Beyond 5G: 5G coverage is still sparse throughout the US, but that hasn’t stopped some phonemakers — namely Huawei — from looking even further into the future. The Chinese tech firm announced on Monday that it plans to launch 6G-ready devices
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AT&T’s 5G network will be getting a boost later this year
5G improvements are coming, though AT&T’s deployment won’t be as quick as some of its rivals. AT&T’s 5G network will start getting a boost later this year with the addition of some of its new wireless spectrum. At its analyst
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McAfee sells its enterprise business to private equity group as it focuses on consumer security
The company announced Monday that it will sell its enterprise security business to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group in a deal worth $4 billion. McAfee announced Monday that it will sell its enterprise security business to a consortium led by
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Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile dominate $81 billion 5G spectrum auction
Verizon bids more than $45 billion for licenses of the valuable mid-band spectrum in the C band auction to build its 5G network. The nation’s largest wireless carriers dominated the Federal Communications Commission’s latest 5G spectrum auction, pushing revenue to a record-shattering
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Bitcoin drops after Musk tweet, Yellen warns it’s ‘extremely inefficient’
The crypto coin takes a bit of a stumble after a long rally. Bitcoin’s recent surge in price appears to have hit a speed bump, thanks in part to a tweet from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and some words of caution from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
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Reddit and Elon Musk sparked a GameStop stock surge. Why AMC and BlackBerry are next
Online market players hatched a plan to make GameStop’s stock rocket up despite having little value, and it worked. Then Elon Musk tweeted about it too. GameStop isn’t just a store that sells video games. It’s also one of the biggest bets
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Apple’s MacBook Pro is an expensive joke, says Microsoft
In a new ad that some might find slightly sneaky, Redmond tries to explain why the Surface Pro 7 is far, far better than Apple’s sad little machine. We’re all supposed to be reaching for unity these days, but the
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Nuro set to be California’s first driverless delivery service
California has given the go-ahead for a commercial driverless delivery service for the first time. Robotics start-up Nuro plans to start its driverless delivery operations as early as next year. It previously tested its R2 vehicles in the state in
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‘Yes, people have Zoom fatigue but it’s not our fault’
Aparna Bawa says that she and fellow Zoom executives were so busy earlier this year that they had to take turns to go to bed. “Our CMO [chief marketing officer] and I… I remember back in April we would take
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The film crews being directed from a continent away
In a production studio in Kiev, Ukraine, a film director sits in front of a computer screen and yells, “Action!” Some 7,500 km (4,660 miles) away in Shanghai, China, his assistant relays the message to the crew filming a TV
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