Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant perennially in the crosshairs of the US government, is shaking up the team responsible for its relationships here. The company let go of several American staffers in DC, according to a person familiar with the situation. Among them is William Plummer, a nearly eight-year Huawei veteran who was the man …
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There’s even more evidence piling up that the upcoming LG G7 ThinQ phone will have a notch. Frequent mobile tipster Evan Blass late on Monday tweeted an image of the upcoming LG G7 ThinQ that looks like an ad or promotional render. The picture gives a clear view of the front of the phone, showing off details like the large screen, …
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If you were waiting until the last minute to pay your taxes and were depending on IRS.gov to make a payment from your checking account, there’s some bad news. For most of Tuesday, the last day to file taxes, the Direct Pay section of the Internal Revenue Service’s website wasn’t working. Instead, people planning to pay electronically saw a message …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Forget paying $750 or even $655. If you don’t mind a few scuffs, the Galaxy S8 can be …
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Even Samsung may not be safe from the controversial notch. Samsung filed a patent application (PDF) with Chinese patent organization SIPO that shows off a few different phone designs each with a notch above the phone’s screen. The patent application was filed on March 30 and spotted on Monday by Dutch phone blog Mobielkopen. The phone in the patent application looks …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! See that belly-cam? It can detach and shoot video on land using an included handheld gimbal! Sarah Tew/CNET …
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What’s the Galaxy S9’s least loved feature? That’s easy: AR Emoji, the Samsung exclusive that whips up 3D avatars. It’s a pretty transparent imitation of the iPhone X’s 3D animoji characters — fox, monkey, swirl-capped turd — but with one major, absolutely crucial difference: You. While, yes, you can become a character like Donald Duck, you can also make Samsung’s …
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In the age of streaming, it’s starting to feel like local AM and FM radio is hopelessly out of date. I know a lot of people still enjoy music on the radio in cars, but it’s facing stiff competition from YouTube, Spotify, Tidal, Pandora, internet radio and SiriusXM Satellite Radio. It’s clear that millennials and Generation Z grew up with …
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Read what you will into this, but one of the wallpapers in Google’s new spring collection is an image of popsicles. Could it be Google dropping a hint that the P in its next-generation Android P mobile OS will stand for Popsicle? Possibly. At least that’s the theory presented by the sleuths over at 9to5Google, who point to the popsicles …
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Oath, the media division of Verizon that runs both AOL and Yahoo, is finally unifying the privacy policy of its two giant legacy Internet brands. That means an updated set of privacy terms and policies for hundreds of millions of users. And in an online world where privacy expectations have been radically reshaped in light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica mess, it’s …
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