Facebook continues to crack down on accounts that exhibit what it calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior” designed to create political strife. The company’s latest update, released Wednesday, shows it has taken down several fake accounts based in Iran that targeted the US.  The social media giant said it shut down six Facebook accounts and five Instagram accounts based …

Google is helping you be more expressive with a new feature coming to Gboard for Android that will let you create a mashup of different emoji. It’s called Emoji Kitchen and will let you mix your favorite emoji into customized stickers. For example, you can send a monkey emoji wearing glasses, or a ghost emoji with a cowboy hat on. …

With Mobile World Congress 2020 officially terminado — thanks to the coronavirus — mobile vendors, big and small, are now scrambling to figure out their next steps. Some, particularly Chinese companies, are mulling plans to proceed with their events in Barcelona, Spain, even though the official conference won’t take place.  MWC brings together companies from across the world, with many …

Essential Products, the mobile-hardware startup founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is ceasing operations and shutting down, the company said Wednesday.  The startup debuted to much fanfare in 2017, when Rubin announced the Essential Phone. The hardware company was seen as the former Google executive’s follow-up act to Android in the mobile-device market. The company was once valued at $1 …

Nintendo and the Pokemon Company have launched their cloud gaming service Pokemon Home. The app is available for free now on the Nintendo Switch, iOS devices and Android devices, as reported earlier Wednesday by The Verge.  The app, announced in January, will allow you to manage and trade all your Pokemon from mobile and Nintendo Switch games, including Pokemon Sword …

Chinese tech giant Huawei can reportedly access the networks it helped build that are being used by mobile phones around the world. It’s been using backdoors intended for law enforcement for over a decade, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing US officials. The details were disclosed to the UK and Germany at the end of 2019 after the US …

Canon’s triannual update to its EOS Rebel i-series DSLR cameras has arrived with the usual mix of minimal upgrades. In this case, the EOS Rebel T8i improves on the T7i with the more recent Digic 8 image processor, which helps deliver 4K/24p video, better battery life and eye-tracking autofocus. It also gets slightly better continuous shooting speed using the more …

Last year, 5G phones were just getting started. This year, it will be hard to avoid them — and you’re going to pay more for the superfast technology, whether you actually want it or not. At least, that was the message from Samsung at its latest Unpacked event, held Tuesday in San Francisco. If you want one of the company’s …

With Valentine’s Day approaching this week, you might be considering what romantic tunes to throw on when you’ve got — as Elvis once said — the hi-fi high and the lights down low.  Angelic Diamonds, a UK-based jewelry retailer, has put together a list of the most romantic songs by digging into more than 3,000 Spotify playlists relating to love …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. At the end of the month, many of the world’s top mobile companies were scheduled to make their annual pilgrimage to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. But worries about the coronavirus outbreak proved too strong to ignore. On Wednesday, the show’s organizer canceled MWC 2020, …