Stephen Colbert, the host of CBS’s flagship late-night program The Late Show, made a striking on-air disclosure this week: the network had pulled a planned interview segment from his show, and he believes the decision was driven by fear of retaliation from the Federal Communications Commission.
For years, Toyota stood as one of the most conspicuous holdouts among major automakers when it came to adopting Apple’s digital car key technology. That era is now over. Toyota has announced that it will support Apple Wallet car keys across a broad swath of its vehicle lineup, a move that signals a significant shift in the Japanese automaker’s approach to digital integration and one that could reshape expectations for in-car connectivity across the industry.
A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed in a U.S. federal court accuses Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s largest personal computer manufacturer, of covertly transferring vast quantities of American consumer data to servers in China — a charge that, if substantiated, could send tremors through the global technology supply chain and reignite fierce debate over the security implications of Chinese-manufactured hardware in American homes and offices.
In an era where biometric authentication has become second nature — a quick glance at your phone or a thumb pressed to a sensor — most Android users have never considered the circumstances under which those very conveniences could become liabilities. Buried within Android’s settings lies a feature called Lockdown Mode, a powerful security tool that Google has offered since Android 9 Pie but that remains virtually unknown to the vast majority of the platform’s billions of users.
In an era when solid-state drives dominate headlines and cloud infrastructure spending reaches record highs, the humble hard disk drive remains the backbone of large-scale data storage. And for the companies that depend on tens of thousands of spinning platters to safeguard petabytes of customer data, one question looms above all others: which drives actually last?
When one of America’s most storied food companies—maker of Cheerios, Häagen-Dazs, and Betty Crocker—steps to the podium and tells Wall Street that consumers are pulling back in ways not seen in years, the investment community takes notice. General Mills’ latest earnings report has sent tremors through the consumer staples sector, offering a sobering portrait of an American household under mounting financial pressure.
In a striking turn during its ongoing antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission, Qualcomm Inc. quietly withdrew a provocative legal argument that had threatened to reshape the economics of the smartphone industry: the claim that its licensing practices had inflated the price of Apple’s iPhones.
For more than 30 years, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface system embedded in Microsoft Windows has remained virtually untouched — a relic of the early 1990s frozen in amber while the rest of the operating system evolved around it. Now, in a move that has caught the attention of music producers, audio engineers, and hardware manufacturers alike, Microsoft is undertaking a significant overhaul of Windows MIDI, bringing it into the modern era with support for MIDI 2.0 and a host of long-awaited improvements.
For decades, the air corridor between Canada and the United States represented one of the most lucrative and dependable international route networks in global aviation. Millions of Canadians flew south for business meetings, family visits, shopping trips, and sun-soaked vacations with the regularity of commuters catching a morning train. That era, at least for now, appears to be over.
A Tesla Model Y owner in Colorado says the vehicle’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software drove his car directly into a lake, adding a dramatic and visually striking incident to the growing catalog of concerns surrounding Tesla’s advanced driver-assistance technology. The episode, which was captured in part by the vehicle’s own onboard cameras, has reignited a fierce debate about the safety, reliability, and regulatory oversight of autonomous driving systems — and whether Tesla’s aggressive rollout of FSD is outpacing the technology’s actual capabilities.
