New details about the three rear cameras rumored to be coming to the 2019 iPhones and the iPhone X returns and is cheaper than ever and n …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechRadar: Huawei has said it is willing for its equipment and activities to be supervised by the European Union (EU) as it continues to fend off the threat of restrictions on the use of its kit in 5G networks. Last year it emerged the US, which has long…

If you didn’t miss blinking rainbow text, hit counters and Comic Sans, welcome to your nightmare — now complete with a Stan Lee cameo! …read more Source:: CNet

dryriver writes: For those who are unfamiliar with the story, from 1901-1902, inventor Nikola Tesla had a 187-foot-tall experimental wireless electricity transmission tower called the “Wardenclyffe Tower” built in Shoreham, New York. Tesla believed that it was possible to generate electrical power on a large scale in one part of the world and transmit that…

Pretty much every laptop – and for that matter, tablet and smartphone – has at least one camera fitted that’s pointing at how all the time. But how worried should we be about eyes on us? Can the nefariously-minded switch them on to spy on us? …read more Source:: ZDNet

Motherboard’s Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler report of the underground industry where thieves, coders, and hackers work to remove a user’s iCloud account from a phone so that they can then be resold. They reportedly are able to do this by phishing the phone’s original owners, or scam employees at Apple Stores, which have the…

Generally speaking, objects made on desktop 3D printers are pretty small. This is of course no surprise, as filament based printers are fairly slow and most don’t have very large beds to begin with. Most people don’t want to wait days for their project to complete, so they use 3D printed parts where it makes…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: The tipping controversy that prompted Instacart to reverse a compensation plan to its contract workers isn’t likely to go away: Rivals DoorDash and Amazon Flex are continuing to adjust driver pay based on how much they get tipped, saying doing so ensures a minimum payout. The practice,…

Government also offers cash rewards worth as much as $30,000. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes the Los Angeles Times A launchpad on the U.S.-Mexico border, which it plans to use for rockets carrying humans around the world and eventually to Mars, could be split in two by the Trump administration’s planned wall… Lawmakers said they were concerned about the effect on the company’s 50-acre facility after…