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When Apple redesigned its controversial MacBook Pro keyboard this week the company was light on details, promising that there was a new material to help alleviate the problem of double-presses but still not providing specifics.  After a new teardown published Friday by iFixit, however, some of those details are now coming to light.  According to …

Chip designer Arm has become the latest company to cut ties with Huawei to comply with a Trump administration ban.  But Arm will keep supporting older products, and previously signed licenses likely make it possible for Huawei to build its own Arm-based chips for years to come. The Chinese company likely won’t see a huge impact unless the ban lasts …

Qualcomm is a monopoly and has to change the way it does business, a US district court judge ruled late on May 21. The ruling, by Judge Lucy Koh, said Qualcomm wrongfully suppressed competitors in the wireless chip market, using its dominant position to force unnecessary licensing fees. The ruling requires Qualcomm to change its business practices and renegotiate the license agreements …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. We’re just a few weeks away from Apple’s annual developer conference, which kicks off with a June 3 keynote, and expectations are ballooning. If the rumors are true, the company may use the event to unveil new hardware and announce one of the more …

Google’s troubles in China now include Huawei. For years, the tech giant has been dogged by its relationship with the world’s biggest country. In 2010, Google pulled out of the search market in China after co-founder Sergey Brin cited the government’s “totalitarian” policies, including censorship of the web. Since then, Google has tried to tiptoe back into the huge and appealing …

While we wait year after year for completely redesigned MacBooks, the flagship MacBook Pro has slowly remade itself with regular incremental upgrades. This is especially true of the 15-inch MacBook Pro, which received a hefty internal tuneup last summer, and is getting another one today — including an update to its much-maligned keyboard. Back in 2018, we called the jump …

Good news, MacBook users. Apple will replace all butterfly switch keyboards for free — even on its new MacBook Pro models unveiled Tuesday.  The company on Tuesday said it has extended its MacBook keyboard replacement program, which repairs the keyboard that first appeared in the 2015 MacBook. Users have complained about sticky keys, as well as letters typing in duplicate …

Huawei’s ambitions to unseat Samsung as the world’s largest phone brand by 2020 came crashing to the ground this week following a report that Google will pull support for Huawei’s Android phones. Sidelining its most enthusiastic rival could prove to be a windfall for Samsung — assuming the blacklist status lasts. The measures are already softening. On Monday, the US …

Google has suspended business with Huawei that isn’t covered under open-source licensing, Reuters reported Sunday, following the Trump administration’s decision to effectively ban the Chinese company in the US. Huawei is losing Android operating system updates, a source close to the matter told Reuters, and Huawei’s upcoming phones outside China will no longer get access to apps and services like …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is concentrating more supercomputing power in its own hands, announcing Friday a plan to acquire Cray just weeks after the high-performance computing specialist announced it’ll make what could become the fastest supercomputer ever. HPE said it’s agreed to acquire Seattle-based Cray in an all-cash deal worth about $1.3 billion expected to close by January 2020. The acquisition of …