United States 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
US Retailers Rush To Comply With California Privacy Law 54
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
US Tests Ways To Sweep Space Clean of Radiation After Nuclear Attack 78
Trump Could Mandate Free Access To Federally Funded Research Papers 194
New Law Finally Bans Bullshit Cable TV Fees 49
Shopify CEO Says Long Hours Aren't Necessary For Success 35
Free Returns Come With an Environmental Cost 58
China To Complete Beidou Competitor To GPS With New Launches 23
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
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
The US Government Has Approved Funds for Geoengineering Research 150
'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
Mike Bloomberg Is Plowing Millions of Dollars Into a Secretive Tech Firm Called Hawkfish 62
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
Randy Suess, Computer Bulletin Board Inventor, Dies at 74 28
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
Mysterious Green Liquid Oozing Onto Highway Identified 74
Retired US General Claims Revolutionary Transport Technology, Warns China Could Dominate Space 161
The U.S. Navy Bans TikTok from Government-Issued Mobile Devices 26
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
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
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
How Classroom Technology is Holding Students Back 87
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
Over 100 PBS Local Stations Start Streaming Today On YouTube TV 35
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
Apple and Google Named In US Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths 108
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
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
Why Won't Foxconn Tell Wisconsin What It's Building? 98
America's Air Force Seeks Commercial Technologies For 'Space Domain Awareness' 27
America's FCC Votes Unanimously To Divide 'Safety Spectrum' Into Wifi and Auto Applications 64
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
Emotion Recognition Tech Should Be Banned, Says an AI Research Institute 65
AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
New Zealand Orders 1,300 Square Feet of Skin From US To Help Burned Volcano Victims 65
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
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
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
Nikon Is Killing Its Authorized Repair Program 109
Vietnam's Richest Man Bets $2 Billion To Sell Cars To Americans 77
Five Cities Account For Vast Majority of Growth In Tech Jobs, Study Finds 110
College-Educated Workers Are Taking Over the American Factory Floor 159
E-Scooter Company 'Unicorn' Goes Bust After Spending Big On Facebook Ads 65
China Tells Government Offices To Remove All Foreign Computer Equipment 127
The U.S. Considers Ban on Exporting Surveillance Technology To China 73
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
Nestle Cannot Claim Bottled Water Is 'Essential Public Service,' Court Rules 75
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
Lawmakers Are Ready To Crack Down on Robocalls 87
The One-Traffic-Light Town With Some of the Fastest Internet in the US 95
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
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
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
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
Oracle Responds To Wage Discrimination Claims By Suing US Department of Labor 125
AT&T and Verizon Agree To Change Their eSIM Practices 15
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
Psilocybin For Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy By FDA 89
Report Finds Infants and Toddlers Using Screens in 'High Amounts' 45
Billionaire Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access 130
OK Boomer, Who's Going To Buy Your 21 Million Homes? 422
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
The California DMV Is Making $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Info 62
NYC Creates a High-Level Position To Oversee Ethics In AI 58
DOD Joins Fight Against 5G Spectrum Proposal, Citing Risks To GPS 33
AT&T Promises Low-Band 5G for 5 Cities in Weeks, 15 by Early 2020 35
How Lax Oversight Of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients At Risk 26
Apple CEO Tim Cook: China Really Hasn't Pressured Us. 79
Apple Pulls All Customer Reviews From Online Apple Store 25
One Reason the US Military Can't Fix Its Own Equipment 85
No, That Mac Factory in Texas Is Not New 310
Uber To Allow Audio Recording of Rides, Aiming To Launch Feature In US 26
PayPal To Acquire Shopping and Rewards Program Honey For $4 Billion 13
Senators Press Amazon For Answers On Ring's Sloppy Security Practices 12
'Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is a Coward' 96
New York State Attorney General Investigating WeWork 20
Amazon Is Planning To Open Cashierless Supermarkets Next Year 77
FCC Chairman Wants Public Auction To Repurpose Satellite Bands For 5G 65
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Block US Companies From Storing Data In China 49
Cops Put GPS Tracker On Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft For Removing It 286
Some Fitbit Users Say They're Getting Rid of the Devices Because They Don't Trust Google 64
China Now Launches More Rockets Than Anyone In the World 65
The World's Fastest Supercomputers Hit Higher Speeds Than Ever With Linux 124
Juul Sued by California for Marketing E-Cigarettes To Teens 68
New York City Ride-Hailing Upstart Juno Shuts Down 15
US Firms Get 90-Day Extension To Work With Huawei On Rural Networks 37
Facebook, Google Donate Heavily To Privacy Advocacy Groups 30
Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds 73
US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills 88
White House Unveils Rules Requiring Online Disclosure of Hospital Prices 119
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator 126
Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 78
Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill In New Jersey 152
GitHub Faces More Resignations In Light of ICE Contract 226
Silicon Valley's Singularity University Is Cutting Staff, CEO Exits 47
Next in Google's Quest for Consumer Dominance -- Banking 91
A Fired Kickstarter Organizer Is Trying To Unionize Tech Workers Using Kickstarter 62
A US Federal Court Finds Suspicionless Searches of Phones at the Border is Illegal 127
Amazon's $1.5 Million Political Gambit Backfires in Seattle City Council Election 170
