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By Jennifer Korn, CNN A first-generation 2007 iPhone sold for more than $63,000 in an online auction Sunday, more than 100 times its original cost. Dubbed a “first-edition” device by auctioneer LCG Auctions, the box had never been opened. The original iPhone cost $599 and offered early Apple adopters a 3.5-inch screen with a 2-megapixel

By Brian Fung, CNN A member of the Senate Intelligence Committee is calling on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over concerns about national security, in the latest indication of mounting scrutiny on the short-form video app from members of Congress. In a letter sent to the two tech giants on

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business At its annual Unpacked event on Wednesday, Samsung unveiled its latest Galaxy S smartphones — and the company is betting that focusing on improvements to the camera will be enough to get consumers to upgrade. The new lineup, which includes the 6.8-inch Galaxy S23 Ultra, 6.6-inch Galaxy S23+, and

By Jennifer Korn A record $3.8 billion worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from various services last year, with much of those thefts driven by North Korean-linked hackers, according to a report Wednesday from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The increase in crypto heists, from $3.3 billion in 2021, came as the overall market for cryptocurrencies suffered

By Rob McLean, CNN A tech CEO is apologizing after quoting Martin Luther King Jr. in a layoffs announcement. On January 24, PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada sent a letter to employees announcing the digital operations management company would eliminate about 7% of its workforce. Tejada quoted King at the end of that letter. “I am

By Jennifer Korn More than four years after Instagram’s founders left the company, they’re back with a new app. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger on Tuesday announced the launch of Artifact, an app that promises “a personalized news feed” powered by artificial intelligence. In an Instagram post, Krieger said he and Systrom “have been working

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Two months after OpenAI unnerved some educators with the public release of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can help students and professionals generate shockingly convincing essays, the company is unveiling a new tool to help teachers adapt. OpenAI on Tuesday announced a new feature, called an “AI text classifier,”

By Brian Fung, CNN Apple has illegally imposed rules on its employees that prohibit them from discussing their wages and engaging in other protected activity, according to investigators at the National Labor Relations Board. The findings by NLRB agents determined that “various work rules, handbook rules, and confidentiality rules at Apple” are unlawful because they

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN In the week before Microsoft publicly announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs, thousands of workers at the tech giant who were eager for any information about the looming layoffs joined a professional networking site — not LinkedIn, which Microsoft owns, but Blind. Some 6,000 Microsoft employees signed up for accounts on

By Michelle Toh and CNN’s Beijing bureau China has hit back after reports that Washington is moving to further restrict sales of American technology to Huawei. “China is deeply concerned,” Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the country’s foreign ministry, said at a press conference Tuesday. The Financial Times reported earlier that the US Commerce Department

By Michelle Toh, CNN Samsung’s quarterly profits have plunged to their lowest level in eight years as customers snapped up fewer cell phones and laptops. The tech giant reported operating profit of 4.3 trillion Korean won ($3.5 billion) on Tuesday for the three months ended December, down 69% from a year ago. Revenue fell 8%