What just happened? The Federal Communications Commission recently wrapped up the largest spectrum auction in US history in which 3,400 megahertz of millimeter-wave spectrum in the upper 37GHz, 39GHz and 47GHz bands was made available.

According to the FCC , bidders scooped up 99.9 percent of the available licenses, generating $7.6 billion in net bids and $4.47 billion after incentive payments. In total, 28 bidders collected 14,14

What just happened? The US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has a lot to deal with right now, and its problems were amplified over the weekend when it suffered a cyberattack as it responded to the coronavirus pandemic.

Three people with knowledge of the incident told Bloomberg that the hackers accessed the agency’s systems but didn’t steal anything. It appears that the perpetrators’ aim was to slow the systems down.

The White House Security Council sent out a tweet confirming false information regarding a national quarantine had

In brief: Powerbeats boast up to 15 hours of listening time on a single charge. There is no charging case like you get with the Powerbeats Pro but thanks to Fast Fuel technology, you can get up to 1.5 hours of playback after just a five-minute charge.

The rumor mill got it right once again. Apple subsidiary Beats has officially introduced a new version of its tethered wireless headphones that’ll be available to purchase later this week.

The new Powerbeats earphones connect to each other with a

Why it matters: Disruption from the coronavirus outbreak has had a huge impact on the economy, affecting virtually every industry, including the video game sector. It’s led to several products being delayed, and now another analyst believes the Xbox Series X and PS5 could be pushed back until next year.

Both machines from Microsoft and Sony are scheduled to arrive sometime this holiday season, but analyst DFC Intelligence (via Forbes ) says the impact of the coronavirus will likely mean the consoles missing their launch dates. Even if

What just happened? For creating illegal agreements within its distribution network and abusing the "economic dependence" of independent sellers, Apple was fined €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) by the French Competition Authority today. The amount is the largest ever slapped by the country's watchdog, which also handed out separate fines to two of Apple's wholesalers: Ingram Micro €76.1 million ($85 million) and Tech Data €62.9 million ($70

What just happened? As the coronavirus forces millions around the world to stay at home and practice social isolation, it seems one way to pass the time is by playing some Steam titles. Over the weekend, Valve’s platform recorded its higher-ever number of concurrent players, over 20 million.

On Sunday, March 15, Steam reached a massive 20,313,476 concurrent users, beating the previous record of just under 20 million from 24 hours earlier. Before

In brief: There are plenty of coronavirus tracking maps out there, but the latest tool from Microsoft includes extra features that keep visitors up to date with the latest information on the virus' spread.

The Bing tracker dashboard ( bing.com/covid ) gets its aggregated data from sources including the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

The big picture: If you’ve got some spare GPU horsepower now is the time to put it to good use; by simulating molecular dynamics you can contribute to a dataset that could help researchers find a cure to the coronavirus.

The Pande Lab at Stanford University has been running distributed compute network Folding@home for nearly twenty years for disease research using the idle processing resources of home personal computers. Today the lab has put it its network to work to better understand coronavirus.

Folding@home combines the power of thousands