What’s happening Dish, the fourth US carrier, says it expanded 5G in 120 cities. Why it matters Dish took on its fourth carrier role when Sprint and T-Mobile merged, and has been under the gun by the FCC to roll out the service. It’s supposed to a viable competitor to its bigger rivals. What’s next …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple on Monday showed off a new replacement for passwords coming in Safari and iOS. Called passkeys, it’s designed to use Face ID and Touch ID biometric authentication on your phone or computer for your account logins. Apple revealed its version of passkeys …

Facebook parent company Meta is reportedly walking back its plan to release its first set of AR glasses commercially in 2024.  Instead, those glasses, codenamed Nazare, will be used as demonstration products, with the software team pivoting to building a software development kit to help developers build apps for Meta glasses, according to a report Thursday by The Information.  Meta …

Some T-Mobile customers in Oregon and Utah will be the first to make phone calls over 5G as the carrier begins switching voice calls over to 5G from its older 4G LTE network, one city at a time.      Enlarge Image 5G for voice calls will start to roll out for T-Mobile customers in two Western states first. T-Mobile …

Over the holiday weekend, Google’s next flagship phones, the Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, may have been finally revealed to the world … unofficially. A listing for a prototype of one of the phones went up on eBay, showing a redesigned back cover and camera housing. The listing has been pulled down, but as pointed out in a …

Halfway through the year, Samsung has reportedly cut how many phones it expects to produce this year by 10%, citing lower global demand because of high inflation and unrest over the war in Ukraine. Samsung originally estimated it would ship 310 million phones by year’s end, but that number has been reduced to 280 million phones, a source in the …

What’s happening Qualcomm unveils two new chips: the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 and the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Why it matters Qualcomm’s chips are powerful, but as more phone makers build their own chips, these might end up in fewer handsets — at least ones released in the US. What’s next Qualcomm has its work cut out for it …

A new report finds that 1.5 million apps on both Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store haven’t been updated in two years or longer and get hidden or removed entirely according to recent policy changes. These “abandoned” apps constitute one-third of the combined app catalogs of the App Store and Play Store, according to the report from analyst firm …

At the Google I/O 2022 keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai debuted a new feature coming to Google Maps that gives users a drone-level aerial view of cities, offering a helpful middle ground between satellite and street views. Immersive View, as the new mode is called, uses “billions of photos” to model buildings and trees in 3D using machine learning. The new …

Boost Mobile customers now have a new option for saving on their phone bill. They can trim it down — or pay it entirely — by watching ads and playing games. Customers can use the carrier’s new BoostOne app to watch ads, play simple games and engage with Boost partners to earn the coins that will shave a few cents …