From CNET: Privacy concerns are far from over even as we move into the new year.

Google is removing apps that collect users' SMS and call log information from its Play store in the coming weeks, it said in a blog post Monday. The post serves as a reminder to developers of the search giant's new...

From G.Skill Press Release: G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd. is excited to announce a new memory specification of DDR4-3466 CL18-22-22-42 with 32GB (4x8GB) capacity configuration at 1.35V for the high performance AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor and X399 platform. This memory kit will join...

From Forbes: It would become an Instagram post that could not be egg-nored. On the evening of Friday, Jan. 4, an Englishman or woman was "doing dry," slang for abstaining from alcohol for a month, and reading articles online when they came upon one discussing the top 20 Instagram posts of 2018. That...

From Tom's Hardware: Some people have clung to Windows 7 the way Leonardo DiCaprio should've held on to that door in Titanic. Call it a work-related necessity, devotion to a legacy operating system, or just plain stubbornness, but a fair number of Windows 7 users have simply refused to update to...

From Tom's Hardware: One of the first things you may notice about the AMD Radeon VII is its resemblance to the existing Radeon Instinct MI50. The former is a gaming graphics card, while the latter is marketed towards data centers and enterprises. However, the two are both based on the Graphics Core...

From EETimes: Qualcomm paid Apple $1 billion in a three-year deal in 2011 to win its cellular modem business. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf noted the eye-popping figure in testimony late Friday in an antitrust case that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission brought against the company.

The figure was...

From CNET: A Huawei executive lost his job over the weekend after being arrested for allegedly spying on behalf of China.

The Chinese phone maker has dismissed its sales director for public-sector clients in Poland, identified as Wang Weijing, Reuters reported Saturday. Wang was arrested along with...

From ExtremeTech: When AMD announced the 3rd generation of Ryzen products (Matisse) at CES last week, it also showed a bare shot of the actual CPU package. The CPU layout shows that there’s clearly room for another chiplet on-package, just below the I/O die. (AMD has separately hinted that it has...

From The Verge: Apple’s long-delayed AirPower wireless charging mat might finally be in production, if rumors are to believed. Word comes via a tweet from ChargerLAB (via MacRumors), which says that it’s learned from a “credible source” that Apple has begun manufacturing the long-delayed wireless...

From PC Mag: Last week, Intel quietly added a range of new 9th generation Core processors to its line-up, all of which carried an "F" suffix as part of their model name. It turned out the F meant these chips didn't include a working graphics processing unit (GPU) on board, so a graphics card will be...