U.S. service member killed, four wounded in Afghanistan combat A U.S. service member was killed and four others were wounded Monday during an operation in a part of Afghanistan in which U.S. forces have been combating both the Islamic State and the Taliban, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. The fatality […]
Apple Leak Details 3 Massive New iPhones As a famously (and now infamously) secretive company, Apple AAPL +1.79% never likes anyone to know about it iPhone plans. But given the company’s torrid recent weeks and the immense pressure to do better, I suspect Apple will almost welcome the distraction it […]
Samsung Partner Confirms Radical Galaxy S9? While I have already exclusively revealed the Galaxy S9 final design and Samsung is doing its best to confirm the two new models, it turns out one of Samsung’s biggest partners may have inadvertently spilt the company’s biggest 2018 smartphone plans… GizmoChina claims to […]
Believe it or not, running over an iPhone X with a car will destroy it Before the iPhone X, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s were Apple’s only iPhones that used a glass sandwich design. The glass back looks and feels great, or so I’ve heard. I’ve been using the […]
Apple Just Bought This Canadian Software Startup Apple just bought a Canadian startup that specializes in creating software development tools for coders. Buddybuild, which disclosed the acquisition on Tuesday in a blog post, said its staff will join Apple’s Xcode engineering group. Xcode is the name of Apple’s (AAPL, +1.71%) […]
UK may use taxes to get tech giants to do more to fight extremism, minister says Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants like Google and Facebook unless they do more to combat online extremism by taking down material aimed at radicalizing people or helping them to prepare attacks, […]
China’s WeChat denies storing user chats Tencent Holdings’ WeChat, China’s most popular messenger app, on Tuesday denied storing users’ chat histories, after a top businessman was quoted in media reports as saying he believed Tencent was monitoring everyone’s account. “WeChat does not store any users’ chat history. That is only […]
Trump says his nuclear button ‘bigger’ than North Korea’s; North reopens border hotline North Korea said it would reopen a long-closed border hotline with South Korea on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to mock the North’s leader by saying he has a “bigger and more powerful” nuclear […]
Syrian army preparing assault to end rebel siege of base east of capital The Syrian army backed by Russian jets escalated bombing of the last rebel bastion on the eastern outskirts of Damascus as they prepared to break a siege of an army base encircled by opposition forces, residents and […]
Philippines suspends work at call center of U.S. firm, mall after deadly fire The Philippines has suspended operations of a shopping mall and a call center run by a U.S. firm where a fire killed 38 people, citing failure to fully comply with fire safety requirements for five successive years. […]
