Technology Stories for 2018

Cyber-Espionage Group Uses Chrome Extension To Infect Victims 25
Facebook Used Its VPN App To Track Competitors, Documents Reveal 48
Internal Emails Show Facebook Weighing the Privacy Risks of Quietly Collecting Call and Text Records From Its Android Users -- Then Going Ahead Anyway 117
An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future 113
Google's 'Shadow Workforce' of Contractors Demands Higher Wages, Equal Benefits in a Letter To CEO Sundar Pichai 104
Qualcomm: 5G Android Flagship Phones Will Storm the 2019 Holidays 47
Russian Internet Giant Yandex Launches Its First Smartphone 37
Australia Set To Spy on WhatsApp Messages With Encryption Law 151
VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last 502
Facebook Ends Platform Policy Banning Apps That Copy Its Features 28
Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago 131
Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 116
Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack 48
Japan's Final Pager Provider To End Its Service In 2019 45
Apple Hit With Class Action Suit Over Lack of Dust Filters In Macbook, iMac 208
The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
NYC Votes To Set Minimum Pay For Uber, Lyft Drivers 134
China Announces Punishments For Intellectual-Property Theft 67
Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause 188
Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info 40
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 For Windows and Mac; Open-Sources WPF, Forms and WinUI 72
Microsoft is Working On a New Iteration of Windows To Take On ChromeOS, Report Says 161
The New Word Processor Wars: A Fresh Crop of Productivity Apps Are Trying To Reinvent Our Workday 193
'YouTube Music is a Bad Product in Desperate Need of Improvement Before Anyone Will Care To Use It' 72
Google Personalizes Search Results Even When You're Logged Out, a DuckDuckGo Study Finds 114
Fortnite Dev Launches Epic Games Store That Takes Just 12% of Revenue 177
Microsoft is Building a Chromium-powered Web Browser That Will Replace Edge on Windows 10: Report 377
Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? 84
Google's DeepMind Predicts 3D Shapes of Proteins 51
Nvidia Uses AI To Render Virtual Worlds In Real Time 44
Madrid's Ban On Polluting Vehicles Cuts Traffic By Nearly 32 Percent In Some Areas 80
Two iOS Fitness Apps Were Caught Using Touch ID To Trick Users Into Payments of $120 64
Elon Musk Says Autopilot Will Soon Recognize Emergency Response Vehicles 115
AT&T Will Keep Your Money If You Cancel TV Or Internet In Middle of Billing Cycle 99
Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables 481
Robot Janitors Are Coming To Mop Floors At a Walmart Near You 86
Facebook Employees Are Calling Former Colleagues To Look For Jobs Outside the Company and Asking About the Best Way To Leave 114
Blockchain Study Finds 0% Success Rate and Vendors Don't Call Back When Asked For Evidence 145
Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th 317
It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US 254
Mapping the Spectral Landscape of IPv6 Networks 163
Apple Will Wait Until at Least 2020 To Release a 5G iPhone: Report 107
WhatsApp Faces Misinformation Problem in Nigeria, Reports Say 72
Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says 165
Twitter User Hacks 50,000 Printers To Tell People To Subscribe To a YouTube Channel 94
The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers? Medical Students. 48
Proposed Regulations Would Allow the Majority of US Homes To Be Bought and Sold Without Being Appraised by a Human 182
By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says 45
Dark Web Dealers Voluntarily Ban Deadly Fentanyl 158
A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase 346
Australian Fence of Sound Halves Roadkill On One Deadly Stretch of Road 47
DHL To Invest $300 Million To Quadruple Robots In Warehouses In 2019 23
Shocking Maps Show How Humans Have Reshaped Earth Since 1992 88
Automakers Give the Chinese Government Access To Location Data of Electric Cars 32
Airbnb Will Start Designing Houses In 2019 30
Samsung's Foldable Screen Tech Has Been Stolen, Sold To China 75
Google Hangouts For Consumers Will Be Shutting Down Sometime In 2020 83
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
Researchers Are Proposing a New Way To Generate Street Addresses by Extracting Roads From Satellite Images 48
Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to Email Like a Machine 86
Does Google Harm Local Search Rivals? EU Antitrust Regulators Ask 61
Facebook Quietly Hired Republican Strategy Firm Targeted Victory 102
Intel Publishes Its First Modern Windows Driver for PCs 78
Japan Has Restarted Five Nuclear Power Reactors In 2018 193
Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project 138
Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is On a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps 163
Democrats Demand Info On Law Enforcement's Use of Amazon Facial Recognition Tool 54
'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' 293
Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 218
Microsoft Wins $480 Million Military Contract To Bring HoloLens To Battlefield 59
When the Internet Archive Forgets 71
Mass Router Hack Exposes Millions of Devices To Potent NSA Exploit 73
That Virus Alert on Your Computer? Scammers in India May Be Behind It 98
New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive 58
Japan Researchers Develop Automated Technique For Anime Colorization Using Deep Learning 77
Amazon Is Launching Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Computing In Space 30
Researchers Develop Hydrogel-Based Electrodes For Brain Implants 32
IBM Aims To Meld AI With Human Resources With Watson Suite 74
Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief 61
Dell Says It Detected A Security Breach Earlier This Month, But Financial Data Was Not Exposed 17
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements 205
Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit 277
