Anything For You All: 10 things in tech you need to know today

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September 01, 2016

Good morning! Here's the tech news you need to know this Thursday.

1. Apple CEO Tim Cook has described the European Union's $14.5 billion back tax bill as "total political crap". He said it was motivated in part by anti-US bias.

2. Hackers stole almost 70 million customer passwords from Dropbox after an employee reused a password. You can check if your records are in the Dropbox data dump on Have I Been Pwned?

3. Apple is beefing up iCloud ahead of the iPhone 7 launch. The company is now offering customers a whopping 2 terabyte plan, which is the equivalent of 1,000 gigabytes, for $19.99.

4. It looks like Mark Zuckerberg is having a blast in Nigeria. So far he's visited a camp that teaches kids how to code, gone on a run through the city, and hosted a Q&A with local entrepreneurs. He even crashed a Nigerian hip-hop music video

5. Some Eurosceptics hope that Ireland will leave the EU after a contentious EU ruling on Apple's tax affairs in the country. The EU has ordered Ireland to claw back $14.5 billion in back taxes from Apple.

6. Google is strapping cameras to sheep for a new mapping project. The sheep cameras will be used to map the Faroe Islands, an archipelago under Danish control in the North Atlantic Ocean.

7. Some of the people investing the CIA's money in startups are under scrutiny. Nearly half of the 11 trustees for In-Q-Tel are connected to companies the Virginia-based firm has invested in, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal.

8. You can pinch to zoom on photos and videos in Instagram now. The feature was made available via an iPhone app update on Wednesday. Support for the Android app will be added in the "coming weeks."

9. Uber generated $449 million in revenue over the last two years from its "safe ride" fees, according to a report from Bloomberg. The $1-per-ride fee, originally introduced in April 2014, was a way for Uber to recoup the costs of running its background checks and providing 24/7 support to its riders.

10. IBM's Watson sorted through over 100 film clips to create an algorithmically perfect movie trailer. Watson is IBM's best-known AI system.