Republican Senators today introduced a new bill that would prevent the U.S. government from using telecommunications equipment from either Huawei or ZTE. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and Florida Senator Marco Rubio proposed the bill, citing security concerns. “Huawei is effectively an arm of the Chinese government, and it’s more than capable of stealing information from […]
The emoji that will appear in Unicode 11.0 have been finalized, according to the Unicode Consortium, and new options will be available for hair, skin, and gender. Some 157 new characters are included in Unicode 11.0. With the core characters set, operating system developers and device makers can adopt the base code ahead of their own […]
Turing Robotic Industries, a company that promised to create a sleek, secure smartphone nearly three years ago, has moved into insolvency. TRI was located in Finland and formed by some ex-Nokia employees. It gathered most of its funding from Chinese investors. The idea was to create a high-end Android phone made of “liquidmorphium” that would […]
A T-Mobile customer is suing the carrier over a cryptocurrency heist. In a classic case of identity theft, Carlos Tapang, a resident of King County, Washington, claims that hackers broke into his cryptocurrency account because T-Mobile was fooled into transferring his account to AT&T. The hackers then used Tapang’s wireless account to access his cryptocurrency account […]
Google Project Zero security team has uncovered a bug in the popular Grammarly Chrome extension that exposed authentication tokens to all websites the users may have visited. The project zero team called this vulnerability a “high severity bug” because it would allow any website access to all your documents, history, logs, and all other data […]
New Jersey has joined Montana and New York in requiring that internet service providers adhere to net neutrality principles. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy this week signed Executive Order No. 9 (PDF), which says that any ISP wishing to do business with the state government must abide by rules that maintain a free and open internet. Internet providers that […]
Two of the biggest players in self-drive technology are having their day in court today in San Francisco. The case where Uber is being sued by Waymo, the self-driving company spun out of Google, started today. Uber is accused of stealing and using trade secrets relating to Lidar (light detection and ranging) – one of […]
Broadcom today made a second offer to acquire rival Qualcomm. Last year, the company offered $70 per share of Qualcomm’s stock. Qualcomm rejected that bid, saying it drastically undervalued the company. Today’s offer ups the financials to a total of $82 per share of Qualcomm stock. The new offer includes a greater mix of Broadcom stock, which Broadcom […]
A group of LGBT advocates launched the “No Gay? No Way!” campaign, spotlighting the eleven anti-LGBT locations in nine different states on Amazon’s recent list of finalists for its new headquarters AKA HQ2. The campaign asks Amazon to select a market where all employees and customers will be protected from discrimination, and is planning […]
Sony today said it plans to make changes to its corporate leadership later this year. Current President and CEO Kazuo Hirai, largely seen as responsible for turning around the company’s fortunes, will stand down from his leadership role on April 1. He will transition to the Chairman of Sony’s board of directors. “I have stated that […]
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