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Apple Inc. AAPL -2.09% And the alphabet Inc. Google -1.89% Google Data Broker X-Mode Social Inc. Will be banned from collecting any location information extracted from mobile devices running their operating operating systems following revelations about the company’s national security function. The two largest mobile phone platforms told developers this …

Exclusive Jason Slater – One of the original members of the rock band Third Blind Eye – has died … TMZ has learned. Jason’s daughter, Alyssa Carlson, Tells TMZ … Rock musician died Wednesday at a hospital in Maui from liver failure. Alyssa says her dad kept her condition a …

Adobe has released the final scheduled update to its Flash Player plugin weeks before the official retirement of Flash. Yesterday marked the last update for Flash outside Mainland China, which includes a different version of the software, as noted on Adobe’s site. Adobe will stop supporting Flash on December 31, …

Asian bees paste ponytails on their structures to repel attacks by giant killer hyenas, scientists say. The attacks could have involved dozens of heavily armed hornets and the “mass slaughter” of thousands of bees, the researchers said, after which the hornets carried bee larvae to feed their offspring. But in …

The Houston Rockets are uncertain when James Harden will be allowed to practice as they await word from the NBA about the COVID-19 protocol following the superstar’s holdout from training camp. First-year Rockets coach Stephen Silas also noted that free-agent Cygni Sterling Brown has yet to practice with the Rockets …