An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Tesla CEO Elon Musk was already on President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum, but the White House announced today that he will also be joining the administration’s new manufacturing council, a private…

Starting February 5th, Apple will be moving its entire international iTunes business from Luxembourg to its European headquarters in Cork, Ireland, according to a note sent to developers this week. The non-U.S. iTunes business consists of Apple Music and the…

USB Type-C cables are not all created equally. In fact, some USB Type-C cables fail so badly that they will permanently damage your hardware. Benson Leung, an engineer on Google’s Pixel team, discovered early last year that there’s even more…

schwit1 writes: NASASpaceFlight.com reports: “Fifty years ago Friday, the first — but sadly not the last — fatal spaceflight accident struck NASA when a fire claimed the lives of Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White during a training…

Orome1 quotes a report from Help Net Security: A single SMS can force Samsung Galaxy devices into a crash and reboot loop, and leave the owner with no other option than to reset it to factory settings and lose all…

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