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Over 80 tech executives oppose North Carolina's anti-LGBT law in open letter

By Ashley Carman

How San Bernardino changes the FBI’s war on encryption

By Russell Brandom 55

Xiaomi's minimalist, $150 rice cooker is the first in a new product ecosystem

By James Vincent 23

Samsung Pay follows Apple Pay into China

James Vincent March 29, 2016 04:12 am22 hours ago 34

Samsung has officially launched Samsung Pay in China. The South Korean company has partnered with state-backed China UnionPay for the launch — the association that controls all card payments in the...

a multi-trillion-dollar market

Apple's San Bernardino fight is officially over as government confirms working attack

Russell Brandom March 28, 2016 05:47 pm03.28.2016 113

After months of work, the FBI finally has a way into the San Bernardino iPhone. In a court filing today, prosecutors told the court the new method for breaking into the phone is sound, and Apple's...

"The government has now successfully accessed the data."

Read Apple's response to the FBI's San Bernardino iPhone hack

Sam Byford March 28, 2016 09:40 pm03.28.2016 92

The dispute between the FBI and Apple over an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino terrorist shootings came to an unexpected end earlier today, as the FBI revealed it had managed to break into the phone...

"This case should never have been brought." Apple

Georgia's governor is vetoing the anti-LGBT bill Hollywood protested

Jamieson Cox March 28, 2016 03:35 pm03.28.2016

Governor Nathan Deal is vetoing Georgia's controversial HB 757, a bill that would've allowed businesses to deny services to LGBT people as a means of preserving religious freedom. Deal's veto is arriving...

"Georgia is a welcoming state... [and] I intend to do my part to keep it that way" Governor Nathan Deal

Facebook apologizes for freaking people out with misdirected Safety Checks

By Amar Toor

The FAA logged more than 500 drone incidents in six months

By Russell Brandom 8

A new bill would force prepaid phone buyers to register themselves

Ashley Carman March 25, 2016 03:41 pm03.25.2016 26

A bill proposed this week would require people to provide identification and officially register themselves when buying a prepaid phone. Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA), who introduced the bill, called...

Prepaid phones might no longer be anonymous

Women with Zika should wait eight weeks before trying to become pregnant

Arielle Duhaime-Ross March 25, 2016 03:16 pm03.25.2016

Women who have been diagnosed with Zika should wait eight weeks before trying to conceive, the US government announced today. It also said that men should wait at least six months after their symptoms...

"These are very complex, deeply personal decisions" CDC

Man arrested for long overdue VHS rental

Amar Toor March 25, 2016 07:02 am03.25.2016

A man in North Carolina has been arrested for not returning a VHS copy of the Tom Green movie Freddy Got Fingered. As CNN reports, James Meyers was pulled over in Concord, NC this week for driving with a...

14 years overdue

In the future, all of our selfies will be perfect

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How a DDoS campaign became an act of cyberwar

Russell Brandom March 24, 2016 06:09 pm03.24.2016 2

In September 2012, US banking websites started picking up floods of fake traffic. It was a denial-of-service campaign, waged more or less weekly. It went on for month after month, always hitting in the...

"A reminder of the seriousness of cyber threats to our national security." Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Hollywood studios, actors ask Georgia governor to veto anti-LGBT bill

Lizzie Plaugic March 24, 2016 04:50 pm03.24.2016

A group of Hollywood insiders is putting pressure on Georgia governor Nathan Deal to veto a bill they say would limit the rights of the state's LGBT community. Studios and networks have taken a...

He'll make a decision by May 3rd

The 2014 World Cup isn't to blame for the spread of the Zika virus in Brazil

Arielle Duhaime-Ross March 24, 2016 02:00 pm03.24.2016

World Cup travelers who came to Brazil in 2014 probably weren't the source of the country's Zika virus outbreak, a study published today in Science reveals. A DNA analysis of seven Zika virus samples...

Figuring out the path that Zika has taken, across geography and time

NRA fairy tale writer trumpets guns and mystical powers of numerology for nation’s safety

Kaitlyn Tiffany March 24, 2016 10:35 am03.24.2016

Thinking back on the fairy tales that my parents read me as a child, I realize that they were completely horrifying. You've got women trapped in towers, babies offered up to break family curses, a little...

Oh, good

Chinese businessman pleads guilty to conspiring to hack US military data

James Vincent March 24, 2016 09:41 am03.24.2016 5

A Chinese businessman has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack US defense contractors and steal sensitive military data, said the US Department of Justice in a statement. Criminal charges were originally...

DOJ says he sought "financial gain"
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