Computing

It has been four years since Apple introduced a completely new gadget and the pressure is on for the world’s largest tech company to wow at its “special event” in Cupertino, California, Sept. 9.

President Hassan Rouhani re-entered Iran's feverish debate on Internet censorship and gender segregation Sept. 7, saying neither policy was in the country's interest.
      
Rouhani was elected last year having pledged to be more moderate on social issues after his conservative predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's eight-year tenure, but he has encountered resistance.
      

Turkish technology giant Vestel has revealed its long-awaited domestically-produced new smartphone, “Venus.”

Turkey must engage in reforms beyond legislation to quell the lack of Internet freedoms, several rights group said in a joint press conference organized in the sidelines of the ninth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, held this year in Istanbul.

Apple is ramping up iCloud defenses in the aftermath of hackers swiping nude photos of celebrities from the online digital vault, the Wall Street Journal reported late Sept. 4.
      

The FBI and Apple were urgently investigating Sept. 1 after an apparent massive hack of a cloud data service unleashed a torrent of intimate pictures of dozens of celebrities across the Internet.

Anonymous posters to online message boards boasted of having nude images of scores of female stars including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and top model Kate Upton.

Google on Tuesday announced a plan to bolster Greek tourism’s online communication tools, in collaboration with the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) and the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE).

Two teenagers were detained in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna after attempting to collect the Sports Totalizator BGN 5M jackpot using a fake slip.

The two 19-year-olds tried to hack the Totalizator's database in order to manipulate the numbers, Bulgarian National Radio reports.

Arch-rivals Samsung and Apple decided yesterday to drop all patent disputes outside the United States, marking a partial ceasefire in a long-running legal war between the world’s two largest smartphone makers.

An asteroid is to be named after the son of Tsetska Tsacheva, former Bulgarian Parliament Speaker.

Tsacheva's son, Rumen Dangovski, won second place in the world's largest international pre-university science competition, Intel's International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), according to reports of Standard daily.