How to Add Music to Instagram Stories

Want to add some music to your Instagram story? Using a fancy little trick, you can easily play a song and have that song recorded as a background soundtrack for an Instagram Story video that you post to the social network. For social network aficio…

Apple removes iCloud Activation Lock status tool from website

For reasons unknown, Apple has taken down the iCloud Activation Lock status page on its website, which used to offer a convenient method of determining whether a used iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Apple Watch was stolen.

Twitter discloses two far-reaching FBI data requests

Twitter is joining in the recent trend of tech companies disclosing FBI data requests after gag orders have lifted... and the news isn't exactly comforting. The social network has revealed that two National Security Letters sent in 2015 an…

Report: CCTV System in Washington, DC Was Hacked Before Inauguration

City officials and the Secret Service have confirmed that just days before the presidential inauguration, police surveillance cameras in Washington, DC were targeted by hackers. Reportedly, 70 percent of the CCTV storage devices were infected with r…

LG's Nexus-like Watch Style surfaces in photos

LG's Google-blessed smartwatches now exist as more than a set of specs. Well-known leaker Evan Blass has scored photos of the Watch Style, the budget model of the two that LG is expected to launch in early February. The Android Wear 2.0 dev…

Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban

Airlines respond to immigration executive order

Elon Musk: refugees “don’t deserve to be rejected”

Apple CEO Tim Cook pledges support to employees affected by President Trump's immigration order

In the wake of executive orders from U.S. President Donald Trump limiting immigration from a group of seven countries, Apple CEO Tim Cook has written to employees to reaffirm the company's pro-immigration stance, and advising af…

NYC taxis call for temporary work stoppage at JFK airport because of Trump’s Muslim ban

Mass protests against Trump's immigration order are being organized at airports across the US

Apple, Microsoft and Uber help staff stranded by Trump ban

President Trump's restrictions on immigration from Muslim-majority countries is affecting many, many more tech companies besides Google. Apple, Microsoft, Uber and others are rushing to accommodate employees who suddenly find themselves iso…

Silicon Valley’s responses to Trump’s immigration executive orders, from strongest to weakest

Protests and condemnation as Trump's immigration order causes chaos

Twitter Releases FBI's Potentially Unconstitutional Requests

For months, there’s been a slow drip of tech companies revealing the national security letters that are being sent to them by the FBI to demand user data without a warrant. Yesterday, Twitter posted a statement about two letters it received that are…

Tim Cook says Trump’s executive orders are ‘not a policy we support’

Uber pledges to compensate drivers stuck overseas because of Trump’s executive orders

Netflix CEO: ‘Trump’s actions are so un-American it pains us all’

This week’s top stories: iOS 10.3 beta & Find My AirPods, Getting started w/ HomeKit, macOS Sierra 10.12.4 w/ Night Shift & more

In this week’s top stories: iOS 10.3 beta arrives with a new Find My AirPods feature, Ben walks through Getting started with HomeKit in his first Smart Home Diary, macOS Sierra 10.12.4 beta brings Apple’s Night Shift feature to Macs, and much more.…

Apple inexplicably removes iCloud Activation Lock status page, which helped people avoid buying stolen iPhones

Apple has inexplicably removed the iCloud Activation Lock status page, which used to exist at iCloud.com/activationlock, but that URL now leads to a 404 error instead. The utility let anyone type in the IMEI or serial number of an iOS device to fin…

Wazzurb: nieuwe Nederlandse buurtapp wil je in contact brengen met buren

De Nederlandse buurtapp Wazzurb wil buren met elkaar in contact brengen en waarschuwen bij gevaar. Gaat deze zoveelste buurtapp aanslaan?