A former recruiter who worked at Google and YouTube for nine years as an employee and a contractor filed suit claiming he was fired for not discriminating against white and Asian men as the company demanded.
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Cheddar man's "dark skin" was widely reported as a fact but it turns out it was just a wild guess, according to a new report from the New Scientist.
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President Obama handed over America's ICANN internet domain name service to the UN, now President Trump's Commerce Department nominee reportedly wants to take it back.
President Donald Trump's pick for a top Commerce Department post privately assured Republican senators that he would look at reversing the Obama administration's decision t
Jaireme Barrow was fed up with low-life criminals stealing packages off his porch, so he set out to do something about it.
The 34-year-old inventor created a booby trapped package which fires off a black shotgun shell when his packages are lifted, and as the videos he uploaded to his YouTube show, it's working like a charm.
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Net Neutrality advocates Google, GoDaddy and Cloudflare have banned the far-right website The Daily Stormer from using their services.
Google and GoDaddy dropped the site from their DNS services earlier this week and Cloudflare has dropped them from their DDoS protection services.
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Blind, an anonymous corporate networking app, surveyed its users from over 4,000 different companies on their thoughts regarding Google’s firing of software engineer
Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith criticized the NSA on Sunday for their role in unleashing last week's massive ransomware cyber attack.
A 22-year-old tech wiz living in the United Kingdom managed to temporarily halt the spread of a massive ransomware attack which hijacked over 126,000 computers on Friday.
It's been known for a month now the NSA exploits released by the Shadow Brokers hacking group could be used to hack almost every pre-Windows 10 system which wasn't patched in March, yet our government and others did nothing.
Sure enough, the inevitable has now happened.
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"This is not a drill," notorious NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says.
Malware used by the NSA to hack into Microsoft Windows systems was reportedly leaked just hours ago, meaning anyone who gets the software will have the virtual "keys to the kingdom" and can hack into practically any computer running Windows they want.
UPDATE: Microsoft says they patched the vulnerability in March for all their actively supported Windows products.
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Discussions about ethnic and gender differences in intelligence are seen as impolite by many, but in an age where the failure of others is held up as an example of sexism or racism, it is an essential topic to discuss.
Dr. Richard Lynn joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss ethnic differences in average intelligence, the impact that better nutrition has on intelligence, the connection between income and intelligence, environmental effects on intelligence, different types of intelligenc... (more)
The FBI wants to classify its new "alternate" method of unlocking the suspected San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, keeping it secret even from Apple itself, according to new reporting.
The Guardian confirmed with government officials on Wednesday that the technique does enable the FBI to get into Syed Farook's iPhone. That means the agency can back off from its legal b... (more)
Google subsidiary Boston Dynamics yesterday released an astonishing video of their new humanoid 'Atlas robot' which demonstrates remarkable human-like balance while walking through the snow and getting shoved by a hockey stick.
Insider.com CEO Jason Calacanis told CNBC the robot may signal "the end of manual labor." ... (more)
97 Consensus? Dr. Lindzen: 'They never really tell you what they agree on. It is propaganda. So all scientists agree it's probably warmer now than it was at the end of the Little Ice Age. Almost all Scientists agree that if you add CO2 you will have some warming. Maybe very little warming. But it is propaganda to translate that into it is dangerous and we must reduce co2 etc. If you can... (more)
The world’s best known torrent-sharing site, the Pirate Bay, has started to use a new plugin called Torrents Time, which allows users to stream torrents directly in their browsers – the advantage being you don’t need to download anything.
Torrents Time was released at the start of February and can be used with Google Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer on either Windows or OS X. At present, the system is in beta.
"By harnessing the incredible abilities of torrents... (more)
Instead of seeing driverless cars as a cheaper, safer, and more efficient mechanism to move people and goods, government bureaucrats are salivating at the possibility of inventing new and exciting ways to stifle innovation long before driverless cars even hit the market. As is so often the case, California leads the way.
What does California propose? First, prospective "drivers" will need a special state-issued certificate to operate a driverless car. To get it, they will need to ... (more)
An implantable neural chip being developed under a newly-announced program by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which will allow humans to directly communicate with computers and control them with just their mind.
Besides the obvious military application, the device will open new possibilities for the treatment of different neural disorders, as well as potentially improving the lives of disabled people who are paralyzed, deaf or blind, DARPA claimed in a press-... (more)
