United States Stories for 2020

T-Mobile Data Breach Exposed Phone Numbers, Call Records 14
'Companies Are Fleeing California. Blame Bad Government.' 497
Ticketmaster Pays $10 Million Criminal Fine for Invading Rival's Computers 64
New Train Hall Opens at Penn Station, Echoing Building's Former Glory 88
Global Digital-Tax Detente Ends, as US and France Exchange Blows 70
McConnell Ties Full Repeal of Section 230 To Push for $2,000 Stimulus Checks 455
VMware Sues Former Executive Who Left for CEO Job at Nutanix 35
US To Allow Small Drones To Fly Over People at Night 165
Will America's Next President Change Its Space Program? 134
Mass Die-Off of Birds in Southwest US 'Probably Linked to Climate Crisis' 109
Many Formerly-Skeptical Americans are Now Eager to Get Covid-19 Vaccines 247
America Creates a 770-Mile Corridor for Testing Supersonic Aircraft Up to Mach 3 75
'Unforced Error' in Suspected Russian Data Breach May Have Led to Its Discovery 50
IBM Will Pay $24.25 Million To Resolve FCC Probes 13
Video Taken By Pilots of What Could Be the Elusive Los Angeles Jet Pack Guy Emerges 61
US Cyber Agency Says SolarWinds Hackers Are 'Impacting' State, Local Governments 35
Pfizer To Supply US With 100 Million More Vaccine Doses 57
Google CEO Criticises Antitrust Regulation 30
5G Auction Shatters Record as Bidding Tops $66 Billion 32
Conferences Plot a Comeback Even Before Vaccines Are Widely Distributed 65
US Approves NYSE Listing Plan To Cut Out Wall Street Middlemen 51
MIT Electrical Engineer Selected For US Senate 120
SEC Formally Sues Cryptocurrency Company Ripple 40
Justice Department Sues Walmart, Saying it Fueled the Nation's Opioid Crisis 129
New York Halts Use of Facial Recognition in Schools 51
More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused Of Cheating In Academic Scandal 151
The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony 114
Civil Rights Groups Move To Block Expansion of Facial Recognition in Airports 26
T-Mobile Won't Claim it Has a More Reliable 5G Network Following Ad Board Decision 8
Cable Companies Can No Longer 'Rent' You the Router You Already Own 62
China Used Stolen Data To Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe 56
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
Should America's Next President Abolish the Space Force? 330
US Space Force Members Are Now Called 'Guardians' 132
U.S. Charges China-based Zoom Executive With Disrupting Tiananmen Crackdown Commemorations 56
US Blacklists Dozens of Chinese Firms Including SMIC 66
Hackers Tied To Russia Hit US Nuclear Agency, Three States 100
Google Sued by States for Abuse of Search-Market Dominance 15
Trump Considers Clemency For Silk Road 'Kingpin' Ross Ulbricht 169
Boring Company Proposes Massive Vegas Expansion Following Monorail Bankruptcy 128
Senator Tries To Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures 34
FDA Authorizes 1st Home Coronavirus Test That Doesn't Require A Prescription 61
California Fines Uber $59 Million for Stonewalling Questions About Sexual Assaults 54
Countries Roll Out 2030 Paris Accord Goals Amid US Absence 128
Electoral College Certifies Biden's Victory, As Trump Still Refuses To Concede 550
Suspected Russian Hackers Breached Department of Homeland Security 55
Covid-19 Deaths Rose In US College Towns When Students Returned 264
Russia Breached Update Server Used by 300,000 Organizations, Including the NSA 115
US Treasury Department Breached by 'Hackers Backed By Foreign Government' 64
America's Covid-19 Hospitalizations Hit a Record High For the 7th Straight Day 236
America's Covid-19 Deaths Likely to Exceed 9/11's Death Toll Every Day, For Two Months 387
Twitter Disabled 'Likes' and 'Replies' on False Trump Tweets. Inadvertently. 191
FDA Approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use in America 222
Google Will Let You Limit the Alcohol and Gambling Ads You See 31
Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company In Departure Notes 104
Oracle Is Moving Its Headquarters From Silicon Valley To Austin, Texas 111
Elon Musk On the Problem With Corporate America: 'Too Many MBAs' 195
Proposed US Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers With Felonies For Broadcasting Copyrighted Material 208
FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Pfizer's Covid Vaccine For Emergency Use 152
FCC Orders Equipment Removed in Step Aimed at Huawei, ZTE 56
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization 122
Senate Votes To Advance Nomination of Trump FCC Nominee 94
