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This “essential piece of computing history” just sold for $43,750

Charles Babbage is widely recognized as a pioneer of the programable computer due to his ingenious designs for steam-driven calculating machines in the...

No-fiber zone: FCC funds 25Mbps, data-capped satellite in rural areas

The Federal Communications Commission is giving $87.1 million in rural-broadband funding to satellite operator Viasat to help the company lower prices and raise...

Sacklers siphoned nearly $11 billion from Purdue amid opioid crisis

As the epidemic of opioid abuse and overdoses ravaged the United States—claiming hundreds of thousands of lives—the Sackler family withdrew more than $10...

Exhume dead cryptocurrency exec who owes us $250 million, creditors demand

In late January, the wife of a cryptocurrency-exchange founder testified that her husband inadvertently took at least $137 million of customer assets to...

Some junk for sale on Amazon is very literally garbage, report finds

Some days it seems like searching for an item on Amazon just brings up endless pages of junk with no clear pattern. There's...

Chrome’s data disaster: Browser update wipes out Android app data

Google's latest Chrome update is causing a headache for users and developers of some Android apps. Chrome 79, which is rolling out across desktop...

Biggest Loser claims to take healthier approach but has same hefty flaws

The reality television game show is getting a reboot and a revamp after numerous scientific studies and analyses concluded that the extreme weight-loss...

iDevices finally get key-based protection against account takeovers

For the past couple years, iPhone and iPad users have been relegated second-class citizens when it comes to a cross-industry protocol that promises...

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