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BARCELONA—Qualcomm is interested in Chromebooks, but its machines won't be cheap. At Mobile World Congress today, Monte Giles, Qualcomm's new director of product management for mobile computing, introduced himself as the guy for Windows on Snapdragon, Android tablets,...

BARCELONA—SanDisk's new MicroSD card will make next year's phones feel like they have hundreds of gigs of internal storage. We've seen 400GB cards before, but this is the first one with the new A2 spec for adoptable storage. That's faster than any mobile phone today...

In what is perhaps a veiled jab at Snap's new redesign, Facebook on Thursday announced that people don't want two separate News Feeds. In October 2017, Facebook launched an "Explore Feed" trial in six countries to separate content from friends and family from Page...

Watch out, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator. Word has it that Amazon is beefing up Alexa's translation capabilities. Yahoo Finance, citing several unnamed sources "familiar with the matter," on Thursday reported that Amazon's Alexa team is working to make the...

In the market for a rugged smartphone that can stand up to your outdoor adventures and/or klutzy ways? Land Rover has a new option you might want to consider. Ahead of Mobile World Congress, the luxury SUV maker just unveiled the Land Rover Explore smartphone, which...

Google's voice-based digital assistant is branching out and getting smarter. Google on Friday announced that the routines feature it first tipped last year will be rolling out to Assistant over the next week. This new feature will help you take care of several tasks...

Over the years, memorabilia from Apple's early days has fetched big money at auction, like the Apple-1 that sold for $815,000 in 2016. Now, a new piece of tech history is on the auction block: a job application filled out and signed by an 18 year-old Steve Jobs in...

Finding the perfect place to stay via Airbnb is about to get a little easier. The company on Thursday introduced two new tiers – Plus and Beyond – as well as four new property types – Vacation Home, Unique Space, B&B, and Boutique – all of which promise to make it...

Under pressure from the US government, AT&T won't be selling Huawei's Mate 10 Pro. But new results from Cellular Insights show that AT&T turned down a phone designed to be one of the carrier's fastest LTE devices. The Huawei Mate 10 Pro was supposed to be...