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A jury has decided that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million in damages for illegally copying some of the iPhone's features to lure people into buying its competing products.
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The verdict is the latest twistRead more: Samsung to pay $539 million for iPhone patent infringement
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Australia's Department of Communications has revealed that one telco is using diesel generators to provide power for base stations under the federal government's mobile blackspots program, while another is storing its backup batteries "out in the environment"...
Read more: Diesel power and batteries in the bush feature at mobile blackspot sites
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A piece of proposed legislation reportedly facing the United States Senate would force US tech companies to divulge whether they permit nations including China and Russia to examine the source code of software they sell to the...
Read more: Tech companies to disclose foreign software probes under US Bill: Report
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testifying to Congress on April 10 after companies like Cambridge Analytica abused the platform to collect data on millions of users. Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner Rachel Falk has told Senate...
Read more: Australia's Facebook investigation expected to take at least 8 months
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On Thursday, Seattle news station KIRO 7 published a disconcerting story[1]. A Portland family discovered that a snippet of private conversation had been recorded by an Amazon Echo and sent to a random person...
Read more: Don’t Freak Out About That Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Situation
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TechRepublic and ZDNet's Jason Hiner spoke with Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU, at DES 2018 this week about why digital trust is the key to unlock the coming revolution in crowd-based capitalism.
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TechRepublic and ZDNet's Jason Hiner spoke with Thulium's CEO, Tamara McCleary, at DES 2018 this week about how AI and robots will soon augment and accelerate human beings.
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You can watch the interviewRead more: How AI and robots are about to augment and accelerate human beings
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"It's your data. Keep it," says T-Mobile's store in Times Square, New York City. Except when the company is leaking it. (Image: file photo) A bug in T-Mobile's website let anyone access the personal account...
Read more: T-Mobile bug let anyone see any customer's account details
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