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Facebook Claims “Rogue Employees” May Have Been Biased Against Conservatives

Facebook has been fighting allegations that the social media site harbors a political bias against conservatives, but on Monday, the company announced that...

Raven Clabough May 25, 2016

Study: Electric Vehicles Pollute More Than Gas-powered Cars

Selwyn Duke May 20, 2016

It’s enough to make a greenie spontaneously combust: A new study has shown that electric cars, much touted as environment-friendly, actually emit more...

Founder of Ubuntu Linux: No Back Doors; No Weakening of Encryption

C. Mitchell Shaw May 4, 2016

As Microsoft continues its trend of converting Windows into an operating system of spyware, more and more computer users are discovering the security,...

Facebook Filtering Users’ Timelines Stokes Concerns of Censorship and Data-Mining

C. Mitchell Shaw April 27, 2016

Facebook has a long and checkered past concerning the way the company decides what a user sees in his or her timeline. Now,...

Net Neutrality Will Regulate Internet Rates Despite Promises

C. Mitchell Shaw April 25, 2016

When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler launched the opening salvo in the battle to regulate the Internet, he said time and time again that...

Ubuntu 16.04 Brings More Privacy and Big Changes to the Desktop

C. Mitchell Shaw April 24, 2016

The release of Ubuntu 16.04 last week is good news for computer users who are upset over the recent development of Microsoft turning...

Have Oil Prices Hit Bottom?

Bob Adelmann April 21, 2016

Is $40 oil and $2 gas the new normal? Investors and traders seem to think so. ...

Real Reason Behind Apple Case: War on Encryption

C. Mitchell Shaw April 21, 2016

After months of legal battles, a public relations war, and congressional testimony over whether Apple should help the FBI break into an iPhone...

Goldman Sachs’ Warning Dents Crude Oil Price

Bob Adelmann April 13, 2016

False optimism has driven oil prices higher. They are now set to come down. ...

Reddit Quietly Warns Users of Surveillance Request

C. Mitchell Shaw April 7, 2016

Last week, a major player in the social media forum world used a legal hack to alert its subscribers that it had been...

FBI v. Apple Case: Government Smoke and Mirrors

C. Mitchell Shaw March 30, 2016

After a month of claiming — in court documents, sworn testimony, and public statements — that “Apple has the exclusive technical means” to access the...

EPA Boss: Coal Regulations Are About the Politics of Power

C. Mitchell Shaw March 25, 2016

n a classic case of exercising power for the sake of power, Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), admitted that...