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Apple may be facing legal/patent-based issues with Qualcomm over use of its in-house 5G chip

The delay holding up Apple’s anticipated 5G chip developed in-house for the iPhone 15 may not be due to design issues, but could in fact stem from legal concerns. For years, Apple has used Qualcomm modem chips within the iPhone. When the iPhone 12 brought new 5G capabilities in 2020, Cupertino looked to Qualcomm to […]

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Rumor: Apple may have acquired Fashwell, snagged additional machine learning assets in the process

Apple may have gone shopping yet again. Albeit not officially confirmed, Apple may have procured Shopping search startup Fashwell, as the company’s employees, including CEO Matthias Dantone, CSO Lukas Bossard, and CTO Michael Emmersberger, have begun listing Apple as their current employer on their LinkedIn profiles. Fashwell has designed a visual AI search engine to […]

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Justice Department files charges against Russian hackers following Yahoo email breaches

They found the people who hacked into more than half a billion Yahoo email accounts. The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against two Russian spies and two hackers behind the infamous 2014 hacks, which have been identified as among the most significant digital security breaks in American history. The four men together face 47 criminal […]

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Verizon settles on $4.48 billion purchase price for Yahoo’s core assets following email hacks

Verizon was able to save even more money following Yahoo’s email hacks. The telecommunications company announced a deal to buy the core business of Yahoo for $4.48 billion —managing to secure a $350 million discount it was pursuing because of two major security breaches, the last of which affected over 1 billion accounts. The deal […]

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Motorola Mobility finds yet another new home…minus a few bits

This Wednesday, Google CEO Larry Page announced that they were selling off its Motorola Mobility division to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. Google had acquired Motorola in 2012 to help boost development of Andoid, with speculation that they would use it to create more of its own branded hardware and ecosystem. At the time, Google paid $12.5 […]