After teasing it last week, OnePlus on Sunday revealed its first fitness tracker. The OnePlus Band can track fitness and sleep, as well as blood oxygen saturation and heart rate. It comes out in India on Wednesday and costs around $34. The device has a battery life of up to two weeks, and the screen is …

The US Commerce Department added drone maker DJI, which sells some of the best drones on the market, chipmaker SMIC and dozens of other Chinese companies to its Entity List on Friday. Being added to the list restricts companies from exporting US technology without a license. Chinese telecom Huawei has been on the list since May 2019. “Entity List restrictions are a …

Zoom is repeating its Thanksgiving gift for the festive season, lifting its 40-minute limit for three periods until Jan. 2, it said earlier this week. The video chat app has been an invaluable tool for much of the world throughout the coronavirus pandemic, by letting people connect while maintaining physical distance. You’ll be to video chat for as long as …

Google’s $2.1 billion purchase of Fitbit earned the EU’s conditional approval, the Competition Commission said Thursday. It follows the Commission’s investigation into the company’s promise not to use Fitbit users’ health data for targeted ads. Under the Commission’s conditions, the search giant can’t use the data of EU Fitbit users for advertising, it must maintain a technical separation between Fitbit …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. TikTok on Tuesday revealed its efforts to fight misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, as the preventive measure rolls out in the US. The video streaming platform will push people toward trustworthy sources like the CDC, as part of a wider update to its …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees on Thursday that most teams won’t return to offices before June 2021, Bloomberg reported, as the world waits for coronavirus vaccines to become widely available. Despite this, Cook wants Apple workers back in the office, reasoning that …

WhatsApp on Wednesday took issue with Apple’s requirement that companies submitting apps to the App Store highlight any user data they collect for its privacy labels. The Facebook-owned messaging service said the requirement is anti-competitive because you don’t see any labels for Apple’s iMessage service, since it’s preinstalled on iPhones, as previously reported by Axios. “Our teams have submitted our …

If you’re the kind of gamer who wants to play games the second they become available, you’ll want to install the latest Xbox update. It gives of owners of the next-gen Xbox Series X and S and older One models the ability to preinstall titles coming to the Microsoft consoles’ Game Pass subscription service, the company noted in a blog …

Amazon and Apple on Monday revealed that Mac computers will be available through the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing service. The EC2 Mac instances offered by Amazon Web Services will be built on Mac Minis and will let developers work on apps remotely rather than on those particular computers. The instances don’t cover until next year Apple’s M1 processor, which the …

Foxconn will move some iPad and MacBook assembly from China to Vietnam at Apple’s request, Reuters reported Thursday. The new production lines will apparently come online in the first half of 2021, as Apple tries to alleviate the impact of the US-China trade tensions on its supply chain. It’s unclear which iPad and MacBook models will be made in Vietnam. …