A swathe of news sites including The Guardian, the Washington Post, The Intercept, HuffPost, NBC News, the Toronto Star, the Christian Science Monitor and Breitbart News have reportedly been blocked in China. The Great Firewall of China already bars citizens from accessing non-Chinese social media sources including Facebook, Google, Gmail, Twitter and Microsoft’s Bing, and …
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Asus and Tencent could be launching the ROG 2 phone in July, a post on Chinese social media site Weibo has said. The phone will be optimized for gaming content, according to the post. The original Asus ROG phone provides one of the best ways to play games on an Android phone and was priced at $900. It came with pressure-sensitive buttons …
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Facebook might be making its cryptocurrency plans public with the release of a whitepaper on June 18. As early as 2020, the social network could then be launching its own Facebook cryptocurrency, which would potentially provide users with an online payments system without fees or international transactions. The June whitepaper would explain its crypto play, according to TechCrunch citing several investors …
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Amazon’s latest jump into AI-powered shopping will help you pick out clothes and accessories. All you need to do is upload a photo or screenshot of what you’re looking for. Announced at #reMARS, StyleSnap, an AI-powered feature, helps customers shop for clothing and accessories. All you need to do is take a photograph or screenshot of a look that you …
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Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 10 phone could still have physical buttons for power and volume, says a frequent Samsung tipster. In a tweet last week, spotted by Android Central, Ice Universe said it looks like the final version of the Note 10 will keep the buttons. Note10 pursues stability and maturity. In the first version, Note10 did not have physical …
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A trial began in Texas on Tuesday over Huawei’s charge that one of its former engineering managers stole trade secrets and lured away employees to form his CNEX Labs chipmaking startup, says a Reuters report. In October, Huawei filed a lawsuit against CNEX and Ronnie Huang for allegedly stealing its solid-state disk storage technology that’s found in thumb drives, smartphones and laptops. …
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Samsung has launched a 5G gaming app in partnership with cloud-streaming game service Hatch. The Hatch for Samsung app is designed for the Galaxy S10 5G and for use with 5G mobile networks such as those launched by Sprint and Verizon. 5G, also already launched in the US by AT&T, is the next-generation network being used by smartphones to provide faster speeds …
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Xiaomi’s future phones could have an in-screen camera, the Chinese phone maker revealed Monday alongside a video. “Do you want a sneak peek at the future?” the tweet says. “Here you go … introducing you to Under-Display Camera technology!” Do you want a sneak peek at the future? Here you go…introducing you to Under-Display Camera technology!#Xiaomi #InnovationForEveryone pic.twitter.com/d2HL6FHkh1 — Xiaomi …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Among its many WWDC announcements, Apple is reportedly also adding mouse support to the iPad. A video appearing to show a mouse working on an iPad was tweeted out by Steve Troughton-Smith, an app developer, on Monday afternoon. Hello mouse support on iOS 13! It’s …
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Samsung and AMD are teaming up to develop mobile graphics using AMD’s Radeon GPU technology. The multi-year partnership will see the two develop “advanced graphics technologies and solutions,” the companies said Monday. The graphics systems will be high-performance and ultra-low power, and aimed at mobile devices including smartphones. Radeon graphics are already being used across PC, console, cloud and high-performance …
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