Remember the $4 smartphone from India? Yeah, things haven’t really materialized. Reuters reports: The founder of an Indian tech firm that shot to prominence by offering a $4 smartphone has been arrested on allegations of fraud, after a handset dealer…

Matthew Panzarino, writing for TechCrunch: Over the past couple of iPhone versions users have complained of “unexpected” shutdowns of their devices. Some iPhone 6, 6S, 6 Plus and 6S Plus devices could basically go dark unexpectedly, forcing a user to…

Samsung is taking a big step forward on both processing and LTE speeds with its next mobile system on a chip. From a report on The Verge: The chip, called the Exynos 9 Series 8895, is supposed to perform 27…

Japan is notorious for its long working hours, which have been blamed for a national health crisis known as “karoshi” — death from overwork. From a report on CNET: Panasonic hopes to curb this, instructing its 100,000-ish employees to work…

An anonymous reader shares a Gizmodo report: Peeking inside a book bin at a Seattle Goodwill, Redditor vadermeer caught an interesting, unexpected glimpse into the early days of Apple: a cache of internal memos, progress reports, and legal pad scribbles…

Spamming CS:GO game lobbies might be good at getting attention, but is it the right tactic?

Congress is preparing to overturn rules that require ISPs to get customers to opt in before selling data

Third-party tools that show you what Facebook can piece together about you are a useful reminder of just how much data you’re sharing – but they aren’t always accurate

With an average of one data breach a day and patchy security practises, healthcare organizations are sitting targets for hackers

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