Qualcomm president Derek Aberle, who’s served as a point person on the Chinese investigation. Josh Miller/CNET Chinese regulators may fine Qualcomm, the world’s biggest mobile-chips maker, roughly $1 billion as part of a long-running antimonopoly investigation into the company. The punishment is expected to become public in the next few days, state-run Securities Times reported …

The smart home is listening to everything you say. Should you watch what you say in front of a Samsung Smart TV? A privacy policy warns that the voice-recognition feature records what you say and sends it to a third party. But as our sister-site ZDNet reports, a third party is most likely Nuance, a voice-recognition software provider that works …

Huawei will be making more phones like the Ascend P7, shown here with a sapphire screen. Sarah Tew/CNET 2015 is shaping up to be a big year for Huawei. According to Bill Plummer, vice president of Huawei’s external communications, the Chinese device-maker’s sales numbers are the highest they’ve been in Huawei’s almost 30-year history, and leadership has grand ambitions. Huawei …

Microsoft’s Work Assistant will use Cortana to work with your Office documents via voice. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET A new video that has popped online appears to show off Microsoft’s voice-powered Office Work Assistant. Currently being tested internally as a beta product at Microsoft, the Work Assistant would handle Office-related tasks on devices running the company’s mobile OS for smartphones. …

The number of countries seeking information on Twitter users is on the rise. Twitter Social network Twitter has published its latest transparency report, and singled out the US, Turkey and Russia, for dramatically increasing the number of requests on user information over the last six months of 2014. The number of government requests on Twitter user information rose 40 percent …

Enlarge Image Fujifilm In addition to the 16-55mm f2.8 it announced at CES, Fujifilm now gives us a peek at what else to expect in its X-mount lenses for 2015 and beyond. If you’re familiar with the last roadmap, there are a few surprises here. The 90mm f2 and 16mm f1.4 look like they’re still on schedule for the first …

Windows 10 Preview will initially hit only a subset of phones Lynn La/CNET Microsoft is busy prepping its upcoming Window 10 Technical Preview for smartphones. But which phones will get the preview, and which ones will receive all the features of the new OS, is a key question. In a series of tweets posted Sunday, Joe Belfiore, vice president for …

Here’s the Raspberry Pi 2 board itself. The latest edition of the computer designed to get kids into coding has a slight defect that causes it to blink every time it’s hit with a high-intensity camera flash. Luke Westaway/CNET Raspberry Pi 2, the latest edition of the cheap computer designed to get kids into coding, has a slight defect that …

Now playing: Watch this: Sling TV: Is it time to cut the cord? 6:53 Sling TV is now available to anyone in the US, and to mark the launch the company has bolstered its offerings. The first-of-its-kind live TV package is now accepting all comers who sign up at Sling.com. It starts at $20 per month, and there’s a free, …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Paramedics attempt to get the woman away from her hungry robot. Sky World News/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET We really do let our robot creations loose at our own peril. These things have minds of their own, and those minds may not be the brightest. …