SpaceX Gets $886 Million From FCC To Subsidize Starlink In 35 States 129
US Air Pollution Monitoring Network Falling Into Disrepair 97
New Report: Havanna Syndrome Could Be Directed Microwave Energy 86
Are America's Hospitals Becoming Overwhelmed? 312
TikTok Misses US Deadline For Sale Without Punishment 36
Google Fiber Rolls Out Insanely Fast 2Gbps Service In Two Lucky US Cities 91
US Broadband Speeds Jumped 90% In 2020. But No, It Had Nothing To Do With Net Neutrality. 90
US Used Patriot Act To Gather Logs of Website Visitors 34
Trump Administration Claims Facebook Improperly Reserved Jobs for H-1B Workers 123
US States Plan To Sue Facebook Next Week 38
Trump To Congress: Repeal Section 230 Or I'll Veto Military Funding 511
Google Illegally Spied On Workers Before Firing Them, US Labor Board Alleges 116
ACLU Sues DHS Over Purchase of Cellphone Location Data Used To Track Immigrants 60
Massachusetts Lawmakers Vote To Pass a Statewide Police Ban On Facial Recognition 50
Ford Calls On Automakers To Support California Fuel Economy Deal 168
Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby 32
Facebook, Google to Face New Antitrust Suits in US 19
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Will Step Down on January 20 103
The Supreme Court Will Hear Its First Big CFAA Case 61
Are Tech Workers Fleeing the San Francisco Bay Area? 196
Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm 100
That Mysterious Silver Monolith In the Utah Desert Has Disappeared 73
America's Top Court Strikes Down Covid-19 Restriction On Religious Groups 465
China Rises as World's Data Superpower as Internet Fractures 113
IRS Could Search Warrantless Location Database Over 10,000 Times 16
France Orders Tech Giants To Pay Digital Tax 81
ZTE's Designation as Security Threat Affirmed by US FCC 27
Amazon Partners With the US Government To Stop the Sale of Counterfeit Goods 72
LA To Launch First 'Transportation Technology Innovation Zone' 11
Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama File To Hold Unionization Vote 75
Comcast To Enforce 1.2TB Data Cap In Entire 39-State Territory In Early 2021 230
Apple's Security Chief Indicted in Santa Clara County Sheriff Concealed-gun Permit Scandal 217
Biden's Top Tech Adviser Makes Regulation More Likely 96
US Postal Service Announces a Nationwide Digital 'Operation Santa' 25
US Congress Passes an IoT Security Bill 'That Doesn't Totally Suck' 80
Experimental Antibody Treatment for Covid-19 Patients Wins 'Emergency Approval' in America 81
In the Last Week America Experienced 1 Million New Coronavirus Cases 276
In Historic Test, US Navy Shoots Down an Intercontinental Ballastic Missile 175
The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones 62
US Emissions To Drop 9% In 2020, Putting Country Back On Track For Paris Commitment 106
Apple is Lobbying Against a Bill Aimed at Stopping Forced Labor in China 87
Biden Team Lacks Full US Cybersecurity Support in Transition Fracas 212
Study Identifies Reasons for Soaring Nuclear Plant Cost Overruns in the US 95
Facebook Antitrust Probes Will Target Acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram 13
FCC Takes Spectrum From Auto Industry In Plan To 'Supersize' Wi-Fi 49
FAA Chief '100% Confident' of 737 MAX Safety As Flights To Resume 170
Trump Administration, In Late Push, Moves To Sell Oil Rights In Arctic Refuge 373
Obama Says Social Media Companies 'Are Making Editorial Choices, Whether They've Buried Them in Algorithms or Not' 190
UK Should Revisit 5G Ban Now Trump is Defeated, Says Huawei 151
Data Breach Exposes 27 Million Texas Driver's License Records 34
YouTube Criticized For Not Removing Post-Election Misinformation 183
Election Was Most Secure In American History, US Officials Say 423
Screening Travelers For Symptoms of COVID-19 Was Ineffective, CDC Study Says 88
Commerce Department Announces Stay of TikTok Shutdown Order 21
Trump Eyes Digital Media Empire To Take on Fox News 230
Hurricanes Might Not Be Losing Steam As Fast As They Used To 20
Occidental Is First US Oil Major To Target Net Zero Emissions 52
Swiss Report Reveals New Details On CIA Spying Operation 36
TikTok Says the Trump Administration Has Forgotten About Trying To Ban it, Would Like To Know What's Up 138
Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages On Facebook 184
Emissions From US Industrial Facilities Fell Nearly 5% In 2019 108
Voters Overwhelmingly Back Community Broadband In Chicago and Denver 103
NASA Administrator Says He Plans To Leave Position Under Biden Administration 197
