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PORTLAND, Ore. — A Chinese man has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for trafficking fake and altered Apple iPhones. The US attorney’s office in Portland said Quan...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/college-student-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison-for-iphone-scam/

“If we are accelerating the moon landing, we are accelerating the Mars landing," Jim Bridenstine said during a panel discussion of space agency heads at the International Astronautical Congress...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/nasa-aims-to-put-humans-on-mars-by-2035/

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of seven US lawmakers including Senators Ted Cruz, Ron Wyden and Marco Rubio and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday urged Apple Chief Executive Ti...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/us-lawmakers-urge-apple-to-restore-hkmap-app-used-in-hong-kong/

Unusual weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica have caused a drastic reduction in ozone depletion, leaving the ozone with the smallest hole seen since its discovery in 1982, acc...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/antarctic-ozone-hole-shrinks-to-smallest-size-on-record-due-to-rare-event/

Human brains grown in labs could be experiencing “endless horror” with a conscious existence but no body, according to worried scientists. Green Neuroscience Lab researchers are warning that,...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/scientists-worry-lab-grown-human-mini-brains-may-become-sentient/

With the streaming wars heading into overdrive, Netflix will beef up its war chest by $2 billion. The company behind “Stranger Things” and “Ozark” said Monday it plans to raise $2 billion...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/netflix-to-raise-money-ahead-of-rival-streaming-service-launches/

Our phones are already our closest companions, so why not make them just a little more human? Marc Teyssier and his colleagues at Telecom Paris created an artificial skin for mobile phones that i...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/this-smartphone-skin-is-like-real-flesh-and-reacts-to-touch/

Mark Zuckerberg on Monday hit back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her accusations that Facebook allowed President Trump to run ads on the social network that contained false claims. In an attempt ...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/mark-zuckerberg-hits-back-at-elizabeth-warren-over-election-security/

Children seem to be enforcing their own screen time rules – on their parents, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 parents of school-aged children (aged 5–18) found that half of respo...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/parents-only-spend-24-more-minutes-with-their-kids-than-their-phones/

BEIJING – China will launch test flights for the next two space rockets in its Smart Dragon series meant for commercial use in 2020 and 2021, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday,...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/chinas-next-commercial-rockets-to-make-test-flights-in-2020-2021/

Scientists have begun using satellites that can produce high-resolution imagery in an effort to monitor whale strandings from space, according to an investigation by the British Antarctic Survey ...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/scientists-using-satellites-to-spot-whale-strandings-from-space/

Space scientists may have missed alien probes because they’re just too small. That’s the bold claim from an astrophysicist who reckons we’ve been looking for extraterrestrial life the wrong...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/study-suggests-alien-probes-are-too-tiny-for-astronomers-to-spot/

Microsoft’s contracts with European Union institutions do not fully protect data in line with EU law, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said in initial findings published on Monday...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/eu-data-watchdog-raises-concerns-over-microsoft-contracts/

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know that Facebook strives for diversity in its workforce — and not just on the basis of race or gender. The CEO says he works hard to recruit people who attended a...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/19/why-mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-recruit-outside-the-ivy-league-liberal-bubble/

People of varied political beliefs are trying to define expansive speech as dangerous because it could bring results they don’t accept, Zuckerberg said.

https://nypost.com/2019/10/18/zuckerberg-defends-refusal-to-take-down-content-that-goes-against-standards/

Earth-like exoplanets may be quite common in the universe, a new UCLA study suggests. Scientists led by Alexandra Doyle, a UCLA graduate student of geochemistry and astrochemistry, came up with a...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/18/the-universe-might-be-full-of-earth-like-exoplanets-study-suggests/

Apple CEO Tim Cook met the chief of China’s market regulator in Beijing on Thursday, the Chinese agency said, a week after the US firm was thrust into the midst of political tensions between th...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/18/apples-tim-cook-meets-china-regulator-after-pulling-hong-kong-app/

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who one year ago bought Time magazine for $150 million, blasted Facebook this week calling it “the new cigarette” that should be regulated and forced to break up....

https://nypost.com/2019/10/17/time-owner-slams-facebook-as-the-new-cigarette/

LONDON – Uncertainty surrounding Britain’s exit from the European Union has hit science funding to the tune of almost half a billion euros and is putting off international researchers from co...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/17/brexit-costing-uk-scientists-nearly-half-a-billion-in-funding/

Virgin Galactic has unveiled the spacesuits worn by space-tourists aboard its private trips next year. The “exclusive spacewear system” was designed in partnership with Under Armour and will ...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/17/virgin-galactic-reveals-futuristic-spacesuits-for-private-astronauts/