Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty) Gene Levoff, a former Vice President of Corporate Law at Apple, was charged with insider trading on Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Levoff, who was until last year responsible for Apple’s compliance with the SEC, was fired in September 2018. He is accused of trading on insider information…

Undated photos of Witt released by the FBI.Photo: FBI Monica Elfriede Witt, a former counterintelligence officer with the U.S. Air Force, has been charged with giving the Iranian government classified information in an indictment unsealed today. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says that information provided by Witt aided Iranian hackers in a phishing campaign…

Artist’s depiction of Mnyamawamtuka in its natural setting.Illustration: Mark Witton Titanosaurs were the giants of the giants—four-legged behemoths that stomped around Cretaceous South America and Africa 100 million years ago. The discovery of a previously unknown titanosaur in Tanzania with a unique heart-shaped tailbone is adding to our knowledge of these enigmatic beasts, and how…

Opportunity’s shadowPhoto: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA researchers held out, attempting to ping the rover hundreds of times and listening over the radio waves hoping to hear its signal once again. But there was no response. The rover, along with its partner, Spirit, landed on Mars in 2004 as part of the Mars Exploration Rover mission. The two…

Photo: Getty / Spencer Platt They say nothing in life is free. Maybe that isn’t always the case, but when it’s your internet provider offering you a freebie, it’s best to assume there’s always going to be some hidden cost. So-called zero-rating schemes have been long been a contentious point in the net neutrality debate.…

This is a carbon map showing where on the specimen carbon molecules are located, Selden explained to Gizmodo. Photo: Tae-Yoon S Park A new spider fossil discovery included a surprising find: remnants of reflective eye tissue. Though common today, spiders don’t appear much in the fossil record because their soft bodies don’t preserve well, according…