Doctors warn tap water from neti pots can be fatal after brain-eating amoeba...
Brain-eating amoebas can be found in fresh water, including tap water from wells, doctors warn. If you’re using a neti pot to pour water through your nasal passages and clean out your sinus cavities,...
View ArticleAmazon Go’s expansion could face trouble if more cities ban cash-free...
Officials in some cities worry that stores and restaurants that don’t accept cash effectively exclude people without credit cards or bank accounts. A New York City councilman introduced legislation...
View ArticleHere’s how to limit app location tracking on iPhones and Android devices
A chilling New York Times story revealed how location data shared with third parties can cause privacy nightmares. Plenty of popular smartphone apps can track your location and provide it to data...
View ArticleRIP Fusion Tables: Google is killing off the beloved data visualization tool
Google will shut down its hybrid database-spreadsheet product effective next year. Users of Google’s Fusion Tables, a kind of hybrid spreadsheet/database/data visualization tool that was never fully...
View ArticleAmazon draws boos at NYC council meeting over ICE-Rekognition deal
The company’s sale of face recognition tech to the government has become increasingly controversial. In a contentious New York City Council hearing into Amazon’s plans to build part of its so-called...
View ArticleFederal minimum wage vote delayed over witness’s 2002 “gay sex...
Joseph Sabia, a professor of economics at San Diego State University, wrote about the “dangers” of gay sex in a blog post mostly about regulating junk food. The House Committee on Education and the...
View ArticleBogus bomb threats across the U.S. are the scary new way for scammers to seek...
The threats generally claim explosives were placed in a building and demand a bitcoin ransom in exchange for removing a nonexistent bomb. Businesses, schools, hospitals, and other institutions around...
View ArticleAmazon and Walmart add more robots, but insist they won’t terminate jobs
Companies like Amazon and Walmart say their automation efforts will lead to new jobs, but critics worry about the humans who could be phased out. Since Amazon bought warehouse robotics company Kiva...
View ArticleSuicides have spiked so much that one senator wants a 3-digit hotline for...
Sen. Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat, asked the FCC to set up a three-digit number similar to 911 but specifically for mental health issues. Citing rising suicide rates, Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat...
View ArticleDow Jones tumbles, S&P 500 Index falls to 2018, as crypto recovers slightly
Both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes continued to fall on Monday, although cryptocurrencies staged a bit of a recovery. Stock markets continued to fall on Monday, bringing the S&P 500 index...
View ArticleHey cord-cutters, Charter may owe you $75 or free HBO–find out here
New York’s attorney general had alleged the company defrauded customers by advertising speeds its network and equipment could’t actually deliver. Charter Communications has agreed to pay out $62.5...
View Article5 reasons why the D.C. attorney general is suing Facebook
The attorney general says Facebook violated D.C.’s consumer protection law by failing to protect users’ data. The Washington, D.C., attorney general sued Facebook Wednesday in a local court, saying the...
View ArticleDOJ: Chinese spies carried out an elaborate, global hacking attack for over a...
The pair, affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security, were allegedly part of a hacking group known as APT10 that hit computers at government agencies and tech companies. The Justice Department...
View ArticleTwitter’s toxic misogyny just helped knock 11% off its stock value
Twitter’s stock fell after Citron Research called the company “the Harvey Weinstein of social media.” Twitter’s stock price fell 11% to close at $29.29 Thursday after an investor note declared the...
View ArticleAt libraries, drag queen story hours draw big crowds . . . and lawsuits
Drag queen story hours at libraries have proven popular with kids and adults, but some conservatives have challenged the sessions in courts. Since debuting in San Francisco a little over three years...
View ArticleTSA worker absences affect some airports more than others: Here’s what...
Airport screeners and other TSA employees are required to work during the shutdown but won’t be paid until Congress and President Trump approve a spending bill. Transportation Security Administration...
View Article9 ways the U.S. government shutdown could get worse
President Donald Trump has warned the shutdown could last months, or even years, if he and Congress can’t come to an agreement on government funding. A partial government shutdown has put thousands of...
View ArticleAWS launches MongoDB competitor amid criticism over Amazon’s in-house...
Amazon says the product is compatible with some versions of MongoDB, a popular tool used by developers to store data. On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new database tool called...
View ArticleWhat to do when your new company name is shared by a gang of criminal fraudsters
Textivia, a marketing agency, was in the midst of a rebrand when it learned its soon-to-be name, 3VE, was also the code name of an alleged multinational fraud ring. Last month, a North Carolina...
View ArticlePrivacy advocates: Dems’ “technological wall” proposal...
The group says the idea of heightened border surveillance could be terrible for privacy. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested a “technological wall,” with increased electronic scrutiny of border...
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