Did Huawei already develop its own 5G chip to get around US sanctions?

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The Huawei Mate 60 Pro supposedly comes with a 5G chip. | Image: Huawei

Huawei released the Mate 60 Pro on Wednesday with little fanfare and some missing details — namely, the kind of chip it uses. Any mention of a chip is notably absent from the $960 phone’s product pages despite mentioning “better communication experience” and a “more stable network connection.”

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Sony is jacking up annual PlayStation Plus plans by as much as $40

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A couple months after Microsoft revealed plans to increase Game Pass subscription prices, Sony is getting in on the act. The company is bumping up the annual prices of all three PlayStation Plus plans on September 6th.

An annual Essential subscription will soon cost $80 per year, up from $60. The Extra plan is going up by $35 to $135 per year, while an annual Premium plan will soon cost $40 more at

Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount

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Autopay with a debit card or be prepared to pay up. | Illustration: The Verge

You gotta hand it to carriers: if there’s a way to squeeze an extra few dollars out of their customers, they will find it. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the latest maneuver is requiring customers — current and new — to switch to a debit card or bank account withdrawal in order to receive

Netflix’s fall movie lineup has a little something for everyone

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A mechanical being appearing in Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon. | Image: Netflix

This year’s summer of movies is finally drawing to a close, but Netflix is already gearing up for another round of fall features to keep you watching as the seasons change.

Today, Netflix dropped a massive preview of all the cinematic offerings coming to the service this fall, and while there’s a

Instagram reportedly making Reels longer to take on TikTok and YouTube

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It looks like Instagram is about to significantly increase the maximum length of Reels posts, according to reputable mobile developer and leaker Alessandro Paluzzi. The current hard limit for these videos is three minutes, but screenshots provided by Paluzzi indicate a forthcoming leap to 10 minutes. This would effectively transform the social media site into a more robust video-sharing platform

We sent the top ANC headphones to a lab to test their noise-canceling abilities

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The AirPods Max on one of Head Acoustics’ dummy head microphones. | Image: Head Acoustics

Active noise cancellation, or ANC, has come a long way since Bose launched the first consumer noise-canceling headphones — the QC1 — back in the year 2000. With ANC now firmly mainstream and available in headphones, from the ultra-budget to the high end, it’s hard to know which ones