From PC World: When Alienware stepped back into peripherals last year with its AW568 keyboard and Elite Gaming Mouse, I figured a headset was sure to follow. It took about six months longer than I expected, but sure enough I was right: Alienware unveiled the AW988 wireless headset on Wednesday. Just...

From CNET: The US appears to have struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE, resolving a controversy that had put the Chinese telecom giant in peril.

The deal includes a $1 billion penalty against ZTE, and a compliance team, chosen by the US, will be embedded at the company, Commerce Secretary...

From PC World: AMD just did Intel one better at Computex. Intel wowed the Taipei crowds on Tuesday with a 28-core Core chip, which the company promised by the end of the year. One day later, on Wednesday, AMD announced Threadripper 2—and at 32 cores and 64 threads, it will easily top what Intel...

From CNET: The BlackBerry Key2 will launch tomorrow, but there may not be much left to reveal.

On Wednesday, tipster Evan Blass tweeted out what appears to be a spec sheet for the upcoming device. The phone is expected to have a keyboard design similar to the KeyOne, and the leaked sheet lists a 4...

From PC Mag: Toshiba has been a pioneer in laptops, but on Tuesday it decided to depart with the company's declining PC business and sell it to the Foxconn-owned Sharp.

Toshiba is offering the 80 percent stake in the PC unit for a mere 4 billion yen or $36 million, according to its financial filing...

From PC Mag: Intel's big announcement yesterday at Computex was Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake eighth-generation Core processors alongside showing off a prototype 28-core chip. But there was another reveal which is sure to excite performance junkies: Intel is releasing a limited edition anniversary...

From InfoWorld: After several days of rumors to the effect, Microsoft today revealed it had reached an agreement to acquire popular code-sharing site GitHub, for $7.5 billion.

With the acquisition, Microsoft plans to accelerate enterprise use of the platform, which has held repos for open source...

From CNET: When Apple announced a new Safari privacy feature last year called intelligent tracking protection, advertisers accustomed to tracking your behavior online squealed. Get ready for some more squealing.

At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, the company showed some new restrictions it...

From PC World: PCs powered by Qualcomm’s first-generation Snapdragon PC processor struggled with performance issues while providing incredible all-day battery life. Qualcomm has addressed these problems with the new Snapdragon 850, adding 30 percent more performance while extending its already...

From PC Mag: It's already possible to use a digital assistant with the Xbox One games consoles, but your options are quite limited. Microsoft, as you'd expect, integrated Cortana functionality. However, using Cortana requires having the now defunct Kinect hooked up, or relying on the microphone in a...