Enlarge / Wyze Web-connected personal surveillance camera, August 2019. Loads of folks found brand-new Wyze surveillance cameras under their trees or in their stockings this Christmas. And on Boxing Day, the company itself unwrapped a…
Trump could mandate free access to federally funded…
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Trump White House is rumored to be working on a beefed-up open access mandate. The potential executive order would require all scientific papers that are based on federally funded research…
Publishers blast rumored ban on paywalls for federally…
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Trump White House is rumored to be working on a beefed-up open access mandate. The potential executive order would require all scientific papers that are based on federally funded research…
Travis Kalanick quits Uber’s board, sells off all…
Enlarge / Travis Kalanick in 2018. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty ImagesTravis Kalanick is leaving the board of Uber, the company he cofounded a decade ago and ran until his 2017 ouster. A spokesperson told CNBC that Kalanick…
Report: Apple is developing satellites so the iPhone…
Samuel AxonBloomberg has cited sources familiar with Apple plans saying that the iPhone-maker has a "top-secret" team dedicated to developing satellite technology that could, among other things, allow Apple's mobile devices to communicate with each…
Google fined ~$166 million by France over search…
Enlarge / Mountain View, Calif. - May 21, 2018: Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. European regulators have generally taken a harder line…
Congress slaps robocallers with $10,000 penalty—per call
The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Thursday that aims to end the scourge of robocalls. The TRACED Act had already passed the House of Representatives, so it's now headed to President Donald Trump's desk for…
Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software…
Getty Images | ullstein bildMany IT workers worry their positions will become obsolete as changes in hardware, software, and computing tasks outstrip their skills. A former contractor for Siemens concocted a remedy for that—plant logic…
US government is entitled to all Snowden book…
Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe US government is entitled to every cent Edward Snowden earns from publishing his memoir, Permanent Record, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. During his employment at the CIA and NSA, Snowden signed…
Amazon bans third-party merchants from shipping with FedEx
Enlarge / Amazon's going to need some bigger boxes to ship those Outpost racks next year. If you're cramming last-minute Christmas or Hanukkah shopping online ahead of next week's holidays, and it absolutely, positively has…