ZTE Corp. will regain access to U.S. technology after the U.S. Commerce Department today signed off on a final deal subject to the Chinese electronics giant making a final payment. The deal was brokered by the Trump Administration in response to a decision by the Commerce Department to ban ZTE from being able to obtain U.S. technology ...

Magic Leap Inc. is promising to deliver the long-awaited developer edition of its mixed-reality goggles this summer. The pledge came as the company announced a new investor and exclusive retail launch partner in the form of AT&T Inc. The”Magic Leap One Create Edition” goggles come to market more than three years after Magic Leap first demonstrated their ...

A hacker tried to sell sensitive U.S. military documents relating to Reaper drones and tanks on the shady part of the internet called the darknet, security firm Recorded Future Inc.’s Insikt Group has discovered. The material included Air Force maintenance training materials for the MQ-9A Reaper drone and the list of airmen assigned to the ...

Iconic department store company Macy’s Inc. and New York-based restaurant group B&B Hospitality Group are the latest in a long list of companies to have customer data hacked and stolen. With Macy’s, the company said that an unknown third party gained access to accounts on Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com using valid usernames and passwords between April ...

It may be only July, but it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Facebook Inc. The social media giant today announced support for augmented reality advertising that it’s pitching as ideal for the holiday season. The new AR ads, initially being tested with a select group of advertisers, combine AR with product placement to enable ...

A former Apple Inc. engineer has been charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for stealing confidential information from the company’s autonomous vehicle project. The accused, named Xiaolang Zhang, was employed by Apple in December 2015 to work on Project Titan, Apple’s self-driving car project, where he was given the job of designing and testing circuit boards ...

WhiteHat Security Inc. today announced a partnership with RiskIQ that will give its customers access to RiskIQ’s Digital Footprint Snapshot technology. The technology expands the reach of WhiteHat’s Discovery tool by allowing customers to expand their security coverage to point-in-time snapshots of their brands’ online presence beyond the firewall. Specifically, that means internet-facing assets including ...

Timehop, both an app and a company that was big on Facebook until the social network copied its features via its own “On This Day” service in 2015, has been hacked. Data relating to 21 million users was stolen. It consisted of names and email addresses of its users, with 4.7 million records including phone numbers ...

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bancor is offline after a hacker managed to steal about $23 million in cryptocurrencies from the service. Details on how the hack took place are scant. Bancor described it only as a “security breach” and said that “no user wallets were compromised.” In a later update, the company said it takes the incident seriously ...

Microsoft Corp. has returned to the small, affordable tablet market, announcing the Surface Go, a 10-inch tablet packing a lot of punch for $399. Pitched by Microsoft as “the most portable and affordable Surface product yet,” the Go tablet offers an 1800 x 1200 PixelSense Display. It supports the Surface Pen with 4096 levels of ...