FTC Announces a Settlement With Zoom Over Security Issues 9
Should Retraining Programs for Laid-Off Retail Workers Include Computer Programming? 233
Antitrust Investigations and Policy Towards China: How Biden's Victory Impacts Tech 61
President Biden Will Rejoin the World Health Organization on His First Day 281
What Biden's Victory Means For Net Neutrality - and for Ajit Pai 173
Former Astronaut Wins US Senate Seat Once Held By Republican John McCain 82
Uber and Lyft Will Push For More Laws Classifying Drivers as Independent Contractors 73
A Biden Victory Positions America For a 180-Degree Turn On Climate Change 251
Defeating Trump, Joe Biden Declared Winner of US Presidential Election 958
T-Mobile Will Stop Saying Its 5G Network Is Better Than It Actually Is 36
Facebook Will Announce Presidential Election Result in Facebook and Instagram Notifications 189
Woman Sheds Coronavirus For 70 Days Without Symptoms 126
Several US Utilities Back Out of Deal To Build Novel Nuclear Power Plant 207
San Francisco Voters Approve Taxes On Highly Paid CEOs, Big Businesses 181
Sportsbet Says It Will Pay Out Early On Biden As US President 245
US Formally Withdraws From Paris Climate Agreement 250
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To US But Can Also Appeal 56
Proposition 24 Passes in California, Pushing Privacy Rights To the Forefront Again 19
Portland, Maine Votes in Favor of Facial Recognition Ban 38
Uber, Lyft Prevail To Keep California Workers Independent 156
Trump Attacks Legitimate Vote-Counting Efforts and Claims Fraud Without Basis 691
Oregon Becomes First State To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms 111
Election Hoax Spreading Through Text Messages In Michigan 78
The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About: US Broadband Providers 66
Tech Startups Say New Pay Rules for H-1B Visas Are Unaffordable 236
Why You Can't Rely on Election Forecasts 376
Zuckerberg Acknowledges 'Risk of Civil Unrest' After US Elections, Promises Newsfeed Updates 314
The US Military Has Experienced 55,443 COVID-19 Cases - Including Vice Chief of Space Force 45
Trump's TikTok Ban Temporarily Blocked by US Judge 85
While Europe Accounts for 46% of COVID-19 Cases, Taiwan Goes 200 Days Without a Local Infection 305
US and UK Citizens Are World's Biggest Sources of Plastic Waste 103
Russian Hackers Targeted California, Indiana Democratic Parties In Repeat of 2016 Attacks 58
Facebook Is Losing Users In the US and Canada 103
Taiwan's UMC To Pay $60 Million Fine To Settle US Trade Secrets Case 12
FBI, DHS Warn Hospitals of 'Credible Threat' from Hackers 20
NSA Ducks Questions About Backdoors In Tech Products 84
Inside Uber and DoorDash's Push To Win the Most Expensive Ballot Race in California History 91
White House Science Office Says Trump Ended COVID-19 Pandemic as US Hits Record Cases 445
Poll Shows Bipartisan Support For Tech Antitrust Action 51
Facebook Approves Trump Ads That Violate Its Pre-Election Rules 102
US Grid-Battery Costs Dropped 70% Over 3 Years 92
CBP Refuses To Tell Congress How It's Tracking Americans Without a Warrant 72
America and France Reach New All-Time Highs For COVID-19 Infections 402
The Battle Over Chips is About to Get Uglier 74
Hackers Behind Life-Threatening Attack On Chemical Maker Are Sanctioned 77
First 'Murder Hornet' Nest In US Is Found In Washington State 120
Uber and Lyft Need To Make Drivers Employees, Appeals Court Rules 88
T-Mobile Screwups Caused Nationwide Outage But FCC Isn't Punishing Carrier 38
National Guard Called In To Thwart Cyberattack in Louisiana Weeks Before Election 31
Expensify's CEO Emailed Users To Encourage Them To 'Vote For Biden' 328
Drivers Sue Uber Over Pressure To Support Prop 22 77
Iran Behind Supposed 'Proud Boys' Voter-Intimidation Emails, Feds Allege 95
Edward Snowden Granted Permanent Residency In Russia 178
Huawei Announces Last Major Phone Before US Ban Forces Rethink 20
Senate Republicans Vote To Subpoena Facebook and Twitter CEOs About Alleged Censorship 343
Wisconsin Report Confirms Foxconn's So-Called LCD Factory Isn't Real 109
Google AI Tech Will Be Used For Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows 76
FCC Defends Helping Trump, Claims Authority Over Social Media Law 116
Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police 78
Amazon Launches Program To Pay Consumers For Their Data On Non-Amazon Purchases 51
Employers Warn of Rising Political Tensions At Work 579
GM To Invest More Than $2 Billion In US Manufacturing To Increase Electric Vehicle Production 67
