Hurting for funds, Wileyfox, the UK-based maker of budget Android phones, went into administration Tuesday, CEO Michael Coombes confirmed. “The purpose of the administration is to restructure the Wileyfox Group, reduce its cost base in Europe and to ensure its long term future across all the markets it operates in,” Coombes said in an email. …

Apple is set to ditch Qualcomm as a baseband chip supplier and to exclusively use Intel chips in future iPhone models, according to a report published Monday. At the moment, Apple uses a mixture of Qualcomm and Intel baseband chips, which power all the iPhone’s antenna functions. It has done so since the iPhone 7, but is set to part …

How do you like to communicate with your elected representative? Residents of the UK’s West Suffolk constituency now have a direct line to theirs thanks to a new app, Matt Hancock MP. The app, available free as on iOS and Android, is a social network based solely on the member of parliament of the same name. Hancock, who is also …

Apple reportedly notified suppliers on Monday that it’s cutting in half its iPhone X production target for the first three months of the year. The company was planning to produce 40 million units of the iPhone X in the first quarter but has now revised the figure to 20 million, Nikkei reported without citing a source. Now playing: Watch this: …

Facebook is getting transparent about privacy. The social network publicly published its privacy principles for the first time on Monday and is also releasing a series of educational videos to help users understand how the company uses their data, and how they can control it. Facebook also said in a privacy-focused blog post that it also plans to introduce a …

This is one fight the tech giants of the world may never hear the end of. On Thursday, UK Prime Minister Theresa May told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, she wants to see investors put more pressure on tech companies over extremist content on social networks. May stressed in her speech that social networks should crack down harder …

Sky launched the Now TV streaming box in 2013 for £10. Six years later, it’s again releasing an inexpensive home entertainment gadget. On Thursday, the company unveiled the Now TV stick, a plug-and-play streaming device priced at £15. The announcement came alongside other news from Now TV, including the rollout of downloads, the option to stream in Full HD, and …

Facebook is opening three centers across Europe to train more than 1 million people in digital skills over the next two years, the company said Monday. The sites will be based in Spain, Italy and Poland and will focus on training in media literacy and online safety for underrepresented groups, Facebook said in a blog post. The social network also announced 10 million …

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US, and Google has created a special Doodle to celebrate the life of the civil rights activist. This year’s Doodle features an illustration of a young girl sitting on her father’s shoulders in a crowd. Created by guest artist Cannaday Chapman in collaboration with the Black Googlers Network, the Doodle depicts …

Samsung will unveil its 2018 flagship phone, the Galaxy S9, next month at Mobile World Congress, according to the company’s mobile boss. DJ Koh, president of Samsung’s mobile division, first commented on the phone’s release at a press conference for Korean media at this week’s CES trade show in Las Vegas, ZDNet reported. MWC runs from Feb. 26 to March 1 …