Apple has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, alleging that he stole trade secrets related to the Apple Watch and shared them with his new employer, Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, which was aware of these activities. The complaint, filed on Thursday in federal court in San Jose, California, claimed that Shi Chen, a former…
More than 116,000 mobile phones were stolen in London last year, or 320 every single day, new figures show. Data from the Metropolitan Police reveals there were 116,656 reported mobile thefts in 2024 – the highest number on record. It was more than 50 per cent higher than the total recorded in 2017 when mobile…
Google tapped the star power of Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities on Wednesday to unveil several new products, including the company’s next generation of Pixel phones. Also participating in the event in Brooklyn, New York, were popular podcast host Alex Cooper, Formula One driver Lando Norris and singer Nick Jonas. Google’s new suite of products…
LONDON: Britain abandoned its demand that Apple provide so-called backdoor access to any encrypted user data stored in the cloud, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday. Gabbard indicated London and Washington had resolved their high-stakes dispute over electronic privacy, writing on X that she and President Donald Trump and Vice President JD…
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday that the U.K. had agreed to drop its mandate for iPhone-maker Apple to provide a “backdoor” that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens. Gabbard issued the statement on X, saying she had worked for months with the U.K., together with…
Updated on: Aug 19, 2025 02:12 pm IST The decision follows concerns from US lawmakers about potential exploitation by cybercriminals and authoritarian governments. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday the UK had agreed to drop its mandate for iPhone maker Apple to provide a “back door” that would have enabled access…
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Chinese mega dam stops using Western industrial chips over security…
When Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek debuted a chatbot that it said rivaled the best the United States had to offer, and at a fraction of the cost, venture capitalist Marc Andreesen called it “AI’s Sputnik moment.” Seven months later, it appears DeepSeek needs some American rocket power to get its AI Sputnik off the…
Apple on Thursday rejected Elon Musk’s claim that its digital App Store favors OpenAI’s ChatGPT over his company’s Grok and other rival AI assistants. Musk has accused Apple of giving unfair preference to ChatGPT on its App Store and threatened legal action, triggering a fiery exchange with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week. “The App…
Good morning. In honor of Perplexity’s unsolicited $34.5 billion bid to acquire Google’s Chrome web browser amid U.S. antitrust scrutiny—a figure well beyond the San Francisco AI startup’s $18 billion valuation!—five things I’d like to place an unsolicited bid on with someone else’s money: But please, Marc—keep the disco ball. Today’s tech news below. —Andrew…