Apple acknowledges unresponsive or “sticky” key problem for some MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards and launches free repair program
Apple today launched a new MacBook & MacBook Pro service program that it says covers a small percentage of users that might experience sticky, repeated characters or unresponsive keys.
US Supreme Court rules that law enforcement officials need a warrant to get mobile-phone tower records that show someone's location over an extended period
Law enforcement officials need a warrant to get mobile-phone tower records that show someone's location over an extended period …
Researcher finds method to bypass iOS passcode entry limit without losing data on devices with firmware as recent as iOS 11.3; requires connection to a computer
The attack allows any would-be-hacker to run as many passcodes as they want, without destroying the data.
Reddit upgrades News tab, which surfaces content from subreddits frequently engaging with news, from alpha to beta and makes it available to most iOS users
People have come to Reddit for news since the site first launched back in 2005. In the decade-plus since then …
Facebook says it is working on “time well spent” features; Android app shows features like time spent in the app, reminders for self-imposed limits, and more
Are you ready for some scary numbers? After months of Mark Zuckerberg talking about how “Protecting our community …
SCOTUS decision on warrants for cell tower location data won't have expected effect because 4th Amendment protections have already been eroded by other rulings
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Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited, a $2.99/month subscription service of curated content for kids, launches on iOS App Store
Five and half years after it launched, one of the more popular apps for kids' reading and entertainment has finally arrived on the iOS.
California lawmakers introduce privacy bill supported by group behind Consumer Privacy Act, which will withdraw ballot initiative if bill is passed next week
LAWMAKERS IN CALIFORNIA have introduced a sweeping privacy bill to the state legislature that would give Californians unprecedented control …
Facebook launches Messenger Kids app in Canada and Peru, the first markets outside the US, and makes the app available in Spanish and French
Facebook is expanding its controversial Messenger Kids app beyond the U.S. and into Canada and Peru, the company announced today.
Court changes Mt. Gox bankruptcy into civil rehabilitation, allowing compensation to customers in bitcoins, which will more than cover cash losses
A Japanese court ruled Friday to pull infamous Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox out of bankruptcy, opening the door for at least $1 billion worth …
Facebook has hired a team that will try to spot vulnerabilities in its systems before bad actors exploit them to prevent abuses like 2016 US elections debacle
Silicon Valley's giants are looking for future crises before they happen. — In an attempt to spot vulnerabilities in its system …
Boston authorizes Aptiv's nuTonomy to expand testing of autonomous vehicles with a safety driver to all public roads citywide
With a Couple Caveats Ryan Duffy / StateScoop : Boston greenlights autonomous vehicles citywide Amy Pollard / Slate : Can Self-Driving Cars Handle Boston's Infamously Congested and Confusing Streets? ...
Police say Uber's safety driver in a self-driving vehicle was streaming a Hulu show before the car hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in March
As Amazon-run private label brands grow to roughly 100 with $25B in expected revenue over the next four years, potential antitrust concerns could arise
It started with a simple battery. — Around 2009, Amazon quietly entered the private label business by offering a handful of items under a new brand called AmazonBasics.
A look at the increasing rivalry between Alibaba and Tencent as they vie to dominate China's digital and retail economy
Jack Ma of Alibaba and Pony Ma of Tencent have built tech titans that dominate China's digital economy. Is the world big enough for both of them?
As Intel looks for its next CEO, its traditional chips business is troubled by delays and the firm is chasing competitors in GPUs ideal for AI computing
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Web.com, an internet services firm for small businesses, is selling itself to an affiliate of private-equity firm Siris Capital Group in a $1.24B cash deal
Allison Prang / Wall Street Journal :
Cape Analytics, which helps insurers value properties by extracting structured data like home size, roof condition from geospatial imagery, raises $17M Series B
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Filing: Xiaomi awarded its CEO Lei Jun $1.5B in stock before IPO; source: award unanimously approved by shareholders and is not tied to future performance
Julie Steinberg / Wall Street Journal :
bitFlyer, Japan's biggest crypto exchange, stops taking new clients after regulators found its anti-money laundering and security practices inadequate
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Inside the alleged heist of chip designs from US-based Micron by Taiwanese company UMC, which was hired by a Chinese company to help with memory chip factory
Paul Mozur / New York Times :
Facebook confirms that 3% of apps using Facebook Analytics had their weekly summary reports sent to their app's testers, who may have been outsiders
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Source: on-demand services provider Meituan Dianping files for an IPO in Hong Kong, reports ~$2.9B in losses on ~$5.2B revenue in 2017
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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