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As drone sales soar, some insurance companies are quickly adapting their policies to exclude the unmanned aircraft.

In a Times of India post, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg compares his Free Basics pitch to public libraries, schools, and hospitals. Pay no attention to the fact that his latest humanitarian plan is intensely self-serving. Again.

YouTube’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., is taking on T-Mobile in another battle of the net neutrality war.

The Federal Trade Commission has just released an Enforcement Policy Statement regarding the use of “Deceptively Formatted” ads. In doing so, it may have beheaded the concept of sponsored content advertising with a single stroke.

A New Zealand judge has ruled that the MegaUpload owner Kim Dotcom, along with three of his colleagues, will be eligible for extradition to the United States

You better watch out, you better not cry… because these reindeer are painted stealth-black and almost certainly sport some sort of fear sensor. In a nod to holiday cheer, Boston Dynamics has released a video that may be slightly more horrifying

Self-driving cars, once the exclusive domain of science fiction, are now very much a reality. Foremost among their predicted benefits is a much higher level of road safety. Unfortunately, that’s not currently true. Apparently, cars drive themselves a bit too well.

The Philadelphia Police Department takes Star Wars pretty seriously. How seriously? They think that spoiling the latest movie should be illegal.

Democratic party officials claim that Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has improperly accessed confidential voter information from Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

On Tuesday, Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio signed off on a letter to the FCC in support of states blocking municipal broadband services.

The infamous pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli has been arrested. It wasn’t, however, related to his 5,000% hike of a life-saving AIDS drug. Instead, the SEC seems to have caught Shkreli playing with numbers just a bit too liberally.

A Sao Paulo judge has ordered that Brazil will lose access to social media platform WhatsApp for 48 hours, starting at 9pm EST. But that’s only the beginning.

In the spirit of Harry Potter bookstore trolls and generally irritating people the world over, lots of folks are scrambling to post spoilers for the newest episode of the epic Star Wars saga. Fortunately, there’s help to be found in avoiding them.

Hideo Kojima has joined forces with Sony in the wake of a messy break-up with his former publisher Konami.

A Texas plumbing service that traded in its truck later spotted it being used elsewhere, with the plumber’s marketing decals still boldly printed on the side. This might have been some great free promotion, except there was a spanner in the works: the

Philips Hue “smart” ambient lighting system is outsmarting its own customers through what may be the first-ever case of digital rights management applied to a lightbulb. A recent firmware update from the manufacturer has rendered the lighting system inoperable with third-party

If you’re looking to avoid Destiny’s grind to the level cap, Bungie is throwing you a $30 bone. The newly available level boost will take you to level 25, more than halfway toward the cap of 40.

The VTech Toys hack has gained a lot of buzz since our initial report. Now, a 21-year old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.

Elon Musk, the futurist visionary behind SpaceX, is racing a technological clock as he looks to put the first man on Mars within the next decade.

Star Citizen has reached Alpha 2.0, and with it has surpassed $100 million in funding. Despite controversy as to the delegation of those resources, Star Citizen continues to grow unabated.

The office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is turning to crowdsourcing for data collection in its investigation of large internet providers Verizon Communications Inc, Cablevision Systems Corp, and Time Warner Cable. In October, concerned that providers may be

Twitter has contacted multiple users concerning “state-sponsored” cyber attacks, employing the tried and true tactic of yelling “Fire!” at the top of their lungs.

Steam accounts are falling victim to rampant hijacking. In response, Valve has decided to implement some much-needed safeguards to the process.

After lying dormant for more than two years, Tribes: Ascend is being resurrected by Hi-Rez Studios, as yesterday the enormous Out of the Blue patch went live.

The Curious Expedition is a hex-based roguelike by way of Oregon Trail, and it’s some of the most fun I’ve had this year.

At a time when people can stand in front of the United Nations and proclaim that people being mean on the internet constitutes violence, a lone insurance company has decided to do exactly what the proponents of criminalizing disagreement are doing: monetize it.

Security company Wandera has exposed 16 companies that have frequently failed to encrypt transaction data on their sites and apps.

In answer to a question that no one anywhere is asking, Mark Zuckerberg has proclaimed that no, he will not be banning Muslims from Facebook.

IDC’s Health Insights group is making some bold predictions for the immediate future of healthcare. Foremost among them is our ever-increasing vulnerability to data theft.

In the wake of the tragic events of San Bernadino, the Senate is considering the “Requiring Reporting of Online Terrorist Activity Act” once more.

There is a pervasive air of festivity amongst the members of the Breitbart Tech team. The twisted cybernetic husk of Saint Nicholas has uploaded a happy surprise into the mainframe: System Shock 3 is coming.

On Saturday, December 5th, at this year’s PlayStation Experience event, Square-Enix gave us a first look at the Final Fantasy VII Remake in action. Unfortunately, you’ll only get it one piece at a time.

Hillary Clinton is calling for Silicon Valley to help to thwart “the most effective recruiter in the world,” but no, she’s not talking about Donald Trump.

Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann is getting ahead of any potential controversy regarding the decision to have a white voice actor for a black character debuting in Uncharted 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T07IwsAuiDY Druckmann was providing background information on the newly revealed South African

Mark Zuckerberg kicked off December with a promise to donate 99% of his Facebook shares to charity… sort of. The reality of this gesture may be starting to catch up with the social media mogul.

Last night’s Game Awards were… let’s say “unique.” But somewhere in the midst of all the trailers and celebrity cameos was the announcement of a game I’ve been dreaming about for almost a decade. I’m just not sure Psychonauts 2 is the adventure I’ve been waiting for.