Amazon, Hachette reach agreement in book dispute
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More than half of America’s poorest households still don’t get the Internet at home
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Your income is more important than your age in determining whether you have home Internet access.
Sony courts cord-cutters with its own cable-like service
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Justice Department walks back transparency on national security letters
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An attorney for the Civil Division Appellate Staff called an earlier allowance for disclosure “an inadvertent misstatement.“
Rosetta mission scientist cracks sex jokes while wearing a shirt covered in scantily clad women
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Who thought that was a good idea?
What Obama’s net neutrality plan could mean for your mobile phone
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Reconciling an open Internet with the public’s hunger for subsidized apps is one more thing for the FCC to figure out as it goes about crafting its final net neutrality rules.
Switchboard: Before it crashed, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo faced years of problems
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Facebook rewrites its privacy policy so that humans can understand it
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On Thursday, Facebook announced that it has expanded its privacy policy and worked to rewrite it in language normal people can understand.
What role should robots have in fighting Ebola?
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The debate over how best to use them sounds like a plot out of an Isaac Asimov story.
What cornstarch and water can do for concussions
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The NFL is funding Army research to design liquid-filled straps to protect players from hard hits.
Senate poised to vote on USA Freedom Act
Legislation would end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of records about Americans’ phone calls.
What would it look like if Yahoo and AOL merged?
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What would a combined AOL and Yahoo actually look like?
Microsoft just squashed a 19-year-old software bug. How did it go undetected so long?
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The messy business of finding software vulnerabilities.
Verizon just made up a holiday
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Verizon will give you free data and WiFi on the day before Thanksgiving.
The best images from the Rosetta comet mission
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A man-made craft landed on a comet for first the first time on Wednesday. Here are the best visuals from the mission that made it happen.
Google calls for U.S. to extend Privacy Act protections to Europeans
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Privacy advocates have long called for these reforms in the past, which would let EU citizens challenge “misuse of their data by the US government in US courts.“
Why Obama called out the FCC in public
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The answer has to do with how the executive branch works, lawsuits and Richard Nixon’s dealings with The Washington Post.
Here’s the latest sign net neutrality is becoming a political football in Congress
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In a letter to the FCC, key Republican lawmakers say President Obama’s proposal for the Internet will result in a court challenge.
The split between Obama and the FCC on net neutrality, in plain English
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How to understand where the president and his top telecom regulator currently stand.
Americans believe they live in a privacy dystopia, report finds
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A new Pew Research study shows Americans are very concerned about being tracked by governments and private companies online.
AT&T is putting its fiber deployment on ice over net neutrality — for now
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The company wants to wait until the FCC develops clearer rules on net neutrality, according to Reuters.
Before acquiring a start-up, do your homework.
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Due diligence firms take a fine-tooth comb to a start-up’s code to identify future issues.
Bad government Web sites are bad for democracy
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Poor online customer experiences track closely with people’s negative feelings about the future of the country, a new study finds.
The Switchboard: FCC’s Wheeler is trying to find a way to ‘split the baby’ on net neutrality
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Want in? First they’ll scan your hand.
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