It lets people send messages from your phone – even when it’s locked. You might have already heard about this annoying new iPhone hack: it allows people to send messages, make calls and post Facebook updates from your phone – even when it’s locked. Pranksters are using Siri to do it. They summon the voice […]
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Yahoo Lets Government Scan Emails… Why?
Reuters dropped a bombshell story on Tuesday, reporting that in 2015 Yahoo agreed to scan all its users’ incoming emails on behalf of a U.S. intelligence agency, hunting for a particular “character string” and turning over messages where it found a match to the government. Yet the vagueness of the story—which appears to be based […]
Do we live in a matrix? Tech billionaires think so. And will pay to get us out!
Two of the technology world’s most powerful billionaires are concerned we are living in a Matrix-style simulated world and are working with scientists to break us out. In an article in The New Yorker, writer Ted Friend explains that the idea of the “simulation hypothesis” has been on the rise among tech’s elite. Neither of […]
Snapchat $25 billion IPO?
Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Snap Inc., the company formerly known as Snapchat, is working on an initial public offering for March that would value the company at $25 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the company’s IPO ambitions, but told Business Insider […]
Johnson&Johnson warns diabetic patients
(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson is telling patients that it has learned of a security vulnerability in one of its insulin pumps that a hacker could exploit to overdose diabetic patients with insulin, though it describes the risk as low. Medical device experts said they believe it was the first time a manufacturer had issued […]
Music Industry Takes Aim at YouTube Rips With First Stream-Ripping Lawsuit
The record industry is finally going after “stream ripping,” the process of turning a stream into a downloadable file. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) have announced their first stream ripping lawsuit, against Youtube-mp3.org, which the organizations said was the world’s biggest website for […]
Republicans Say The Obama Administration Is Giving Away The Internet With ICANN Transition
Republican lawmakers are accusing the Obama administration of allowing countries like Russia, China and Iran to take control over the Internet. Their beef with the administration focuses on a relatively obscure nonprofit overseen by the U.S. government that is scheduled to become fully independent Saturday. The organization is called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names […]
SolarCity Accused of Taking Shingling Technology Secrets
SolarCity Corp., the rooftop solar developer controlled by Elon Musk, was accused of misappropriating trade secrets and other intellectual property in a lawsuit over the development of shingled-cell solar modules. SolarCity got a head start in developing the modules after SunPower Corp.’s Cogenra Solar unit shared its shingling technology for manufacturing solar panels, according to a […]
Musk’s bad day: Explosion + stock drops by Tesla, SolarCity = $390 million loss
CNBC’s Phil LeBeau reports on problems at Tesla and now SpaceX, after a rocket launch failed in spectacular fashion today. One of his rockets blew up, and he suffered a paper loss of about $390 million as the stock prices of two of his companies sank. Elon Musk was having a horrible day. No one […]
BP record $4bn penalty approved
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10 new questions Congress needs to ask Clinton about Middle East policy
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