Almost a complete reversal of new policies

When engineer Seth Vargo found that a company using his open-source code worked with US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, he pulled the code off Github. The company, enterprise software maker Chef, found that, without the code, its business ground to a halt.

On September 20, 1989, Apple product chief Jean-Louis Gassée stood on a stage in Universal City, California, and unveiled a new computer, the Macintosh Portable. It was Apple’s first battery-powered Mac, and the goal, Gassée declared, was to build a portable Mac that was every bit as powerful and usable as the familiar desktop models: “No subset of applications, no Mac Jr., no compromise.”

“Oxys, Roxy, Xans, Addy, codeine, perc...Available 24.7 for delivery.”

It’s been almost a month since Android 10 launched. If you have a Samsung phone and you are wondering if your own device is getting the update, here’s a list that allegedly confirms who is getting it and who is not. Spoiler: if you have an S8 or Note 8, you may be screwed.

Do you understand the causes and effects of climate change? Here is what you can do to help.

The virtual card automatically protects people from being charged at the end of a free trial period.

Facial recognition technology is drawing scrutiny in a country more accustomed to surveillance than any other Western democracy.

The company has fired two organizers in just over a week.

In addition to devastating effects on bee populations and the pollination needed to feed humans and other species, widely-used pesticides chemically related to nicotine may be deadly to birds and linked to some species' declines, according to a new study.

The new wave band’s frontman was also the producer of albums by Weezer, Bad Brains, and more

Cybercriminals are zeroing in on the managed service providers that handle computer systems for local governments and medical clinics.

Recycled aluminum is coming for your water and your iPad. Making products out of used aluminum is now a way for companies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Apple to show a commitment to greening their manufacturing. Customers are supposed to be able to sleep a little better at night knowing that the shiny thing they bought did some good for the planet. But is aluminum’s future as bright as the hype suggests?

Up until just a few years ago, scientists thought your lungs were sterile. They were wrong. In the lungs of healthy people live a diverse range of bacteria, fungi and viruses.

Eddie Money, the singer and songwriter that was known for hits from the 1970s and 1980s such as "Baby Hold On" and "Take Me Home Tonight," died Friday morning following complications from esophageal cancer, his family announced.

And climate change at the same time

Google is changing its news search algorithms again, in a move that’s sure to annoy everybody. Today’s announcement is that the company is going to try to emphasize “original reporting,” which it will “elevate” in its search results. To do so, it has distributed new instructions to its cadre of 10,000+ human reviewers, whose feedback helps train the Google algorithm that actually delivers search rankings.

The legislation has earned praise from privacy and civil rights advocates.

The new Google ads policy may put heat on the stem cell clinic industry, which has until recently been largely unregulated.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) have created an algorithm called Speech2Face which has been able to, simply based on listening to the sound of different human voices, create rough facsimiles of those human’s physical appearance. This research was presented on Arxiv, the electronic preprint database for scientific papers not yet sent for peer review, back in May and has already caused something of a stir.

The news follows the announcement of a joint state Facebook probe led by the attorney general of New York.

With an Apple Watch in the classroom you can be easily distracted, especially if you forward all notifications from your iPhone and if you have many apps on your Apple Watch. You can easily put your iPhone in a bag, but your Apple Watch is always on your wrist. That's why Apple is working on a Schooltime mode, MacRumors discovered. Instructions for this new position have been found in the code of iOS 13. Apple has also hidden a matching icon in the code, with three figures on it, one of which sticks its hand up.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner ordered the country’s internet service providers to block eight sites for purportedly hosting footage of the Christchurch massacre, the Guardian reported Sunday, protocol officials recently outlined at this year’s G7 leader’s forum.

Drug dealers 'moving from street corners to social media'

Monday’s incident between SpaceX and ESA was just a taste of the problems we’ll see if we don’t overhaul how we handle the world’s satellites.

A group of states is investigating Facebook for potential violations of antitrust law, the office of the New York attorney general said in a statement today. The investigation is being led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, and it includes the attorneys general from Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia.

If the concept of ageing evokes a sense of dread, it shouldn't — especially if you're a woman.

Slack's revenue got impacted in its first earnings report as a public company by service issues that caused the company to offer credits to customers.

Having solved stability problems, chemists think metal-organic frameworks are ready for a commercial ascent

Developers have come to accept that, without warning, Apple can make their work obsolete by announcing a new app or feature that essentially copies their ideas. Some apps have simply buckled under the pressure.