Apple Buys Companies At The Same Rate You Buy Groceries


Apple Buys Companies At The Same Rate You Buy Groceries
Apple doesn’t always tell the world when it buys another company — but in reality, it’s quietly snapping up startups all the time. This weekend, CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that Apple purchases a new company every two to three weeks on average, and has bought between 20 and 25 companies in the last six months alone.

May 7, 2019 at 07:03AM
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How Chinese Spies Got The NSA’s Hacking Tools, And Used Them For Attacks


How Chinese Spies Got The NSA’s Hacking Tools, And Used Them For Attacks
Based on the timing of the attacks and clues in the computer code, researchers with the firm Symantec believe the Chinese did not steal the code but captured it from an NSA attack on their own computers — like a gunslinger who grabs an enemy’s rifle and starts blasting away.

May 7, 2019 at 06:13AM
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Diagnosing (And Dealing With) Your Low-Battery Anxiety


Diagnosing (And Dealing With) Your Low-Battery Anxiety
When smartphones start dying, people get weird: They head home immediately, swipe cables from coworkers’ desks, demand chargers from random strangers or places of business, and generally act so thoughtlessly that a false story about a girl unplugging her grandpa’s life support to charge her phone seemed plausible enough to go viral.

May 6, 2019 at 05:09PM
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