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0:48 - Trump says U.S. could tax French wine in retaliation for digital tax

3:15 - Trump: no Apple tariff waivers, relief for Mac Pro parts made in China

4:34 - DOJ says it will take a broad antitrust look at Big Tech; stocks dip

5:52 - Amazon ‘destroyed the retail industry across the US’ says Treasury Secretary Mnuchin

7:59 - White House: Google’s work in China is not a security risk

9:47 - US attorney general William Barr says Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors

11:20 - NSA Forms Cybersecurity Directorate Under More Assertive U.S. Effort

14:04 - A Bipartisan Bill That Could End Our Robocall Hell Just Passed the House 429-3

16:23 - Facial recognition may be banned from public housing thanks to proposed law

18:38 - Equifax to pay at least $575 million as part of FTC settlement

20:41 - Tulsi Gabbard sues Google over violations of 'free speech'

27:22 - New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data

29:37 - Atlanta pauses scooter permits after deaths

33:49 - Freshly elected as UK’s next PM, Boris Johnson pledges full fiber broadband bonanza

35:59 - France Is Making Space-Based Anti-Satellite Laser Weapons

39:38 - Huawei secretly helped build North Korea's wireless network, leaked documents suggest

40:57 - Facebook, Google, could have to expose algorithms to Australia ACCC

42:58 - Facebook warns of costly privacy changes, discloses another U.S. probe

43:47 - FTC To Hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Personally Liable For Future Violations

46:09 - Facebook ends friend data access for Microsoft and Sony, the last 2 of its legacy partners, under FTC deal

49:07 - Facebook design flaw let thousands of kids join chats with unauthorized users

52:14 - The YouTubers Union Is Not Messing Around

56:27 - Apple buys Intel’s smartphone modem business

59:25 - T-Mobile (TMUS) Wins U.S. Approval for Sprint (S) Merger

1:01:22 - Samsung Galaxy Fold 'ready' for launch after screen fix

1:03:33 - AT&T loses nearly 1 million TV customers after raising DirecTV prices

1:06:50 - IRS Sending Warning Letters to More Than 10,000 Cryptocurrency Holders

1:08:32 - Apple to release three 'iPhone 11' models this fall

1:11:21 - ASUS ROG Phone II official with Snapdragon 855 Plus, 12GB RAM, 6000mAh battery

1:13:27 - DoorDash CEO announces that now your tips will go to delivery workers

1:16:56 - UPS is launching a drone delivery service in the US

1:19:17 - BMW Now Charges $80 a Year for Apple CarPlay

1:21:17 - Tinder (MTCH) Bypasses Google Play, Revolt Against App Store Fee

1:22:32 - God DRAM you! Prices to slide more than 40% in 2019 because chip makers can't forecast

1:24:46 - Microsoft reveals new Windows 10 Start menu in accidental internal leak

1:26:13 - A "Cure" for Baldness Could Be Around the Corner

1:29:13 - Waymo and DeepMind mimic evolution to develop a new, better way to train self-driving AI

1:31:56 - Ford teases all-electric F-150 pickup truck by pulling a million-pound train

1:35:11 - The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking

1:39:48 - Meet the robots being used to help solve America's recycling crisis

1:43:00 - Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings

1:44:37 - Marcus 'MalwareTech' Hutchins gets no prison time, one year supervised release

1:45:41 - 65% of online gamers face threats, stalking, other 'severe harassment'

1:49:32 - Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours

1:51:20 - Robinhood admits to storing some passwords in cleartext

1:53:02 - Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement

1:56:49 - Ransomware incident leaves some Johannesburg residents without electricity

1:58:54 - From Fitbits to Rokus, Hedge Funds Mine Data for Consumer Habits

2:00:59 - Hackers Stole 7.5TB Of Secret Data From Russia's Intelligence Agency

2:02:45 - Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets

2:04:28 - It's so hot in Nebraska, you can bake biscuits in your car

2:06:28 - Strange Forest 'Superorganism' Is Keeping This Vampire Tree Alive

2:08:34 - Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments

2:10:59 - Cat wrecks video game stream by barfing so hard it breaks a computer

2:12:20 - Green iguanas: Florida clarifies message to kill 'whenever possible'

2:14:36 - FBI Found ‘Bucket of Heads, Arms and Legs,’ Bodies Sewn Together at Arizona Body Donation Facility

2:18:33 - Pro-meat protesters fined for eating raw squirrels at vegan stall

2:20:58 - Trump appears with altered presidential seal at Turning Point USA event

2:23:01 - Forever21 Under Fire For Sending Diet Bars with Online Clothing Orders

2:26:12 - Christian Book Distributors drops CBD initials after getting inundated with cannabis requests

2:28:08 - Report: Saudi Prince's Plan for Flying Taxi Robot City With 'Giant Artificial Moon' May Be Unrealistic

2:33:25 - Iggy Azalea battles for chart supremacy against ... Peppa Pig?

2:35:15 - Gender-Bent Nazi Visual Novel "Mein Waifu is the Fuhrer" Now on Kickstarter

*not really, but I like to pretend it was