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  • Earthquake resign at the Pentagon

    Kevin Sweeney resigned as director of the Pentagon’s private place of job. Sweeney, in a statement from the Twitter account of social media, it was the correct time to go back to the non-public sector after years, he stated.

    Sweeney, who resigned ultimate month following President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria’s 2d senior Pentagon respectable who resigned after leaving place of business, former Defense Secretary James Mattis.

    This week it was introduced that Sweeney could be leaving Kevin.

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  • Apple to create $1bn Texas base

    Tim Cook Symbol copyright Getty Pictures Symbol caption President Trump had referred to as on Apple chief Tim Cook to create extra US jobs

    Apple has introduced plans to build a brand new campus in Austin, Texas, saying the venture will contain a $1bn (£790m) investment.

    The corporate already has an existing base in the city.

    The iPhone-maker mentioned it anticipated the most recent move may eventually make it the state capital’s greatest personal employer.

    One professional mentioned the world had a large pool of skill to attract on however was once not less expensive to hire in than Silicon Valley.

    Intel’s Atom pc processors were developed at its facility in the city. Dell, Amazon, Samsung, Fb, Google and IBM are among other massive local employers.

    Image copyright Apple Image caption Apple carried out a tremendous expansion of its present Austin campus in 2012

    It mentioned the new 133-acre (0.54 sq km) campus would initially be home to 5,000 new employees however had the capability to house 15,000.

    The new posts, it mentioned, would include roles in its engineering, analysis and building, and gross sales divisions.

    The company additionally mentioned it planned new websites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver Town over the following three years.

    The announcements follow an earlier dedication made in January to create 20,000 new jobs in the US by means of 2023.

    At present, the company employs about NINETY,000 people within the u . s . a ., together with team of workers in its retail stores.

    Symbol copyright APple Symbol caption Apple launched this employment map showing where it expects to have staff in 2022

    Apple and different American generation corporations have confronted calls from President Trump to spice up employment of their house united states.

    Most just lately, the president threatened to add price lists to iPhones and other Apple merchandise synthetic in China if industry negotiations with Beijing did not move the way he wanted.

    Last month, Amazon introduced plans to build new campuses in New York and near Washington DC as a part of its own activity-creation plans.

  • Must we fear approximately Huawei?

    Huawei logo Image copyright Reuters

    Huawei, the Chinese telecoms large, has hit the headlines over the arrest of the founder’s daughter in Canada for extradition to the United States.

    However The company, which manufactures a variety of generation from community apparatus to cell phones, is on the agenda for other reasons too.

    Some Western governments have blocked telecoms firms from using Huawei gear in new communications networks, mentioning safety considerations.

    to this point the uk has held back from any formal ban. So does the company pose a threat?

    what is Huawei?

    The Company started off making equipment for cell phone networks and has grown rapidly, eclipsing the likes of Nokia and Ericsson, to become an international leader.

    Symbol copyright Getty Pictures Symbol caption Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei in 1987

    But The US additionally points extra most often to China’s National Intelligence Legislation passed in 2017 that says companies should “reinforce, co-function with and collaborate in nationwide intelligence work”.

    As a result, The Us, Australia and New Zealand have all blocked local companies from the use of Huawei to provide the technology for subsequent-era 5G mobile networks.

    That’s three of the five so-called “5 Eyes” intelligence sharing neighborhood. A fourth, Canada is reviewing its relationship with the company.

    the uk has now not taken a position, even though it could also be coming under pressure from The United States to do so.

    Why hasn’t the united kingdom blocked Huawei?

    the uk govt has admitted to “traces” in the dating with Huawei. The frame tasked with overseeing internet security in Britain, the National Cybersecurity Centre, has requested Huawei to fix problems that pose “new risks” to the community.

    Additionally, Alex More Youthful, the top of the united kingdom’s intelligence service MI6, has suggested that “some choices” lie ahead over Huawei’s function as a result of 5G networks will make it tougher to monitor safety.

    Symbol copyright Reuters Image caption Huawei offices in New Zealand, one of the international locations bringing up nationwide security concerns

    BT has announced it’s in the technique of getting rid of Huawei’s apparatus from the center of its present 3G and 4G cellular operations and can now not use the Chinese company’s tools in imperative portions of the next 5G community.

