Laura Sydell
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An app that allows men to track the whereabouts of their wives and daughters is available in the Apple and Google app stores in Saudi Arabia. The firms are getting blowback for carrying the app. -
"Both sides are talking and I always think that is always the essential thing to reaching an agreement," Cook tells NPR. The U.S. has set a March 1 deadline for the talks, which resume this week. -
Silicon Valley is rethinking the implications of technology that disrupts entire industries, while the man who coined the term "disruptive innovation" stands by its basic goodness. -
The European Commission alleges that by forcing device-makers to install Google apps on Android devices it gains a significant advantage over competitors. Google plans to appeal.
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Siri, Alexa and Cortana all started out as female. Now a group of marketing executives, tech experts and academics are trying to make virtual assistants more egalitarian. -
Apple's CEO Tim Cook denies that Apple is implicated in Facebook's latest scandal. He speaks with NPR at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif.
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"We've never been in the data business," Cook tells NPR. He was responding to a report that Facebook struck deals giving Apple and other device makers access to Facebook users' personal information. -
Zuckerberg testified in front of the Senate judiciary and commerce committees Tuesday. A preview of what to expect from his second day of testimony — this time before House panels
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Police have confirmed reports of an active shooter at the Silicon Valley headquarters of YouTube.
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The agency will look at whether the social network violated a 2011 consent decree when users' data was revealed to political strategists.
