Author: Alan Binder

Trump invited his teammates into the Oval Office, where he’d been spending afternoons and evenings lately when he wasn’t in the adjacent dining room watching TV, and demanded that he know why he was abandoning a fight he fully intended to fight. Rather than an actual attempt to get more votes or even to reverse the election results, Trump’s legal efforts appear designed instead to sow conspiracy theories among his conservative supporters, raise extra money, preserve power over the Republican Party, and cast a shadow of illegitimacy on Biden the office. The same shadow Trump had complained of long ago…

Chris Parker / CNET The IPhone 12 mini It is a difficult phone to crack. we’ve got The drop test is already 6.1 inches iPhone 12, but we decided to do it again with the 5.4-inch iPhone 12 Mini to see if the smaller phone gave different results. Basically, we wanted to see if we could crack the screen. Spoiler: We didn’t, but we managed to break other things in the process. Covered Apple’s new ceramic protective glass, The iPhone 12 Mini’s display proved nearly indestructible in drop test. It also appears to be better at dealing with frequent drops…

BERLIN (Reuters) – A group led by privacy activist Max Schirmes filed complaints on Monday with German and Spanish data protection authorities about Apple. AAPL.O The online tracking tool, saying it violated European law by allowing iPhones to store users’ data without their consent.File image: The Apple logo appears outside at the upcoming Apple Marina Bay Sands store in Singapore, on September 8, 2020. Reuters / Edgar SueIt is the first such large measure against a US tech group related to EU privacy rules.The digital rights group Noyb, run by Schrems, has successfully conducted two notable privacy experiments against Facebook…

It’s no longer the same as hopping on a commuter flight from New York to Washington or renting a car from Avis, but the launch of four astronauts Sunday to the International Space Station in a capsule built by SpaceX was an important step toward making space travel commonplace.In the future, instead of relying on government-run spacecraft, NASA astronauts and anyone else with enough cash will be able to purchase a ticket on a commercial rocket.NASA has classified Sunday night’s launch as the first operational flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft built and managed by SpaceX, the rocket company that…

Facing widespread opposition, Peru’s interim president resigned on Sunday, on his sixth day in office, pushing a country already facing an economic decline and a devastating pandemic into a constitutional crisis.President Manuel Merino took office on Tuesday, after lawmakers shocked the nation by voting to impeach the popular former president, Martin Vizcarra, and then swear to Mr. Merino, who had been the president of Congress.From his first moments in office, Mr. Merino faced opposition from Peruvians who took to the streets in protest and from prominent political and social leaders, many of whom said they did not recognize Mr. Merino…

Iota which Friday formed In the sea, the Caribbean was concentrated around 440 miles east to southeast from the Nicaragua-Honduras border with maximum winds of 75 mph as of 2 a.m. ET on Sunday, The US National Hurricane Center said. It is expected to consolidate rapidly over the next 24 hours.Tyler Mulden, a CNN meteorologist, said Hurricane Iota – the thirteenth hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season – is expected to continue heading west and making landfall somewhere in Central America, possibly near the Honduran-Nicaraguan border by late From Monday or early Tuesday.The storm is expected to be at…

The General Inspector of the Ports Authority begins an investigation into the deportation of Muslim activist Amani Al-Khattabeh from an American Airlines plane after a dispute with another passenger in Newark, New JerseyOfficials said Al-Khatatba, 28, who ran in a failed Democratic primary for a seat in New Jersey, refused to disembark from a flight to Charlotte on Saturday after being asked by the flight attendants and pilot. Al-Khattaba broadcast the event live, as Ports Authority police ordered everyone to get off the plane so that she could be detained. The Muslim activist said she was made the mistake following…

One hour before kick-off, soccer program No. 9 Miami Hurricanes announced that 13 players were “unavailable” for Saturday’s match against Virginia Tech. During the 2020 season, Miami adopted a policy of issuing a “no-availability report” an hour before kick-off. Miami announced that the following players will be outside Virginia Tech: DT Jason BlessetSon. OL John CampbellSon. OL Jackay ClarkAnd the DT Jared Harrison HuntAnd the from Geoffrey HarveyAnd the to me Larry HodgesAnd the DT Holly RoadAnd the pound Zach McCloudAnd the OL Cleveland ReedSon. OL Galen RiversAnd the OL Issia Walker Jr, db Kishon WashingtonAnd and from Chantz Williams.…

Lima, Peru (AP) – Undergraduate student Jesenia Medina was trying to focus on her hypothetical psychology class when a stunning title popped up on her screen: The Voice of Peru’s Congress to Overthrow the Country’s Popular President.Furious, the 23-year-old joined the thousands of students, workers and others who protested this week, denouncing Congress and refusing to recognize the new president, Manuel Merino.”I think they kept him away from their personal interests instead of the people’s interests,” she said. “Legislators are supposed to watch for the good of all.”Peru’s Congress voted overwhelmingly to impeach former President Martin Vizcarra on Monday, and…

This story is part of Festive 2020 gifts guide, You choose a CNET gift with expert advice, reviews and recommendations for the latest tech gifts for you and your family. As of yesterday – Thursday November 12 – Sony PlayStation 5 Officially available in the United States. Both versions of the PS5 are now available: a digital version for only $ 400 and a model for $ 500 with Blu-ray. (If you have good broadband and don’t need optical discs – used games, Blu-ray movies, old PS4 games – we recommend you Go with $ 400.) What you get in…