Category: Tech

The release date was confirmed in an Apple press release about the newly announced iPhones that go on sale Friday. Per usual, the new iOS version will be available as a free download when it’s released. Apple (AAPL) first gave users a glimpse of iOS 15 in June at its annual developers conference where it…

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New York (CNN Business)Four people are set to return from a three-day extraterrestrial excursion aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday evening, the final, and perhaps most dangerous, stretch of their mission. Their return will mark the end of the first-ever flight to Earth’s orbit flown entirely by tourists or otherwise non-astronauts. The four…

(CNN)Before computers were a staple of workplaces, schools, libraries and many homes, they were bulky, expensive and a luxury many couldn’t afford. Enter Clive Sinclair. The British inventor’s first personal computer, the ZX80, was a slim steal at $200. The invention and its more advanced successors helped bring computing to the masses (and inspired a…

(CNN)A voting app created by allies of prominent Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was removed from Google and Apple’s online stores in Russia just as polls opened for parliamentary elections, according to a series of tweets from Navalny’s team on Friday.Ivan Zhdanov, a key ally of the jailed dissident, tweeted an image of an email he…

San Jose, California (CNN Business)Erika Cheung, a former Theranos lab worker turned whistleblower, testified Wednesday during the trial of founder Elizabeth Holmes about how she grew increasingly uncomfortable about the startup’s ability to accurately conduct blood tests on patients.In her testimony, Cheung detailed her growing concerns about the company’s devices failing quality control tests in…

New York (CNN Business)As the Taliban entered Kabul last month, the team behind the crowdsourced news alert app Ehtesab deserted their office in the city. But they continued their work of providing Afghans with critical information, such as which roads were congested and where outbreaks of violence had been reported. Days later, when two suicide…

(CNN Business)Microsoft has a solution for the familiar problem of needing to remember too many passwords: doing away with them altogether. The company announced Wednesday that it will introduce a “passwordless account” option for all users of several popular services such as Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft OneDrive in the coming weeks. Microsoft previously made this…

Cape Canaveral, Florida (CNN Business)A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit Wednesday evening, carrying four people — none of whom are professional astronauts — and kicking off the first-ever mission to Earth’s orbit crewed entirely by tourists. The launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida was dramatically illuminated with spotlights against the night sky,…

The release date was confirmed in an Apple press release about the newly announced iPhones that go on sale Friday. Per usual, the new iOS version will be available as a free download when it’s released. Apple (AAPL) first gave users a glimpse of iOS 15 in June at its annual developers conference where it…