Tech leaders line up against Trump's immigrant ban and other top stories.

• Tech leaders line up against Trump's immigrant ban

  Sean Gallup/Getty Images Related content: NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - The ink was barely dry on President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration order Friday when the backlash from the tech industry began.Four of America's biggest tech companies warned their employees about the ban. And leaders throughout the industry, where foreign-born entrepreneurs are central to its success, condemned the decree.The executive order bans about 134 million people from entering the U.S.Google sent out a..

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• Kyocera's new phone is designed to be washed with soap and water

  

  Curved screens and AR cameras are all well and good, but here’s a phone feature that extends beyond the flashy and gimmick to the potentially useful. I certainly think about running all of my gadgets under the faucet every time I travel on a plane or go a show like CES (finally getting over that cold). The Rafre is actually the second soap-and-waterproof phone from Kyocera, following another model unveiled toward the end of 2015. This time out, the Android handset has the added bonus resistanc..

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• LG's Nexus-like Watch Style surfaces in photos

  

  However, they're definitely not meant for athletic types. Notice how there's no heart rate monitor on the bottom? The omission was anticipated, but it's clear that LG will steer you toward the higher-end Watch Sport (which will also have GPS and cellular data) if you want to measure your beats per minute.The upside of this just-the-basics approach may be the price. An Android Police source claims that the Watch Style will start at $249 -- presumably, different bands or color options might rais..

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• The Lawsuit against Facebook's Oculus by Major Gaming Industry Player ZeniMax now in Deliberation

  

    Earlier this week Patently Apple posted a report titled "Hugo Barra Set to Lead Facebook's Virtual Reality Business." Just as Barra gets started there's a major shadow being cast against Oculus over alleged stolen source code by famed game developer John Carmack who admitted under oath to downloading the code before leaving id Software for a position at Oculus. An interesting legal case came to light yesterday covering Facebook's Oculus. The Attorneys for video game publisher ZeniMax asked a ..

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• Apple's Cook takes aim at Trump's immigration ban

  

  Apple's Tim Cook: "Diversity makes our team stronger." James Martin/CNET Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of tech voices that's rising up to protest US President Donald Trump's executive order that closes the States to immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. "I've heard from many of you who are deeply concerned about the executive order issued yesterday," Cook wrote in ..

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• Flappy Bird's creator returns with a game that pits ninjas against bouncing cats

  

  Flappy Bird was a veritable phenomenon. It seems ridiculous in hindsight (and, let’s be honest, it kind of did at the time, too), but the exceedingly simplistic title had a momentary stranglehold on the mobile gaming world with its combination of crude 8-bit graphics and dead simple game play, as players tapped the screen frantically to avoid crashing into pipes. The games aesthetic was clearly borrowed from Mario, and now that everyone’s plucky plumber has finally officially come to mobile ga..

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