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  The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC is a two-chip affair without an integrated modem, and Qualcomm isn’t going to allow handset manufacturers to use the SoC unless they sell it in a 5G configuration. This has sparked some criticism of Qualcomm and how it’s pushing 5G forward in 2020. Qualcomm …

  Perhaps one of the most perplexing aspects of modern “smart home” technology is how willing people are to install internet-connected cameras all over their homes. Yes, the same internet on which people use passwords like “123456.” After a widely reported Ring camera hack, Motherboard investigated and found a network …

  Rumors began to percolate a few weeks back that Fitbit was interested in being acquired. Google was cited as an interested party, and the deal was official just a few days later. The $2.1 billion deal is now facing a new challenge as the US Justice Department has begun …

  Intel launches and retires new products on a regular cadence, but it doesn’t typically resurrect CPUs once it’s made the decision to send them up to the big bit bucket in the sky. Intel recently announced that the Pentium G3420, a 22nm, Haswell-era CPU would return to active manufacturing …

Over the past few months, IBM and Google have released competing claims and announcements about various quantum projects each has in the works, including Google’s claim to have achieved a real-life world first with a demonstration of so-called quantum supremacy. While Google and IBM were slugging it out a few …

  It didn’t take a rocket scientist to predict that Verizon would mismanage many of the properties it acquired in the Yahoo deal. After the Tumblr debacle, Verizon has moved on to Yahoo Groups. The company plans to purge all Groups in a few days, and it just banned numerous …

  Amazon-owned Ring has come under fire in recent months for its ever-expanding camera sharing features and cooperation with police. Through it all, Ring has insisted that users have complete control over their data, and their locations are kept private. However, an investigation by Gizmodo shows that the Ring Neighbors …

  Internet access is available everywhere in the US, but not all connections are created equal. Ookla has used data from its popular Speedtest app to highlight the areas where consumers are stuck with Satellite internet. These satellite-heavy ZIP codes cover a surprising amount of the country, but there are …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. What are developers talking about? What do app publishers and marketers need to know? How are politics impacting the App Store and …

Apple has actually constantly attempted to build its very own course and also create a lot of the innovations it includes right into its items, however that occasionally implies disregarding existing criteria. The business embraced its custom-made Lightning port on mobile phones in 2012, as well as the sector has …