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Rangeland scientist

After huge outcry, USDA scales back its limits on scientists’ contacts with public

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials have rescinded an order that barred its researchers from releasing “public-facing documents,” ranging from news releases… Read More

Facebook announces major changes to embattled Trending Topics section, removes personalization

As it continues to fight the spread of fake news, Facebook announced major changes to its Trending Topics section Wednesday.… Read More

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Bad-ass Badlands: National park’s climate tweets pop up, then go poof

Badlands National Park tweeted the inconvenient truth about climate change today, despite the Trump administration’s crackdown on environmental outreach. And… Read More

White House press secretary says journalists will be able to Skype into briefings — and that’s a fact!

The first official White House press briefing was an extra-crowded affair on Monday, but Press Secretary Sean Spicer said some… Read More

What’s next for science and tech? Key posts are in limbo as Trump takes charge

Although President Donald Trump says he’s ready to delve into the mysteries of space, he still has to make key… Read More

References to climate change and LGBTQ rights scrubbed from White House website

As President Donald Trump took the oath of office this morning, WhiteHouse.gov underwent its customary makeover to reflect the agenda… Read More

Bane

‘Give it back to you. The people.’ Trump speech line echoes villain Bane in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

President Trump didn’t just go dark in his inaugural address on Friday, he went Dark Knight. In a speech that… Read More

Donald Trump

Tech shines as bright spot in Donald Trump’s dark inaugural speech

Donald Trump’s first address as president may have sounded like a “Make America Great Again” campaign speech, but he did include… Read More

Donald Trump

As Trump becomes president, @POTUS Twitter feed fueled by Obama goes blank — for now

The peaceful transition of power taking place at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Friday was also taking place online,… Read More

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‘Last Week in Trump’: Newsletter distills the hyper-partisan news to create empathy on both sides

Sol Villarreal knows a thing or two about socio-political bubbles. He grew up in rural Texas as a religious conservative… Read More

Donald Trump

How to stream Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration — if you’re so inclined

Donald Trump will officially be sworn in as America’s 45th president on Friday and if you’re interested in watching the historic… Read More

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Shocked by Trump win, Seattle tech vets start news site ‘Presterity,’ using facts to foil new president

Jan Miksovsky admits, like many people, to being very surprised by November’s presidential election result. In the days after Nov.… Read More

Donald Trump

What is Donald Trump doodling in that inauguration prep photo? The internet knows, of course

Man, this guy continues to underestimate the cyber. In his latest attempt to use Twitter to control his message, or… Read More

Donald Trump moth

Moth with wild hairdo named after Donald Trump

Donald Trump isn’t even sworn in as president yet, but he already has a species named after him: a micro-moth… Read More

Life Accordion to Trump

Is today the most depressing day of the year? Not if you watch ‘Life Accordion to Trump’

I clicked on a link today that said the third Monday in January — sometimes referred to as “Blue Monday” —… Read More

Donald Trump

Trump calls BuzzFeed a ‘failing pile of garbage’ in first press conference since the election

Donald Trump is known for a meandering, off-the-cuff verbal style but the president-elect’s first formal press conference since the campaign carried… Read More

Donald Trump says he’ll enlist tech titans to build a better ‘hacking defense’ system

President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll turn to the tech industry leaders he met with last month to help his administration… Read More

Donald Trump has ‘great’ meeting with Alibaba’s Jack Ma about creating 1M U.S. jobs

Embed from Getty Images One of China’s top business leaders met with Donald Trump today in what was described by… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Alan Boyle

Jeff Bezos tweets his vote of support for constructing a ‘superhighway in space’

What should Donald Trump have NASA do? Today Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos voiced his support for the idea that the… Read More

President Obama

President Obama’s vast social media archive goes live with 250,000 posts, photos and videos

We’re well aware of the social media habits of president-elect Donald Trump, and foresee interesting times ahead as he uses Twitter… Read More

T-Mobile CEO John Legere optimistic about Trump, says president-elect has dethroned him on Twitter

LAS VEGAS — T-Mobile CEO John Legere took to the stage at CES today to unveil the company’s latest Un-carrier… Read More

Trump will keep using Twitter to have ‘direct’ conversations, says incoming White House press secretary

Don’t expect Donald Trump to stop using Twitter in 2017. The president-elect will continue tweeting on the social media platform,… Read More

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Photos of the year: Bezos, Bowie, rockets and real estate just part of tech’s big picture in 2016

Judging by the reactions on social media every time another prominent person died in 2016, most folks have been ready for months to… Read More

Jeff Bezos

The Jeff Bezos effect? Washington Post is profitable and set to hire dozens of journalists in 2017

While many daily newspapers are struggling and cutting staff as a result, the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is growing rapidly. Washington… Read More

Boeing works with Donald Trump on cost concerns over Air Force One and Lockheed Martin’s F-35 jets

After meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says he’s making a… Read More

This Microsoft researcher wants you to know he did not harass Ivanka Trump on a plane

Updated (9:40 p.m.) to remove tweets from an unverified source. Will the real Dan Goldstein please stand up? Because a man… Read More

Jeff Bezos
Podcast

Inside Donald Trump’s tech summit: A meaningful meeting, or just a charade?

Yesterday, Donald Trump met with tech industries top luminaries — many of whom the president-elect sparred with during the campaign —… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos says Trump administration ‘should make innovation one of its key pillars’ after tech summit

During Donald Trump’s campaign Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos joked that he’d like to jettison the Republican frontrunner into space on one… Read More

Queen Cersei calls for Donald Trump’s impeachment on (where else?) Twitter

A woman famous for burning her constituents, sleeping with her brother, and killing a little girl’s pet is calling for… Read More

Trump and tech leaders

Donald Trump’s promise to tech leaders in New York ‘summit’: ‘Anything we can do to help’

With the all-important Kanye West Summit behind him, President-elect Donald Trump moved on to the business of meeting with some… Read More

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