IRS Identifies 'Dozens' of New Crypto, Cybercriminals 57
EPA To Limit Science Used To Write Public Health Rules 273
Microsoft Vows To 'Honor' California's Sweeping Privacy Law Across Entire US 30
Google's Secret 'Project Nightingale' Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans 67
Thousands of Bots Are Retweeting Claims of Voter Fraud In Kentucky 314
Singapore Wants To Become an Asian Hub For Virtual Banks 16
Share of Cryptocurrency Jobs Grew 1,457% In 4 Years 25
Six Arrested For Selling Chinese Gear To Military As 'Made In America' 95
Vaping Illnesses Linked To Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says 51
Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint 19
In China, Shutterstock Censors Hong Kong and Other Searches 50
The Cost For Each SLS Launch Is Over $2 Billion 99
California Wildfires Spark Interest In DIY Home Protection 91
DHS Will Soon Have Biometric Data On Nearly 260 Million People 40
Google-Funded Library Programs Teaching Google-Provided Curricula 18
A Ton of People Received Text Messages Overnight That Were Originally Sent on Valentine's Day 82
A Bipartisan Group of Senators Wants To Extend the Space Station To 2030 56
Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets For China 58
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia 32
UPS Drone Makes First Home Prescription Deliveries For CVS 20
IBM Calls For Regulation To Avoid Facial Recognition Bans 60
'Game-Changer' Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database 108
Uber Test Vehicles Involved In 37 Crashes Before Fatal Self-Driving Incident 92
Digital Authoritarianism Is On the Rise Around the World, Report Warns 41
US Begins Formal Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord 245
L.A. Suspends Uber's Permit To Rent Out Electric Scooters and Bikes 33
'I Worked on Political Ads at Facebook. They Profit By Manipulating Us.' 190
Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School 57
Senator Introduces Bill Banning Facial Recognition Tech In Public Housing 47
Pentagon Awaits Possible Amazon Challenge Over Cloud Deal 50
US Opens National Security Investigation Into TikTok 30
US Interior Department To Ground Its Drones Over Chinese Spying Risk 33
Defense Innovation Board Unveils AI Ethics Principles For the Pentagon 34
ACLU Sues FBI, DOJ Over Facial-Recognition Technology, Criticizing 'Unprecedented' Surveillance and Secrecy 28
Zuckerberg Doubles Down on Facebook Political Ads Policy After Twitter Ban 177
Huawei Gave Its Blacklist Verdict By Posting 66 Percent Gain In Smartphone Shipments 134
Salesforce Transit Center: San Francisco's $2.2 Billion Cracks 81
After Spike In Deaths, New York To Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes 201
US Court Shields Internet Subscribers From Futile Piracy Complaints 48
Google Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt Says Curbs on Chinese Hiring Hurts Tech 90
Google Backs San Jose Housing Project as Part of Funding Pledge 48
China To Funnel $29 Billion Towards its Chip Ambitions 68
FCC Moves To Cut Off Huawei, ZTE From Subsidies 36
Adobe Gets US License To Operate In Venezuela Despite Sanctions 31
A Google Staffer Helped Sell Trump's Family Separation Policy, Despite The Company's Denials 223
Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads 123
2.35 Million Lose Power In California As State Faces Extreme Weather and Wildfires 269
Does The Green Economy Create More Jobs Than The Fossil Fuel Industry? 206
Calculation Errors and Inadequate Peer Review Led To Miami Bridge's Collapse 73
Microsoft Beats Amazon To Win the Pentagon's $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract 51
The FCC is Using Streaming Services as an Excuse To Raise Cable Rates 52
Chuck Schumer Proposes 'Large Discounts' To Trade in Gas-Powered Cars For Electric Ones 262
Netflix and Spotify Might Be Required To Issue Emergency Alerts From the Government Just Like TV and Radio 55
How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched To LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache 88
Researchers Find Racial Bias In Hospital Algorithm 114
US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due To Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says 262
Microsoft, Intel Draft 500,000+ JROTC Kids To Fight National CS Talent Shortage 67
The Iranian Developer Deadlock: Stuck Between Censorship and US Sanctions 52
How DARPA Trucked Its Massive Radio-Frequency Testbed Across the United States 22
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records 15
Just 6% of US Adults On Twitter Account For 73% of Political Tweets, Study Finds 80
America's Pile of Uneaten Bacon Is the Biggest in 48 Years 218
Apple Pay Overtakes Starbucks as Most Popular Mobile Payment Platform in the US 67
'Hyperstealth' Invisibility Cloak Developed For Military Use 113
US Senators Want Social Media Users To Be Able To Take Their Data With Them 52
Facebook Pledges $1 Billion for California Housing 96
47 US Attorneys General Are Investigating Facebook For Antitrust Violations 40
In a First, FTC Bans Company From Selling 'Stalkerware' 42
US Takes Step To Require DNA Samples From Asylum-Seekers 357
Tom DeLonge's UFO Research Group Signs Contract With US Army To Develop Far-Future Tech 77
Colorado Drops Its T-Mobile-Sprint Lawsuit After Dish Agrees To House Headquarters In the State 13
Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor By 2027 256
New Facebook Features Fight Election Lies Everywhere But Ads 47
The Chinese Threat To American Speech 233
Lawmakers Slam Apple for 'Censorship' of Apps at China's Behest 55
'How Andrew Yang Would Fix The Internet' 100
Is America's Federal Banking System Considering Its Own Digital Cryptocurrency? 73
Would You Trust Amazon To Run Free and Fair Elections? 80
The Most Important Right-To-Repair Hearing Yet Is On Monday 32
California Launches First Statewide Earthquake Early Warning System 17
Boeing Pilot Complained of 'Egregious' Issue With 737 Max in 2016 58
US Astronauts Embark on the First All-Female Spacewalk 141
Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good 85
New Bill Promises an End To Our Privacy Nightmare, Jail Time To CEOs Who Lie 166
The Death of Cars Was Greatly Exaggerated 153
Hot Online Bank Startup Leaves Customers Without Access to Their Cash 53
The Water Crisis Cities Don't See Coming 121
Youth Suicide Rate Increased 56% in Decade, CDC Says 172
Inside TurboTax's 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free 218
Berkeley City Council Unanimously Votes To Ban Face Recognition 48

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