Everyone loves getting a bit of technology for the holidays, whether it's something futuristic for early adopters or a simple but useful gadget for novices.

Microsoft has been allowed to export its software to China's Huawei, after being granted an licence for mass-market sales by the US government.

Famed Hearthstone player Jeremy "DisguisedToast" Wang will be streaming exclusively on Facebook. The social media behemoth has had livestreaming infrastructure since introducing Facebook Live in 2015. While this is Facebook's first big U.S. contract, it's already signed on two Spanish-speaking streamers, NexxusHD and Lolito FDEZ.

It was a Monday afternoon in May when police say a man wielding a silver and black handgun ordered customers inside the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian, Virginia, to their knees and demanded the bank's manager open the safe. The robber fled with $195,000, witnesses said, and was long gone by the time authorities arrived.

In a society where speed is always of the essence, 4G has delivered huge gains in performance: from 150Mbit/s to over 1GBit.