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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 […]

Uber, Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter Other Top Apps Include Trackers That Secretly Watch Everything Users Do…

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Popular smartphone apps contain hidden trackers that can secretly monitor everything you do, researchers have found. These apps include Uber, Tinder, Skype, Twitter, Spotify and Snapchat, though it’s likely that this is the case for many, many more programs.People “should be alarmed by the data” say the researchers, from Yale University’s Privacy Lab and app […]

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