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Uber’s Board of Directors has offered the vacant CEO job, formerly occupied by founder Travis Kalanick, to current Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.

YouTube has reportedly demonetized a number of videos from former presidential candidate Ron Paul following an announcement that the company would be censoring the platform to an even greater degree.

Volition’s Agents of Mayhem couches tired gameplay in bland world design and populates it with a cast of grating one-dimensional caricatures.

Tech companies in China will be required to keep records of their users’ real identities in an effort to discourage “false rumors, filthy language and illegal messages,” according to a report.

A newsletter plastered around the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, campus last week called for a ban on enrollment for U.S. military veterans seeking education in American universities.

All legal fee donations to cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins will be refunded following the discovery that the majority were made fraudulently with stolen credit cards.

Columbia Professor and frequent New York Times contributor Mark Lilla recently sat down with the New Yorker to discuss his new book about the end of identity politics.

Tech giant Google has issued refunds to advertisers overcharged by the company due to ad placement on websites that use fake internet traffic to boost ad payouts.

(AFP) — Expedia chief Dara Khosrowshahi has been chosen to replace ousted Travis Kalanick as the next CEO at Uber, The New York Times reported Sunday, as the ride-hailing giant looks to move past a rough patch.

‘Star Wars’ actor Mark Hamill revealed he has donated to the campaign to buy the social media service Twitter, and consequently ban President Donald Trump from the platform.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The founder of the internet’s oldest white supremacist site says he’s trying to get back online after having his operations shut down following complaints that it promotes hatred and is linked to dozens of murders.

Chelsea Clinton tweeted an article penned by someone who spent a year in former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County “tent jail” Saturday but made it seem like she spent time there herself.

Elon Musk is trying to raise $100 million to launch a manufacturer of nice cyborgs that do not become Terminators.

One of Germany’s largest platforms for far-left extremists, a website suspected of planning the G20 violence at Hamburg this year and that has published contact information of populist politicians, has been taken down.

A 36-year-old Chinese national named Yu Pingan was arrested at the Los Angeles airport on Monday for distributing the type of malware that was used in the raid on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 2014 and 2015.

“American liberalism in the twenty-first century is in crisis,” writes Columbia University Professor Mark Lilla, due in no small part to its embrace of a “disastrous” identity politics that divides instead of uniting.

A candlelight vigil has been held in St. Louis, Missouri, for a transgender woman who was fatally shot after she reportedly stabbed someone and attacked one of the responding officers with a knife.

Google began to “police YouTube like it never has before” Thursday, cracking down further on “offensive content,” according to a report.

I came away from this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo excited about a precious few upcoming titles. Foremost among them was Middle-earth: Shadow of War. I described the elegance with which the developers introduced complexity to 2014’s Shadow of Mordor’s alchemy of procedural generation and visceral combat. I said that I would be “shocked if it doesn’t immediately become one of the year’s highlights” upon its release, and I meant it.

Health care company Aetna potentially revealed the HIV status of thousands of customers after sending out letters with their details clearly visible through the envelope window.

A Californian first grader was sent to the principal’s office this week after allegedly “misgendering” a transgender student. The incident reportedly took place at California’s Rocklin Academy, in the school playground, where the female student called her biologically male classmate

Half-Life’s final entry may end up being a blog post by one of its creators, written as a letter to those who have longed for a conclusion to the franchise which has lain dormant for nearly a decade.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court sentenced the billionaire chief of Samsung to five years in prison for crimes that helped topple the country’s president, a stunning downfall that could freeze up decision making at a global electronics powerhouse long run like a monarchy.

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon plans to use its deep pockets to make big changes at Whole Foods, saying it will cut prices on bananas, eggs, salmon, beef and more when it completes its $13.7 billion takeover next week.

Despite the chaos that consumed Evergreen State College earlier this year, administrators are refusing to properly arm campus law enforcement.

A study published Monday in the Journal of Homosexuality claims that social justice activism circles are “rife” with internal discrimination.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice impresses with sight and sound, but there isn’t any meat on the game’s bones.

Apple announced plans Wednesday to build a state-of-the art data center in Waukee, Iowa.

Facebook is hosting people smuggling advertisements, with gangs offering to take migrants to Europe and America, make them fake passports, and traffic them across the European Union (EU).

An increasing number of young Chinese people are failing the required fitness tests to enter the military because they are “too fat and masturbate too much,” the country’s state media service has claimed. A report published in the state-run military

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending roughly $200,000 to study tweets about electronic cigarettes.

YouTube temporarily suspended the account of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units, better known as the YPG, on Wednesday. The account was reactivated Thursday morning after the YPG objected to what they thought was the permanent termination of their account.

As we drill down on the dangers of corporate monopoly, we can observe that the worst offenders are Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. We might even turn those four companies into an acronym, GAFA. And yes, GAFA is the antithesis of MAGA—Making America Great Again.

The United Arab Emirates has sentenced a transgender Singaporean and her friend to one year in prison “for dressing in a feminine way,” according to a report.

California could soon be the first U.S. state to impose a “robot tax” to mitigate the economic effects of the replacement of factory workers by machines — if one San Francisco Democrat gets her way.

Google has introduced the ability for users to screen themselves for depression by adding the option to take a questionnaire when they search for information on the condition.