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Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access 6.8 million users' photos, including images that people began uploading to the site but ultimately chose not to post publicly.

We've all experienced frustration with the internet going down. Now imagine how frustrated you'd be if you found out that your ISP intentionally blocked your internet access for the purpose of advertising their software; and better yet, your ISP claimed that…

An evaluation of the on-demand subnoscription business model and what ownership actually means.

After a lifetime of impeccably correct opinions, Ian Buruma found himself on the wrong side of the . . . .

There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that…

Research agency staff also warned to clear mobile phones and laptops of sensitive information if they do have to go to America, according to source.

Rural America’s economy is in decline, and trying to fix it by turning small towns into tech hubs isn't working.

One in five Americans needs an occupational license to legally work. The costs to the government of regulating occupations may be low, but the cost to job-seekers, consumers, and the economy at large are made clear by a new study.

Have you ever being in a situation to guess another person’s age? Well May be YES!! How about playing games like finding things in minimum time? or about finding the written character where your doctor wrote in the prenoscription when you are sick?

An international fusion project could help the nation eventually develop its own, smaller reactor

Grupo Aeromexico SAB is investigating whether a drone slammed into a Boeing Co. 737 jetliner as the aircraft approached its destination in Tijuana, Mexico, on the U.S. border.

Car sales are falling. Housing is slow. Workers get three-month unpaid vacations. For Chinese leaders, pressure for a trade deal with President Trump is rising.

A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch - facebookresearch/pytext

Researchers said the amoebas likely got into the woman's brain through the tap water she used to fill a neti pot, rather than using saline or sterile water. The organisms entered her brain after she squirted the water up into...

Imagine the scenario. You're trying out some cool new Twitter app. It asks you to sign in via OAuth as per usual. You look through the permissions - phew - it doesn't want to access your Direct Messages. You authorise it - whereupon it promptly leaks to the…