Black Market T-Mobile Location Data Tied To Spot Of A Triple Murder
In 2017, two bounty hunters and a fugitive died in a chaotic shoot-out. Shortly after their deaths, someone started tracking one of the bounty hunter’s phones.

June 26, 2019 at 10:31AM
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Venmo Users Have Feelings About Your Crappy Etiquette
To help navigate the thorny marriage of Venmo’s financial and social functionalities, the company commissioned a survey for some insight into what its users believe is good etiquette.

June 25, 2019 at 02:39PM
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Google warns its employees that Pride protests are against the company’s code of conduct
A leaked internal memo has Googlers concerned about whose free speech the company is protecting.

June 25, 2019 at 06:59AM
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Data brokers are selling your secrets. Some states are trying to stop them. It isn’t easy.
Vermont’s new data broker registry highlights the difficulties of regulating dozens of secretive firms that buy and sell the personal information of millions of Americans.

June 25, 2019 at 12:19AM
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Data brokers are selling your secrets. Some states are trying to stop them. It isn’t easy.
Vermont’s new data broker registry highlights the difficulties of regulating dozens of secretive firms that buy and sell the personal information of millions of Americans.

June 25, 2019 at 12:19AM
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Bill Gates accidentally makes the case to regulate the hell out of platform companies
There’s a reason so many tech markets tend toward monopoly or duopoly, like Android and iOS, or Google search, or Facebook, or Uber and Lyft — the network effect makes it basically impossible to build a competitor because you can’t populate the network.

June 24, 2019 at 07:32PM
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Falcon Heavy rocket set to attempt SpaceX’s “most difficult launch ever”
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will attempt its most technically demanding mission yet on Monday night, with a rideshare flight organized by the US Air Force.

June 24, 2019 at 01:55PM
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The New Raspberry Pi Is Basically A $35 Desktop Computer
It’s long been one of the easiest and cheapest ways to power a custom creation, but the new Raspberry Pi, announced earlier today, packs significant upgrades that could let it finally pass as an incredibly cheap desktop computer.

June 24, 2019 at 12:37PM
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If Slack Is So Good, Why Are So Many Companies Trying To Fix It?
Here’s a look at what the anti-Slacks and Slack apps are trying to solve.

June 24, 2019 at 10:31AM
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Bill Gates Says His ‘Greatest Mistake Ever’ Was Microsoft Losing To Android
Android ultimately killed Windows Mobile and Windows Phone off, and became the Windows equivalent in the mobile world.

June 24, 2019 at 09:18AM
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