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  • Facebook's election 'war room' takes aim at fake information

    Facebook gears up 'war room' to combat potential abuses of its social network heading into major elections in Brazil, US

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  • What's next for Paul Allen's big investments? It's not clear

    What's next for Paul Allen's technology, research and philanthropy commitments? It's not clear

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  • States and feds unite on election security after '16 clashes

    Election officials and federal cybersecurity agents are touting improved collaboration toward confronting and deterring election tampering

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  • Wet and mild: Warm winter predicted for much of the US

    The National Weather Service is predicting a warmer than normal winter for about three-quarters of the nation

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• Oct 18

  • Lab worker files suit after plutonium shipping led to firing

    A former worker at a national laboratory who was fired for shipping weapons-grade plutonium by air instead of ground alleges in a lawsuit that he was...

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  • European and Asian leaders seek to boost trade, security

    Europe and Asia should use their combined economic clout "to tackle global challenges such as trade tensions that put millions of jobs at risk" and...

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  • MoviePass operations under investigation by New York AG

    Operations at MoviePass discount service for tickets are being investigated by the New York Attorney General

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  • Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

    A California-based startup has announced big plans to go small as it reaches into space, rocketing satellites the size of loaves of bread into orbit...

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  • Journal retracts stem cell work by former Harvard scientist

    The New England Journal of Medicine is retracting a 2011 study and is investigating two earlier ones describing stem cell research by a former Harvard...

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  • Taxi drivers in Warsaw protest unlicensed Uber drivers

    Hundreds of taxi drivers have driven slowly through Poland's capital city Warsaw causing some traffic jams in protest against low earnings and...

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  • Google launches next generation smartphones

    Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones feature larger screens and improved wide-angle cameras.

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• Oct 17

  • West Coast quake warning system now operational, with limits

    Automated alerts from the fledgling West Coast earthquake early warning system are ready to be used broadly by businesses, utilities, schools and...

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  • Experts urge gulf refuge for endangered vaquita porpoise

    Experts are urging Mexico's government to use floating barriers to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where a half dozen critically...

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  • Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

    A California-based startup says it will rocket small satellites into orbit from Virginia

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  • Twitter airs election meddling data

    Twitter releases all of the accounts and posts related to "information operations" it has found on its service since 2016

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  • Oldest fossils on Earth? New look finds might just be rocks

    New study says what were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be rocks

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  • EPA puts off final say on science transparency rule

    The Environmental Protection Agency says it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the...

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  • Newly published files confirm plan to move Assange to Russia

    Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate Assange from his embassy hideaway in London by naming him as a...

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  • Tornadoes are spinning up farther east in US, study finds

    Scientists aren't certain why the areas in which storms develop are shifting.

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  • Netflix shares jump 6 percent on strong subscriber growth

    Netflix shares are jumping 6 percent in early trading after the company reported a big increase in subscribers

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  • Slovak PM: Foreign hackers targeted foreign ministry

    Slovakia's prime minister says his country's foreign ministry was hit by a "very sophisticated" cyber attack

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  • YouTube goes down worldwide for about an hour

    Visitors to the video site had pages load halfway, then stall before an "internal sever error" message.

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  • YouTube goes down for more than an hour

    YouTube goes down for more than an hour

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  • Potentially deadly infection hits California sea lions

    A rescue center says California sea lions are coming down with a potentially fatal bacterial infection in near-record numbers

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  • Shanghai airport automates check-in with facial recognition

    Shanghai's Hongqiao airport is using an automated flight check-in system powered by facial recognition technology, as China pushes to integrate...

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  • Netflix's 3Q subscriber growth gets rave reviews on Wall St.

    Netflix regains its stride with strong subscriber growth during the summer after stumbling badly in spring

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  • Ex-Equifax manager gets home confinement for insider trading

    A former Equifax manager has been sentenced to serve eight months home confinement after pleading guilty to insider trading in the wake of the...

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  • NASA astronaut describes close call following failed launch

    The NASA astronaut who survived last week's failed launch and emergency landing says he knew he needed to stay calm

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  • Google to charge for apps on Android phones in Europe

    Google to start charging for pre-installed apps on Android phones sold in Europe

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  • Oklahoma's Choctaw horses connect to Mississippi

    An aging Choctaw stallion in southwest Mississippi is bringing new blood to a rare strain of horses

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  • Can Pinterest succeed as the 'un'-social network?

    Pinterest has long shunned being labeled as a social network _ and with it, an emphasis on connections and networks that has led to explosive growth...

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  • Report: Uber IPO could put company value at $120 billion

    Uber may have an IPO early next year that values the company at as much as $120B, according to a report

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  • Ex-UN leader helps launch climate 'adaptation' initiative

    Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other dignitaries have launched an initiative to accelerate and expand ways for the world to...

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  • Debris found on North Carolina beach is from SpaceX rocket

    A large sheet of metal found on a North Carolina beach has been identified as debris from a SpaceX rocket

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  • Facebook requires UK political ad buyers to reveal identity

    Facebook says anyone who takes out a British political ad on the social media platform will now be forced to reveal their identity, in a bid to...

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  • Owner of dating sites to repay users nearly $1M

    Users of sites like JDate and Christian Mingle will be reimbursed is for automatically renewing subscriptions or being denied requested refunds.

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• Oct 16

  • Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, dies

    Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died at 65

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  • Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist Paul Allen dies at 65

    Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates and went on to become a billionaire philanthropist, has died

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  • 'He changed the world' - Reaction to Paul Allen's death

    Reaction to the death of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died Monday

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  • Black woman who had trailblazing Navy career dies at 83

    A trailblazing black woman from Arkansas who revolutionized the way the U.S. Navy designed ships has died

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  • Voter records offered for sale month ahead of elections

    Security researchers say an estimated 35 million voter records from 19 U.S. states have been offered for sale on a dark web online forum

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  • Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65

    Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died

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  • Trump may not know what's behind warming, but scientists do

    President Trump may question whether global warming is caused by humans, but scientists detail the many ways they know it comes from our own pollution

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  • Salesforce vs. Twitter in San Francisco homeless tax fight

    A Nov. 6 ballot measure to tax San Francisco's wealthiest businesses for the homeless has pitted two of the city's tech titans against each other

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  • Report: Ecuador tells Assange to curb speech, look after cat

    Report says Ecuador has formally ordered WikiLeaks founder to watch what he says

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  • NASA X-ray Space Telescope back online after brief shutdown

    One of NASA's space telescopes is back in business after a brief shutdown

    Oct 15

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  • Global warming to leave us crying in our costlier beer

    A new study says global warming may leave people crying in their costlier beer

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  • Investigators search Opel premises in diesel emissions probe

    Prosecutors say law enforcement officials have conducted searches at German automaker Opel as part of an investigation into suspected manipulation of...

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  • In posthumous message, Hawking says science under threat

    Stephen Hawking has spoken from beyond the grave to warn that science and education are under threat around the world

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