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A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021.

Cybersecurity expert: Israeli spyware company NSO Group poses ‘a serious threat to phone users’

Cybersecurity

John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher with The Citizen Lab in Canada who discovered the Apple iPhone breach with his colleagues, joined The World’s host Carol Hills to talk about the international spyware marketplace that fosters these kinds of exploits.

Isis, the dog

Downton Abbey’s pooch has a problem — with her name

Global Scan
Michele Mattana of Sardinia, Italy, poses with an iPhone 6 Plus and an iPhone 6 on the first day of sales at the Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan on September 19, 2014.

Some customers are bent out of shape after Apple’s big iPhone launch

Technology
Shi Zengqiang, on the right, the father of a 15-year-old worker at Chinese manufacturing company Pegatron worker who died of pneumonia, holds a banner at a news conference in Beijing on December 16, 2013.

Chinese workers pay a toxic price for their jobs making Apple’s iPhones and iPads

Business
Agbogbloshie, Ghana in 2012.

Here’s how to keep that old cell phone you’re about to toss from becoming toxic e-waste in a developing country

Environment
Apple Smartwatch

Apple is banking on the fact that you will want to wear your tech on your sleeve

Business

Wearable technology has been around for a few years. Now, with Apple entering the market, analysts say it could really take off … and maybe more as a fashion statement than as an indispensable computing and body sensing tool.

‘Apple picking’ raises big concerns for Apple product owners

Environment

Cities worldwide are seeing increased cases of theft of high priced Apple products. Now, tech users are offering up a list of ways to protect both the device and its data from thieves.

In the wake of iPhone 5, is Apple’s mystique causing it as much trouble as benefit?

Environment

Apple made waves with its iPhone 5 unveiling Wednesday — but perhaps not the waves it has at some of its previous launches. Are expectations too high for Apple, or is the company just not delivering like it used to? And, really, does it even matter?

Apple announces plan for its cash: give it back to shareholders

Environment

In what was a highly anticipated announcement, Apple announced that it would be reducing — or at least stemming the growth — in its cash accounts by doing what most investment experts said they would do: issue a regular dividend and buy back shares. Some of Apple’s fans had hoped for a big move, like purchasing a company or unveiling some new product.

Apple sends independent inspectors to suppliers’ Chinese factories

Environment

Recent reporting by The New York Times has raised concern about the conditions faced by workers in Apple’s supply factories in China. Now Apple has hired an independent labor rights organization to inspect and publish a report on the labor environment in its suppliers’ factories. The first round of inspections began Monday.