After a New York City apartment landlord installed a smart lock on the building’s lobby door, a group of tenants filed a lawsuit arguing they should be provided with something else instead — …
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New proposal might let debt collectors harass consumers via text message and email
Debt collectors are notoriously persistent and annoying, a fact which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that calling people and asking for money is, well, exactly what their job description calls …
Beware: This new robocall scam could cost you big time
It seems that robocallers have have begun to evolve a bit, as media coverage brings increased scrutiny and potential regulatory action in response to their practices. Now that consumers are starting to get …
FCC demands to know if wireless carriers stopped selling location data like they promised
The FCC is demanding answers from several carriers over a bombshell Motherboard report from earlier this year that revealed how the carriers made a habit of selling location data about their subscribers to …
Norway thinks it captured a Beluga whale that was spying for Russia
Russia may be resorting to more unconventional methods of espionage these days, dragooning Mother Nature into helping the country extend its spying capabilities. That’s what Norway officials think, at any rate, after the …
Firefighters saved the National Archives from an arsonist who tried to burn it down
The National Archives Museum in Washington DC is more than 80 years old and houses everything from important presidential papers to some of the nation’s founding documents, like the Declaration of Independence and …
The NSA now thinks the phone surveillance program it once defended isn’t worth it anymore
The National Security Agency appears to have done a complete about-face over the controversial electronic spying program that whistleblower Edward Snowden brought to light almost six years ago now, involving the bulk collection …
A backpack with a flexible screen? Sure, Sony, why not
The race among consumer electronics giants to develop all manner of screens that flex and fold — and to attach them to phones, tablets and more — is starting to get a bit …
A robot that kind of looks like Wall-E’s big brother helped save Notre Dame
Notre Dame was reportedly only about 15 to 30 minutes away from a fire completely destroying the historic cathedral earlier this week when Paris firefighters decided to play their last hand. Commander Jean-Claude …
Hackers unleashed 40 million cyberattacks on Ecuador after Julian Assange’s arrest
Julian Assange’s arrest at the end of last week by British officials who finally snatched him at the London embassy in Ecuador where he’d been living for years did not, in turns out …
