BARLBOROUGH, England — They trudged through a stinging rain to polling stations, streams of people who once powered the left in Britain: ex-miners, supermarket clerks, retired schoolteachers, health aides. But when they re-emerged, they had voted not for the Labour Party, the side that had shepherded them through decades of political upheaval, but instead for […]
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A LexisNexis database of people convicted of crimes or who might be susceptible to bribery leaked onto the open internet. Graphic by Pixabay/Illustration by CNET If your name’s on this list, banks will treat you with extreme caution. The database is supposed to be private, but it was found online, accessible to anyone with a […]
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Chvrches opened the show. Screenshot by CNET The Game Awards, the video game equivalent of the Oscars without all the “who’s going to host this year?” drama, are over for another year and we have all the winners (and losers) right here. While the ceremony is first and foremost about celebrating the year in video […]
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LONDON — While voters across England embraced Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, it was a different story in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where Thursday’s electoral earthquake has strained the ties that bind the United Kingdom and increased the risk of its eventual breakup. In Scotland a constitutional crisis looms after the dominant Scottish National […]
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The payroll data on 29,000 Facebook was reportedly stolen off unencrypted hard drives. Angela Lang/CNET The personal banking information for thousands of Facebook employees was stolen last month, Bloomberg reported earlier Friday. The data breach reportedly occurred when someone stole multiple unencrypted physical hard drives from a Facebook payroll staffer’s car. Info on the hard drives included […]
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All isn’t well in some Foresters and Ascent models now. Greg Jarem/Subaru Subaru positive crankcase ventilation valves remain an issue for the automaker as the company expands a recall surrounding the component to thousands of vehicles. The previous recall, filed back in October, included 205,000 Crosstrek and Impreza models from the 2017 and 2018 model […]
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Deal Savings Price Show more (3 deals) This story is part of Holiday Gift Guide 2019, your source for the season’s best gifts and deals, hand-picked by the experts at CNET. I hope you’re not suffering from saving-money exhaustion, because with less than 10 days before the holidays officially arrive, the deals just keep coming […]
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Rear-wheel-drive cars simply aren’t super practical in states plagued with cold weather and snowy conditions, but that’s not a problem for this Dodge Charger. Read the article
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The payroll data on 29,000 Facebook was reportedly stolen off unencrypted hard drives. Angela Lang/CNET The personal banking information for thousands of Facebook employees was stolen last month, Bloomberg reported earlier Friday. The data breach reportedly occurred when someone stole multiple unencrypted physical hard drives from a Facebook payroll staffer’s car. Info on the hard drives included […]
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Japan is reportedly on deck first for autonomous tech from Honda. Lillian Suwanrumpha/Getty Images Honda may be prepared to make its first big step into the world of self-driving technology as soon as next year. According to a report from Nikkei Asian Review on Friday, Honda plans to launch a Level 3 self-driving system with […]
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