The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it plans to ditch a $4.5 billion subsidy program for 4G LTE in rural areas and instead launch a $9 billion fund to bring 5G wireless to hard to reach parts of the country. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said the new fund will help carriers pay for 5G deployments …

The Cleveland Cavaliers are still finding their way after LeBron James left town for the second time a year ago. The team will not win many games this season but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth watching. The backcourt of the future is in place, with second-year shooting guard Collin Sexton and rookie point guard Darius Garland. And the Cavs have …

Does anyone really need Microsoft Office anymore? That’s a really contentious question — a lot of people get by just fine on little more than a set of free web apps like Google Docs, but it’s hard to deny the power and versatility of Office. If you fall into the second camp and rely on Office to get your work …

Google’s way of helping slow down our relationship with our phones is finally ready for primetime. After first announcing the feature at IO in May, Google is taking Focus mode out of beta and rolling it out to Android 9 and 10 devices.  The new mode is part of Google’s Digital Wellbeing tool on Android and designed to help you …

Google Photos added a new chat feature just in time to share all those holiday pictures. Instead of opening up another app to share photos, users can now send photos and videos via a a chat within the app. The conversation option is rolling out over the next week to Google Photos on Android, iOS and the web. Once available, …

Can you imagine a phone with a 200-megapixel camera? The iPhone 11’s cameras boast only 12 megapixels, for context. But those massive-megapixel high-end phone photos could become a reality, Qualcomm said on Tuesday at its third annual Snapdragon Tech Summit in Maui, Hawaii. The Snapdragon 865 chipset will support a number of high-end phones in 2020, allowing for cameras up …

Roberto De Jesús Escobar Gaviria, the brother of late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, is going toe-to-toe with the $1,500 Motorola Razr, $1,980 Samsung Galaxy Fold and $2,400 Huawei Mate X by releasing a foldable phone: the Escobar Fold 1. It’s a whole lot cheaper at $350, coming unlocked and compatible with “all networks” worldwide. The phone’s website and promotional …

Huawei has fired another salvo in its escalating battle with the US government. On Wednesday it announced it filed a legal challenge against the Federal Communications Commission’s decision last month to bar rural carriers in the US from using federal subsidies to purchase equipment from the embattled Chinese telecom giant. The FCC announced in November it had voted to prohibit …

I say this with all due kindness and respect: If you pay full price for a Samsung phone, you’re nuts. Every year, new models emerge with $800, $900, even $1,000 price tags. And a year later (sometimes less), those same models can be had for half as much (sometimes less). So let’s take a look at your options — keeping …

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 processor for high-end phones may be the star of the show at this week’s Snapdragon Tech Summit in Hawaii. But it’s actually the company’s Snapdragon 765 and 765G chips for midrange phones that could supercharge the rollout of super-fast 5G networks and devices.  On Tuesday at its conference in Maui, Qualcomm unveiled its three newest processors for smartphones. …

The number of women alleging Lyft hasn’t done enough to stop sexual assaults by its drivers is growing. Twenty more women joined together in a lawsuit Wednesday, alleging they were assaulted, kidnapped and raped while using the company’s ride-hailing service. That means at least 55 women have either filed or joined lawsuits against Lyft since August.  “There is a corporate culture …

Samsung has been hinting at a forthcoming clamshell-style phone since the release of the $1,980 Galaxy Fold. But the company apparently isn’t the only one looking to bring out more foldable phones next year. Both Samsung and LG Electronics will put new foldable devices on the market in 2020, according to a Wednesday report from the Korea Herald. The Seoul-based newspaper, citing …

Motorola may be charging back into the premium phone game with 5G connectivity and foldable phones in 2020, but here at the end of 2019, it’s got one more midrange deal waiting in the wings. The Motorola One Hyper is a stylish new phone with a 32-megapixel pop-up selfie camera, a 64-megapixel main camera and night mode — and it’ll only …

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