Our first glimpse of Royole’s latest foldable phone, the FlexPai 2, is coming sooner than expected as the company confirmed on Tuesday that it’s joining the growing list of exhibitors that won’t be attending Mobile World Congress later this month. Instead, the company intends to show off the phone ahead of time, though it hasn’t …

Facebook is the latest company to withdraw from MWC in Barcelona later this month due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. It joins a growing list of companies — including Sony, Amazon, Intel, Ericsson, LG and Nvidia — deciding that the risks of attending the mobile trade show outweigh the benefits. “Out of an abundance of caution, Facebook employees won’t be attending this …

Google and Tinder have come under scrutiny in Europe for their privacy practices. The Irish Data Protection Commission has launched two separate probes into whether the companies are in breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the commission said on its website Tuesday. The investigation into Google will look specifically at the company’s handling of location data based …

The UK government released a travel advisory on Thursday telling British citizens how travel to and within the EU will change after the country leaves the bloc. On the list of things to prepare for is the potential return of roaming fees, which are currently banned under EU law. Since June 2017 UK citizens have benefitted from an EU-wide law …

CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai is convinced that AI must be regulated in order to prevent the potential negative consequences of tools including deepfakes and facial recognition, he said in an op-ed for the Financial Times on Monday. “There is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated,” Pichai wrote. “It is too important …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. It’s love at first sight. The small golden Labrador curled up on the corner of the stage tilts her head and waggles her ears. The Lab’s name is Jennie, and she’s a dog who also happens to be a robot. In …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Now playing: Watch this: Lovot, the love robot, offers a warm hug of friendship… 2:29 As 2020 grinds into gear, CNET will be kick-starting a new decade with a trip to the Nevada desert for the annual tech bonanza CES. When …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was spotted taking a selfie with a Huawei phone Thursday, just a day after hinting that the UK would comply with the US stance and ban Huawei technology from Britain’s telecommunications infrastructure. Johnson appeared on ITV show This Morning to talk about the upcoming election and Brexit, after which cameras captured him posing with presenters …

This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s. It’s 2019 and we still don’t have adorable robot butlers in our homes to deliver ice cream while we lounge on the sofa or tidy up our floor-drobe after an especially busy …

Sir Tim Berners-Lee laid out a global plan and call for action on Monday designed to protect the future of the web and prevent humankind from descending into a digital dystopia. The plan was drawn up together with governments, businesses and citizens over the course of the past year, after father of the web Berners-Lee first announced it at Web …