Are exciting new features coming to the next generation of MacBooks? Memos from the department of rumors say they’re likely! Apple obsessives who examined changes to the company’s public computer code have spotted signs that future laptops will include both Touch ID — Apple’s fingerprint reading technology — as well as something called an OLED …

What will Google call its next Android mobile operating system? Certainly not Namey McNameface, but that didn’t stop developers from calling it that in a preview of the new system available to software developers. According to Android Central, just click on “Settings” and then “About phone” on that preview, and you’ll see the silly monicker there. The name is a …

Sales for new Huawei smartphones topped 2.6 million units after six weeks, the Chinese company announced Wednesday. The P9 and P9 Plus are popular with shoppers in China, France, Finland and Britain, the company said in a press release, and helped put Huawei’s market share in the smartphone space at 8.5 percent. The phones boast a partnership with the Leica …

Facebook isn’t researching user data all willy-nilly. Instead, there’s a review process that squares research with the company’s privacy policy and involves ethicists and experts from inside and outside the company. That’s according to a blog post published Wednesday by two people involved in managing research at Facebook. “Research only begins when the full group agrees that the benefits — …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s commitment to data privacy showed no signs of waning Monday at the company’s annual developer’s conference. “In every feature that we do, we carefully consider how to protect your privacy,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, said during the …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: OS X gets a new name, and new features galore 2:22 You’ll be using your password less on Apple products — thank goodness. If you’re wearing and logged into your Apple Watch, a new, password-less method will automatically log …

On June 6, 2013, Edward Snowden — holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room with two Guardian reporters and a filmmaker — told the world about a secret surveillance program that let the US National Security Agency grab people’s emails, video chats, photos and documents through some of the world’s biggest tech companies. That program was called Prism, and …

Yahoo published three secret requests for user information from the FBI on Wednesday. It marked the first time the FBI has allowed a company to tell the public it received National Security Letters based on a process set up in last year’s USA Freedom Act, Yahoo said. The letters are special subpoenas issued by the FBI requiring companies to hand …

Evidence in a child pornography trial has been thrown out because the US government refuses to detail how it hacked the website allegedly visited by the defendant. The FBI says the hacking method, referred to as a Network Investigation Technique, or NIT, allowed the bureau to track Jay Michaud after he visited a hidden website on the so-called Dark Web, …

Show your work. The US Supreme Court kicked a contentious privacy lawsuit back to a lower court on Monday, essentially telling the 9th US District Court of Appeals it hadn’t answered all the necessary questions when ruling that people search engine Spokeo had harmed a user by displaying inaccurate information. In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court said the lower …