US Accuses Google of Protecting Illegal Monopoly 143
EU Shoots For $11.7B 'Industrial Cloud' To Rival US 77
US Charges Russian Hackers Behind NotPetya, KillDisk, OlympicDestroyer Attacks 33
Trump Scrambles To Loosen America's Biometric Data and Gig Worker Regulations 184
US Surpasses 8 Million Coronavirus Cases 431
Billionaire CEO of Software Company Indicted For Alleged $2 Billion Tax Evasion Schemes 75
San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up To 31%, Most in US 141
Elon Musk's Las Vegas Loop Might Only Carry a Fraction of the Passengers It Promised 119
Group Files 'Largest FOIA of All Time' 29
FCC Will Move To Regulate Social Media After Censorship Outcry 325
'Person In Jetpack' Spotted Flying Again Near LA Airport 111
FCC To Move on Trump Plan To Weaken Social Media Legal Shield 247
FAA Revamps Space Launch Rules as SpaceX, Blue Origin Expand 11
Senate To Subpoena Twitter CEO Over Blocking of Disputed Biden Articles 580
Florida Could Become First State To Offer Digital Driver's Licenses 55
There's Another Huge Right To Repair Fight Brewing In Massachusetts 117
Netflix Ends Free Trials In the US 35
Virginia's Voter-Registration Site Goes Offline on Last Day To Register 112
How Many Americans Still Secretly Use Their Ex's Passwords 42
Harvard, Oxford, Stanford Docs Among Leaders of Global Anti-Lockdown Movement 340
SpaceX's First Military Contracts: One-Hour Cargo Deliveries By Rocket and Missile-Tracking Satellites 101
New England Journal of Medicine Resoundingly Endorses Biden 363
Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features To Fight Election Misinformation 97
Microsoft Is Now the 'Adult In the Room' Among Big Tech, Says Seattle Congresswoman 91
US Appeals Injunction Against TikTok Ban 25
US Explores Curbs On Ant Group, Tencent Payment Systems 66
House Democrats Tackle Big Tech 'Monopolies' 119
Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H-1B Visa Program 181
The IRS Is Being Investigated For Using Location Data Without a Warrant 57
Facebook Removes Trump Post Falsely Saying Flu is More Lethal Than Covid 468
SEC Sues John McAfee Over Promoting Cryptocurrency On Twitter 29
CDC Revises Coronavirus Guidance To Acknowledge That It Spreads Through Airborne Transmission 175
Trump Cracks Down on Visas. Indian Firms May Benefit. 169
Tech's New Gig Worker Underclass: Customer Service Reps Who Have to Pay to Talk to You 157
Two Leaders of Videogame Piracy Group Arrested 45
Trump Goes To Hospital After Testing Positive For COVID-19 279
Huawei's Investments Are 'Predatory Actions' and All Countries Should Ban Them: Pompeo 19
Controversial Data Firm Palantir Fetches Market Value of Nearly $22 Billion In Its Debut On the NYSE 28
House Antitrust Chair Says Big Tech Abuses Gatekeeper Power 37
Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam 51
NASA Reveals How Astronauts Will Vote From Space 50
US Intelligence Sources Discussed Poisoning Julian Assange, Court Told 138
US-China Fight Spreads To the Chip Factory 62
College Enrollments Are Falling in the US -- Except For Graduate Degrees 59
Biden Campaign Blasts Facebook for 'Regression' 198
Police Charity Bought An iPhone Hacking Tool and Gave It To Cops 92
26% of US Adults Get Their News From YouTube, Study Finds 139
Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote 37
Healthcare Giant UHS Hit By Ransomware Attack, Sources Say 19
Report: U.S. Anti-Trust Regulators Will Accuse Google of Crushing Competition to Maintain Monopoly 60
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Angered By Proposal to Make Some Mandatory Telecommuting Permanent 230
The US Space Force Will Use Blockchain-Based Data Protection - and SpaceX's Reusable Rockets 43
Facebook's Oversight Board Won't Launch In Time To Oversee the Election 22
Google To Block Election Ads After Election Day 70
Justice Department Asks Judge To Allow US To Bar WeChat From US App Stores 34
Mobile World Congress Postponed To June 2021 3
Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County's Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns 51
Louisiana Shuts Down Voter Registration Site For 'Scheduled Maintenance' On National Voter Registration Day 233
California To Ban New Gas, Diesel Vehicle Sales By 2035 294
Senators Introduce Bipartisan 'Unplug Internet Kill Switch Act of 2020,' Preventing a President From Denying Access To the Internet 82
China Says It Won't Approve TikTok Sale, Calls It 'Extortion' 174
CIA's New Tech Recruiting Pitch: More Patents, More Profits 64

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