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iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments
Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…
Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws
Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…
Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’
Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…
As Apple preps VR support in macOS High Sierra, Facebook slashes Oculus Rift price
Facebook has launched a six-week summer sale on the Oculus Rift…
Apple in talks to form partnership with Boeing to provide broadband access via constellation of 3,000 satellites
Apple has sold more than a billion iPhones globally…
Apple’s sad, sad numbers
All five companies combine for over $500-billion in revenue and $94-billion in profits…
‘Thank God for Apple’ and other tech stocks – they’re propping up the market
Many S&P industries are performing poorly, but outsized gains in tech stocks are making the market…
President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey who called for iPhone backdoor
President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey…
TIME’s 20 Most Influential People in Tech: Apple CEO Tim Cook No. 4
The latest technological breakthroughs can sometimes seem to emerge from…
After U.S. gov’t refuses to declassify sum paid for FBI’s San Bernardino iPhone hack, Senator Dianne Feinstein inadvertently reveals it
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone…
Apple + satellites = ?
Apple has recently hired two executives from Google…
Why Apple may be interested in space satellites
Apple’s making waves with its hire of two ‘top’ Google executive…
Apple hires top Google executives for new hardware team
After revolutionizing phones, Apple Inc. is testing self-driving cars and exploring augmented reality…
At the start of the Trump era, Apple spent more on lobbying than ever, but outspent 2.5 times by Google
Since the election of President Donald Trump, Apple’s been been cultivating some good old fashioned Washington influence….
Woz: In 2075, we’ll have a ‘bigger’ Apple, Google, Facebook — and we’ll be living in deserts
When Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976…
The new age of Ayn Rand: How she won over President Trump and Silicon Valley
As they plough through their GCSE revision, UK students planning to take politics A-level…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘U.S. will lose its leadership in technology’ unless more women are hired
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that society, including the tech community, is not moving fast enough on issues like equal rights and diversity…
Mossberg: Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow
What we have now in consumer tech, in 2017, is an oligopoly, at least superficially similar…
FBI’s James Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’
All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…
How to completely disable your Mac’s FaceTime camera
Some of the more privacy conscious Mac users out there might put tape over their webcam or use apps…
How to delete your online existence, while saving your data
Sick of Snapchat? Tired of Twitter? Fed up with Facebook?
Apple’s board has urged shareholders to reject proposal to tie executive compensation to racial diversity quotas
Apple shareholders will decide next week whether to force the tech giant to diversify its leadership…
News organizations ask judge to force FBI to reveal how much it paid to unlock San Bernadino Islamic terrorist’s iPhone
Last year, the battle between Apple and the FBI dominated headlines…
Free ‘Data Selfie’ tool reveals how creepy Facebook tracks and studies your activity
Have you ever wondered how Facebook collects all the data it has to feed you with the content…
Apple Inc. fights shareholders group demand for more diversity
Silicon Valley has a long way to go on diversity, but most tech companies would argue…
Facebook video app coming soon to Apple TV
People are watching and sharing more video on Facebook than ever, and we’re focused on continuously…
Apple spends only 5% of what Facebook spends to protect their CEO
When Snap filed documents last week for its IPO filing, among the interesting snippets that emerged…
Why you should cover up your Mac’s iSight camera
As it happens a few high-profile folks have been spotted covering their webcams, including F.B.I. Director James Comey…
Proving Apple’s assertion that there are no good backdoors, hacker dumps iOS cracking tools allegedly stolen from Cellebrite
The hacker responsible has publicly released a cache of files allegedly stolen from Cellebrite…
President Donald Trump’s next immigration policy to target what Silicon Valley fears most
Major overhauls in the way tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon recruit their employees could be on the way from President Trump…
President Trump’s travel ban stirs little outcry beyond Silicon Valley
Most U.S. corporate bosses have stayed silent on President Donald Trump’s immigration curbs…
Newly discovered Mac/Linux malware ‘Fruitfly’ watches your every move
A Mac malware that’s been spying on biomedical research centers may have been circulating undetected for years
A hacker just proved that Apple was right to worry about creating a backdoor to the iPhone
Last year, when the F.B.I procured a court order forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging…
What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong
Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….
U.S. to disclose estimate of number of American citizens under surveillance
The U.S. intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been…
New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data
Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…
How to keep your Mac’s camera from spying on you, no tape required
You’re being watched through your hacked computer or phone or through a hijacked surveillance camera feed…
Silicon Valley chiefs frozen out of President Trump’s White House
In President-elect Donald J. Trump’s newly named kitchen cabinet of business advisers, Wall Street is in. Silicon Valley is out…
How Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google could use technology to control the world
But technology is a two-edged sword. And I’m not referring to its power to destroy…
President Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions could restart the encryption fight
After weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump today named Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his choice for attorney general…
Apple, FANG stocks stop the bleeding, post-Trump presidential victory
With all eyes on them, Apple and the FANG largest tech stocks…
