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The European Commission handed down a ruling earlier this year that fined Google a record $5 billion for anticompetitive practices in Android licensing. In addition to the fine, the Commission is forcing Google to unbundle some of its apps from Android, but the company says that’s going to mean more …

The CPU market has changed more in the past 22 months than it did from 2008-2017 combined. That’s not to say that CPU architectures didn’t change, or that we didn’t see per-core pricing come down. But Intel had a remarkably successful run with the product positioning it introduced at the …

Google’s Chrome OS started as an incredibly rudimentary platform with a browser and…well, that’s was basically everything. Since then, it has expanded to support more native features via Chrome updates, as well as Android and Linux apps. Linux support is still relatively new — it rolled out widely in Chrome …

The team behind mileage-tracking app MileIQ, a company Microsoft acquired a few years ago, is out with a new application. This time, the focus isn’t on tracking miles, but rather expenses. The new app, simply called “Spend,” arrived on the App Store on Thursday, offering automatic expense tracking for work …

Microsoft’s Windows 10 updates usually include some new refinements based on user feedback. However, Microsoft is also known for shoving features and apps people don’t want into major updates and enabling old features you don’t use (hi, Cortana). In its next big update, Microsoft will let you cut down the …

Samsung announced yesterday that its new 7nm node with EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) is ready to begin risk production, just a week after TSMC made the same announcement. Despite the close proximity in announcements, our understanding is that the two companies are actually in rather different places as far as …

Every now and then, a rumor pops up suggesting Apple will switch away from Intel microprocessors at some point in the relatively near future, in favor of its own ARM designs. It’s a topic my colleague Grant Brunner addressed as far back as 2012, and that I wrote about in …

Google has not admitted defeat in its ongoing battle with the European Commission, but it has announced some changes to its Android device policies meant to address the Commission’s concerns. In the EU, device makers will have more freedom in the way they use and license Android from Google, but …

Star Wars films have traditionally been cash cows even when they aren’t very good. So, it was a surprise when Disney’s mega-budget Solo: A Star Wars Story limped along to lose the studio millions of dollars earlier this year. Part of the problem might have been that people just aren’t …

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