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BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: South Wales Police’s use of facial recognition technology has been ruled unlawful by the UK’s Court of Appeal. […]

Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world’s first digital photograph, died Aug. 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon, The Oregonian reported August 13, 2020, 10:30 PM 3 […]

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Just describing QAnon — a sprawling, false theory that there is a “deep state” of child-molesting Satanists […]

CARSON CITY, Nev. — The white rings that wrap around two massive lakes in the U.S. West are a stark reminder of how water levels are dropping and a warning that the 40 million people […]

Democrats dismissed it as a fringe group of conspiracy-minded zealots. Moderate Republicans fretted over its potential to hurt their party’s image, while more conservative lawmakers carefully sought to harness its grass-roots energy. Sympathetic media outlets […]

LANSING, Mich. — The state of Michigan and some private partners are taking steps toward building or assigning dedicated lanes for automated vehicles on a 40-mile (65-kilometer) stretch of highway between Detroit and Ann Arbor. […]

Apple’s spat with app developers over its cut of their revenues exploded into a high-stakes clash on Thursday when Apple kicked the wildly popular game Fortnite off iPhones and Fortnite’s maker hit back with a […]

Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man who sought and exchanged sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old New York girl paid $20,000 in bitcoin in a bid to have the child victim murdered […]

SAN FRANCISCO — In April, Françoise Brougher, the chief operating officer of Pinterest and its top female executive, abruptly left the company with little explanation. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Ms. Brougher accused the […]

China’s Commerce Ministry says it has extended tariffs on Indian optical fiber for five years August 13, 2020, 8:10 AM 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article BEIJING — China’s Commerce Ministry […]