Friday, November 30, 2018

This DNA technology is helping police solve cold cases

The technology needs a small DNA sample to create an informed prediction of what someone could look like.


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Trump administration proposes changes to popular H-1B program

The Trump administration wants to reform a popular American work visa program.


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Apple Music is coming to Alexa

Alexa and Apple are playing nice. Amazon's Echo smart speakers will work with Apple Music starting December 17, Amazon announced Friday.


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Microsoft passes Apple to become most valuable company

Apple has officially been dethroned as the world's most valuable company.


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Amazon may want to identify burglars with facial recognition tech

An Amazon patent application sheds light on a way to monitor neighborhoods with a doorbell camera that could alert homeowners and police of suspicious activities and people.


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What to do if you're affected by the Marriott data breach

If you've stayed at a Starwood hotel in recent years, there's a good chance you're impacted by a massive data breach that potentially exposed the personal data of about 500 million guests.


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Facebook Staffers Once Brainstormed Ways to Sell User Data: Report

Facebook at one time considered charging companies for access to its user data, according to a report based on three pages of unredacted material from a document showing portions of some internal Facebook emails, mainly from 2012 to 2014. The documents are linked to a lawsuit, Six4Three LLC v. Facebook Inc., filed in California Superior Court. Six4Three, the developer of Pikini, a now-defunct app for locating photos of users' friends in swimsuits, filed a complaint in 2015 alleging that Facebook's data policies were anticompetitive.

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Richard Branson: Virgin Galactic will take people to space before Christmas

Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic is on the verge of a major achievement: It will send astronauts into space by Christmas.


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Virgin Galactic bounces back from tragedy with big plans for the future

Four years ago, Virgin Galactic suffered a setback that left the space company's future in limbo. A pilot was killed during a test flight, derailing Galactic's plans to begin commercial flights to the edge of space.


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CNN's Rachel Crane gets rare access inside Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit, a company looking to cash in on the red hot satellite business with a very unique approach.


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