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Qualcomm faces likely $1B fine in China, with a silver lining

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 Monday. Xu Kunlin, head of …

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Samsung Smart TV raises spying privacy fears

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 …

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