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Democratic Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) was caught playing the popular, highly addictive, social media game Candy Crush Saga during President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address Tuesday evening.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales believes the Wikipedia model can help salvage journalistic integrity, but in the year since Donald Trump took office as President of the United States, the online encyclopedia has instead proven unable to even restrain its own biased editing community.

Venezuela’s socialist regime will soon launch its own cryptocurrency in a bid to raise hard currency amid an economic and humanitarian crisis that has brought the government to the brink of collapse.

Administrators at Columbia University have announced that they will cover the security costs for any events featuring controversial guest speakers.

E-commerce giant eBay has announced that they will be replacing PayPal as their main payments processor with their new partner Adyen.

Amazon has been granted patents for employee wristbands, which would track workers and tell them where to go.

Facebook announced in a blog post this week that cryptocurrency ads would officially be banned from the platform.

New York State prisoners are set to receive free tablet computers in order to “better prepare convicts for life after imprisonment.”

According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, users spent 50 million fewer hours per day on the website last quarter. He claims it is a result of changes that will make Facebook “stronger over the long term.”

The decision by the Manchester Art Gallery to temporarily remove a famous Victorian painting showing nude mythological creatures has been deemed “puritanical” and an act of “authoritarian moralising”.

Unbeknown to almost everybody until today, February 1st is apparently World Hijab Day. This is one of the latest creations of the liberal feminist swamp and has its very own hashtag: #StrongInHijab

The CEO of search engine DuckDuckGo recently published an op-ed on CNBC outlining why Google and Facebook must be prevented from tracking users every move.

Popular encrypted messaging service Telegram was temporarily removed from Apple’s App Store for “inappropriate content” on Wednesday

Silicon Valley’s Udelv made history by piloting the first driverless retail grocery delivery service in America on Jan. 30.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is considering a ban on allowing Defense Department employees to bring their personal cellphones to the Pentagon.

Following an investigation into the selling of fake accounts on social media, millions of Twitter followers disappeared across the platform.

A Michigan State University student interrupted a Board of Trustees meeting by sitting on top of the conference room table.

Arizona State University is hosting a masturbation workshop in February that was originally set to be titled “Go Fuck Yourself.”

The British Journal of General Practice has urged the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to display LGBT rainbow flags in waiting rooms.

Apple has admitted this week that the Department of Justice is investigating claims of planned obsolescence in older iPhones but stated that they would never”degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades.”

An Indonesian bill proposing a ban on gay sex has received support from all ten political parties in the country.

A student contributor to the Crimson argued this week that Harvard University’s drag show is bigoted.

Indonesia’s Sharia police shaved several transgender women’s heads and “paraded them in front of the public” as part of a recent “community sickness operation.”

Tether, a controversial digital asset, may threaten the health of the entire cryptocurrency market. But what is it?

The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that fingerprint scanning locks commonly found on smartphones are not protected by the Fifth Amendment.

Several LGBT apps have been removed from the Google Play Store in Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, amid increased government persecution against LGBT people.

A California court has ruled that Tinder Plus’ higher price model for users over 30 is discriminatory, following a wave of complaints.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently spoke at an MSNBC town hall where their comments echoed much of the sentiment expressed in the viewpoint diversity memo published by fired Google engineer James Damore.

Verizon has dropped plans to sell phones made by Huawei, responding to U.S. government suspicions that the Chinese manufacturer’s phones could pose security threats, according to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg.

The Trump administration has made a lot of headlines in recent months because of its stance toward telecommunications and technology companies.

A woman is crying foul after a United Airlines denied her request to bring her emotional support peacock aboard a flight leaving from Newark Liberty International Airport this week.

Women are more likely to find men attractive if they are sought after by other women, according to a study published Monday.

The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are reportedly investigating Apple after the company admitted to slowing down older iPhone models.

Urs Hölzle, one of Google’s original ten employees, smeared whistleblowers as “harassers,” and promised to “identify” those responsible for “reprehensible conduct.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents plan to utilize license plate readers to find illegal immigrants. Police agencies throughout the U.S. use the systems to apprehend fugitives who have escaped justice, but open borders and amnesty activists are up in arms over the increased enforcement step.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently stated his distrust of Elon Musk and Tesla, while speaking at a recent business forum.