The Tampa Bay teenage hacker who took control of several well-known Twitter accounts — Apple, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Bill Gates…
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Bill Gates: We’re lucky COVID-19 wasn’t a more fatal disease
Bill Gates says he’s optimistic about the chances of seeing through the wilder theories from anti-vaxxers and others and of beating COVID-19…
The Gates Foundation bought 500,000 Apple shares in Q1
The Gates Foundation picked up a cool 501,044 Apple shares in the first calendar quarter of 2020. Apple shares are currently the all-time high…
Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’ canceled due to COVID-19
The 2020 Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, with attendees like Tim Cook and Warren Buffett, among many others, has been an epicenter for large…
Bill Gates: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine by 2H21 would be ‘history-making achievement’
Getting a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by second half 2021 would be “history-making achievement,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says…
Bill Gates: Steve Jobs was a ‘wizard’ who ‘cast spells on people’
Gates revealed that he has never met a person who rivaled Jobs’ ability for…
Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, dead at 65
Paul Allen, the fiercely private Microsoft co-founder known as much for his love of sports…
Microsoft buys GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock
Microsoft Corp. said it reached an agreement to buy GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular…
Bill Gates: Apple is an ‘amazing’ company with best profit potential in tech
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates backed Warren Buffett’s decision to up his stake in Apple…
Bill Gates backs plan to cover earth in video surveillance satellites
“Live and unfiltered” coverage of the Earth has been backed by former Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates…
A test used by NASA assessed top leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Trump
Ever wanted to get inside the heads of the world’s top leaders?
Steve Jobs: These are 2 essential ingredients for success
Steve Jobs is an entrepreneurial legend…
How big is Apple? Gold? Bitcoin? This one chart puts it all in perspective
Bitcoin burst into our financial consciousness like a fiery comet…
Bill Gates tells banned his kids from having mobile phones until they turned 14
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, says that he did not permit his children…
Bill Gates wants to tax ‘job-killing’ robots
This is the dumbest idea since Messrs. Smoot and Hawley rampaged through the U.S. Capitol in 1930…
Bill Gates says President Trump could be like John F. Kennedy
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met with President-elect Trump at Trump Tower…
President-elect Trump says Apple CEO Tim Cook called him after election victory
Live tweeting from a meeting with president-elect Trump today…
Apple’s first 40 years: An oral history from insiders; Spoiler: Bill Gates had a bigger role in Apple’s success than even he may know
Four decades after Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak set out to turn computers into a tool that anyone could use…
Apple demands delay in NY iPhone case: Company wants to test FBI hack in San Bernardino terrorist iPhone case
Apple last week asked a federal magistrate in New York to extend a court filing deadline…
Ex-Apple CEO Sculley: FBI relying on hackers is fair
Technology and social media companies recently joined Apple Inc. to fight the battle of will with the FBI…
Apple gets short-term win over Big Brother; issue deferred, not resolved
Less than 24 hours before a highly anticipated Tuesday court session where prosecutors and Apple lawyers…
FBI could be using these hacks to break into killer’s iPhone
There are a number of ways the FBI could be attempting to hack into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino killer…
FBI says it may have found method to unlock San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone
The Justice Department said on Monday that it might no longer need Apple’s assistance to help open an iPhone…
Countdown to doomsday: Apple, FBI face off in court Tuesday
If you’ve been reading the headlines about Apple’s fight with the FBI, you know it’s easy to assume…
Apple sees weakness in FBI’s last-minute hearing request
A last-minute request by the FBI to call witnesses to next week’s court hearing in the San Bernardino iPhone case…
The FBI has a big ulterior motive in its war against privacy and Apple’s encrypted iPhone
When a public interest group wants to create new legal precedent, its first step is to find…
The law is clear: The FBI cannot make Apple rewrite iOS
No gaps; no interpretive sunlight: this statute stops the government from doing what it wants to do to Apple…
Apple engineers, if ordered to unlock iPhone, might resist
If the F.B.I. wins its court fight to force Apple’s help in unlocking an iPhone, the agency may…
Apple’s Tim Cook on FBI fight: ‘No one’s going dark’
Apple CEO Tim Cook makes his case for why his company doesn’t want to help the FBI unlock San Bernardino killer…
Harvard Law professor and former Obama special assistant dismisses FBI’s claims
Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford and former special assistant to President Obama…
Inside Apple CEO Tim Cook’s fight against government overreach
We didn’t hear anything for a few days…
How the U.S. government’s War on Privacy provoked a backlash
The FBI’s underhand attempt to get a judge to order Apple to make iPhones less secure is largely backfiring…
Apple: ‘Government misunderstands the technology’ involved in demanding they decrypt an iPhone
Last week, the FBI had filed with the court, describing Apple’s court-borne resistance…
Apple: The FBI’s demand is unconstitutional
Apple shouldn’t have to comply with a search order for an iPhone used by one the San Bernardino, California…
Apple says U.S. ‘Founders would be appalled’ by DOJ order
Apple Inc. charged Tuesday that a court order forcing the tech giant to assist the federal government…
Donald Trump’s trade rhetoric splits GOP and makes traditional economists quake
With his threats to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, rip up trade deals and force companies such as Apple…
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham finally talks to tech experts, switches side to Apple vs. FBI
On February 18th, Senator Lindsey Graham had this to say about the FBI v. Apple court battle…
Automattic and WordPress.com stand with Apple to support digital security
At Automattic, we’re very mindful of the trust our users place in us to keep their information private and secure…
Obama administration begins to realize it may have made a big time mistake going after Apple over iPhone encryption
Three years ago, reeling from Edward J. Snowden’s disclosure of the government’s vast surveillance programs…
Tech companies join Apple to fight back against government overreach, prep to expand encryption of user data
Silicon Valley’s leading companies – including Facebook, Google and Snapchat – are working on their own increased privacy technology…
How Apple realized it was at war with the FBI: The DOJ was poised to launch PR campaign designed to pull the public’s heartstrings
It took just a few hours for the Justice Dept. to gauge how its legal action against Apple would be perceived by the public…
Apple’s fight against U.S. government overreach could escalate with demand for ‘source code’
The latest filing in the legal war between the planet’s most powerful government and its most valuable company…
