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Researchers in the United Kingdom and Italy have developed a method that causes spiders to produce silk that is five times stronger than its already legendary toughness.

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX is raising millions toward another breakthrough — inside our heads.

The New Republic published an article recently claiming that algorithms used in artificial intelligence systems are racist.

Google had our group kicked out of our parent think tank over a statement lauding the EU’s ruling against Google.

After President Trump condemned violence by both sides in Charlottesville, a recently-created Wikipedia article about antifa highlighting the group’s violence and far-left ideology saw a spree of edits downplaying both aspects of the group.

Malware could potentially be hosted on the Federal Communication Commission’s official website due to a security vulnerability, according to a report.

University of Chicago Law School Professor Laura Weinrib bemoaned recent decisions by the ACLU to defend free speech in a Wednesday op-ed for the LA Times.

Google has reportedly taken steps to alter their Google Shopping search results to comply with the European Commission’s ruling relating to antitrust laws.

A study by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s open borders organization revealed that if an Obama-created amnesty program for young illegal aliens is ended, it would open nearly 700,000 American jobs.

President Donald Trump wants to end DACA, the executive program launched by former President Barack Obama to offer temporary amnesty to illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children.

The director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is defending his agency as a bastion of unbiased “nonpartisanship” in light of criticism by members of Congress, financial media, and some physicians about the accuracy of its analyses of Obamacare and Republican proposals to repeal it.

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow spoke to journalist Mike Cernovich on Breitbart News Daily this morning discussing the Trump presidency, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s influence, and the possibility of President Trump being held under “house arrest.”

A member of a Google-funded think tank was removed from the group after publishing a statement praising the penalties placed on Google by the European Union.

A significant drop in enrollment at Evergreen State College has led to a massive budget cut and a layoff notice that went out to faculty in a memo on Monday.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has removed a town it accused of being the home of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer from its “Hate Map,” which previously inspired a terror attack in 2012.

Whole Foods Market slashed prices by an average of about 40 percent as its new owner, Amazon, declared an industry price war.

Australian computer security expert Troy Hunt has revealed the leak of 711 million e-mail addresses, which was caused by a misconfigured spambot.

Only the Chinese government’s approval process could prevent research institutions from implementing a transplantation technique poised to save countless lives.

The Internal Revenue Service’s practice of social media data mining to determine audit targets could violate federal law on data collection, according to a report.

Microsoft and Amazon have partnered their A.I. assistants, Cortana and Alexa, with the two set to talk to each other later this year, according to a report.

Several professors from Ivy League institutions published a statement on Tuesday advising students to think for themselves.

Two law professors are facing charges of racism, sexism, and homophobia over an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Inquirer this month that calls for Americans to act responsibly.

Primarily through Twitter and the website Patribotics, Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor — who describe themselves as co-writers — have become high-profile foot soldiers in the national media’s relentless war against Trump.

The “national constituent assembly” (ANC), an illegal lawmaking body created by dictator Nicolás Maduro, confirmed on Monday that it would regulate the messages private companies post on social media to combat an alleged “psychological war” occurring against socialism.

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) announced the designation of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD as a “breakthrough therapy” by the FDA.

In a New York Times article this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed businesses need to start acting in place of the government, which “isn’t working at the speed that it once was.”

Facebook will stop pages that frequently share “fake news” from being able to purchase advertisements on the platform, according to a report.

A man charged with downloading and viewing child pornography has claimed that he was not aware the videos were of underage children as he is blind.

The San Jose Police Department has launched an LGBT recruitment campaign, attempting to attract new officers at the Silicon Valley Pride Parade.

Ohio State University has revoked the Ph.D. of a co-author to a retracted study that claimed first-person shooter video games made people better shooters in the real world.

A group of Dartmouth professors is requesting that the college’s president retract his criticism of Dartmouth Professor Mark Bray who recently appeared on Meet the Press to defend antifa violence.

Amazon has started to promote and sell its Echo speakers at Whole Foods stores around the United States following their purchase of the supermarket.

Yale University is now removing an 88-year-old stone carving that depicts a Native American and Puritan that was previously modified to remove the settler’s weapon.

Some 25 years ago when I made the move from the political left to the political right, I took with me three liberal ideals: I remained an extremist on the issues of free speech and the rights of the accused, and have held on to my loathing for Big Business. A quick glance at today’s headlines proves that those ideals no longer belong to the left.