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When it comes to 5G, the possibilities are the stuff science fiction dreams are made of. We picture our lives inside our seamlessly connected smart homes, with autonomous cars to take us to work and the speediest, most reliable internet connectivity ensuring that our streaming video never buffers. After all, 5G has been hailed as …

President Donald Trump killed Broadcom’s $117 billion bid to buy Qualcomm, the world’s largest chipmaker for smartphones, but that won’t stop Broadcom from looking for more deals.  BROADCOM/PR NEWSWIRE Broadcom, which is based in Singapore, will incorporate its business in Delaware next month. While the chipmaking giant has operations in the US, it moved its “domicile” of incorporation to Singapore …

HTC Vive Focus, a mobile standalone VR headset first launched last year in China, is now going worldwide by year’s end, according to an announcement by HTC during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The headset has built-in 6 DoF (six degrees of freedom) tracking that allows movement in a room without added external sensors. It runs software compatible …

I’m standing in front of a mirror, looking at an avatar of a woman that isn’t me. “Blink,” I’m told. But it’s not working for me. One eye is permanently shut. Maybe it’s my glasses? I try lifting the goggles away from my face a bit. Now, it tracks. I roll my eyes around, and my virtual eyes in the …

The good news is that the next version of Google’s Android smartphone software, Android P, has a feature to shrink your photos to half the size of an ordinary JPEG. The bad news is there’s no guarantee that every phone will actually be able to use it. That’s because of hardware and patent licensing limits on the technology used, called …

Qualcomm’s corporate chaos continues. Paul Jacobs, the company’s former CEO, will be leaving Qualcomm’s board as of its annual meeting on March 23. That’s because he’s looking at buying out the company his father, Irwin Jacobs, co-founded, Qualcomm said. “There can be no assurance that Dr. Jacobs can or will make a proposal, but, if he does, the board will …

Can’t wait till you can buy a relatively inexpensive VR headset that doesn’t need a PC or phone? You may need to wait a tad longer than we originally thought. Variety reports that the $199 Oculus Go headset will launch at Facebook’s F8 developer conference on May 1.  While that’s not technically a delay, it definitely stretches the company’s original …

Last month, Samsung took the wraps off its two new flagships, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus. They feature many expected upgrades, including Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 845 processor and Google’s Android 8.0 Oreo software. But the phones also pack a few unexpected things that once started out as only rumors. The Galaxy S9 Plus, for example, now has a second 12-megapixel rear-facing …

The iPhone 8 and Pixel 2 belong in the upper ranks of any best phone list. They’re some of the fastest, most comfortable phones made to hold in the hand. And they have nearly every feature you could want in a handset. But no phone is perfect, and buying either one means you’re trading off some features to gain some …

Now playing: Watch this: Trump blocks Broadcom-Qualcomm merger 1:24 What would have been technology’s biggest merger is no more.  Broadcom, which makes chips for everything from TV set-top boxes to servers, said Wednesday it has withdrawn its $117 billion bid to acquire Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of chips for smartphones. The move comes two days after US President Donald …