    But Huawei has been offering era to UK corporations for more than a decade and Britain is keen to take care of a fair courting with China on trade and funding as it prepares for Brexit.

    So Much of the country’s cellular networks – Vodafone, EE and 3 – have already been operating with Huawei to arrange their 5G offerings and it will not be easy to modify that at quick notice.

    What does Huawei say?

    The Company is keen to painting itself as a firm and not using a ties to the Chinese Language executive. It says it prioritises safety and safety while providing era and that at least a few of the hostility against it’s because the company poses a competitive danger.

    In the prior the Chinese Language government has also argued that movements to block the company’s products amount to “protectionism” and “discriminatory practices”.

    The Brand New hostility in opposition to Huawei comes in opposition to a backdrop of heightened tensions between The Us and China, with President Trump accusing Beijing of unfair trade practices and of facilitating the theft of highbrow property from US firms.

    Furthermore as several nations concurrently plan to introduce sooner 5G networks, the stakes are prime for corporations that win contracts.

    Emily Taylor at Chatham House said there has been a “requirements battle” going on at the back of the scenes.

    “i believe the business benefit from surroundings standards that favour your individual household suppliers’ applied sciences also plays an element in this,” she informed the BBC.

  • Tim Cook, Apple CEO, backs privacy laws, warns data being ‘weaponized’

    The head of Apple on Wednesday endorsed tough privacy laws for both Europe and the U.S. and renewed the technology giant’s commitment to protecting personal data, which he warned was being “weaponized

    BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of Apple on Wednesday endorsed tough privacy laws for both Europe and the U.S. and renewed the technology giant’s commitment to protecting personal data, which he warned was being “weaponized” against users.

    Speaking at an international conference on data privacy, Apple CEO Tim Cook applauded European Union authorities for bringing in a strict new data privacy law in May and said the iPhone maker supports a U.S. federal privacy law.

    Cook’s speech, along with video comments from Google and Facebook top bosses, in the European Union’s home base in Brussels, underscores how the U.S. tech giants are jostling to curry favor in the region as regulators tighten their scrutiny.

    Data protection has become a major political issue worldwide, and European regulators have led the charge in setting new rules for the big internet companies. The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, requires companies to change the way they do business in the region, and a number of headline-grabbing data breaches have raised public awareness of the issue.

    “In many jurisdictions, regulators are asking tough questions. It is time for rest of the world, including my home country, to follow your lead,” Cook said.

    “We at Apple are in full support of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States,” he said, to applause from hundreds of privacy officials from more than 70 countries.

    In the U.S., California is moving to put in regulations similar to the EU’s strict rules by 2020 and other states are mulling more aggressive laws. That’s rattled the big tech companies, which are pushing for a federal law that would treat them more leniently.

    Cook warned that technology’s promise to drive breakthroughs that benefit humanity is at risk of being overshadowed by the harm it can cause by deepening division and spreading false information. He said the trade in personal information “has exploded into a data industrial complex.”

    “Our own information, from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency,” he said. Scraps of personal data are collected for digital profiles that let businesses know users better than they know themselves and allow companies to offer users “increasingly extreme content” that hardens their convictions, Cook said.

    “This is surveillance. And these stockpiles of personal data serve only to enrich the companies that collect them,” he said. “This should make us very uncomfortable. It should unsettle us.”

    Cook’s appearance was one-up on his tech rivals and showed off his company’s credentials in data privacy, which has become a weak point for both Facebook and Google. That is facilitated also by the fact that Apple makes most of its money by selling hardware like iPhones instead of ads based on user data.

    “With the spotlight shining as directly as it is, Apple have the opportunity to show that they are the leading player and they are taking up the mantle,” said Ben Robson, a lawyer at Oury Clark specializing in data privacy. Cook’s appearance “is going to have good currency,” with officials, he added.

    His speech comes a week after Apple unveiled expanded privacy protection measures for people in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, including allowing them to download all personal data held by Apple. European users already had access to this feature after GDPR took effect. Apple plans to expand it worldwide.

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google head Sundar Pichai sent brief video remarks to the annual meeting of global data privacy chiefs.

