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A Goliath grouper fish has eaten an entire shark whole—that’s right, in one bite. A video taken of the incident has gone viral over the past several years. The blacktip shark was only four feet in length. The predator was identified as an Atlantic goliath grouper, which can weigh as much as 790 pounds and […]

Mary Stocks lived a full life, finally passing away at age 94. Stocks touched many in her life, but didn’t do a lot of things that make it in the typical obituary. So son Sandy decided to take things into his own hands. “Everything I could think of about my mother was funny. I didn’t […]

Social media innovators are shutting off addictive internet social media technologies. Mostly in their 30s, they created the technology that is taken for granted on computer and mobile device screens across the world. From the like button to the pulldown refresh, these tech whizzes are shutting themselves off from habit-forming technologies that they brought to […]

The iPhone app for ride-sharing company Uber has been allowed by Apple to access and record users screens, opening a door that would allow it to effectively spy on users. Uber has said the functionality had a benign purpose and is no longer in use. The functionality, Uber said, was granted by Apple to allow […]

Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, in a disclosure that attorneys said sharply increased the legal exposure of its new owner, Verizon Communications Inc. The news expands the likely number and […]

Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, has announced that it will hire 1,000 users to work as online censors. The censors will be rewarded monetarily for reporting “harmful” contents posted by other Weibo users, which might include their friends and family. Weibo posted the recruitment poster on Sept. 27, saying that it will hire an initial […]

Apple Inc—has received more than four times as many national-security related requests from the U.S. government in the first half of this year versus a year ago, according to a company report on Thursday. Apple said it had received between 13,250 and 13,499 national security requests affecting between 9,000 and 9,249 users. That compares with […]

WASHINGTON—President Obama’s controversial former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that he still thinks the government’s mass surveillance of the American people is a necessary measure to safeguard national security. Clapper was recorded lying to the U.S. Congress about such programs in the past. Clapper said on Tuesday that he thinks the various U.S. […]

LONDON—Uber told a British employment appeal tribunal on Wednesday its drivers were self-employed, not workers entitled to a range of benefits, less than a week after it heard it would lose its London license. The U.S. ride-hailing service has faced regulatory and legal setbacks around the world amid opposition from traditional taxi services and concern […]

NEW YORK—The days of Twitter Inc limiting messages to 140 characters, a signature of the social network since its launch in 2006, may be numbered. Twitter said on Tuesday that it would begin a test with a random sample of users allowing them to send tweets that are as long as 280 characters, double the […]

WASHINGTON–U.S. manufacturers remain the prime targets for cyberattack and cyberespionage by malicious hackers, a new industry report shows. The report warns that there is a critical need for U.S. government and industry to build an effective cybersecurity framework to safeguard against a future major attack on the U.S. manufacturing industry, which forms the backbone of the […]

China’s most popular messaging app WeChat now warns users in a privacy statement about how much of their private data the company shares with the Chinese regime. To no one’s surprise, it’s just about everything users type into the app. Developed by the Chinese internet company Tencent, WeChat is China’s equivalent of WhatsApp and is […]

Summer vacations are over and tech entrepreneurs along with the small business community are up in arms over the government’s proposed tax changes.

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple Inc on Tuesday rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge-to-edge display that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook called “the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone.” The phone features wireless charging, an infrared camera and special hardware for facial recognition, which will replace […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple Inc rolled out a new version of the Apple Watch on September 12, marking the first introduction at the company’s biggest product launch in years, which was expected to showcase a completely redesigned top-of-the-line iPhone. Chief Executive Tim Cook opened the event at the Steve Jobs Auditorium on Apple’s new campus with a […]

Jeya May Cruz of Pasig, Phillippines, posted a photo that left numerous people baffled. She said that there’s a cellphone laying on this carpet. She wrote: “Let’s play a game. Look for the cell phone.” She wrote: “Let’s play a game. Look for the cell phone.”     The phone is located in the top-right […]

MONTREAL—Canadian companies could be serious contenders in the global self-driving vehicle race, experts have suggested after Magna International Inc. fielded the country’s latest entry with the debut of the auto part giant’s own autonomous technology. Toronto-area auto parts supplier Magna launched its Max4 Autonomous Driving Platform last week into a market that is gaining interest […]

World War III won’t break out over a nuke launch from North Korea, but rather over competition for the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI), according to Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. While North Korea rattles its nuclear and intercontinental ballistic sabers, it would be suicidal for its regime to actually launch a nuclear missile […]

Apple has sent out mysterious invitations for an event on Sept. 12 which say simply “let’s meet at our place.” There are no other details on the cards, but many believe that the company will unveil the new iPhone 8 as well as updates to its Apple Watch, Apple TV, and iOS software, the Verge reported. […]

Do you have trouble getting your children to reply your calls or texts? Many parents expect that getting their kids a smartphone will make them more contactable. But the reality with today’s digitally connected youth may be quite the opposite. It’s surprising how much time kids spend on their phones with friends or playing games, but […]