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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 […]

Is Amazon Too Big to Tax???

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This year, like every other year, is shaping up to be a triumphant one for Amazon. It is on the cusp of becoming the first trillion dollar company ever. In the coming months it will announce the opening of a second headquarters—and likely bank billions in tax breaks and other incentives from the lucky city […]

Wow. Just Wow!: Company Accused of Spying on Customers Via Sex Toys…

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A technology company selling vibrators uses a mobile application to spy on its customers in their most intimate moments, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Northern California on Wednesday. An anonymous customer of Lovense, a sex technology company based in Hong Kong, accused the company of using its technology to spy on […]

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 […]

Your smartphone📱is making you👈 stupid, antisocial 🙅 and unhealthy 😷. So why can’t you put it down❔⁉️…

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In the winter of 1906, the year San Francisco was destroyed by an earthquake and SOS became the international distress signal, Britain’s Punch magazine published a dark joke about the future of technology. Under the headline, “Forecasts for 1907,” a black and white cartoon showed a well-dressed Edwardian couple sitting in a London park. The […]

China Offers Tax Incentives to Persuade U.S. Companies to Stay…

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China said on Thursday that it would temporarily exempt foreign companies from paying tax on their earnings, a bid to keep American businesses from taking their profits out of China following Washington’s overhaul of the United States tax code. There is, however, a catch: To be eligible, foreign companies must invest those earnings in sectors […]

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