From PC Mag: Not everyone wants or can afford a high-end smartphone, and I'd argue many who own one probably don't need all the features. For those who'd like to save hundreds of dollars there's a number of budget-friendly Android smartphones out there. The latest to see a release in the US is the...

From CNET: The new technology of cryptocurrency isn't immune to the old problems of money, with theft, fraud and scams resulting in losses of $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2019.

That's the assessment of CipherTrace, a startup specializing in tracing cryptocurrency flows to detect things like...

From Gigabyte Press Release: GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd has unveiled the X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI-50 Motherboard to celebrate AMD’s 50th anniversary. X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI-50 features the newest motherboard technology to honor AMD’s incredible contributions to the personal computer experience...

From The Verge: Amazon wants to get inside your car. Last year, the e-commerce giant launched a new service that allowed customers to have packages delivered to the trunks of their vehicles. To start out, only General Motors and Volvo vehicles were eligible. Today, that service has been expanded to...

From PC Mag: Not content with developing reusable rockets, planning to take humans to Mars, and having a Roadster in space, Elon Musk also wants to improve the internet here on Earth using satellites. The FCC just approved SpaceX's revised plans to do just that.

SpaceX's plan is to develop a...

From CNET: Vodafone apparently discovered hidden backdoors in Huawei equipment as far back as 2011.

The European carrier found vulnerabilities in routers and other equipment that could have given scandal-scarred Chinese company Huawei unauthorized access to its network in Italy, Bloomberg reported...

From The Verge: More than 100 million users worldwide now pay for Spotify Premium, the company has announced. Spotify reached the milestone by growing paid subscribers by 32-percent year-on-year. Including free subscribers, Spotify now has a total of 217 million monthly active users worldwide. That...

From PC Mag: It looks as though Amazon's next move to better compete in the online music marketplace is a new, high-resolution streaming service.

As Music Business Worldwide reports, Amazon is thought to be in discussions with music rights holders regarding licensing deals for hi-res streaming of...

From CNET: China wants Britain to let Huawei play a role in developing its 5G network, suggesting that it can't let fear get in the way of "win-win cooperation."

Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, wrote about his country's "good track record on security" in a Sunday Telegraph op-ed.

He...