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To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, center, listen as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump, who faced fierce opposition from some Silicon Valley leaders during the election campaign, strove to assure the titans of tech on Wednesday that his administration is "here to help you folks do well."
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 14, 2016. From left are, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and Trump.
Some of Silicon Valley's biggest names are expected to head to Trump Tower day to meet with the president-elect. The head honchos meeting with Trump today as part of his "tech summit" include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Oracle CEO Safra Catz.
Freed by security reforms adopted by Congress last year, Google yesterday published the redacted contents of eight National Security Letters it received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2010 and 2015 requesting information on 21 user accounts. U.S. government agencies can use NSLs to request certain types of information about the activities of users of Internet services and other communication services.
For many reasons, the tech industry is a notable outlier for a president-elect who genuinely likes the business world to the point of stuffing his cabinet with people from that realm. As Donald Trump prepares to meet chieftains from the tech industry, it's worth examining why Silicon Valley and Trump are at loggerheads.
Alphabet's Google is racing to hire more conservatives for its lobbying and policy arm, trying to get a foothold in President-elect Donald Trump's Washington after enjoying a uniquely close relationship with the administration of President Barack Obama. In the weeks since the Nov. 8 election, Google has ramped up efforts to hire Republican lobbying firms and in-house lobbyists to change the composition of its Washington office, according to three lobbyists with knowledge of the matter.
A Clinton campaign aide says that a typo in a March 19 email sent to John Podesta is to blame for opening the campaign chairman's Gmail account up to Russian cyber hackers. The IT aide, Charles Delavan, tells The New York Times that his error - typing the word "legitimate" instead of "illegitimate" to describe a hacker's email - continues to haunt him.
Banker's assistant, 30, 'accidentally shot and killed his 27-year-old friend' after playing about with a gun at a drunken dinner party that was streamed live on Facebook Shocking moment a woman is physically dragged off a Delta flight by two cops after she 'stormed past the gate agent without checking in and then demanded overhead bin space' Missing brothers are found dead at the bottom of an Idaho embankment after they were ejected from their car when it crashed Uber employees 'helped men stalk their ex-girlfriends and searched for trip information of celebrities including Beyonce', reveals company's former forensic investigator Unarmed grandfather, 73, who was suffering from dementia is shot 'NINE TIMES' and killed by California cops as he wandered around his block at 12.30am Man in stolen car 'shoots two cops in Georgia' then takes off on foot - launching manhunt that ended a few ... (more)
Banker's assistant, 30, 'accidentally shot and killed his 27-year-old friend' after playing about with a gun at a drunken dinner party that was streamed live on Facebook Shocking moment a woman is physically dragged off a Delta flight by two cops after she 'stormed past the gate agent without checking in and then demanded overhead bin space' Missing brothers are found dead at the bottom of an Idaho embankment after they were ejected from their car when it crashed Uber employees 'helped men stalk their ex-girlfriends and searched for trip information of celebrities including Beyonce', reveals company's former forensic investigator Unarmed grandfather, 73, who was suffering from dementia is shot 'NINE TIMES' and killed by California cops as he wandered around his block at 12.30am Man in stolen car 'shoots two cops in Georgia' then takes off on foot - launching manhunt that ended a few ... (more)
The year 2016 seemed packed with unthinkable events, such as Brexit and US President-elect Donald Trump's shock victory at the polls. And while the world-changing events were met with grim humour, everyday life was peppered with light-hearted moments to keep things interesting.
Photo: Reuters/Dado Ruvic The US Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its American rival for copying key iPhone designs. The 8-0 ruling, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, held that a patent violator does not always have to fork over its entire profits from the sales of products using stolen designs, if the designs covered only certain components and not the whole thing.
Dec 6 After a U.S. presidential election and Brexit campaign that were tarnished by lies, vicious political attacks and deceptive online news stories, Germany is promising to double down on facts, values and seriousness. At a congress of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Tuesday, speaker after speaker talked about the importance of respect and moderation in politics, with some criticising social media platforms Facebook and Twitter for facilitating the spread of false news.
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are joining forces to more quickly identify the worst terrorist propaganda and prevent it from spreading online. The new program announced Monday would create a database of unique digital "fingerprints" to help automatically identify videos or images the companies could remove.
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Google Maps has the advantage of being around a lot longer than Apple Maps . Indeed, it was the default web mapping service for Apple users until iOS 6 debuted.
On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth. VELES, Macedonia - On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth.
On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth. "The fake news is the good news," the 18-year-old said, pointing to a graph showing his audience figures, which reached into the hundreds of thousands, a bling watch clasped firmly around his wrist.
Neil Young has taken to Facebook to publish a lengthy opinion of the situation at Standing Rock and president-elect Trump. Starting off with the fiction that is built around the Thanksgiving tradition, Young then goes on to talk of the treatment of the Native Americans and their supporters at the Standing Rock protest, calling on President Obama to end the attacks on the protesters.