Apple says it will appeal EU's $14B tax claim this week, arguing that EU disregarded corporate law and Ireland's tax experts to maximize penalty
Apple (AAPL.O) will launch a legal challenge this week to a record $14 billion EU tax demand, arguing that EU regulators ignored tax experts …
Ireland publishes formal objections to EU's order to collect €13B in back taxes from Apple, says EC has exceeded its powers, misunderstood Irish tax law, more
EU Commission expected to give full judgment on €13bn case today — The Government has moved to pre-empt …
FileVault 2 flaw present in macOS before version 10.12.2 allowed a $300 Thunderbolt device to steal the password of a locked or sleeping Mac
macOS FileVault2 let attackers with physical access retrieve the password in clear text by plugging in a $300 Thunderbolt device into a locked or sleeping mac.
Galileo, Europe's alternative to GPS, went live last week
More accurate than American system and open to all — After a long and much-delayed 17-year gestation, Europe's answer to America's GPS system has been switched on. — The Galileo network will offer...
SCOTUS will hear patent case that could limit “venue shopping”, the patent troll practice to file cases in friendly jurisdictions like Eastern District of Texas
In a move that may shake-up U.S. patent law, the Supreme Court this week decided to hear a case about where patent owners …
Inside the 3-year EU investigation into Apple's tax practices in Ireland, which resulted in a $14B tax bill for Apple
The iPhone came out in 2007. So why was Apple still paying taxes like it was 1990? — by — Gaspard Sebag — , and — “The Maxforce” is the European Union team …
OneWeb raises $1.2B, with $1B from SoftBank, to build high volume satellite production facility for affordable satellite-based internet service
The battle for satellite-powered internet is heating up. Weeks after Tesla asked the U.S. Government for permission to launch a service powered …
How Google used neural networks and machine learning to transform Translate, an early sign of how AI is poised to reinvent computing itself
How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. Tweets: @ruskin147 , @glennga...
Scanadu to shut down support for its Scout device per FDA regulation and customers are mad
Medical startup Scanaduinformed customers today it will no longer support its Scout device starting May 15, 2017. — The reason? Though Scanadu has been working with the Food and Drug Administration...
Oracle expands audits of Java SE customers and partners for not paying for Advanced Desktop, Suite, and Advanced layers, issues some bills upward of $100K
Thought Java was “free”? Think again (and you owe us $$$ in 2017) — Oracle is massively ramping up audits of Java customers … Tweets: @bodil and @joshbloch Tweets: @bodil : Just extra FYI, Node is ...
Conversica raises $34M Series B for its AI-based conversational email sales assistant
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How workers on platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk earn pennies to train AI
Each morning when she wakes up, Kristy Milland powers up her home computer in Toronto, logs into Amazon Mechanical Turk, and waits for her computer to ding. — Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) … Tweets: ...
Priceline appoints 16 year company veteran Glenn Fogel as new CEO
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HyperScience exits stealth with $18M in Series A funding, will use AI to tackle back-office problems, like data extraction from hand-filled forms
You can't swing a bag of cats these days without hitting a company that's working on AI. — The latest, HyperScience, is today coming out of stealth for the first time.
Taiwan's Next Entertainment, developer of the app MeMe that lets people interact with nearby live streamers, raises $25M Series A to expand internationally
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Saudi Telecom Co. to buy 10% stake in Middle Eastern ride-hailing app Careem for $100M
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A look at different types of political bots on Twitter: many spread propaganda or seek to defame certain goups, but some fight disinformation or hunt imposters
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Florida court says a suspect can be made to reveal his iPhone passcode to investigators
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U.S. Faces Tall Hurdles in Detaining or Deterring Russian Hackers
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Investigation finds the site responsible for the “Pope endorses Trump” hoax is part of network that created hundreds of hoaxes on celebs moving to various towns
what a shame it involves fake news http://www.buzzfeed.com/... Borzou Daragahi / @borzou : Reclusive California pilot appears to be behind fake news empire. A great read. http://www.buzzfeed.com/... v...
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