It's Game Over For FarmVille, as Flash Also Buys the Farm
The last day of the year was also the last day for FarmVille, one of the original addictive Facebook games. From a report: FarmVille, which ...
NYSE To Delist Chinese Telco Giants on US Executive Order
The New York Stock Exchange said it will delist three Chinese companies to comply with a U.S. executive order that imposed restrictions on c...
Alphabet Unit Wing Blasts New US Drone ID Rule, Citing Privacy
Alphabet's drone delivery unit Wing criticized Trump administration rules issued this week mandating broadcast-based remote identificati...
Trade-in Site Gazelle is Ending Trade-ins
Gazelle, one of the longest-running used smartphone buyers in the US, has announced the end of its core trade-in program, which let phone ow...
Microsoft says hackers were able to see some of its source code
As Microsoft continues to investigate the massive SolarWinds attack, the company says it has discovered that its systems were infiltrated “...
T-Mobile Data Breach Exposed Phone Numbers, Call Records
T-Mobile has announced a data breach exposing customers' proprietary network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and call record...
Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Viewed Source Code
The hackers who carried out a sophisticated cyberattack on government agencies in the US and private companies were able to access Microsoft...
Ten-Year Long Study Confirms No Link Between Playing Violent Video Games as Early as Ten Years Old and Aggressive Behavior Later in Life
An anonymous reader shares a report: A ten-year longitudinal study published in the Journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Network...
Adobe Flash rides off into the sunset
Adobe Flash Logo Adobe scheduled to end support for its famous Flash on December 31st, 2020, and today is the day. While Adobe won’t star...
Apple Took Three Years to Cut Ties With Supplier That Used Underage Labor
An anonymous reader shares a report [the story is behind a paywall; alternative source]: Seven years ago, Apple made a staggering discovery:...
Trump’s fight to overthrow election now falls to the guy who invented the CueCat
The CueCat barcode scanner | Tomkinsc In a hopeless attempt to overthrow an American election, a ridiculous cast of characters has heeded...
Mitsubishi Heavy To Build Biggest Zero-Carbon Steel Plant
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will soon complete in Austria the world's largest steel plant capable of attaining net-zero carb...
Instagram has once again dropped the ball on a ‘top nine’ year in review feature
It’s New Year’s Eve, which means that your Instagram feed — if it’s anything like mine — is probably filled with people posting “ top nine ...
'Companies Are Fleeing California. Blame Bad Government.'
Bloomberg Editorial Board: Amid raging wildfires, rolling blackouts and a worsening coronavirus outbreak, it has not been a great year for C...
17 great games on Google Play Pass for your new 2020 Android phone
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge If you just got a brand-new Android phone for the holidays, you probably want to play some games...
The ESPN+ Annual Subscription is Going Up by $10
For the first time since the service arrived in April 2018, the ESPN+ annual plan is getting a price increase. From January 8th, it'll c...
We deserve The Muppet Great Gatsby
Image: Disney When the clock strikes midnight this New Year’s, The Great Gatsby and other works copyrighted in 1925 will enter the publi...
8 great Apple Arcade games for your new 2020 iPhone or iPad
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This time last year , Apple Arcade was still a fledgling service, but one with a lot of poten...
CISA Updates SolarWinds Guidance, Tells US Govt Agencies To Update Right Away
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has updated its official guidance for dealing with the fallout from the SolarWinds s...
Adobe Now Shows Alerts in Windows 10 To Uninstall Flash Player
With the Flash Player officially reaching the end of life tomorrow, Adobe has started to display alerts on Windows computers recommending th...
Most-Played Song of 2020? For Many It's White Noise
An anonymous reader shares a report: In an average year, Spotify Wrapped is a sharing-optimized novelty hinging on nostalgia for a time that...
Ticketmaster Pays $10 Million Criminal Fine for Invading Rival's Computers
Ticketmaster will pay a $10 million criminal fine to avoid prosecution on U.S. charges it repeatedly accessed the computer systems of a riva...
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