A former Twitter employee suspected of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia was found guilty, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The employee, U.S. resident Ahmad Abouammo, was also convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, falsifying records and money laundering. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Abouammo worked on media partnerships in…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., takes a question from a reporter at a news conference held by the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Aug. 23, 2021. AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, said Tuesday that FBI agents had seized his cell phone. Perry revealed the alleged seizure of his…
Police direct traffic outside an entrance to former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. AP Photo/Terry Renna The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago home puts Donald Trump at the center of the midterm elections debate. As Republicans rally support for Trump, Democrats say the raid is another reminder of…
We’ve always liked the idea of home internet based on 4G/5G, and T-Mobile steadily expanded its service to cover “40M homes” last month, according to the company. Yet, T-Mobile is ready to expand its Home Internet Service to the whole country or wherever it has a working wireless network with a slightly different service called…
Netflix had made steady efforts since 2021 when it launched Netflix Games, which now has 25 mobile games (or so). In the mobile Netflix app, free games are prominently featured in the UI (at the bottom), but people are unaware or uninterested. Apptopia, an analytics company, suggested that fewer than 1% of subscribers are downloading…
The Zenfone 9 is Asus’ latest mainstream, non-gaming smartphone, and one of a very select few to come with a top of the line chipset in a very compact form factor. As such, it’s an intriguing device, one which we’ve explored in depth in our review. But we didn’t literally explore its depths, opening it…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s marking OneDrive’s 15th anniversary with a new landing page, called OneDrive Home, and it should make it easier to keep tabs on your work. Instead of arriving on the My files tab when you first open OneDrive, you’ll find yourself on the new Home page that resembles…
Enlarge / Just a few of the many Google messaging logos. Can you name them all? (credit: Ron Amadeo) Google has been unable to field a stable, competitive messaging platform for years and has thoroughly lost the messaging war to products with a long-term strategy. At least some divisions inside the company are waking up…
Enlarge (credit: Charles McQuillan / Stringer | Getty Images News) For the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned, there’s a clear example showing exactly how Facebook will react to law enforcement requests for abortion data without user consent. Forbes reports that a 17-year-old named Celeste Burgess in Nebraska had her Facebook messages subpoenaed…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson/T. Clements et al.) Sometimes science can be a messy endeavor—not to mention “disgusting and smelly.” That’s how British researchers described their experiments monitoring dead sea bass carcasses as they rotted over the course of 70 days. In the process, they gained some fascinating insights into how (and why) the soft tissues…