From PC Mag: Lawmakers know how much we despise robocalls—nearly 48 billion robocalls were made in 2018—and a new bill just signed into law by President Trump increases possible fines up to $10,000.

The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act requires wireless...

From CNET: Samsung made a bold proclamation at CES 2015. Within five years, every Samsung product would be internet-connected, then co-CEO B.K. Yoon declared. Not only would its phones and TVs be smart, but also its washing machines, ovens and a myriad of other electronics.

Fast-forward to CES 2020...

From The Verge: Apple will once again license technology from Imagination Technologies, the chip designer that used to provide graphics processors for the iPhone and iPad, the UK-based company announced today. In a short statement posted on its website, Imagination said that it had entered into a...

From Tom's Hardware: In 2019, NAND and DRAM prices dropped to an all-time low. This led to cheaper SSDs and memory than we've ever seen before. These times appear to be coming to an end though. A DigiTimes report today cited unnamed sources at chipmakers claiming that prices for NAND flash memory, a...

From CNET: Several Amazon employees say they've been threatened with termination for talking publicly about their climate change campaign.

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an activist group within Amazon that started in late 2018, said in a statement Thursday that four of its members were...

From Forbes: Uber and Postmates have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block California’s AB5 gig-worker law, which is set to go into effect January 1. The complaint claims the impending law, which will require companies to treat many independent contractors (aka gig workers) as employees, is...

From PC Mag: Face ID is out, Touch ID is in. It doesn't appear all that likely on the surface, but LetsGoDigital reports Apple plans on reintroducing a fingerprint scanner on at least one iPhone model due out next year. Two years ago, the Cupertino-based company shifted away from fingerprints and...

From CNET: Microsoft has sued a cybercrime group in an effort to disrupt its alleged attacks on the public. The North Korea-based group used phishing emails and fake websites that pretended to come from the Windows maker to steal consumers' credentials, Microsoft says.

A court order has allowed the...

From Tom's Hardware: Some think success is the greatest revenge. If that's true, Huawei practically became vengeance personified this year, because the company reported a record-high revenue of $122 billion in 2019 despite U.S. government efforts to bring it down.

By now you've probably heard about...

From ExtremeTech: The international medical community was aghast last year when a Chinese scientists announced the first ever genetically engineered babies. He Jiankui and his team used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool to make two twin girls immune to HIV infection but did so without authorization...