Facebook is no stranger to legal probes and federal investigations. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg went through the wringer last year when he was brought before US Congress to answer dozens of questions about Facebook's business practices, data privacy standards, and -- of course -- the notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Some of these questions were certainly better than others, and Zuckerberg mostly made his way through the dilemma unscathe d. Most of the questions asked by Senators demonstrated a lack of basic understanding regarding how Facebook, and indeed the internet

WTF?! If you like the idea of owning a folding phone but find the $1,500+ price tags too rich, check out the Escobar Fold 1—a $349 foldable device that comes from the brother of deceased drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, really.

Roberto Escobar, who already released a flamethrower this year inspired by Elon Musk’s Not a Flamethrower, has now turned his attention to the folding smartphone market.

The Escobar Fold 1 uses an out-folding design that turns the

In brief: Apple just closed the billion dollar deal to pick up Intel's cellular modem business. Now the company has yet one more component in its iPhone supply chain under its belt. Intel is still feeling stung at being forced out of the market by Qualcomm.

Just days after calling it a "multi-billion dollar loss," Intel has completed offloading its cellular modem division to Apple in a $1 billion deal. The acquisition, initially announced in July, was completed Monday.

Intel stated that the transaction

Why it matters: Coral reefs are an integral part of marine life and sustain it by providing shelter and habitat to various organisms. They also supply and recycle nutrients as well as enable a thriving fish population, along with other species, for a healthy and diverse ecosystem. However, the rise in average water temperatures due to climate change has resulted in more frequent and prolonged "coral bleaching" events that damage their health, causing fish and other marine species to abandon them, a chain of events which scientists are now trying

In brief: The Trump administration may have started the process of withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, but that hasn’t stopped tech leaders signing an open letter urging the US to stay in the agreement.

In June 2017, the US joined Nicaragua and Syria as the only nations not part of the Paris Agreement. Donald Trump said at the time that withdrawing was to “protect America and its citizens.” He added that it's "very unfair, at the highest level, to the United

In context: YouTube Creators face plenty of problems in the realm of demonetization, copyright takedowns, and more, but we've also seen YouTube put more of an emphasis on addressing these issues lately. Today, that came in the form of a YouTube policy enforcement update that relaxes the platform's rules regarding simulated violence in videos.

From here on out, YouTube will give content creators much more freedom to create the videos they want to create, without fear of having their hard work destroyed via age-gating (

In brief: Modern medicine gets more efficient every year -- AI paves the way for doctors to spend more time with their patients and reach more accurate diagnoses, for example. Now, health researchers have developed a streamlined blood test that may let physicians check for a wide range of ailments and health factors with a single blood sample.

Anyone who goes to the doctor regularly knows that the physician visit itself (and the accompanying blood test) is only the start of your health adventures. Often, professionals will forward you to

Yeah, right: The People's Republic of China will pound one more nail into the privacy coffin of its citizens as it now requires facial recognition scans of anyone buying a cell phone or signing up for a service plan. It assures its people that the tech will only be used to prevent fraud.

China is well known for using technology to monitor and control its citizens. As we have reported several times, the country cares little about its people’s privacy, including tracking “breed ready” women.

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