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...

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...

From CNET: Apple's next iPhone, expected to be called the iPhone 13, will feature at least three major new camera and video features, according to a report Tuesday from Bloomberg. Beyond the camera upgrade, the new iPhone lineup will reportedly include "relatively modest upgrades," including a...

From The Verge: HP has just announced three new Chrome OS-focused products: a detachable tablet, a new all-in-one, and a Works With Chromebook-certified monitor. All of them are designed to capitalize on the explosive growth Chrome OS devices have seen over the past year and a half, as many students...

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...

From CNET: Google on Tuesday unveiled a handful of policy changes aimed at protecting people under 18 from abuse on the search giant's platforms.

The company will allow minors or their parents to request to have their pictures removed from Google's Image Search feature, a notable change because...

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...

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...

From CNET: While many tech companies throughout Silicon Valley have delayed plans for a return to the office, Google has been working on an entirely different set of office plans -- blueprints, you might say. Over the last three years, Google has spent more than $389 million transforming a parcel of...