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Qualcomm has won an injunction against Apple in Germany; the FBI is taking down DDOS sites; the iPad is a more flexible computer than Apple says it is.

On Earth, Facebook got a lot of bad news. Meanwhile, way out in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons spacecraft bears down on Ultima Thule.

SpaceX is raising $500 million to build its satellite broadband network; AT&T is rolling out 5G to 12 U.S. cities, but it doesn't matter. Finally, Twitter is letting users arrange their timelines in a chronological fashion.

Russian disinformation campaigns in 2016 were even more widespread than previously thought, especially on Instagram; Google's search engine for China may be dead in the water; and Google invests in more New York City real estate.

Apple Music is now on the Amazon Echo; Robinhood is in hot water over a new checking account plan, and Vine and HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll has died.

Apple is building a new campus in Austin, YouTube is cracking down on policy violations, and Virgin Galactic has made it to space.

Apple has a plan for a premium news subscription service; Intel introduces a new chip architecture; and Apple plans to build its own modem chips for the iPhone.

Sundar Pichai spent a day in Congress, Supermicro says a third-party audit of its systems show no infiltration by China, and Verizon says its Oath brand is basically worthless.

Apple and Qualcomm's patent battle moves to China; GoPro plans to pull production of U.S.-bound products out of China; and the New York Times casts a spotlight on how smartphone apps abuse location data.

Waymo's driverless cars are not-so-much, Alexa wants to fix our mistakes, and Android's Ice Cream Sandwich has melted.

MoviePass and Microsoft Edge are both being reborn, while the Apple Watch Series 4 can now tell if you're about to die.

The UK government releases internal Facebook documentation; Google employees lobby for better rights for contract workers; Canadian authorities arrest a Chinese tech exec at the request of the U.S. government.

5G is here, if you live in Hawaii or the future. Pausing doesn’t mean what you think it means, and Uber/Lyft drivers in NYC are getting good news.

Tumblr bans explicit imagery; Apple plans to sit out the first year of 5G; and Microsoft takes a third crack at making a lightweight version of Windows.

Apple Music is coming to the Amazon Echo, 8K TV is coming to Japan and new AirPods are coming ... eventually.

Samsung employees are caught selling foldable-screen secrets to China; young people are streaming video to traditional TV sets; and the remnants of Mic get sold off after it failed to find a business model.

Amazon Web Services embraces the blockchain, takes on Microsoft, and revs up an unexpected approach to encouraging machine-learning development.

iCloud works again on Windows 10, AWS built an ARM chip for use in servers, and Spotify looks to enter the market in India.

The Supreme Court seems inclined to let an antitrust lawsuit against Apple move forward; Facebook disbands its election tampering "war room"; Facebook repositions its streaming-video service to focus on older viewers as teens abandon the platform.

The UK government has seized documents that claim to show Facebook’s true knowledge of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Logitech is trying to purchase Plantronics, and if you want your sneakers to look like a Playstation — you’re in luck!