Google Has a Plan To Eliminate Mosquitoes Around the World 326
Amazon Enters Blockchain Market With Cloud-Computing Services 34
CeBIT, World's Largest IT Conference, Canned 74
Real Life Ads Are Taking Scary Inspiration From Social Media 73
Amazon Web Services Introduces its Own Custom-Designed ARM Server Processor, Promises 45 Percent Lower Costs For Some Workloads 65
The App Destroying Iran's Currency 83
Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking 203
Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business 119
Amazon Starts Selling Software To Mine Patient Health Records 84
Large Genetic Study Finds First Genes Connected With ADHD 117
Customer Service Agents Might Be Able To See What You're Typing In Real Time 135
Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients 38
YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing 63
Google To Open Project Fi To iPhone, Samsung, and OnePlus 66
YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 91
5G Will Cover Roughly 1.5 Billion People By 2024, Researchers Say 43
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
The Police in UK Want AI To Stop Violent Crime Before it Happens 170
Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row 101
China is Planning To Build a Deep Sea Base For Unmanned Submarine Science and Defense Operations in the South China Sea 69
Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock 141
Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End To China Search Project 54
Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract 128
Dictionary.com Picks 'Misinformation' As Word of the Year 48
Google Is Being Vague With Disclosure In Early Real-World Duplex Calls 71
ISS Marks 20 Years Orbiting Earth With Longest Timelapse Ever Made In Space 54
Amazon Opens Up Its Internal Machine Learning Training To Everyone 30
Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China 387
IBM CEO Joins Apple In Blasting Data use By Silicon Valley Firms 63
Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Robotics Testing Platform 19
The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website To Unmask a Cybercriminal 82
GM To Idle Five Factories In North America, Cut More Than 14,000 Jobs As It Focuses On Autonomous, Electric Vehicles 379
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
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
Facebook Watch, a YouTube Competitor, is Pivoting To Older Audiences as Teens Tune Out and Publishers Balk 77
Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans To Test New Wireless Tech By Masquerading as a Massage Spa 20
Germany Proposes Router Security Guidelines 62
Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights 223
Chinese Scientist Says He's First To Create Genetically Modified Babies Using CRISPR 142
UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers 225
New Gmail Bug Allows Sending Messages Anonymously 55
Alphabet's Cybersecurity Group Touts Its New Open Source Private VPN 106
Can The Police Remotely Drive Your Stolen Car Into Custody? 217
That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache 166
Hollywood Wants Hosting Providers To Block Referral Traffic From Pirate Sites 149
In the Age of the Internet, Why Has Interest in Chess Remained So Robust, and Even Risen Sharply? 153
The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete 163
What's the Next Big Thing in Tech? It's Up To Us 87
How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop 192
After Initially Calling The New York Times' Report False, Facebook Confirms Most Claims Made in the Story 78
Google, Mozilla Working on Letting Web Apps Edit Files Despite Warning That it Could Be Abused 112
India-Based Zapr Has Developed Tech That Listens To Ambient Sounds Around Users To Build Targeted Ad Profiles, Several Popular Local Services Use Its Tech 51
Google Developer Says Chrome Team is Working on a Scrollable Tabstrip For the Browser 82
Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 344
A Look at the Growing Popularity Of Closed and Secret Groups on Facebook and How Some Media Outlets Have Built an Engaging Audience There 46
Apple To Drop iPhone XR Price in Japan Amid Weak Sales 74
In an Open Letter To EU's Competition Commissioner, 14 European Shopping Comparison Services Say Google is Not Making the Search For Products Fairer 113
Google's Duplex is Rolling Out To Small Group Of Pixel Owners 7
Most Americans Don't Think Social Networks Are Good For the World, Survey Finds 98
New Web App Uses Machine Learning To Analyze, Repair Your Technical Resume 48
First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight 264
Paralyzed Individuals Operate Tablet With Brain Implant 61
Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts 85
Google Assistant iOS Update Lets You Say 'Hey Siri, OK Google' 29
Some Amazon Employees Bought NYC Condos Before News of HQ2 Location Emerged, Says WSJ Report 94
Microsoft, Google and Qualcomm Working On Chrome For Windows On ARM 53
'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds 85
Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For 53
Google News May Shut in Some Countries Over EU Plans To Charge Tax For Links 134
Google's Find My Device Tool Can Now Map Out Exactly Where You Left Your Phone Inside Some Buildings 28
14 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry 131
The 'Neo-Banks' Are Finally Having Their Moment 121
FCC To Consider Making Text Messaging an Information Service, Denying Twilio Petition 92
UPS's New Machine-Learning App Aims To Reroute Packages Away From Snow and Other Trouble Spots in its Global Network 30
The Story of Lenny, the Internet's Favorite Telemarketing Troll 130
NYC Subway, Bus Services Have Entered 'Death Spiral,' Experts Say 456
Ford Patents a Way To Remove 'New Car Smell' 170
Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' 124
Human Images From World's First Total-Body Scanner Unveiled 54
Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment 152
Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX 225
US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth 107
Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps 135
Ford Eyes Use of Customers' Personal Data To Boost Profits 79
Tumblr Removed From Apple's App Store Over Child Porn Issues 73
Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be 60
The Forgotten Legend of Silicon Valley's Flying Saucer Man 44
'Google, Apple, and Uber Should Be Forced To Share Their Mapping Data' 109
Microsoft Now Lets You Log Into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live With No Password 60
Canada Has 'No Plan' To Bring Broadband To Rural and Remote Communities, Watchdog Says 182
Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S Phone Will Sport Six Cameras and Support 5G, Report Says 168
Microsoft Pulls Some Non-Security Updates For Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and 2016 That It Released Earlier This Month 58
Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds 354
Instagram Is Cracking Down On Services That Sell Likes, Followers 25
NASA Chooses the Landing Site For Its Mars 2020 Rover Mission 58
Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish 103
Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business 498
New Experimental Lockheed Supersonic Jet Starts Production 88
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
Yoshua Bengio, a Grand Master of Modern AI, is Worried About Its Future 126
Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers 60
Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 180
Southeast Asia's Digital Economy To Triple To $240 Billion By 2025, Says Google Report 26
Maryland Test Confirms Drones Can Safely Deliver Human Organs 67
Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down 104
Apple CEO Explains How a Few Billion Dollars From Google Changes His Views on the Company's 'Unsettling' User Data Mining Activities 112
Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? 175
'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' 445
Google To Pay JavaScript Frameworks To Implement Performance-First Code 82
YouTube Now Streams Free Ad-Supported Movies -- Including 'The Terminator' and 'Hackers' 86
The Boring Company's First Tunnel Is All Dug Up 187
Mars Opportunity Rover Appears To Contact Earth; Turns Out To Be a False Alarm 55
Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos 98
Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught 97
EFF, MuckRock Partner To See How Local Police Are Trading Your Car's Location 60
Bill Godbout, Early S-100 Bus Pioneer, Perished In the Camp Wildfire 124
Apple's Siri May Soon Process Voice Locally On a Device, No Cloud Required 83
Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS 55
Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu 18.04 Will Get a 10-Year Support Lifespan 110
Alphabet Unit Halts Glucose-Detecting Contact Lens Project 43
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
86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals 81
Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets 21
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
Mid-Range Google 'Pixel 3 Lite' Leaks With Snapdragon 670, Headphone Jack 94
MiSafes' Child-Tracking Smartwatches Are 'Easy To Hack' 29
Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down 82
Microsoft is Testing Ads in Mail App For Windows 10 in Select Markets 150
Google Maps Has Introduced So Many New Features and Design Changes in Recent Months That Getting Directions On It is Becoming an Increasingly Challenging Task 160
Microsoft Store Starts Accepting Windows 10 on ARM Apps 35
'The Internet Needs More Friction' 155
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy 78
Google Is Closing Its Schaft Robotics Unit 77
Inventors of Omnidirectional Wind Turbine Win James Dyson Award 129
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely On a Lone, DRM-Breaking CPAP Machine Hacker 154
Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' 64
China Says It Has Developed a Quantum Radar That Can See Stealth Aircraft 211
SpaceX Launched and Landed Another Used Falcon 9 Rocket, Marking Its Record-Tying 18th Launch of the Year 72
Uber Joins Linux Foundation Cementing Commitment To Open Source Tools 30
How Google Photos Became a Perfect Jukebox for Our Memories 72
Fake Fingerprints Can Imitate Real Ones In Biometric Systems, Research Shows 64
The F-35's Greatest Vulnerability Isn't Enemy Weapons. It's Being Hacked. 137
SpaceX Wins FCC Approval To Deploy 7,518 Satellites 114
The US Military is Making Balloons That Hover at the Edge of Space, Indefinitely 35
Chinese Telecoms Giant ZTE is Helping Venezuela Build a System That Monitors Citizen Behavior Through a New Identification Card 109
Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Ordered All Facebook Executives To Use Android Phones After Tim Cook Criticized Facebook 215
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius 261
Facebook Reportedly Hired a PR Firm That Wrote Negative Articles About Rivals, Pushed George Soros Conspiracy Theory 149
Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites 66
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
Mark Zuckerberg 'Not Able' To Attend International Disinformation Hearing 80
Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? 189
Google's Night Sight Feature Arrives For Pixel Phones 26
Russia Jammed GPS During Major NATO Military Exercise With US Troops 236
'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' 337
Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming 280
Google Accused of 'Trust Demolition' Over Health App 60
Large, Strangely Dim Galaxy Found Lurking On Far Side of Milky Way 68
Waymo To Start First Driverless Car Service Next Month 84
Google Is Absorbing DeepMind's Health Care Unit To Create An 'AI Assistant For Nurses and Doctors' 27
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million 160
Facebook Patches Vulnerability That Could Have Exposed User Data 19
Nigerian Firm Takes Blame For Routing Google Traffic Through China 56
Amazon Is Getting More Than $2 Billion For NYC, Virginia Expansions 105

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