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SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon is quietly canceling its Nazis. Over the past 18 months, the retailer has removed two books by David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as several titles by George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party. Amazon has also prohibited volumes like “The Ruling […]

“The magic of the internet is there is always another clue to find,” he said. Mr. Nimmo speaks fluent Russian, French, German and Latvian — and is conversant in several other languages — teaching himself by buying books in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy in languages he is trying to learn. That makes it

When Solar Orbiter launches, and how to watch it An Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled take Solar Orbiter to space from a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Sunday at 11:03 p.m. Eastern, around the time this year’s Academy Awards ceremony will come to an end. Forecasts currently call for an 80 percent chance of

CHICAGO — Adam Pezen, Carlo Licata and Nimesh Patel are among millions of people who have been tagged in Facebook photos at some point in the past decade, sometimes at the suggestion of an automated tagging feature powered by facial recognition technology. It was their Illinois addresses, though, that put the trio’s names atop a

Actress Carrie Fisher, who was best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, died in 2016. She recently appeared in the 2019 film Rise of Skywalker, but how was this possible? BBC Click speaks to the visual effects supervisor, Roger Guyett and animation supervisor, Paul Kavanagh of ILM to find

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello, Adam Satariano here. I cover technology in Europe for The New York Times. This past week, as part of some research I have been doing about government uses of technology, I went to Berlin to attend

“Under no circumstances would the agency share child sexual abuse materials to private companies,” Ms. Walker said. Other companies already work closely with law enforcement officials investigating child sexual abuse. Johann Hofmann, the chief executive of Griffeye, said the company’s imagery analysis software was installed inside law enforcement networks and was designed to avoid sending

It appears Antarctica has broken a heat record By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer February 7, 2020, 10:54 PM 2 min read WASHINGTON — The temperature in northern Antarctica hit nearly 65 degrees (18.3 degrees Celsius), a likely heat record on the continent best known for snow, ice and penguins. The reading was taken Thursday

In June 2017, the site landed one of its biggest scoops: a feature that revealed sexual harassment allegations against one of Silicon Valley’s most well-connected venture capitalists. Six women had accused Justin Caldbeck, a partner at Binary Capital, of unwanted sexual advances, with three of them speaking to the reporter, Mr. Albergotti, on the record.

They posted videos of the Les Misérables song, “Do You Hear the People Sing.” They invoked article No. 35 of China’s Constitution, which stipulates freedom of speech. They tweeted a phrase from “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The Chinese public have staged what amounts to an online revolt after the death of a doctor, Li