Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 next month, Windows boss Panos Panay revealed in a blog post Wednesday. It’ll be a public preview, meaning the feature is still in beta testing and will likely be tweaked before its official release. The update will include taskbar improvements with call mute and unmute, a weather …

Nvidia is getting ready to abandon its acquisition of chipmaker Arm after struggling to get regulatory approval, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The company apparently told partners it doesn’t expect the $40 billion deal to close. A final decision has yet to be made, and the companies are still negotiating with regulators, the outlet noted. Japanese tech giant SoftBank agreed to sell Arm to …

Attorneys general from Indiana, Texas, Washington state and Washington, DC, filed suits against Google over its use of location data, they announced Monday. The lawsuits, filed separately in each jurisdiction, allege that the search giant makes it “nearly impossible” for people to stop their location from being tracked, accusing the company of deceiving users and invading their privacy. DC Attorney General …

Google is creating a group focused on the “blockchain and other next-gen distributed computing and data storage technologies,” Bloomberg reported Thursday. It previously only provided cloud services to companies working with blockchain tech, the news outlet noted, rather than engaging in it directly. The group will apparently be led by Shivakumar Venkataraman, a Google engineering vice president who used to …

Google is building an augmented reality headset, according to a Thursday news report, part of the search giant’s desire to take on Meta, Microsoft and Apple in the growing AR and virtual reality space. Code-named Project Iris, the headset-development effort is underway at a San Francisco Bay Area facility, according to The Verge, which cited two sources who declined to be …

Nigeria has agreed to lift its ban on Twitter, the country’s government said Wednesday. People in the West African country lost access to the microblogging platform last June, after the social media site took down a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari. The ban ended after Twitter pledged to open a local office in Nigeria and address concerns over its tax payments, …

A group of 23 progressive lawmakers including Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants answers from Amazon about the Dec. 10 warehouse collapse that left six employees dead. They addressed their 12-page letter to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy. The workers killed in the Edwardsville, Illinois, warehouse were Austin J. McEwen, DeAndre S. Morrow, Clayton Lynn …

Twitter on Tuesday banned the sharing of photos and videos of private individuals without their consent, the company said in a blog post. The update to its private information policy notes that people can contact the microblogging platform to have such media removed. The ban doesn’t apply to public figures if the media and tweet are of public interest, but …

Pinterest has settled a lawsuit alleging discrimination against racial minorities and women in its workplace, the company confirmed to CNET via email. The image-sharing social media site also pledged to spend $50 million to promote diversity, but further financial details of the settlement weren’t revealed. Company shareholders accused the board of directors of failing to react to the culture of …

Apple may be drawing close to having its own 5G modems ready for its 2023 iPhones, Nikkei reported Wednesday, as the tech giant works out a deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to use TSMC’s chip production technology.  Cupertino, California-based Apple intends to mass produce its first in-house 5G modem chip and other components, according to Nikkei, which cited anonymous …