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By Trugman Last week, Elizabeth Warren made it clear she wants to reign in the banks and Wall Street, and break up Big Tech. What dumb ideas. Perhaps the lawyer-turned-overpaid-professor-turned-senator …
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By Conelly Iran-backed Houthi rebels from Yemen claimed responsibility for 10 drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, sparking a huge fire at the world’s largest oil processing facility early Saturday. Smoke …
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By Chris Amateur astronomers in the Northern Hemisphere may be able to currently see Saturn, but NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a series of images of the ringed planet …
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By Chris Facebook has been doing its best to convince us that it’s concerned about user privacy and security, but it’s not doing a great job. Just a few days …
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By Sparks Batman can’t help you with this “Joker.” A bad batch of Android apps briefly available in the Google Play store amassed hundreds of thousands of downloads — and …
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By Rogers India has located its missing Vikram lander on the lunar surface after losing contact with the probe when it was in the final stage of an audacious moon …
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By Nicolas Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn on Monday rebutted allegations of lapses in people management leveled by a nonprofit monitor of worker rights, though they confirmed they employed too …
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By Marisa WASHINGTON – Sen. Kamala Harris came out in favor of banning plastic straws Wednesday — a position the Trump campaign promptly pounced on. “We do need to ban …
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By Brown Google has agreed to pay a $170 million fine for allowing YouTube to profit by breaking child privacy laws, authorities announced Wednesday. Regulators said the video site, which …
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By Emily From $80,000 Louboutin shopping sprees to naked cocaine parties with R&B stars — the real strip club hostess portrayed by Jennifer Lopez in a new movie is coming …
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By Joe The Coast Guard said Monday night that a total of 25 bodies have been located from the tragic boat fire off the coast of Southern California. Authorities have …
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By Jonathon There are high expectations for — and a lot of hoopla surrounding — Disney’s upcoming streaming service Disney+, which is scheduled to launch in November. The grand reception …
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By Vega Google’s top lawyer routinely ignored company rules regarding dalliances with underlings — and pointed to the lecherous ways of top Googler Eric Schmidt to justify his philandering, an …
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By Carbone Amazon has introduced a new feature that markets its private-label brands right before consumers add rival products to their shopping carts. The Washington Post conducted dozens of product …
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By Nicolas Sorry we’ve been eavesdropping on your sex life. Apple on Wednesday apologized to its users for employing third-party contractors to listen to audio recordings picked up by its …
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By Crothers Sextortion is seeing an uptick after a lull at the beginning of the year. After relative inactivity during the past several months, sextortion scams are back on the …
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By Vega SAN FRANCISCO — When Liz O’Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection …
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By Byrne It’s a brave new world for the IRS: taxing robots. Uncle Sam is padding the Treasury with millions of dollars to assess bots at the same time that …
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By Nicolas A prominent hedge fund manager is calling on Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk to resign following reports that the electric automaker’s solar panels have been catching fire. Greenlight …
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By Carleton Wall Street plunged Friday after President Trump “ordered” US companies to seek alternatives to doing business in China. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 400 points …
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