Donald Trump’s controversial comments throughout the campaign season have unnerved Apple enough to convince the tech company to pull its funding and other support for the Republican National Convention, Politico reported this weekend.
Politico cites...
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Federal prosecutors urged a federal appeals court late Monday to keep a child-porn suspect behind bars—where he already has been for seven months—until he unlocks two hard drives that the government claims contains kid smut.
The suspect, a Philadelphia police sergeant relieved of his duties, has refused to unlock two hard drives and has...
The Sun sets over the US South Pole station for the last time until this fall. (credit: NOAA)
The first day of spring causes most people in North America to think longingly of warmer days ahead in the summer months. But at the southern edge of the world—specifically, the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station—a northern spring marks the last...
Rockwell Collins and Elbit Systems' joint—a helmet that can see through planes without making the pilot throw up—can also break their necks if they eject. (credit: Lockheed Martin)
The F-35 Joint Program Office is about to begin testing a prototype for a new helmet for pilots of the Joint Strike Fighter—a critical upgrade to the aircraft's...
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One day after the San Bernardino County district attorney said that an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters might contain a "lying-dormant cyber pathogen," the county's top prosecutor went on the offense again. DA Michael Ramos said Apple must assist the FBI in unlocking the phone because an alleged security threat...
FBI Director James Comey in the hot seat Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee. (credit: C-SPAN3)
James Comey, the FBI director, told a House panel on Tuesday that the so-called “Going Dark” problem is “grave, growing, and extremely complex.” (PDF)
His prepared testimony to the House Judiciary Committee is not surprising. There’s been a chorus of government...
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. (credit: Fortune Live Media)
Verizon Wireless is testing the limits of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules after announcing that it will exempt its own video service from mobile data caps—while counting data from competitors such as YouTube and Netflix against customers' caps.
The only way for companies to deliver data to Verizon...
Sprint is reportedly cutting 2,500 jobs, including 2,000 in customer service, but the company told Ars that subscribers won't actually see any decline in customer service quality. "These changes will not impact the level of service we provide to our customers," a Sprint spokesperson told Ars today.
Sprint said it has already boosted "self-service and digital care tools," helping to lower its churn rate (the percentage of subscribers who...
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. (credit: AT&T)
US politicians have been urging tech companies to weaken the security of smartphones and other products by inserting encryption backdoors that let the government access personal data.
Numerous tech companies—including Apple—have come out strongly against the idea, saying that encryption backdoors would expose the personal data of ordinary consumers, not just...
