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April 28, 2024

National News: Technology

  • Last hurrah on TikTok? City of Las Vegas weighs impact of potential ban

    2 days, 23 hours ago

    (AP) When you open the social media application TikTok and type in “Las Vegas,” you’ll get several videos — the brightly lit Sphere, local businesswoman Alexandra Lourdes decorating some of the pastries that Saint Honoré Doughnuts and Beignets is known for, ...

  • AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets millions of passcodes

    28 days, 10 hours ago

    (AP) AT&T said it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online. The telecommunications giant said Saturday that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information such as Social Security numbers for about ...

  • Faith Lutheran students make finals of cybersecurity competition

    2 years, 11 months ago

    (AP) Owen Thompson, an 18-year-old senior at Faith Lutheran High School, has been competing for years, but his team has never before made it to the championships. He doesn’t play basketball or football or any other sport, for that matter. Thompson ...

  • Trump downplays Russia in first comments on cyberattack

    3 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested without evidence that China — not Russia — may be behind the grave cyberattack against the United States and tried to minimized its ...

  • Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission

    4 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that could hold up the company's effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year. The ...

  • Can Facebook restore public trust after privacy scandal?

    6 years, 1 month ago

    (AP) CHICAGO — It's a scandal of privacy, politics and an essential ingredient of business success — public trust. Facebook is confronting a costly, embarrassing public relations debacle after revelations that Cambridge Analytica may have misused data from some 50 million ...

  • YouTube suspends star over suicide video, doesn't shut door

    6 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) PASADENA, Calif. — YouTube has suspended a star who posted video images of what appeared to be a suicide victim but says that doesn't mean it won't work with him in the future. The video service announced this week it ...

  • Gift wrap or tape in 1 hour: How Amazon aids procrastinators

    6 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) NEW YORK — With five days until Christmas, someone in New York urgently needed 10 rolls of wrapping paper. Another person needed a bag of potatoes and aluminum foil baking pans. And someone needed six rolls of Scotch tape, 100 ...

  • SpaceX 1st: Recycled rocket soars with recycled capsule

    6 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX racked up another first on Friday, launching a recycled rocket with a recycled capsule on a grocery run for NASA. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off with a just-in-time-for-Christmas delivery for the International Space Station, ...

  • Las Vegas judge sets $30K bail for UK researcher in malware case

    6 years, 8 months ago

    (AP) A Las Vegas federal judge set bail of $30,000 on Friday for a celebrated young British cybersecurity researcher accused by U.S. prosecutors of creating and distributing malicious software designed to steal banking passwords. The attorney for Marcus Hutchins, who has ...

  • Supply ship named for John Glenn arrives at space station

    7 years ago

    (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A supply ship bearing John Glenn's name arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday. Astronauts used the station's big robot arm to grab the capsule, as the craft flew 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Germany. ...

  • Scientists leave labs, take to streets to defend research

    7 years ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Thousands of scientists worldwide made plans to leave their labs and take to the streets Saturday to rail against what they say are mounting attacks against science. The March for Science, coinciding with Earth Day, was set for ...

  • Samsung delays its new phone, and showcases tablets instead

    7 years, 2 months ago

    (AP) Samsung's product showcase Sunday is notable for what's missing: a new flagship phone. Instead, Samsung is spotlighting new Android and Windows tablets after delaying the Galaxy S8 smartphone — an indirect casualty of the unprecedented September recall of the fire-prone ...

  • Diversity in tech: lots of attention, little progress

    7 years, 2 months ago

    (AP) The tech industry brought us self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and 3-D printers. But when it comes to racial and gender diversity, its leading companies are no trailblazers. Despite loudly touted efforts to hire more blacks, Hispanics and women, especially in ...

  • Samsung: Note 7 battery design, manufacturing caused fires

    7 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that problems with the design and manufacturing of batteries in its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones caused them to overheat and burst into fire. The announcement of results from the company's investigation ...

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