The 5 biggest announcements from Samsung’s August Unpacked event

From The Verge: Samsung has finished up its Galaxy Unpacked event, where it announced the next generation of its foldables (it called them the new mainstream of smartphones), wearables, and earbuds. Here are the biggest pieces of news from the event.

Samsung’s flagship foldable has some new tricks...

Senate targets Apple and Google app stores in new bipartisan bill

From CNET: A bipartisan Senate bill unveiled Wednesday could set new rules for how app stores are run and for what rules companies like Apple and Google can impose on developers. The bill, introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican...

Norton and Avast are merging into an $8 billion antivirus empire

From The Verge: NortonLifeLock and Avast are merging in a deal worth more than $8 billion. The deal will see NortonLifelock acquire all of Avast’s shares, and create a much larger cyber security firm. “With this combination, we can strengthen our cyber safety platform and make it available to more...

Microsoft Files Protest Against Amazon Winning $10B NSA Cloud Contract

From PC Mag: Two behemoths in the cloud computing space look set to squabble over every government contract, it seems. First, Amazon contested Microsoft winning the Pentagon JEDI contract, now Microsoft is protesting a National Security Agency (NSA) contract awarded to Amazon.

As Nextgov reports...

T-Mobile Claps Back in Messy Fight Over Boost 3G Phones

From PC Mag: T-Mobile's CEO, the US Department of Justice, and Dish are embroiled in a messy fight over Sprint's 16-year-old 3G network, with millions of Boost Mobile customers trapped in the middle.

On Monday, Dish and T-Mobile laid out their positions—Dish in an earnings call, and T-Mobile CEO...

Valve is working with AMD to make the Steam Deck Windows 11-ready

From The Verge: Valve is aiming to make its Steam Deck handheld gaming PC ready for Windows 11. While we’ve known for weeks that the Steam Deck can run Windows, it wasn’t clear how well this would be supported by Valve, or whether an option for a Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) would be enabled to...

Tesla Cybertruck Production Delayed to 2022

From PC Mag: When Elon Musk revealed Tesla's Cybertruck in 2019, he said production would start in 2021. However, that's now been pushed back to 2022.

As Electrek reports, even Tesla's Q2 financials still stated the same timeline for Cybertruck production, but the product page for the vehicle has...

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