A US Senate subcommittee will hold a hearing next week to examine the state of security in 5G networks. The 5G Supply Chain Security: Threats and Solutions hearing will take place on March 4 at 10 a.m. ET. The committee will hear from experts out of global networking giants Nokia and Ericsson. “The hearing will …
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Google Translate added support for five new languages Wednesday. The program can now translate Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. More than 75 million people speak these languages, according to Isaac Caswell, a software engineer at Google Translate. It’s the first set of languages that Google Translate has added in four years. The languages are supported in text and web …
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The Huawei EMUI 10 software update based on Android 10 has been rolling out to Huawei and Honor phones worldwide since December 2019, despite ongoing national security issues between the massive Chinese telecom and phone manufacturer and the US government. If you have a Huawei phone, the EMUI 10 skin is the biggest visual update to Huawei’s OS in years. …
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Samsung’s latest Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra phones are available for preorder and will hit stores on March 6. As well as touting brilliant 120Hz AMOLED displays, 5G connectivity and a luxe design, the phones have powerful processors and cameras that can record 8K video. But one thing they don’t have is a headphone jack. Unlike their Galaxy …
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You know the feeling: You get a new phone, appliance or other device, take a quick peek at the owner’s manual and then throw it in a drawer — until something breaks, and those instructions seem to have disappeared. A new app wants to help you with your product maintenance woes by calling up product guides as easily as Shazam …
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If your virtual private network can protect your laptop and phone from prying eyes, why shouldn’t it protect your Xbox too? Whether gaming, streaming Hulu and Netflix, using an onboard browser or all of the above, more people are turning to their Xbox consoles as a full-service, big-screen entertainment hub. And that means a greater need for privacy on your gaming console. …
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Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has taken the wraps off a pair of new phones: the 9X Pro and the View 30 Pro. I’ll start with the View 30 Pro. It’s becoming more and more difficult for companies to make their phones stand out from the crowd, so Honor’s tactic with the View 30 Pro is to use a different shape of …
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Fox is looking to potentially acquire free video-streaming service Tubi, according to a Friday report by The Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, NBCUniversal is reportedly “in advanced talks” to acquire streaming service Vudu from Walmart, The Journal also reported. Tubi is an ad-supported video streaming site with more than 20,000 movies and TV shows. It works with more than 250 content partners including Warner …
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Huawei’s big news from its streamed press conference Monday is the updated folding Mate XS phone, but it’s not the only thing the company would have brought to MWC had it not been canceled. First up, there’s its new small tablet, the MatePad Pro, seen above. With a 10.8-inch display, it’s not a small tablet, but it almost feels smaller …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Facebook has been looking into posts supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential election campaign that were deemed suspicious, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing unnamed sources. Facebook confirmed it’s investigating just one claim by a researcher, but said it wasn’t able to …
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