From The Verge: Sony’s latest 4K, HDR-equipped TVs, those powered by Google’s Android TV software, will soon be compatible with some Amazon Echo devices, Sony announced today. The feature should roll out as part of a firmware update sometime this month, and it will give users of the Amazon Echo and...

From CNET: It looks like LG is readying itself to reveal its next big phone. The company sent out save-the-dates for August 31 in Berlin, with an image that outlines a sleek and glowing letter V.

This would be a not-so-subtle nod to LG's series of premium V-series phones; the new phone is expected...

From PC World: AMD has revealed the prices for some of its Threadripper CPUs, using the same effective strategy that it executed for its mainstream Ryzen chips: set eye-popping discounts compared to Intel’s own Core i9 family, and probably earlier release dates, too.

On Thursday, AMD disclosed the...

From The Verge: The owner of British luxury phone maker Vertu has failed to rescue the company from bankruptcy after offering to pay creditors just £1.9 million ($2.4 million) of the firm’s £128 million debt. The result of this — according to reports from The Financial Times and The Telegraph — is...

From CNET: Google won a major victory in one of its many court battles when a Paris court dismissed a €1.11 billion ($1.27 billion) tax bill levied against the tech giant.

Paris' administrative tribunal ruled Wednesday that Google's advertising business doesn't have a taxable presence in France...

From PC Mag: Logitech is one of the best known brands for PC peripherals, be it keyboards, mice, webcams, speakers, or headsets. The company is also doing well in mobile peripherals for gadgets such as the iPad$329.00 at Apple Store as well as smart home devices. PC gaming peripherals are also a...

From The Verge: Vizio has filed two lawsuits against troubled Chinese electronics company LeEco over an attempted merger between the two companies that unraveled and eventually collapsed earlier this year. The US TV maker alleges that even at the time of the deal’s announcement, LeEco had already...

From CNET: iTunes is adding PayPal. From today, PayPal will be a payment option for iTunes customers in Canada and Mexico, with the US and other countries to follow "soon after" according to a PayPal blog post.

The advantage of using PayPal is that you don't have to give your credit card or debit...

From CNET: For its third year, Amazon Prime Day again proved to be a huge success.

The exclusive sale for Prime members broke the e-commerce titan's single-day sales record a second year in a row. Amazon said Wednesday the sale grew by 60 percent from the year earlier.

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From PC Mag: The Chinese government wants complete control over what its citizens are allowed to view on the Internet. That's why the Great Firewall exists, and why many services we enjoy in the west can't be accessed from within China. But the Great Firewall is far from perfect, and a big thorn in...