For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. E-commerce giant Amazon is pulling out of Mobile World Congress, citing concerns over the spread of novel coronavirus.  Amazon will withdraw from MWC 2020 “due to the outbreak and continued concerns about novel coronavirus,” a spokesperson for Amazon …

Apple and Samsung phones released over the last three years may be producing radio frequency radiation at levels higher than current Federal Communications Commission limits allow, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. Scientists and consumers have shown increasing concern that radio frequency radiation from our devices may have adverse effects on human health, especially with 5G rolling out …

It hasn’t even been officially announced yet, but the Moto Z4 seems to have already landed in the hands of some customers. Read: CNET’s in-depth review of the Motorola Moto Z4 A listing for Motorola’s next iteration in the Z family of smartphones appeared on Amazon on May 27. It was spotted by a user on the Moto Z subreddit as …

In the coming month, you’ll no longer be able to slide into someone else’s DMs via the Direct for Instagram app. It appears the photo-sharing social media behemoth is cutting off support for the Direct app “in the coming month”. However, all of those important messages you’ve slung to mates via the magic of Instagram aren’t disappearing for good — …

Google Inbox, the much-loved, experimental email client that launched in 2014, is officially dead. And I am officially heartbroken. I knew this was going to happen. We all did. It still hurts. Google announced that Inbox’s time was up on Sept. 12, 2018, writing in a blog post the company was shutting it down and “planning to focus solely on Gmail.” Over …

Generally when someone says smoothie, I think banana. But two scientists at the University of Plymouth in the UK think a little differently.  They think “iPhone”. To encourage greater recycling rates to better appreciate exactly what materials go in to producing the handheld supercomputers we slip into our pockets every day, two geologists at the University of Plymouth have stuck …

In January, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said he had a lot of work to do in 2018 if he wanted to fix Facebook. It seems that resolution will still be on the table in 2019.  Scandal after scandal hit the social media giant this year. And now over 1,400 pages of leaked documents, obtained by The New York Times, has revealed …

Australia’s telco market will be getting smaller after TPG and Vodafone announced a AU$15 billion merger Thursday morning. TPG is currently Australia’s third largest telco provider, while Vodafone Hutchinson Australia sits in fourth place. On Aug. 22, the two companies announced they were in “exploratory discussions” to merge, but neither company offered any comment on what a proposed merger would look like. …

The slimy children’s goo known as oobleck, made from cornstarch and water, has inspired researchers to create a lithium-ion battery that is less prone to dangerous fires. Lithium-ion batteries are indispensable to our tech-filled lives — they power basically all of our electronic devices, from laptops to headphones to smartphones. Sadly, they can explode when damaged (as one major mobile manufacturer …

Oppo is known for making strong midrange phones, so anticipation for its first high-priced premium device, the Oppo Find X, is high. Now we know when we can get our hands on it. At an event in Sydney Wednesday, Oppo announced that the Find X will be available from Aug. 16 and retail at AU$1,099. It will be exclusive to JB Hi-Fi and …