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Twitter suspended a conspiracy-peddling account earlier this week for breaking its rules, hours after President Donald Trump retweeted a message from the account calling Democrats “the true enemies of America.” Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost, but sources told The Daily Beast the account in question, @LYNNTHO06607841, was suspended for […]

When children are charged with crimes, the court system usually takes some steps to prevent their acts from defining them in later years. Children who are 16 and under, for instance, are generally sent to Family Court, where records are not public. Yet including their photos in a facial recognition database runs the risk that

Google has given reassurances that it won’t make transcripts of speech data picked up by its Google Assistant system in the European Union for at least the next three months, a German data-protection authority said Thursday. Interested in Google? Add Google as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Google news, video,

In the continuing explosion of tabletop board gaming, there are numerous World War II games in which players get to be Nazis. There are American Civil War games in which players take the role of the Confederacy. Some of these games confront the victims of the Holocaust and enslaved people head on; most don’t, though

Verizon’s net income fell in the second quarter but a key earnings measure topped analyst expectations as the country’s largest cellphone company added more wireless customers. The New York-based company said Thursday that it added 245,000 cellphone customers who pay a monthly bill — so-called “postpaid” customers, the most lucrative kind of subscriber. Its prepaid

The Oasis is, over all, comfortable to hold. But over several hours of reading, the wedge got tiresome to grip, and I found myself switching between hands. Amazon’s cheaper Kindle Paperwhite, with a curved back that lacks the thick grip, is more pleasant to hold over long durations. Now onto the upsides. The Oasis’s signature

The Latest on a protest against the construction of a new telescope in Hawaii (all times local): 5:20 p.m. Staffers from existing telescopes on Hawaii‘s tallest peak traveled up the mountain to secure their facilities as two storms approach the islands. East Asian Observatory Deputy Director Jessica Dempsey says seven vehicles carried staff to the

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed concern over Chinese activities on the Mekong River in Southeast Asia, calling them troubling trends. He spoke Thursday in Thailand’s capital with his counterparts from countries through which the river flows, including Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Pompeo’s concerns include the building of upstream dams, plans to

The Latest on the alleged Capital One hacker (all times local): 11:20 p.m. Federal authorities say a former Amazon software engineer accused of a massive hack of Capital One data recently threatened to “shoot up” a California social media company. Paige Thompson was arrested Monday in Seattle. The FBI said she obtained personal information from

The 33-year-old former Amazon software engineer accused of hacking Capital One made little attempt to hide her attack. In fact, she effectively publicized it. It’s one of many riddles swirling around Paige Thompson, who goes by the online handle “erratic.” Well-known in Seattle’s hacker community, Thompson has lived a life of tumult, with frequent job changes, reported