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Netflix Offers Fans A Faithful Return To ‘The Dark Crystal'

Louis Leterrier knew he’d immediately face scrutiny from superfans of “The Dark Crystal” when he became director of its prequel. After all, he’s a superfan, too.

Federal Officials Working With States To Protect Elections

Official election websites are being hacked. Disinformation is being spread on social media. Electrical power and communications are going down.

Fall Movie Preview: Hollywood Goes All-In On Original Films

When 20th Century Fox greenlit James Mangold’s “Ford v. Ferrari” — an original movie with a nearly $100 million budget — the director’s agent had some advice.

Apple Health: Dominating With Old And New Tech

Apple has transformed the way we work, communicate, spend, and work out, and now it’s hoping to become your personal doctor.

Apple Apologizes For Use Of Contractors To Eavesdrop On Siri

Apple is apologizing for allowing outsiders to listen to snippets of people’s recorded conversations with its digital assistant Siri, a practice that undermined its attempts to position itself as a trusted steward of privacy.

Why Streaming Services Are The New Credit Card Rewards Binge

When it comes to credit card rewards, it’s not all about gas, groceries, and restaurants anymore. Issuers are moving beyond suburban staples to include millennial-friendly categories such as transit and streaming subscriptions.

Weedmaps To Stop Advertising Unlicensed Pot Businesses

The major online pot shop directory and cannabis marketplace Weedmaps announced Wednesday that it will no longer allow blackmarket businesses to advertise on its site, a decision that could boost California’s efforts to rein in its vast illegal market. State regulators and licensed businesses had been pressuring the company to ban unlicensed businesses. Allowing untaxed, unregulated product on the site alongside the taxed marijuana of licensed and regulated stores undercut the legal market, they said.

Leather Wallets, Loose Change Pose Danger For New Apple Card

Apple tried to make the new Apple-branded credit card attractive, copying the heft and sleekness of higher-end cards like the Chase Sapphire. But cardholders are discovering that with such a design, they’ll have to give it special care.

Twitter Shuts Chinese Accounts Targeting Hong Kong Protests

Twitter said it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong.

How Tech Titans Listen In On Voice Recordings

When you speak to a virtual assistant on your mobile device, wearable, computer or smart speaker, it’s easy to assume that it’s a truly private conversation between just you and the assistant.

Film On Factory Is First Netflix Project Endorsed By Obamas

A documentary about an Ohio auto glass factory that is run by a Chinese investor debuted Wednesday on Netflix as the streaming service’s first project backed by Michelle and Barack Obama’s new production company.

Don't Want To Buy? You Can Borrow Household Items Too

Amanda Blum enjoys trying new recipes and experimenting in the kitchen, but like many home cooks, she’s reluctant to buy expensive and bulky kitchen appliances.

China ‘Will Not Sit Idly By' Over US Arms Sale To Taiwan

China “will not sit idly by” if the U.S. proceeds with a sale of advanced F-16V fighter jets to Taiwan, a senior Chinese army officer said Thursday while warning of other potential countermeasures in addition to punishing foreign firms involved in the deal.

Work For Apple: 2.4 Million US Jobs And Counting

As Apple reveals its US jobs footprint has grown to 2.4 million, we pull back the curtain on one of America’s biggest employers, explore how the firm has transformed the technology industry, and explain how anyone can make a living from Apple and its ecosystems…

Pentagon Cancels Billion-dollar Missile Defense Project

The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defense at a time of rapid technological change.

Streaming Music May Make Cases Like Katy Perry's More Common

To show that Katy Perry and the team that wrote her 2013 hit “Dark Horse” may have heard his song and stole from it, Christian rapper Marcus Gray’s primary evidence was that his 2009 song, “Joyful Noise” had played in the millions on YouTube and Spotify.

Accessibility: Apple's Biggest Push Yet

In all of the excitement of Dark Mode on iOS and the removal of iTunes on the Mac, you’d be forgiven for missing one of Apple’s biggest cross-platform updates to date.

Breakthrough The All - New Mac Pro

Building a supercomputer to appease the world’s most advanced developers, graphic artists, filmmakers and photographers was never going to be easy, but Apple pulled it off in 2006 with the Mac Pro.

EU Legal Expert Says Online Defamation Enforceable Worldwide

A top European Union legal adviser said that social media networks like Facebook could be ordered to take down anywhere in the world any text, photo or other media ruled to be defamatory by a court.

Ohio's Third Frontier Fund For Tech, Start-ups Is Dwindling

An Ohio fund that has provided millions of dollars for technology projects, startups and research is running out of money, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said this week.

Russia Demands Tinder Give User Data To Secret Services

Russia is requiring dating app Tinder to hand over data on its users — including messages — to the national intelligence agencies, part of the country’s widening crackdown on internet freedoms.

Bad Bunny, Khalid To Perform On Apple Music's ‘Up Next' Tour

Apple Music is taking its “Up Next” program and playlist on the road.

Google Grilled In Congress: What's Ahead For Tech Companies

U.S. lawmakers’ grilling of Google CEO Sundar Pichai may have sounded like a broken record, but it amplified the prickly issues facing tech companies as Democrats prepare to take control of the House next month.

Farout: Scientists Spot Solar System's Farthest Known Object

Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system — and they’ve nicknamed the pink cosmic body “Farout.”

First Private Israeli Lunar Mission Will Launch In February

An Israeli nonprofit said it has pushed back the launch of what it hopes will be the first private spacecraft to land on the moon until February.

Foldable: The New Generation Of Smartphones

Samsung, Huawei and other major names show their hands.

Teen Video App Musical.Ly Agrees To FTC Fine

The operator of a video-sharing app popular with teenagers is agreeing to pay $5.7 million to settle federal allegations it illegally collected personal information from children.

What Facebook's ‘Privacy Vision' Really Means

Mark Zuckerberg’s abrupt last week declaration of a new ”privacy vision ” for social networking was for many people a sort of Rorschach test.

Millennials Global Dream: Inventions, Ideas & Ideologies

The aspirations and achievements of an often misunderstood generation

EU Investigates Video Game Companies Over Antitrust Concerns

The European Union’s competition watchdog is stepping up its investigation of a U.S. video game platform and five game makers over concerns they blocked players from buying cheaper versions of games in other countries.