Huawei has had carrier deals with AT&T and Verizon fall through in recent months, with rumblings that the US government encouraged the carriers to pass on the Chinese electronics giant. This was confirmed on Tuesday. FBI Director Chris Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that the FBI was “deeply concerned” about the risks …

Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro goes on sale in the US this Sunday, and it’s already getting rave reviews from customers over on Best Buy’s site. Wait, what? The company in a private Facebook group offered people the opportunity to “beta test” the premium Mate 10 Pro in exchange for five-star reviews on Best Buy, reports 9 to 5 Google. Screenshots …

How much surveillance is too much? That’s a question being asked in China, with some police officers in the country now getting glasses equipped with facial-scanning technology, state-run media reports. The glasses, issued to officers at a highly populated train station in the Henan province, are part of a security push leading up to Chinese New Year. So far, according …

Apple’s smart devices are often criticized for exclusively running within the company’s own ecosystem — but the market doesn’t seem to mind. The electronics giant shipped 8 million Apple Watches in the fourth quarter of 2017, Canalys research shows, which the firm said is a record for wearables sold by a company during a quarter. Fitbit was the previous record …

Apple won a Chinese silver medal last year, with the iPhone 7 Plus being the second-highest selling phone in the populous nation in 2017. In 2018, though, the electronics giant is going for gold. In something of an uncharacteristic move, Apple is partnering with Ant Financial, an affiliated company of e-commerce giant Alibaba, to allow for customers to buy products …

After years of trying to crack the US market, Huawei was poised to get a big boost via a partnership with AT&T that would grant carrier support to its flagship phone, the Mate 10 Pro. That deal was nixed at the last minute — but the phone will still be sold in the US. Preorders for the unlocked Mate 10 …

Sony’s PlayStation 3 sales stand at around 80 million — which means its successor, the current gen PlayStation 4, will soon surpass it.  The Japanese electronics giant sold 9 million PlayStation 4 consoles from October through December, it said on Friday in its latest quarterly earnings report. Sales for the console were at 67.5 million as of Sept. 30 2017, …

Yeah, Animal Crossing on mobile is good, but have you ever tried mobile Mario Kart? No, you haven’t, because there is no Mario Kart on iOS or Android. That will change though, as Nintendo Wednesday made a big announcement via Twitter: Mario Kart is coming to mobile platforms in the form of Mario Kart Tour. Not much information on the …

Samsung has suffered some losses over the last 18 months, but it just recorded a huge win: In 2017, it made an operating profit of 53.6 trillion Korean won ($50 billion), way up from the 29.2 trillion won ($27 billion) it made in 2016.  The number was announced Tuesday along with Samsung’s Q4 2017 financial results, which track the company’s performance …

Thousands of text messages between FBI agents apparently have gone missing, and US President Donald Trump is suggesting that Samsung may have played a role. “In one of the biggest stories in a long time, the FBI now says it is missing five months worth of lovers Strzok-Page texts, perhaps 50,000, and all in prime time,” Trump tweeted early Tuesday. …