/ In 2020, the FCC proposed a $200 million fine over claims that the carriers sold customers’ real-time location data to third parties. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mobile carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, could temporarily avoid paying $200 million in privacy penalties because of the... Read more

Home Assistant is getting a new voice assistant that takes on the “basics” of smart home control. It will be built by developer Michael Hansen, who is responsible for the open-source voice assistant Rhasspy. Home Assistant’s Conversation integration can already take text commands and could become the basis of... Read more

The camera component supplier has unveiled a telephoto module with real moving optics to cover a 4-9x range — no digital zoom required. The camera module uses a tiny, precise actuator to move the lens between 4x and 9x telephoto settings.Image: LG Innotek LG’s smartphone-making days may be over,... Read more