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16 of the world’s richest billionaires have investments in space exploration, according to a new report from Bloomberg Technology.

Tesla’s Elon Musk and Google-parent Alphabet’s Mustafa Suleyman join a total of 116 names from the cutting edge of modern technology to ask the United Nations for a worldwide ban on autonomous warfare.

Convicted leaker and left-wing transgender icon Chelsea Manning has turned full activist since her release from prison, expressing support for violence against “fascists” and the abolition of borders, the police, and prisons.

Bedfordshire Constable Jamal Hassan has been jailed for making “indecent photographs” of children, following complaints that the department focused more on fighting Islamophobia and “right-wing extremism” than real crimes.

Net neutrality advocates frequently warn about the perils of internet service providers (ISPs) censoring the internet yet remain remarkably silent when Cloudflare, Google, and other companies censor free speech.

British authorities are promising to prosecute “hate crimes” committed online as vigorously as those that take place face-to-face, claiming that online hate crime is a major problem.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that he “woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the internet” following his company’s decision to terminate service for neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer last week.

The University of Virginia College Republicans club was falsely accused of participating in the “Unite the Right” rally by a Twitter account which attempted to dox attendees, naming the wrong individuals in a variety of cases.

Hollywood film director and feminist hero Joss Whedon is guilty of having “multiple affairs” with “his actresses, co-workers, fans and friends,” the Avengers director’s ex-wife claims.

HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails agreed Friday to forgo his extradition hearing and go face the charges in the United States.

According to Sperry’s sources, Awan and up to four other individuals are being investigated for potentially stealing and selling compromising information on U.S. lawmakers to foreign governments. “Some 80 offices were potentially compromised,” he writes.

Google’s interview process is notoriously difficult, stretching the brainpower of the brightest whiz kids from the top schools in the country to determine if they are good enough to join the best. But Google’s focus has shifted its focus markedly, from being the best tech company on Earth to being the Internet’s morality police force — and its interview process will have to change to keep up.

Civil rights attorney James Finberg is considering filing discrimination lawsuits on behalf of over sixty current and former female Google employees.

TEL AVIV – After Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah took to social media to threaten Israel with another war using a series of intimidating memes, a boutique Israeli web design company fought back on the same platform cynically advising the Islamist group on what to expect should it go through with its threat.

From establishment conservatives to the the EFF, everyone is now aware of Silicon Valley’s terrifying control over speech. Is it too late?

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to employees that he would be donating $1 million each to the SPLC and the ADL and criticised President Donald Trump’s reaction to the recent events in Charlottesville.

Mic.com has fired 25 employees in preparation for a pivot from written news to video, according to a report.

Former Google employee James Damore compared the way that Silicon Valley conservatives have to stay in the closet to homosexuals in the 1950s. During an interview with Business Insider, Damore, who was fired from Google for publishing a viewpoint diversity

Futuristic start-up Bionik Laboratories has integrated Amazon’s flagship A.I. into its lower-body exosuit design.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the largest digital rights organizations, has issued a warning to tech companies about censoring neo-Nazis, claiming the same tools will eventually be used against everyone else.

The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute has successfully completed a new immunotherapy trial, curing two-thirds of its young subjects of their peanut allergies.

Event management service Eventbrite has banned former Breitbart Senior Editor MILO from using their platform to advertise his latest book signing despite having previously approved the event.

University of Chicago Dean Jay Ellison reminded incoming freshmen in a recent welcome letter that the prestigious university doesn’t permit safe spaces.

Facebook reportedly shut down an internal chat room which evolved into a forum for anonymous Facebook employees to discuss their support of President Donald Trump.

SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA — In the middle of a vast complex on NASA’s Moffett Airfield, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a nondescript two-story building where the Pentagon is working with tech companies on its latest top secret project.

One of the big mistakes Trump’s critics make is to assume he is very stupid. Hence the liberal media’s delight in his Pershing tweet in the aftermath of the Barcelona massacre.

The left demands that monuments associated with slavery, tyranny, and oppression be dismantled. Here’s the conclusion of their flawless logic.

Hackers linked to China are suspected of planting malicious “back door” code in the UK and U.S. to spy on big business, banks, energy suppliers and the defense sector.

CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto embarrassed himself on Twitter Thursday afternoon, after he insisted on including this weekend’s murder in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a list of European terror attacks.

New York Times Magazine writer Wil S. Hylton acknowledges in a lengthy article that Breitbart News’ comment section surpasses the Times’ by “a factor of 10.”

Popular music streaming service Spotify has removed a list of “hate bands” from the platform in response to the Charlottesville white supremacist rally last week.

Gab, a free speech competitor to Twitter, was banned from the Google Play store Thursday after the social network startup had already raised over $1 million in investments.

Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was indicted Thursday on four counts including bank fraud and making false statements.

Swedish web designer Per Axbom has designed a website dedicated to tracing unsolicited genital photos to their source.

Republican California Representative Dana Rohrabacher met with WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London this week.

Prerna P. Lal of UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Center took to Twitter in the aftermath of the Charlottesville chaos to argue that “white Americans are the original Nazis.”