ZTE is finally, officially free of the crippling US ban that threatened to sink the entire Chinese telecom company. It’s been a long, painstaking process, but the US Department of Commerce announced Friday that the company has deposited the final $400 million in an escrow account — and so the ban is lifted. That $400 …

At around 3 p.m. ET, photo-deprived Instagrammers headed to Twitter to see if it was just them. Nope, Instagram was down for everyone. About an hour and a half later, it was back up for everyone. You can see the party with the #instagramdown hashtag. Me running to twitter because Instagram is down and can’t survive without social media #instagramdown …

We’d thought Microsoft’s secret folding dual-screen Surface handheld — code-named Andromeda — might surprise us this year. Then, we abruptly heard it might not arrive at all.  Now, Thurott.com’s Brad Sams, who has decent track record for Microsoft leaks, claims the project isn’t dead yet: “What Microsoft is actually doing is sending it back to the labs to be significantly …

You know those iPad ads where some young whippersnapper asks, “What’s a computer?” as if the PC is long dead? According to market research firm Gartner, the death of PC sales hasn’t yet come to pass. According to market research firms Gartner and IDC, worldwide PC shipments just grew for the first time in six years. Gartner and IDC’s numbers …

It’s full steam ahead for AT&T, even as the Department of Justice moves ahead with an appeal to stop its $85 billion merger with Time Warner.   In an interview with CNBC on Friday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said he thinks the chances the government will succeed in its appeal of its merger are “remote.” He also said the company, …

Surprise! Apple released new MacBooks on Thursday. Maybe you were expecting something affordable, something with Face ID, something with a more reliable keyboard. Dare we even dream of the long-rumored Retina Display MacBook Air? No. Instead, there are new MacBook Pro models with bumped-up processors. OK, that’s not exactly fair. Apple has added a nice array of pro-centric improvements: More …

Apple explicitly told CNET that though its 2018 MacBook Pro comes with a new third-generation “butterfly switch” keyboard, it didn’t do any new engineering or tweaks to prevent the dreaded “sticky key” issue that’s sparked multiple lawsuits and a free Apple repair program over the past few months. But gadget repair and teardown site iFixit has evidence that Apple may have actually …

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