesla Says Justice Department, SEC Are Investigating Model 3 Production Targets 116
A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada 116
Uber Wants To Resume Self-Driving Car Tests On Public Roads 31
Facebook Allowed Advertisers To Target Users Interested in 'White Genocide' 318
Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet 181
Google Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment 271
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Send CEOs To Jail For Violating Consumer Privacy 104
US Accuses China, Taiwan Firms With Stealing Secrets From Chip Giant Micron 99
US Declines in Internet Freedom Rankings 153
Apple, Amazon, Google and More Than 50 Other Companies Sign Letter Against Trump Administration's Proposed Gender Definition Changes 769
CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison 94
Tim Berners-Lee Says Tech Giants May Have To Be Split Up 145
Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment 342
Lime Recalls 2,000 Scooters After Reports of Some Catching Fire 49
The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State 202
Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea 177
US Indicts Chinese Hacker-Spies In Conspiracy To Steal Aerospace Secrets 80
How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility 290
Waymo Gets the Green Light To Test Fully Driverless Cars In California 63
Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance 421
How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask 219
Reporters Posed as 100 Senators To Run Ads on Facebook. Facebook Approved All of Them. 83
Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak 180
US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk 101
Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle 183
FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' 313
Copyright Law Just Got Better for Video Game History 46
FCC Leaders Say We Need a 'National Mission' To Fix Rural Broadband 176
Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting 631
High Housing Prices In Tech Cities Are Now Raising Home Prices In Other States 253
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Will Now Plead Guilty To Dozens More Swat Incidents 196
Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions 290
FDA Approves First New Flu Drug In 20 Years 39
Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign 54
Tesla Faces FBI Probe Over Model 3 Production Numbers 143
California Delays Net Neutrality Law's Enforcement Until After Court Case 76
Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System 247
Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air 222
Experts Want To Ban Organophosphate Pesticides To Protect Children's Health 71
China Telecom Hijacks US, Canadian Internet Traffic On a Regular Basis, Report Says 64
Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal 124
New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control' 97
China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report 423
Google Is Teaching Children How To Act Online. Is It the Best Role Model? 96
Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show 457
Big Brother is Being Increasingly Outsourced To Silicon Valley, Says Report 70
Apple's Upcoming TV Service To Launch In Over 100 Countries In 2019, Starting With the US 42
DARPA Wants To Build 'Contextual' AI That Understands the World 79

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