The White House held a roundtable “listening session” on innovation with top tech executives on Thursday, part of the Trump Administration efforts to ensure US leadership in emerging fields, such as artificial intelligence, 5G wireless and quantum computing. Executives who participated include Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Oracle’s Safra Catz, Qualcomm’s Steve Mollenkopf, IBM’s …

If you want a 5G phone next year, you’re going to pay much more for it.  How much more? In the case of OnePlus, it could be $200 to $300 higher than this year’s flagship OnePlus 6T, CEO Pete Lau said in an interview with CNET. That’s a whopping 36 percent to 55 percent increase. The Chinese handset maker has …

The best way to sell always-connected PCs is downplaying the actual connectivity part. At least, that’s what Lenovo has found through the past year of selling computers powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon LTE processors, said Matt Bereda, vice president of global consumer marketing for PCs and tablets at Lenovo. Even though all of the devices are capable of running on 4G …

If it’s up to Qualcomm, Windows PCs are about to get even more phonelike and powerful. The company on Thursday unveiled its first processor designed specifically for computers, called the Snapdragon 8cx Compute Platform. The processor aims to provide a big leap over Qualcomm’s year-ago efforts in 2-in-1 laptops. At that time, partners like HP and Asus used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon …

It seems like a perfect marriage. OnePlus has announced it’ll launch its 5G phone in the first half of 2019. Verizon can’t stop talking about 5G. But fresh evidence that OnePlus’ 5G phone won’t land on Verizon’s network came to light this week at Qualcomm’s annual tech summit held in Maui, HI.  OnePlus has already cozied up to Verizon with the OnePlus …

Back in June, Apple showcased a preview of what Lego kits could do in AR using iPhones and iPads and ARKit 2 on iOS 12. That app is here: called Lego Playgrounds, it’s an app designed to work with Lego sets and also add AR gameplay layered into the real world, like a real-life version of a Lego video game. …

In its continuing struggle to remain a viable business and stave off rivals, movie-subscription firm MoviePass has “experimented” with its pricing and plans so often that it’s confusing all of its customers. It looks like 2019 may offer more of the same, as the company greets the new year with two new plans that return some of the features and …

Pandora has decided its podcast recommendations are ready for prime time. The company behind the on-demand music app has been testing podcast recommendations in beta over the past few weeks. On Thursday, it officially launched the feature as part of Podcasts on Pandora. The company also added 60 percent more podcast episodes and made it easier to find them. Pandora …

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