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Decrypted: Hackers show off their exploits as Black Hat goes virtual

Every year hackers descend on Las Vegas in the sweltering August heat to break ground on security research and the most innovative hacks. This year was no different, even if it was virtual.To name a f

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Bill Gates on COVID-19: I would have expected the CDC to do better

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who warned about global pandemics in a TED Talk in 2015, shared his views on the U.S.' handling of the COVID-19 epidemic in an interview with WIRED on Friday."I'm sur

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New bidders reportedly emerge for TikTok in the US as powerful critics assail the process

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that TikTok and Twitter have held talks about a potential merger, even as the video sharing company defends itself against President Donald Trump’s pressure

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Trump signs order barring transactions with TikTok's parent company

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order barring transactions with TikTok's parent company ByteDance, starting in 45 days, according to a White House statement.The executive

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Security bugs let these car hackers remotely control a Mercedes-Benz

Few could ever forget back in 2015 when security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely killed a Jeep’s engine on a highway with a Wired reporter at the wheel.Since then, the car

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Connected audio was a bad choice

The past week, I’ve spent ample time looking to revamp my home audio setup. I think my only qualification is that my next setup is as dumb as possible.In the past five years, my setup has gone from a

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Pre-orders for the Analogue Pocket retro portable game console start August 3, ships May 2021

Analogue has repeatedly proven that it’s the gold standard when it comes to retro gaming, delivering extremely faithful, but modern hardware to play original NES, SNES, Sega cartridges and more

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Apple News adds new audio features, including a daily briefing, alongside expanded local coverage

Apple News is getting a significant upgrade. The news aggregation app, which ships preinstalled on Apple devices, is introducing several new features for readers and premium subscribers, including aud

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Brief’s mobile news app aims to tackle information overload and media bias

Brief, a newly launched news aggregator founded by former Google engineers, aims to tackle a number of problems with today’s news cycle, including information overload, burnout, media bias, and algori

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Jyoti Bansal’s third startup goes after code security

Jyoti Bansal was part of the AppDynamics founding team, a company that Cisco bought in 2017 for $3.7 billion. He might have been content to rest on that big win, but instead he went on to launch Harne

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Legaltech startup Orbital Witness scores £3.3M to create a ‘universal risk rating’ for real estate

Orbital Witness, a U.K.-based legaltech startup developing “AI-powered” software to transform the £4 billion U.K. property due diligence market, has raised £3.3 million in seed funding.The

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Apple's iPhone 12 might be sold without a charger or plug adaptor in the box

Critics could see the move as an attempt to drive consumers towards more accessories manufactured by the company.

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Shady TikTok clone Zynn finally removed from the App Store

Zynn, the TikTok clone that shot to the top of the app store charts in late May, was pulled from Apple’s App Store on Monday. The controversial app had already been removed from the Google Play

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Marietje Schaake is ‘very concerned about the future of democracy’

In the ten years she spent as a member of the European Parliament, Marietje Schaake became one of Brussels’ leading voices on technology policy issues.A Dutch politician from the centrist-liberal Demo

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Cigar-shaped comet could be interstellar 'iceberg'

The origins of the unusually shaped object had been a mystery, with proposals including one that it was an alien spacecraft.

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Decrypted: No warrants for web data, UK grid cyberattack, CyberArk buys Idaptive

One vote.That’s all it needed for a bipartisan Senate amendment to pass that would have stopped federal authorities from further accessing millions of Americans’ browsing records. But it d

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Lebanon unrest explained

"Our issue isn't only with the bank. The Bank is a tool. Our issue is with the governing bodies …with these militias, political parties...The people that are stealing this country since the Civil War