The US government may have banned Huawei from using any software or hardware created by American companies, but China’s massive phone maker is defiant that the lack of American partner support won’t break the brand, even if its traditionally Android-based devices are cut off from Android while Google cuts off business ties following President Trump’s executive …

Sennheiser HD 650 headphones are a modern classic; they’ve never gone out of favor with the cognoscenti. Wear a pair for 10 minutes and you’ll know why: They just sound right. Part of the appeal is they sound more open, less stuck inside your skull than everyday headphones. The “tone” is just right too. Bass, midrange and treble are well …

The Galaxy S10 was heavily leaked for months, but on Wednesday at the Unpacked event in San Francisco, Samsung made things official by announcing the four new phones: Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, S10 5G and budget S10E. The new phone features a 6.1-inch AMOLED screen with a hole-punch notch called the Galaxy O display. The fingerprint reader has moved from the back to …

Memorial Day is not about buying stuff. It’s about spending time with loved ones and remembering the men and women who gave their lives while serving the United States Armed Forces. But that’s what we’ll do on the actual day. Right now, and in the days leading up to it, lots of stores are having sales — and we might …

Linear Tube Audio is an American high-end company that specializes in producing tube electronics designed by David Berning. That’s interesting because Berning has his own company, but the components it produces are a lot more expensive than LTA’s. Both companies offer designs that are radically different from traditional tube amplifiers, and don’t have the euphonic sound most people associate with …

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Huawei is still “far from ready” to launch its own operating system, but it may have a name at least, according to reports. The phone maker received the trademark “Hongmeng” for the system from the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration, after working on it under the internal code name “Project Z,” The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Separately, sources told …

China’s largest chipmaker plans to delist from the New York Stock Exchange. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) cited limited trading volumes in the US in comparison to the rest of the world as the reason for delisting, according to the South China Morning post on Friday. SMIC also said “the significant administrative burden and costs of maintaining the listing” on …

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, which celebrates its first birthday Saturday, has managed to do a lot as a tyke. The GDPR changed the rules for companies that collect, store or process information on residents of the EU, requiring more openness about what data they have and who they share it with. The law is hailed as the global standard …

Best Buy on Thursday said it’ll cancel preorders for the Samsung Galaxy Fold. A post on the Best Buy forums from a member of the company’s social media team said the retailer decided to cancel preorders because of the lack of a new release date.  “Because we put our customers first and want to ensure they are taken care of …

 Amazon has filed to patent a method for Alexa to start recording before anyone uses the wake word. The patent filing, first spotted by BuzzFeed News, would capture and process incoming audio, detect long pauses, and send the data to a remote server while Alexa waits for the wake word. “When the system detects a wake word within a particular utterance, the …

Imagine someone creating a deepfake video of you simply by stealing your Facebook profile pic. The bad guys don’t have their hands on that tech yet, but Samsung has figured out how to make it happen.   Software for creating deepfakes — fabricated clips that make people appear to do or say things they never did — usually requires big data sets …

The busy week surrounding the T-Mobile-Sprint merger took another twist Friday.  After getting a thumbs-up from the FCC earlier this week, followed by a report that the Department of Justice staff were still against the merger, a new report suggests that the DOJ may still let the merger go through.  According to the New York Post, FCC chairman Ajit Pai …