China could retaliate against European telecom equipment makers Nokia and Ericsson if the European Union bans Huawei from member states’ 5G networks, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. That comes after the UK followed the US in blocking the embattled Chinese company‘s gear from its next-generation wireless network. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce is considering …

Peggy Johnson will become virtual reality start-up Magic Leap‘s new CEO, the company said in a release Tuesday, taking the position co-founder Rony Abovitz vacated in May. She’ll step into the role Aug. 1 Johnson was executive vice president of business development at Microsoft, having joined the company in 2014. Before that, she held various leadership positions at chipmaker Qualcomm. …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Google is delaying the reopening of its US offices after coronavirus cases surged in several states. CEO Sundar Pichai previously said the search giant would start bringing workers back beginning July 6, but an internal memo said its offices will remain closed until …

Amazon on Wednesday said it set up a Counterfeit Crimes Unit to go after knockoffs being sold on its sites. The global team will investigate and launch legal action against counterfeiters. It’ll mine the e-commerce giant’s data and gather information from payment service providers and open source intelligence. The unit will take out civil cases against the people behind the …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple revealed that it’ll let iPad users choose their default email and browser app with iPadOS 14. We got a glimpse of the change on a slide during its keynote. The change applies to iOS …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple revealed how it’s tweaking Maps for iOS 14 and WatchOS 7. It led with cycling directions, which product design director Meg Frost noted was its “most requested” feature. The dedicated Cycling option helps you …

Apple approved an update for subscription-based emailing app Hey over the weekend, after rejecting one last week, developer Basecamp said on Monday. It came as Apple prepared for its Worldwide Developers Conference event on Monday.  Basecamp tweeted that updates had been rejected multiple times, as noted by TechCrunch, apparently because it didn’t offer an in-app purchase for the full $99-a-year …

Microsoft President Brad Smith suggested that the app stores of rival companies Apple and Google should be subject to greater antitrust scrutiny because their rules make life difficult for small developers. Without explicitly naming Apple or Google, he told Politico that companies had “created higher walls and far more formidable gates” for their app stores than there were in the …

Apple on Monday added a fresh graphics option for its 16-inch MacBook Pro: AMD’s new Radeon Pro 5600M GPU. It offers a higher performance than the current Radeon Pro 5300M and 5500M GPU options, but it’ll cost you at least $700 more. The 5600M GPU’s 8GB of HBM2, or second-gen high bandwidth memory, should make it considerably faster than the …

Twitter has shuttered an account that claimed to represent an antifa group and pushed for violence at US protests but which was actually linked to white nationalist group Identity Evropa, the microblogging site told CNET on Tuesday. Twitter suspended the account after it posted a tweet that incited violence, the company said. “This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, …