Dell kicks off CES season with two new laptops, Imagination Technologies is back in Apple’s good graces, the IRS is finally sticking it to tax prep software firms, and a grand unified theory of the Google Civil War.

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• Dell’s latest XPS 13 has a new design with a bigger display and Ice Lake chips (The Verge)
• Dell debuts 5G-ready Latitude 9510 laptop, adds iOS mirroring to PCs (VentureBeat)
• Apple restores Imagination GPU chip agreement after public dispute and employee poaching (9to5Mac)
• IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax (ProPublica)
• I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. (Ross LaJeunesse/Medium)
• Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ (CNBC)

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