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It's now 2019, but the new year begins with some unhappy news for Apple.

There aren’t many ways 2018 could have gone worse for the tech industry. It felt like every week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and friends were apologizing for some major privacy blunder or platform manipulation. Self-driving cars proved they weren’t ready to hit the road and Elon Musk nearly self-destructed on Twitter. Electric scooters swarmed cities only to be vandalized in droves. Tech-stock peaks gave way to market tumbles.

After a year plagued by privacy scandals, hate speech controversies, the viral spread of disinformation and the public airing of his company's internal communication, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his year-end note to focus on the positive ー drawing the scorn of critics who blasted the billionaire as "tone deaf" and "out of touch."

A rainy New Year’s Eve in New York has some Times Square revelers ponying up to keep dry, while police are scrapping plans to deploy a drone to keep watch over the crowd for the first time.

Over the weekend, a cyberattack disrupted print newspaper distribution across the US.

For gamers, 2018 was the year that Tyler "Ninja" Blevins achieved a level of celebrity rarely seen in the industry up to this point. 

Ten schools in China have new "intelligent uniforms" that will track students' attendance and whereabouts with embedded computer chips. 

Every relationship has a breaking point. Even yours with Facebook.

A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country.

Facebook apologized to evangelical leader Franklin Graham for a 24-hour ban last week over a 2016 post about North Carolina's H.B. 2, known as the "bathroom bill," saying that one of its content moderators made a mistake.

Some Maryland residents who received pricey electronics on Christmas morning found they’d been had when the boxes that were supposed to contain expensive items were instead filled with sand or other stuffing.

My car is a classic like me, older than dirt. Can I use my phone hands-free with it somehow?

Facebook is attempting to tackle misinformation and hate that its platform has enabled with a massive, byzantine and secret document of rules packed with spreadsheets and power point slides that gets updated regularly for its global content moderators. 

Which messaging app would you choose for absolute security? Every developer will profess that they responsibly consider the security and privacy of their users. But with so many different choices, it can be hard to tell which messaging platforms you can trust.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk moved on Wednesday to have a defamation lawsuit against him dismissed, claiming that when he called a Thai-cave rescue volunteer a "pedo" and a "child rapist" those were First Amendment-protected opinions. 

Robyn McIntyre, who lives on the outskirts of Australia’s capital, was in her family room a few months ago when she thought she heard a “chain saw gone ballistic.”

Andrew Watson, 26, was so good at coordinating international business deals that he did it in his sleep.

We like to say we’re addicted to our phones or an app or some new show on a streaming video service.

Last week, the latest in a long string of Facebook privacy scandals came to light: According to a report in The New York Times, the company skirted its own privacy rules to give more than 150 companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify, special privileges to its users' data.

After more than a year of research and discussion, Facebook Inc. FB -0.71% late this summer shelved a project called “Common Ground” that tried to encourage users with different political beliefs to interact in less-hostile ways. One reason: fears the proposed fix could trigger claims of bias against conservatives, according to people familiar with the decision.