    Zuckerberg said the social network takes seriously its “basic ethical responsibility” to safeguard personal information but added that “the past year has shown we have a lot more work to do,” referring to a big data breach and the scandal over the misuse of data by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

    He also said the company is investing in measures to beef up protection, including building a new tool to let users clear their browsing activity and deploying artificial intelligence to detect fake accounts and take down extremist content.

    They both said they supported regulation, with Pichai noting Google recently proposed a legislative framework that would build on GDPR and extend many of its principles to users globally.

    The International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners , held in a different city every year, normally attracts little attention but its Brussels venue this year takes on symbolic meaning as EU officials ratchet up their tech regulation.

    The 28-nation EU took on global leadership of the issue when it launched GDPR. The new rules require companies to justify the collection and use of personal data gleaned from phones, apps and visited websites. They must also give EU users the ability to access and delete data, and to object to data use.

    GDPR also allows for big fines benchmarked to revenue, which for big tech companies could amount to billions of dollars.

    In the first big test of the new rules, Ireland’s data protection commission, which is a lead authority for Europe as many big tech firms are based in the country, is investigating Facebook’s data breach, which let hackers access 3 million EU accounts.

    Google, meanwhile, shut down its Plus social network this month after revealing it had a flaw that could have exposed personal information of up to half a million people.

  • U.S. stocks jump after two days of sharp losses; tech leads

    U.S. stocks are climbing Friday after two days of sharp losses as market favorites like Apple lead the way higher. Major indexes are up more than 1 percent, but they’re still on track for their bigges

    NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are climbing Friday after two days of sharp losses as market favorites like Apple lead the way higher. Major indexes are up more than 1 percent, but they’re still on track for their biggest one-week loss since late March.

    Technology companies recovered after taking some hard hits over the last two days. Apple climbed 2.9 percent to $220.71 and Microsoft gained 2.8 percent to $108.83. Consumer-focused companies also rallied, as Amazon jumped 4.1 percent to $1,789 and Netflix surged 5.5 percent to $338.74.

    The S&P 500 index climbed 36 points, or 1.4 percent, to 2,765 at 11:20 a.m. Eastern time. The benchmark index tumbled 5.3 percent over the past two days and as of Thursday it had fallen for six consecutive days. The S&P is down 5.6 percent since from its latest record high, set Sept. 20.

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 278 points, or 1.1 percent, to 25,330. The Nasdaq composite surged 149 points, or 2 percent, to 7,478. The Russell 2000 index gained 10 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,555. That index, which is made up of smaller and more U.S.-focused companies, has fallen into a 10-percent “correction” since reaching a record high at the end of August.

    On the New York Stock Exchange, winners outnumbered losers by nearly three to one.

    The market’s recent losing streak started when strong economic data and positive comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell helped set off a wave of selling in the bond market. Investors dumped bonds as they bet that the U.S. economy would keep growing at a healthy pace. The sales pushed bond prices lower and yields to seven-year highs.

    That drove interest rates sharply higher, which worried investors who felt that a big increase in interest rates could eventually stifle economic growth. Higher yields also make bonds more appealing to investors versus stocks.

    The most startling declines this week came from companies that have done very well recently, including technology companies and retailers. On Wednesday the three most valuable U.S. companies, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, each took their biggest loss in more than two years. It was a dramatic end to three months of calm on the U.S. market.

    Several other groups of stocks that have struggled this year are now in a “correction,” a drop of at least 10 percent from a recent peak. They include basic materials makers, internet companies, banks and household goods makers.

    Bond prices turned lower as the stock market stabilized. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.15 percent from 3.13 percent.

    U.S. automakers Ford and General Motors continued to slump. GM shed 0.4 percent to $32.19, its lowest in almost two years, and Ford dipped 0.1 percent to $8.81, its lowest in almost nine years. Both have fallen more than 20 percent this year as the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel and aluminum send their manufacturing costs higher.

    The stocks have fallen further in recent days following reports Ford might cut jobs. In late September, Ford CEO Jim Hackett said the steel and aluminum duties would cost the company $1 billion through 2019.

    Stocks in Europe were little changed. The French CAC 40 rose 0.1 percent and the DAX in Germany slipped 0.1 percent, while Britain’s FTSE 100 was little changed. Asian stocks climbed. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index gained 0.5 percent after sinking early in the day and following a nearly 4 percent loss on Thursday. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng surged 2.1 percent and the Kospi in South Korea rose 1.5 percent.

