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Grant money meant to help cities prepare for terror attacks is being spent on surveillance technology for US police departments, a new report shows.  It’s been known that federal funding...

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Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts is calling on Congress to pass new legislation to rein in Big Tech companies after Elon Musk ignored an information request. “Elon Musk could respond...

With only a few weeks left to pass two high-profile antitrust bills targeting Big Tech, the White House is privately pushing the offices of the Democratic leaders in Congress to...

Writing working code can be a challenge. Even relatively easy languages like HTML require the coder to understand the specific syntax and available tools. Writing code to control robots is...

Two people whose personal information was compromised in a data breach at Rhode Island's public bus service that affected about 22,000 people sued the agency and a health insurer on...

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., raised concerns this week about the tracking and collection of patient health data by Facebook parent company Meta. WHY IT MATTERS In an Oct....

Ford has big US battery plant ambitions (image: Blue Oval SK/YouTube)Ford's US battery factory partners from SK On are increasingly worried that the biggest such project in America may be...

Trevor Milton, the founder and former executive chairman of Nikola, has been found guilty on three counts of fraud for misleading the electric vehicle company’s investors about its business and...

It’s a tricky one. The scientists behind the work argue that there’s nothing really human about these rats. Throughout the study, the team examined the rats to see if those...