A year after the attack on Las Ramblas, the unfolding story of Abdelbaki Es Satty points more to a failure of the police than of the community he hid among. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who will testify alongside Twitter Chief Executive Jack...

  It’s been a decade since the British designer Imran Chaudhri first imagined a user interface that would introduce millions of people to the smartphone. Chaudhri joined Apple in 1995, soon rising to become the design director of the company’s human interfaces...

When it comes to pop culture, something that can define you, for better or worse, is your relationship to Star Wars. There are fans who love it, people who hate it and some who have never seen it. CNET's former editorial intern Perla Shaheen falls into the last...

But today we’re three years into the era when the just-plain MacBook is the radically thin and light model, and the Air is the best-selling baseline model that isn’t really any thinner or lighter than the Pro models. Well, so what? We drive on parkways and park on...

  '”Företaget har gjort en del saker för att motverka att plattformen används av mörka krafter som vill påverka vår demokrati och valrörelse. Det är självklart bra och förtjänar beröm. Vad som inte är bra är att deras insatser inte på långa vägar är nog”, skriver...

On Friday, Tim Cook will mark the seventh anniversary of his ascension as Apple Inc.’s seventh chief executive officer. At 57, he’s in his prime, and all signs point to a durable tenure. When Apple’s board named Cook CEO back in 2011, the directors signed him on for a...

This story is part of When Spies Come Home, a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones. A company that markets cell phone spyware to parents and employers left the data of thousands of its customers—and the...

When Steve Jobs told his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs that the Apple Lisa computer was not named after her, it was not a cruel lie to a little girl, she insists — he was teaching her “not to ride on his coattails.” When Mr. Jobs refused to install heat in her bedroom,...

ALTENA, Germany — When you ask locals why Dirk Denkhaus, a young firefighter trainee who had been considered neither dangerous nor political, broke into the attic of a refugee group house and tried to set it on fire, they will list the familiar issues. This small...

  From Cloudflare’s headline-making takedown of the Daily Stormer last autumn to YouTube’s summer restrictions on LGBTQ content, there's been a surge in “voluntary” platform censorship. Companies—under pressure from lawmakers, shareholders, and the public...

If smart appliances that can be remotely controlled over the internet were to be compromised and used in a botnet, then attackers could cause local power outages or even large-scale blackouts, according to a presentation given by Princeton University researchers at...

Popular iOS Twitter client, Leaf, has announced today that the app will no longer be getting updates. With the announcement, the developer iPlop, and app designer Surenix have shed some light on what they’ve been working on, but will ultimately never see the light of...