    High-dividend stocks including utilities, real estate investment trusts and household goods traded lower or rose less than the rest of the market. Those stocks held up a bit better than the S&P 500 over the last six days. Investors view them as relatively safe, steady assets that look better when growth is uncertain and the rest of the market is in turmoil.

    U.S. crude oil added 1 percent to $71.69 a barrel in in New York. Brent crude, the international standard, inched up 0.1 percent to $80.31 a barrel in London.

    The dollar rose to 112.14 yen from 111.94 yen. The euro fell to $1.1558 from $1.1594.

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    Associated Press Writer Annabelle Liang contributed from Singapore.

  • Hands on with Apple’s new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max

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  • Apple unveils next-generation Watch

    Apple Watch Image copyright Apple

    Apple has revealed a new version of its smartwatch featuring a display that extends further towards its edges.

    The firm said the Watch Series 4’s usable screen is now more than 30% larger despite the device itself having similar dimensions to its predecessor.

    The device has also gained the ability to detect if its wearer has fallen.

    The firm is also expected to unveil new handsets based on the design of the iPhone X later at its California press event.

    Apple overtook Xiaomi and Fitbit to become the world’s bestselling wearable tech company in the second half of 2017 thanks to strong demand for the last generation of its smartwatch. It has held on to the top spot ever since, according to IDC.

    Image copyright Apple Image caption The bigger screen allows more information and shortcuts to be shown at once

    “The reason it performed so well is that many network operators are only willing to focus on smartwatches with their own [built-in cellular] connectivity,” commented IDC’s Francisco Jeronimo.

    “That’s why they are shipping about as many watches as the whole Swiss watch-making industry.”

    New iPhones

    There had been concerns that the relatively high £999 entry price of the handset would limit its appeal when it was announced a year ago.

    But Apple said it had consistently proven more popular than either of the lower-priced iPhone 8 models. Market research firms suggest it also outsold rival companies’ flagship devices.

    That helped propel Apple to become the world’s first company with a market capitalisation above $1tn (£768m).

    However, China’s Huawei still managed to overtake it in terms of overall smartphone market share in the April-to-June quarter, putting Apple into third place.

    “Huawei was able to overtake it because Apple is not playing in the mid and low ends of the market,” commented Francisco Jeronimo from IDC.

    “But Apple is very well positioned in the premium segment, and we don’t expect that to change over the next 18 months.”

    iPhone demand grows despite Chinese gains

    IBM Simon: The first mobile phone to offer a touchscreen user-interface – but its battery only lasted an hour.

    Siemens S10: The first handset with a colour display – although only red, green, blue and white could be shown.

    LG Prada: The handset debuted a capacitive touchscreen – detecting finger taps by changes in the display’s electrical field rather than pressure.

    iPhone: Apple made use of “multi-touch”, detecting several points of contact – allowing pinch-to-zoom and other interactions.

    Nokia N85: First phone with an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display, letting it show deeper blacks and better contrast.

    Samsung Galaxy Note: Although not the first “phablet”, the handset proved there was demand for a 5+ inch display, despite claims it was “comically huge”.

    LG G Flex: The curved design was derided as being a gimmick, but points the way to the true “bendy” phones of the future.

    Sharp Aquos Crystal: The phone’s “edgeless” look foreshadowed today’s trend to keep bezels to a minimum.

    Samsung Galaxy Note Edge: Samsung’s first handset to wrap its screen over one its sides used the extra space for notifications and app shortcuts.

    Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: The smartphone premiered a 4K display before it was easy to obtain such ultra-high definition mobile content.

    Essential Phone: The start-up beat Apple to featuring a camera notch in its display, which allowed the rest of the screen to extend upwards.

    Vivo X21: The Chinese firm beat rivals to offering a fingerprint reader beneath its screen.

  • Apple self-driving car in minor crash

    Apple sign Symbol copyright Getty Photographs Symbol caption Apple is assumed to have a secretive riding division referred to as Mission Titan

    A self-using automobile owned by Apple was concerned about an coincidence, California ’s street authority has confirmed.

    The automotive, a changed Lexus RX450h with autonomous sensors, was once rear-ended by way of a human motive force in a Nissan Leaf.

