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A US appeal court has opened the next round of the long-running Apple versus Samsung patent case, this time to recalculate the damages Sammy owes Cupertino. Apple won US$399 million in damages when courts agreed that various patents were infringed by Samsung, including rounded corners on the case, and the gridded home page design. Complete article: Apple […]

A serious flaw in Yahoo!Mail  could have been exploited by crooks to read victims’ messages. Jouko Pynnönen says he reported the vulnerability in Yahoo! Mail via bug-bounty organizers HackerOne. “The impact of the bug is similar to the one I reported last year, which also brought a $10k bounty,” Pynnönen told El Reg. “It allowed an attacker to, […]

Apple buys a lot of companies, but it doesn’t talk much about them, making it hard to keep track. So we put together nine of its acquisitions reported this year. Complete article: These startups Apple bought in 2016

WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps on smartphones today, and it’s available on virtually every mobile operating system. Because of that, the app has to pick and choose when to drop support for various versions of each individual OS. Complete article: WhatsApp will no longer support any versions of iOS and Android

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is willing to try just about anything to get his company back into China. Publicly, he launched a charm offensive that included learning Mandarin and offering Chinese President Xi Jinping the chance to name his first child (he declined). Less publicly, but no less important, the New York Times reports that his […]

The biggest shopping day of the year has finally arrived. Right now, thousands of shoppers (like you) are scouring the web for a discounted Dyson, a new laptop, the latest Xbox, or a knockdown Le Creuset. Many more of you have been queuing outside stores across the country hoping to snap up a cheap 4K TV, […]

On the “Holiday Gifts” section of its site, Apple is prompting customers to “Save the date” for Friday, Nov. 25. “Friday can’t come soon enough. Our one-day shopping event will be here before you know it. Come back this Friday to check everyone off your list.” Complete article: Apple products on sale this Black Friday

Ta’u is a 17-square-mile island and the most populous of the Manu’a Group of atolls, is located more than 4,000 miles from the U.S. Tesla’s SolarCity subsidiary today announced it has converted the entire island of Ta’u in American Samoa to solar power through a massive microgrid project. Complete article: Tesla has converted a island to solar […]

Facebook will hire an extra 500 workers in the UK when it opens a new headquarters in London, increasing its British workforce by half. The US social media company will employ 1,500 people in London next year when it opens its office, which is under construction in Fitzrovia, close to the West End. Complete article: Facebook […]

Smartphone cameras are getting, well, smarter all the time, and doing a lot more than taking pictures. The Color Binoculars app, which is being released the the Microsoft Garage, uses the smartphone camera to tweak real world scenes in a way that makes them much easier to parse for people with color blindness. Complete article: Microsoft […]

The new MacBook Pro comes in three flavors: two 13-inch models and a 15-incher. They all have thinner bodies, better screens, and trackpads so big they blot out the sun. And you can buy it in space gray. But the important addition is the Touch Bar. This capacitive strip of OLED glass above the keyboard is supposed […]

Snap Inc. has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering that may value the popular messaging platform at as much as $25 billion, a major step toward what would be one of the highest-profile stock debuts in recent years. Complete article: Has Snapchat filed paperwork for an initial public offering?