July, 2018

• 13 July

  ZTE is officially alive again as US lifts ‘death

  

  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 …

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• 13 July

  Instagram’s down and everyone’s flocked to Twitter

  

  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 …

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• 13 July

  Sources say Microsoft’s Surface Andromeda handheld isn’t dead yet

  

  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 …

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• 13 July

  PC shipments just grew for the first time in six years

  

  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 …

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• 13 July

  AT&T CEO to Justice to Department: Bring it on

  

  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, …

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• 13 July

  Welcome to Apple’s year of safe, boring Mac and iPad updates

  

  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 …

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• 13 July

  Apple’s new MacBook Pro keyboard may avoid sticky keys after all

  

  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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• 13 July

  4DReplay could change how umpires and refs call the game

  

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• 13 July

  A close look at the tech in the 2018 BMW X3

  

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• 13 July

  Huawei’s P20 Lite gives you a lot of features for not much

  

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