    Humans have been unharmed, however the machines suffered average damage.

    Apple ’s car is understood to be a part of an ambitious but secretive programme – Project Titan. Apple has now not commented at the 24 August collision, understood to be the corporate’s first.

    Hypothesis as to what the project seeks to achieve levels from a fully-fledged Apple automobile – or simply running with current car makers to provide self sufficient generation.

    Apple ’s self-driving programme had been public wisdom, It was once found out that the company now has SIXTY SIX such automobiles at the roads, with 111 drivers registered to operate them.

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    Like Several firm experimenting with autonomy in California, Apple should provide regular reports to the state ’s Department of Motorized Vehicles (DMV), together with whilst a crash happens.

    ‘Waiting for a secure gap’

    According to documents released via the DMV on Friday, Apple ’s automobile was on the roads in Sunnyvale, a Silicon Valley city now not removed from Apple ’s headquarters in Cupertino.

    The crash happened previous to 15:00 – it used to be dry, clear and there have been no unusual prerequisites, the DMV said.

    “An Apple check vehicle in self sustaining mode was rear-ended even as preparing to merge onto Lawrence Parkway South from Kifer Street,” the incident description reads.

    “The Apple check vehicle was once vacationing less than 1 mph waiting for a safe gap to complete the merge while a 2016 Nissan Leaf contacted the Apple check vehicle at roughly 15mph.

    “Each vehicles sustained harm and no accidents had been suggested via both birthday party.”

    The DMV doesn’t characteristic blame in its studies. Self-riding automobiles being rear-ended, then again, may well be considered a trend. a up to date document through investigative generation information website The Guidelines found out teething problems at Waymo, the self-riding automotive company spun out of Google, the place there have been complications as a result of what people would possibly consider over-wary using.

    The self-using vehicles may forestall unexpectedly in scenarios the place humans may zip via, akin to turning throughout a line of visitors.

    “As a outcome, human drivers from time to time have rear-ended the Waymo vans,” the record stated.

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  • ‘Foreshadow’ assault impacts Intel chips

    Intel logo Image copyright Getty Images Symbol caption The flaw impacts chips made out of 2015, however will likely be fastened in long run models, Intel stated

    Researchers have discovered another critical security flaw in computer chips designed through Intel.

    Nicknamed Foreshadow, this is the 3rd vital flaw to electrify the company ’s chips this year.

    the us govt ’s frame for laptop security said “an attacker could take advantage of this vulnerability to procure delicate data”.

    Intel has released a patch which mitigates the problem, which impacts processors released from 2015 onwards.

    A complete record of affected hardware has been published on Intel’s web page.

    “we are no longer conscious about experiences that any of those methods have been utilized in real-global exploits,” the firm stated.

    “However this further underscores the will for everybody to adhere to safety highest practices.”

    It said future processors can be inbuilt this kind of method as not to be affected by Foreshadow. Information of the vulnerability adopted two identical assaults – Spectre and Meltdown – that have been discovered earlier this year. Jointly the issues affected billions of computer systems across the world.

    ‘Lock box’

    Foreshadow used to be discovered by collaborative work by researchers from KU Leuven university in Belgium and others from the colleges of Adelaide and Michigan. After Intel used to be made aware of the attack, the chip company then discovered two more comparable weaknesses.

    “What our assault does is it makes use of techniques which are very similar to the Meltdown attacks from six months ago,” explained Prof Thomas Wenisch from the College of Michigan.

    “But we found out we could in particular target a lock box within Intel ’s processors. it would assist you to leak any information you want out of those secure enclaves.”

    Intel had created its fix previous to main points of the flaw being made public, and coordinated its response with the researchers on Tuesday. Its repair disables a few of the features in its chips that were susceptible to the attack the researchers came upon.

    Companies working cloud computing platforms – like Amazon and Google – may just see a significant hit to their collective computing power, as Intel ’s mitigation limits the level to which the similar processor can be used for multiple duties without delay.

    Particular Person computer customers are recommended, as ever, to obtain and set up any tool updates to be had. The analysis group advised the BBC it was once not likely that folks would see any performance impact.

    Intel ’s inventory was marginally down in after-hours buying and selling on Tuesday.