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Broadcom targets Qualcomm with massive $130B bid

Broadcom really, really wants to hook up with Qualcomm.  The San Jose, California, company, which makes chips for everything from cable modems to set-top boxes and digital video recorders, on Monday launched an unsolicited bid for Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of chips and processors for phones, for $70 a share, or $130 billion. If it goes through, the deal …

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Here’s Apple’s ‘fix’ for the iOS 11.1 autocorrect bug

An innocuous yet very annoying bug is affecting some users who have updated to iOS 11.1, which landed last week with hundreds of new emojis in tow. It happens when typing the letter “i.” Instead of auto-correcting to a capital, it’s instead replaced with the letter “A” and a unicode symbol. This bug is persistent throughout several different apps but, …

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