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It seems like the Trump administration is doing everything it can to sabotage Huawei at this point and its latest plan is to make TSMC stop manufacturing chips for Huawei. How can they possibly do that since TSMC is based in Taiwan, you may ask?...

In 2014, WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for almost $21.8 billion - huge amount even considering that at the time the messaging app already had 500 million users. Now it looks like a bargain as the number has quadrupled. Today, WhatsApp announced...

IDC just came out with its report on the Chinese smartphone market in 2019. According to the stats, the market has shrunk another 7.5% in 2019 compared to 2018, which is a decline for the third year in a row and 11 quarters in a row. In Q4 2019,...

It looks like the novel coronavirus is going to spoil the biggest mobile event this year - the Mobile World Congress 2020. Following LG's decision to withdraw from the event, Sony made an official announcement that it will cancel its appearance and...

The coronavirus outbreak in China’s Hubei province is forcing Foxconn to keep its factories shut until February 10 according to new reports. This could potentially have heavy consequences for the contract manufacturer’s biggest client Apple and its...

Remember when Facebook started tagging you on photos back in 2011? That was the year the company started testing its facial recognition software but without anyone's consent. Shortly after, a case against Facebook was set in motion and the legal...

Sure, 5G is not even live in most countries and, but researchers are already working on the next-generation wireless network. The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology recently started preparatory work and experts involved believe speeds can...

The UK government came out with a final decision about foreign involvement into the development of 5G and gigabit-capable networks. The press release states that it will allow "high risk" vendors to help build the network under strict restrictions....

Unfortunately for most of the Vine users, the service got the ax shortly after the acquisition from Twitter. Instagram and TikTok were fast to fill in but that 6-second duration of the clip has been missed by a lot of us who have an attention span...

Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress mobile games, just announced the upcoming real-world events across the globe for 2020 since the 2019 events were so successful. The firm launched a new live events...

Sony is expected to launch a couple of camera sensors in the upcoming weeks, and the most impressive of them appears to be named IMX708. It will produce 48 MP images and should have omnidirectional focusing technology, that is an upgrade over the...

Samsung's plans to open up a display manufacturing facility in India is not exactly a new development but the company finally got the green light from the Indian government and will proceed with the investment in April 2020. The plant will be...

The first iPhone was introduced exactly 13 years ago and has since become the Apple's most important product, generating the vast majority of its revenue. The phone that changed the industry forever is now close to another amazing milestone - its...

Portable SSDs have become quite popular lately but only a handful of them offer proper security so Samsung is taking matters into its own hands by introducing the T7 Touch with fingerprint reader identification. This way you can rest assured that...

Foxconn will step back from a memorandum of understanding with the Indian government after failing to secure a deal for the land for the eventual plants. According to Subhash Desai, Minister of industries at the state of Maharashtr the manufacturer...

According to the recent research from IDC, on the contrary to the smartphone market, the smart wearables segment continues to grow with impressive numbers. Just in Q3 2019, the vendors sold 27.15 million devices recording a year-over-year growth of...

Even though the global premium smartphone market segment declined 7% year-over-year in Q3 2019, 5G has helped a little with damage control as it contributed 5% of all premium smartphone shipments. Samsung takes the lead in the 5G segment with...

In an attempt to get the so-called Data Transfer Project moving, Facebook is now making it easier for users to transfer all their pictures from their Facebook profile to Google Photos. This project is a collaboration between Apple, Google,...

During the First World Conference on Display Industry in China, Visionox showcased two new interesting products - a foldable clamshell smartphone and a rollable OLED panel hinting at even more interesting designs in the next one or two years. And...

And while things are slowly going back to normal around the Huawei ban, the US FCC is making things harder on the other end. The latest development around the US-China trade war is that USA operators can no longer purchase Huawei and ZTE equipment...