Technology

Another week, another cultural appropriation controversy. Or so it’s beginning to seem when it comes to fashion and its faux pas. This time around the lightning rod is Kim Kardashian West’s latest venture, announced on Tuesday: a line of “solutionwear,” itself a creative take on the more typical “shapewear,” which used to be called girdles, […]

The man behind the iconic designs of the iPhone, iMac and iPad is leaving Apple. Chief Design Officer Jony Ive is departing after more than two decades at Apple to start his own design firm, the company said Thursday. But he’s not completely severing ties with the company he has worked at for nearly 30

A popular Facebook grief support page reclaimed control of its account Thursday after a hacking attack that page administrators say went unaddressed for seven weeks. The case is the latest knock on Facebook’s efforts to monitor content on its platform. The moderators of the page, Grief the Unspoken, which has more than 500,000 followers, said

BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: A town in Florida has paid $500,000 (£394,000) to hackers after a ransomware attack. Former UK deputy prime minister and now vice-president of Facebook, Sir Nick Clegg has said there is “absolutely no evidence” Russia influenced the Brexit result using Facebook.

Get ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly — at least, a robotic one. NASA said Thursday that it’s sending a drone called Dragonfly to explore Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Using propellers, the drone will fly and land on several spots on the icy moon to study whether it can support

June 27 (Reuters) – Apple Inc said on Thursday that its Chief Design Officer Jony Ive will leave the iPhone maker later this year to form an independent design company, after spending nearly three decades with the technology company. Ives said his new company will be called “LoveFrom,” according to a Financial Times report, adding

SAN FRANCISCO — Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer and one of the most influential executives in the history of the Silicon Valley giant, is leaving the company. Mr. Ive will depart later this year to start his own design company, Apple said on Thursday. Through his new firm, Mr. Ive will continue to work

AT&T, the owner of DirecTV, is backing a free streaming service as a hedge against losing broadcast channels in disputes over fees. TV subscribers are increasingly finding the channels they pay for blacked out because channel owners and the cable or satellite companies can’t agree on fees. Such fights can drag on for months and

Greenpeace is warning about overfishing of endangered sharks in the North Atlantic, often by Spanish and Portuguese boats. The group published a report Thursday arguing that tens of thousands of endangered sharks are killed each year because of a lack of measures to protect them in international waters. Spanish and Portuguese longline fleets working in

President Donald Trump’s next tweet might come with a warning label. Starting Thursday, tweets that Twitter deems to involve matters of public interest, but which violate the service’s rules, will be obscured by a warning explaining the violation and Twitter‘s reasons for publishing it anyway. Users will have to tap through the warning to see