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China angrily denounces the arrest of Huawei’s CFO, calls the US a ‘despicable rogue’
Two state-run media outlets in China have come out with blistering attacks on the US related to the arrest in recent days of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, who faces extradition here, saying the …
US general has a question for Google: Why will you work with China but not us?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to testify before Congress next week, and he’ll potentially face questions on a number of thorny issues ranging from perceived search engine bias to Google’s interest in …
Report: Chinese intelligence operation behind Marriott hack
A juicy new tidbit has been discovered as part of the massive hack of Marriott we told you about just a week ago that included an unauthorized party gaining access to the hotel’s …
Mark Zuckerberg’s response to leaked Facebook emails: We’re actually the good guys
Facebook’s brutal year of one bad news cycle after another has continued pretty much interrupted, with today offering the latest bit of fuel for the fire. Reporters have been combing through a previously …
Quora discloses major breach that affects 100 million users
You can’t exactly get a sense of the severity of the data breach that Quora disclosed late Monday, which came in the form of a blog post from CEO Adam D’Angelo titled “Quora …
A woman spent three months in jail after police confused her bag of cotton candy with meth
In late 2016, a Georgia woman named Dasha Fincher was arrested during what appeared to be a routine traffic stop in Monroe County. Upon searching the vehicle, police officers noticed a fluffy and …
Survey: More men than women snoop on their partners’ phones and social media accounts
A new survey of almost 1,700 Americans between the ages of 18 and 35 shows that men are more untrustworthy than women when it comes to checking and snooping on their partners’ phones and …
A dystopian human scoring system in China is blocking people from booking flights
It sounds like something out of Black Mirror, but the early rollout of a “social credit” scoring system in China is very real and having a very negative impact for what’s reported to …
Bitcoin is on sale at a huge discount right in time for Black Friday
It may be a cruel joke to those cryptocurrency fans holding bags of expensive Bitcoin and other altcoins, but all this digital money is on sale right in time for Black Friday. If …
This interactive map tells you the exact day your area usually gets its first snow
Here in my neck of the woods — the South — we got our first snow flurries this week. You know you’ve officially entered old man territory when you find yourself grumbling that …
Even British royals are now criticizing tech giants like Facebook for dodgy practices
Britain’s Duke of Cambridge has launched a full-throated attack on US tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google in a speech at the BBC, an outgrowth of his leadership of a task force …
Meteorologist explains why Trump’s tweet on the California wildfires was horribly misinformed
The wildfires sweeping through Southern California over the past few days have been nothing short of devastating and profoundly tragic. Upwards of 31 people have died as a result and more than 230 …
