Robotics company Anki will close its doors on Wednesday. The San Francisco-based maker of adorable mini-robots Vector and Cosmo will lay off its entire staff, according to Recode, which reported that CEO Boris Sofman made the announcement at an all-hands meeting on Monday. Nearly 200 employees will receive only a week of severance pay, the …

Oppo launched its trio of Reno phones in Europe Wednesday, giving customers a choice between a standard version, a 10x zoom one or a 5G model. The Chinese company revealed its flagship device’s flavors in Shanghai earlier this month, but revealed at the launch event that UK carrier EE would be its 5G partner in the country. The standard Reno …

Having already delayed the Galaxy Fold’s April 26 launch, Samsung is now reportedly retrieving review units after problems arose with screens on some of the foldable phones. The company is asking reviewers to send the sample phones back, Reuters reported, citing an anonymous source, after some of them highlighted screen issues last week. Samsung had initially told CNET that its …

T-Mobile is bringing its mobile banking app to the entire US. The banking app, which is called T-Mobile Money, started as a pilot program in November. It has no fees for overdrafts and offers access to 55,000 no-fee ATMs. T-Mobile’s customers can get 4% annual percentage yield on balances of up to $3,000 as long they deposit at least $200 each month. …

Amazon will shut its online store in China by July 18, a report said Thursday, It’ll mean shoppers in the most populous country (with 1.4 billion people) in the world won’t be able to buy from local sellers, but can still order from the US, Britain, Germany and Japan via the Amazon’s global store, according to Reuters. The e-commerce giant …

Google Maps has been adding Waze features like incident reports in recent months, and now it’s experimenting with informing you about traffic jams more quickly. The Slowdowns option allows people caught in unusual traffic jams report it to Google, letting Maps gather data more quickly and giving others on that route the chance to divert, according to 9to5Google. The reporting …

Samsung and Huawei were among the companies making a big fuss about foldable phones at MWC back in February, but an analyst reckons they won’t take over the smartphone market for quite a while. Foldable phones will hit 30 million units by 2023, accounting for 5% of the high-end phone market, Gartner predicted Monday. Roberta Cozza, Gartner’s research director, expects …

A pair of Chinese engineering students studying in Oregon allegedly scammed Apple out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, a report said. Yangyang Zhou and Quan Jiang are accused of bringing thousands of counterfeit iPhones into the US from Hong Kong as a part of a scam that kicked off in April 2017, as previously reported by The Oregonian. They …

Maybe it really is evolving? AT&T’s wireless network was named the fastest in the US, it announced Wednesday, based on an analysis of speeds over the first quarter of 2019 by Ookla’s Speedtest. It noted that AT&T’s speeds improved by more than 15% during that period, while the other carriers plateaued. AT&T’s speeds jumped from 34.3 megabytes per second (MBPS) …

Withings has added a bunch of customization options for its Move fitness watch, but only on its European store for now. The watch, which the company revealed at CES in January, is available in five standard colors — black and yellow gold, white and coral, white and sea blue, black and mint, and white with black and mint — for …