In a nutshell: Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, will face extradition hearings in January, and her lawyers have made a special request: don’t televise the proceedings in case it attracts the attention of Donald Trump.

It’s been almost one year since Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Canada at the request of the United States. She’s alleged to have tricked banks into carrying out transactions that violated US sanctions against Iran.

Bloomberg writes that Meng’s

What just happened? Four years after release, Valve is calling it quits with the Steam Controller and has finished making the last batch, which can now be had for just $5 (plus shipping), down from its usual $49.99 price tag.

Valve's intent with the Steam Controller was to do things differently by providing the accuracy of a keyboard/mouse configuration with the flexibility of a hand-held device like an Xbox/Dualshock controller.

Despite the gadget reportedly selling 500

Why it matters: We know that AMD has been clawing back CPU market share from Intel since its Zen architecture arrived two years ago, and that fact is reflected in Amazon’s sales. In the retailer’s list of best-selling processors, AMD takes 8 out of the top 10 spots.

In Amazon’s US chart of its most popular processors, AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X takes the top position. The 8-core/16-thread processor is down to

In brief: TikTok parent company ByteDance wants to avoid the possibility of being forced by the US Committee on Foreign Investment to sell off the popular app. As a result of being investigated on fears of working with the Chinese government, it's taking steps to distance TikTok from its Chinese business.

Following a national security review by the US Committee on Foreign Investments, the company behind TikTok is scrambling to provide assurances that personal data is stored securely and can't be compromised or tapped into by Chinese authorities.

This comes

A hot potato: Apple has gained a reputation for kowtowing to the demands of foreign governments, usually China, but it seems Cupertino is also eager to comply with Russia. The company’s Maps and Weather apps now show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory.

Russia occupied and annexed Crimea in 2014, but most nations still recognize it as part of Ukraine. Now, the peninsula is listed as Russian territory, though only when searched for with the apps within Russia. In other countries,

What just happened? Ford's first fully electric SUV was unveiled nearly two weeks ago, and the company announced five variants for it. Out of these, only the Premium and First Edition models will be launching initially, the latter of which, Ford says, is now sold out in the US and has since been removed from the car's online configurator.

The Mustang Mach-E has a lot riding on its shoulders. The new model not only marks Ford's official entry into electric vehicles, but