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The US government is working on developing quantum networking, the Department of Energy said Thursday. DOE unveiled its strategy for building a “national quantum internet” during a press conference at the University of Chicago, saying it will push the nation to the front of the global quantum race. Scientists from the University of Chicago are …

A week after hackers hijacked dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts including former US President Barack Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the social media company revealed Wednesday that attackers managed to gain access to the direct messages of 36 of those accounts. The social media company also said the Twitter inbox of one elected official in the Netherlands had been accessed, …

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Thursday sought to quell security concerns about the social network during the company’s earnings call a week after hackers hijacked the accounts of high-profile politicians, celebrities and businesses to peddle a cryptocurrency scam. “Last week was a really tough week for all of us at Twitter. We feel terrible about the security incident that negatively …

My mother-in-law is used to seeing me always carrying a new gadget. She was there when I strapped on my first smartwatch in 2013, and she’s seen me excitedly try out new camera lenses that attach to my phone. But it was different the time I first showed her a virtual reality headset. After she cautiously strapped the $199 Oculus Go on her head, the …

Slack filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in the European Union on Wednesday. The workplace messaging company said Microsoft linking its Teams collaboration software to its Office programs violates competition law. Microsoft forces people using Office to install Teams, stops them from removing it and won’t let the software work with some of its rivals’ programs, Slack alleged. It wants …

This story is part of Generation China, CNET’s series exploring the nation’s technological ambition. Until a couple of years ago, if you’d heard of Huawei — and that’s a big if, depending on where you live — you probably knew it only as a maker of phones, an upstart rival to reigning phone giants Apple and Samsung. But lately Huawei …

I turned into a photographer halfway through a press event that took place somewhere above my desk. OnePlus‘ new wireless OnePlus Buds were hovering in front of me, seen through my phone screen using augmented reality tech. I could turn and look at them from different angles. I got super close. And I started taking product shots. Screenshots, yes, but …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is releasing major new software updates in the fall for iPhones and iPads, and now you can download prerelease versions of them for a test-drive. Apple’s new iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public betas can be installed for free on any recent …

The US Department of Commerce added 11 Chinese companies to its list of firms implicated in human rights violations, including China’s reported campaign against Muslim minority groups from an area of the country known as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. At least one of those companies, Nanchang O-Film Tech, is listed as a supplier or undefined “partner” with nearly two …

Microsoft said in May that it would prioritize bringing its new version of Windows, known as Windows 10X, to single-screened devices first. According to a new report, the release of Windows 10X won’t arrive until the spring of 2021, with dual-screen devices coming in 2022.  The report, from ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, states that Microsoft is pushing to release the …