Facebook Investors Take Zuckerberg to Task
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being forced to face the music over his social media company’s treatment of users’ data. In the wake...
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Pew Survey Shows Facebook is Losing Teen Users
Social media giant Facebook — still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica scandal — is losing ground among the most Internet-connected generation ever, according...
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Amazon Echo Story Illustrates Dangers of Putting Surveillance Devices in Your Home
With the report that Amazon’s Echo recorded a family’s private conversation and sent the audio file to a person in the family’s contact...
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Latest Drop in Oil Prices Puts OPEC in a Bind
OPEC still thinks it has significance in "rebalancing" the world's oil market. U.S. energy producers, on the other hand, keep on producing, regardless....
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Pentagon Prepares to Deploy Advanced Robot Soldiers
The Department of Defense will soon spend about $1 billion to deploy robot soldiers in the field, alongside, and eventually in place of,...
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Amazon’s Alexa to Come Standard With Some New Houses. Is It a Good Idea?
Amazon has been shown to have a liberal bias. That being the case, can consumers trust Alexa to be objective while assisting to...
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Merrill Lynch Sees “Risk” of $100 Oil in 2019, Thanks to Iran Sanctions
Will there be $100 per barrel oil again soon? It's possible, but it would not be permanent. ...
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Citigroup: U.S. Will Be World’s Largest Oil Exporter by Next Year
Citigroup announced last week that exports of crude and finished oil products from the United States would overtake Saudi Arabia’s by next year....
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In Facebook Data-breach Scandal, U.K. Privacy Watchdog Demands Data be Released to U.S. Citizen
The Cambridge Analytica data-breach scandal continues to haunt Facebook: The British Information Commissioner's Office ordered Cambridge Analytica's parent company to provide an American...
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In the Wake of Cambridge Analytica Breach, Facebook Considers Subscription Plan, Other Changes
Necessity is the mother of invention. It appears that scandal may be a mother of innovation. Scrambling in the wake of the Cambridge...
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IEA Declares OPEC Has Accomplished Its Mission: Oil Is Now “Balanced”
OPEC is no doubt rejoicing in its accomplishment of raising the price of crude oil by restricting output, but that rejoicing is likely...
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Surveillance Hawks Plan New Legislative Attacks on Encryption
The battle over privacy and encryption is heating up. Again. ...
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Oneway Social Media CEO Responds to Conservatives Calling for Internet Regulations
Some of those voices making the loudest calls for government intervention are coming from a few alt-tech sites that are very small in...
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Human Trafficking Website, Backpage, Seized by Federal Agents
The Backpage website — notorious for prostitution and human trafficking — was seized Friday by federal authorities. This action was taken “as part...
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Internet Interlopers: It Isn’t Just Facebook
While Facebook has been in the headlines over the past few weeks as a result of its practice of harvesting and misusing users’...
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