'Samsung overweegt accu's van LG af te nemen'

Samsung is naar verluidt in gesprek met LG Chem voor de levering van accu's die dan onder andere in de opvolger van de teruggeroepen Galaxy Note 7 komen. De fabrikant zou met zijn rivaal onderhandelen om minder afhankelijk te zijn van enkele aanbied…

Chrysler en Alphabet-dochter tonen autonoom rijdende minivans

Chrysler en Alphabet-dochter Waymo hebben de eerste honderd Pacifica-minivans gereed die autonoom de weg op kunnen. Begin volgend jaar maken de voertuigen hun eerste testritten op bepaalde locaties in de Verenigde Staten.

Google shows off its sleeker self-driving Chrysler minivans

Waymo, Google's new autonomous vehicle division, has finally unveiled its latest model: a heavily modified Chrysler Pacifica. The hybrid minivan, which can go 30 miles in pure electric mode, was glimpsed earlier in spy photos at a Google fa…

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Florida Court Orders Voyeur To Reveal iPhone Passcode

Last week, the Florida Court of Appeal’s Second District ruled that a suspected voyeur can be made to reveal his iPhone passcode to law agencies for investigation purposes. The ruling was made after Aaron Stahl was caught trying to take photos of …

It's round and wobbles, but madam, it's a mouse pad, not a floppy disk

Plus: The forlorn attempt to put four disks into one drive On-Call  Welcome to festive On-Call, in which we take our regular Friday tales of jobs gone wrong and run lots more of them because there's sod-all news to write in the week before Christmas…

Apple vecht Europees besluit over terugbetalen belasting aan

Apple gaat deze week officieel beroep aantekenen tegen het besluit van de Europese Commissie dat het concern 13 miljard euro belastingvoordeel aan Ierland moet terugbetalen. Volgens Apple is het bedrijf een 'makkelijk doelwit' en heeft de EU juridis…

Apple escalates rhetoric as it prepares to challenge EU’s €13 billion tax ruling

BlackBerry Opens Autonomous Vehicle Research Lab in Ottawa, Canada

Former smartphone company BlackBerry opened a new autonomous driving research center on Monday in Ottawa, Canada, according to Reuters. BlackBerry is betting its future on the self-driving car business following its 2010 acquisition of QNX, a com…

Appeals against European Union's €13 billion Apple tax ruling take shape

Apple will this week file its appeal of a European Commission decision that it owes Ireland billions in back taxes, while the country's Department of Finance has revealed details of its own appeal.European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe V…

Apple To Appeal Against European Commission’s $14.5 Billion Back Taxes Ruling This Week

Apple will be appealing against EU’s tax ruling decision this week arguing that EU regulators deliberately ignored opinions from tax experts and corporate law to slap the company with a $14.5 billion tax penalty. An investigation concluded by the …

… in a loop. Cisco warns Nexus 3000 upgrade could get you stuck ...

It's late 2016 and a USB stick can make a hash of MD5 Cisco has popped out a curious Field Notice warning owners of Nexus 3000 devices to be careful when they upgrade the devices' operating software, lest they enter a boot loop.…

'Upset' Linus Torvalds gets sweary and gets results

Devs cringe apologetically at errors Linux Lord dubbed 'piece-of-shit branch' Linus Torvalds has unleashed a little ripe language on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, and quickly got results for having done so.…

Google's Keep note-taking app lets Chromebook users doodle

Google has added drawing tools to its widely-used note-taking Keep app on Chrome, giving Chromebook users an Android feature that has been around for a year. Spotted by 9 to 5 Google, it's only available via the Chrome Web store, and doesn'…

Samsung refreshes its thin and light Notebook 9 with Intel’s latest processors

AirPods Deliveries Arrive Across Europe as Retail Store Stock Dwindles

Early orders of AirPods arrived across Europe this morning as people were seen waiting outside Apple retail stores eager to get hold of a pair of the new wireless earphones before initial stock ran out. Queues were reported outside Apple's Rege…

New Twin Peaks Teaser Is Just David Lynch Eating a Donut and That's Okay

On Sunday, Showtime released a new teaser trailer for the revival of ‘90s art kid favorite Twin Peaks. In it, creator David Lynch can be seen eating a (glazed?) donut as FBI administrator Gordon Cole and, well, that’s about it.Read more...

Prometheus: Upcoming Tool Will Allow Users to Downgrade or Upgrade to Unsigned iOS Firmware Version

A few days back, well-known hacker and security researcher Luca Todesco announced that he will work on an iOS 10.1.1 jailbreak based on a kernel and root exploit published by Ian Beer from Google’s Project Zero. Continue reading →

Elon Musk wants to get into the boring business, literally

Can you dig it? Yes you will, if you're tired of being stuck in traffic Elon Musk has fired off a series of Tweets suggesting he wants to get into the boring business. As in boring tunnels.…

Fusion reactor endurance record hints at our energy future

Wondering why a fusion reactor isn't powering your home right now? There are numerous reasons, but one of the biggest is simply keeping the necessary super-hot plasma in an ideal state for energy generation -- it doesn't last that way for l…

AirPods review: They sound great, but Siri holds them back

When Apple pulled the headphone jack off the iPhone 7, it also unveiled a new set of wireless earbuds called AirPods, that it claimed were so great that users wouldn’t mind the missing headphone jack. Then the AirPods didn’t come out for nearly …