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Apple Cancels $1B Ireland Project Over Delays…

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Apple announced on Thursday it would cancel plans to build a $1 billion data center in Ireland, citing delays in the center’s approval process. “Despite our best efforts, delays in the approval process have forced us to make other plans and we will not be able to move forward with the data center,” Apple said […]

How Apple Dropping Intel Would Change the Future of Technology…

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A report this week said Apple plans to make processors for its notebook and PC designs, replacing Intel, whose stock tanked on the news. Bloomberg’s report suggests that Apple’s AAPL, +1.03% move mirrors its development and integration with silicon chip design for its mobile products including iPhone and iPad. Apple would apparently begin the rollout […]

Internet Inventor Warns “Regulate Tech Firms Now Or Risk A Weaponized Web”

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The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore), has a dire warning over the concentration of power among a few companies on the internet “controlling which ideas are shared.” In an open letter to mark the 29th anniversary of his invention, Berners-Lee calls for powerful “new gatekeepers” – internet platforms […]

Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs in the Economy Want Universal Basic Income As a Cure…

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Driverless cars! IBM Watson! News-writing robots! Amazon Go! The future is here, friends, and it apparently excludes humans. People are preparing for the next mass extinction — an evaporation, if you will — not of humans, polar bears or other creatures, but of jobs. This prospect has been sending shivers through humanity, from New York […]

The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model in Existence…

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In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers, a major U.S. government contractor claims to have found a way to unlock pretty much every iPhone on the market. Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that’s become the U.S. government’s company of choice when it […]

Engineers Oppose Effort to Expand High-Tech Visas…

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The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers urged the Senate to oppose legislation that would more than double the H-1B visa program for high-skilled workers, arguing there is no shortage of U.S. workers capable of filling the jobs the foreign visa holders would get. “Employers’ claims of a [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math] labor […]

Why Apple’s Tim Cook Doesn’t Want His Nephew to Use Social Media…

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Although he runs the biggest tech company on the planet, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook is concerned by the risk that technology poses to kids. Speaking at Harlow College in Essex, England, last week, Cook said there should be limits on the use of technology in schools, and said he doesn’t want his young […]

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