Apple's shiny logo outside its San Francisco store. (credit: Steve Rhodes)
In an interview on 60 Minutes earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the idea that his company dodges taxes is "political crap," with no truth behind it. "Apple pays every tax dollar we owe," Cook said.
Outside the US, Apple has faced more than just tough questions in front of the...
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As happens from time to time, somebody has spotted a feature in Windows 10 that isn't actually new and has largely denounced it as a great privacy violation.
The Intercept has written that if you have bought a Windows PC recently then Microsoft probably has your encryption key. This is a reference to Windows'...
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Turns out, if your phone gets stolen, you might be able to negotiate with your mugger. At least that’s a strategy that worked for San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener last Friday night as dusk was falling around 5:30 pm.
The local politician told Ars that he was walking down 16th St. from...
Microsoft will be giving back some, but not all, of the OneDrive storage that it was planning to take away from users of its cloud storage service.
In early November, the company made a surprising announcement to OneDrive users in two parts. First, the unlimited storage that came with Office 365 subscriptions was being cut back to 1TB. Second, the free storage tier was cut...
The negative effect of increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) pollution on grassland biodiversity is now incontrovertible. However, the recent introduction of cleaner technologies in the UK has led to reductions in the emissions of nitrogen oxides, with concomitant decreases in N deposition. The degree to which grassland biodiversity can be expected to ‘bounce back’ in response to these improvements in air quality is uncertain, with a...
