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When people look back at CES 2018 in five or 10 years, it’ll be the heavy rain, flash flooding and power cuts that’ll stand out more than the tech on display. While 1.33 inches (3.38 cm) of rain may not sound like a lot, it was a record for the desert city of Las Vegas: …

After acknowledging a major security flaw in modern smartphone chips, the head of one of those chip design companies is delivering more grim news. “The reality is there are probably other things out there like it that have been deemed safe for years,” Arm Holdings CEO Simon Segars said in an interview last week at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. …

The Oneplus 6 has been officially revealed. Now, it does have a notch, but also image stabilization on its dual rear cameras. We spoke with OnePlus co-founder, Carl Pei about the new phone and the future of OnePlus.  OnePlus could be inching closer to breaking into the mainstream.  Pete Lau, chief executive of the niche Chinese phone manufacturer, said the company would …

Remember those old “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” commercials featuring emergency medical alert devices? They may be getting a modern makeover.  ZTE, a Chinese smartphone maker best known for its budget handsets, said at CES 2018 on Tuesday it was partnering with chip giant Qualcomm and personal security software provider Wearsafe on a new category of wearables.  These …

Get ready for smaller, longer-lasting wireless earbuds, thanks to a new Bluetooth processor from Qualcomm. The mobile chip giant on Monday unveiled a low-power Bluetooth processor, the QCC5100, at its CES 2018 press conference at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas. The chip integrates into one package the Bluetooth tech that connects to other devices, the application processor that …

Year to year, CES has a certain sameness about it: Intel’s booth at the front, Sony’s in the back and thousands of ginormous TVs in between. The topics and trends feel like the same things we’ve been talking about forever: Internet of things, smart home, autonomous vehicles, wireless everything. Is this really any different from last year? On the one …

At this year’s CES you’ll hear plenty of talk about driverless cars, connected homes and the internet of things. (Yes, we promise IoT, perhaps the buzziest of tech trends, is more than just hackable baby monitors and $400 internet-connected juicers.) Here’s the technology that will drive all of those innovations over the next decade: 5G. The shorthand tag “5G” stands …

Your next Android smartphone is about to get a lot smarter.  Qualcomm on Wednesday detailed its upcoming Snapdragon 845 processor, which will likely power most high-end Android phones launching in 2018. The chip boasts improved image- and video-capture abilities, smarter artificial intelligence features, “lightning-fast connectivity,” “vault-like security,” and better performance and power efficiency. In other words, the rumored Galaxy S9 could …

Five years ago, Microsoft tried to radically transform the way a Windows computer would work.  At the core of this change was the embrace of chips, made by companies including Qualcomm, that typically powered smartphones and tablets. It marked a dramatic deviation from the use of the x86 chips from Intel and AMD that traditionally served as the brains of …

Qualcomm’s next mobile chip isn’t available yet, but it already has a big-name customer: Xiaomi. Lei Jun, CEO of the Chinese phone maker, joined Cristiano Amon, the head of Qualcomm’s chip business, at the chip maker’s tech summit Tuesday to talk about the importance of their partnership. Jun said the next premium smartphone from Xiaomi, currently in development, will run …