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Qualcomm’s legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission will carry on.  A US federal judge ruled against Qualcomm’s motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed by the FTC, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday. The suit alleges that Qualcomm used its power and position in the industry to extract high royalties from phone manufacturers and to …

You’re staring at your windows. You need to measure for curtains, but you have no idea where you hid your measuring tape. Soon, you’ll be able to whip out your iPhone and sort it all out using AR Measure, an augmented-reality app that rolls out an animated tape measure on your screen.  The app comes from developer Laan Labs, which plans …

Russia could soon block Telegram, a messaging app used by 6 million in the country and over 100 million around the world.  Terrorists had used Telegram to plot a deadly suicide bombing in Saint Petersburg that left 16 dead, Russia’s FSB security service said in a statement on Monday, adding it had “reliable information” on the matter. The revelation came …

Being an internet business in China appears to be getting tougher.  Chinese broadcasters, including social media platform Weibo, streamer Acfun and media company Ifeng were told to shut down all audio and visual content that cast the country or its government in bad light, China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television posted on its website on Thursday, …

Is it just us, or has 2017 been a particularly stressful year so far? Here’s something that might help. Meditation app Headspace pushed out a new version on Thursday designed to help you cope with the mania of this crazy-ass year. The app has evolved from providing push-button meditation into what its founders hope will be a comprehensive guide to …

How would you like to have your entire medical and health history at your fingertips — literally? No more making multiple calls to get your records — all of your doctor visits, lab results and prescriptions available on your phone, so that you can share the data with new physicians at a moment’s notice? Sound pretty handy? Apple reportedly thinks …

A new version of Mozilla‘s Firefox browser catches up partway to Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge when it comes to speed and stability. It’s through a technology called Electrolysis, which Mozilla started working on years ago but mostly put on hold in 2011 because of technical difficulties. Electrolysis splits different computing tasks into different processes using separate memory …

President Donald Trump has illegally blocked a handful of Twitter users for criticizing or mocking him on the social network, and they want their access restored, lawyers for the users say. The lawyers, in a letter sent to Trump on Tuesday, argue that the US president’s account is a “public forum” from which the government is constitutionally barred from excluding …

Facebook is stepping up its war on terrorist activities. The social networking giant said Sunday it plans to be hostile to terrorists and pledged to “aggressively remove terrorist content” after an attack in London left at least seven dead this weekend. “We want Facebook to be a hostile environment for terrorists,” Simon Milner, the company’s director of policy, said in …

Google wants to make art experts out of everyone. The search giant has launched a new feature for art-related searches that will allow you to understand more about the artist and his works, as well as where they can be found, it announced in a Wednesday blog post. Over 500 million Google searches per month are art-related, the company said. The …