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Late at night on February 18, a UC Berkeley astronomy research scientist looking for extraterrestrial life finished his work only to find two burglars walking through the new $80 million Campbell Hall at the Berkeley SETI Research Center.

Conservatives, especially anti-establishment conservatives, have been complaining for months about Twitter’s political biases. Now there is mounting suspicion among anti-establishment progressives that Twitter is no longer a politically neutral platform.

Today, it’s conservatives and libertarians who are the new campus insurgents.

As 200 shareholders cheered Apple CEO Tim Cook’s battle with the FBI for a “backdoor” into the iPhone, but the real battle is Apple’s attempt to save its lucrative “walled garden.”

The campus censorship epidemic continues at British and American universities.

Although the new Samsung Galaxy S7 outdistances the iPhone 6S family on virtually every performance metric, the real threat is the S7 undermining iPhone sales pricing. The new Samsung (SSNLF:NASDAQ) S7 beats Apple Inc. (AAPL:NASDAQ) iPhone 6S in screen pixels,

In Iran, “moderates” and “reformists” are said to have fallen in love with the controversial encrypted chat app Telegram during an important parliamentary election.

My decision to bring Milo Yiannopoulos to campus started discussions that never otherwise would have happened.

CEO Tim Cook says the court order won by the FBI is the ‘Software Equivalent of Cancer.’

Lila Tretikov is leaving her position as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation in the midst of turmoil over lack of communication about the non-profit’s plans.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reprimanded employees for replacing “Black Lives Matter” slogans with “All Lives Matter” on the walls of the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Surgeons in Cleveland say they have performed the nation’s first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge wants to know within a month about how Volkswagen plans to bring nearly 600,000 diesel cars into compliance with clean air laws.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Complying with a court order to help the FBI unlock an iPhone linked to one of the San Bernardino killers would be “bad for America” and set a legal precedent that would offend many U.S. residents, argued Apple’s chief executive officer Tim Cook on Wednesday.

Tesla’s just-released annual 10-K for 2015 acknowledges that sales in China tanked by 33 percent, and the market value for environmental credits has plunged by 49 percent, since last year.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri fired an assistant professor on Thursday who had been suspended after run-ins with student journalists during protests last year, including a videotaped confrontation where she called for “some muscle” to remove a videographer from the Columbia campus.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates offered some muddled support for the government in the FBI’s standoff against Apple over data encryption, while his company has been a “tepid” supporter of Apple, in the estimation of The Verge… until today, when Microsoft announced it “wholeheartedly” supports the rival tech giant and will file a “friend of the court” brief on its behalf.

Earlier this month, the FBI launched Don’t Be A Puppet, a browser-based video game designed to counter recruitment propaganda from violent extremists. However, after complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Bureau has removed and replaced references to Islam and Islamic terrorism on the site.

Over the course of its opening weekend, Fire Emblem Fates’ Western release has broken franchise records. Unfortunately, the most successful release in the series has been butchered beyond comprehension by its localization team.

This cinematic trailer for Hitman recalls past actions from master assassin Agent 47’s career.

The latest update to Halo 5 Guardians will add a new map, customization options, and modes including Griffball and Warzone Firefight.

Democratic state senator Leland Yee of California, recently convicted for bribery and arms smuggling, was a notorious opponent of the video game industry who praised feminist hero Anita Sarkeesian.

Feminist Frequency spokesperson Anita Sarkeesian’s public speaking fee has been revealed to be at $20,000, or $5,000 for students on a budget.

In a Wednesday interview on ABC’s World News Tonight, Apple CEO Tim Cook stood by his guns in refusing the FBI demand to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino jihadi Syed Farook. He faulted the FBI for mishandling the phone and failing to communicate with Apple effectively.

A recent court ruling from a federal judge offers the frightening prospect that 10 million California children’s addresses, Social Security numbers and personal records could be released–and stolen.

Coraline Ada Ehmke, a partisan feminist known for imposing hated progressive codes of conduct on open source coding communities, has announced she will join the influential software development platform GitHub to advise on “anti-harassment.”

A YouGov survey finds most Americans are rejecting the label of “feminism” and say feminists are “too extreme.”

Facebook has unveiled a new form of post interaction, as new “Reaction” buttons have been added alongside the traditional “Like” button.

Want to know what you spirit animal is? So do hackers, apparently. WFLA.com reports that hackers have been using seemingly harmless Facebook questionnaires to harvest data about you and your preferences.

Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted and seized a demonstration in support of Apple’s resistance against the FBI to create a government backdoor to phone encryption in Chicago on Tuesday.

Boston Dynamics released footage of the latest version of their Atlas robot, and it’s mesmerizing.

After winning Consumer Reports’ coveted top spot for 2014 and 2015, Tesla Motors Inc.’s (TSLA:NASDAQ) was dropped from the top 10 car brands for 2016.

G2A, the online games retailer and re-seller, has started 2016 in much the same way they ended 2015, finding themselves accused of unethical business practices. This time their eSports sponsorship program has been accused of a series of late or outstanding payments to their partners.

Two conservative law professors at Georgetown have adopted the rhetoric of the regressive left in their objection to post-mortem critiques of the late Justice Antonin Scalia from liberal colleagues, claiming conservative law students are “traumatized” by such critiques.