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A thriving economy and low levels of unemployment might have been the focal point of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, pre-pandemic, but fighting the ‘red under the bed’ might have to do now. In 2016, Donald Trump won the Presidential election for numerous reasons, but one very important element was his ability to mobilise the

Betaal — the supernatural zombie horror series releasing this Sunday — is the second Netflix original for Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies, after Bard of Blood last year. And though Khan is an uncredited producer — as he prefers — on Betaal, he had a creative role to play as well. For one, Khan is

The podcasting industry was shaken up this week with the announcement that JRE is moving exclusively to Spotify and it looks like it has caught Apple’s attention. Bloomberg reports that Apple is looking to increase its investment in original podcasts, as well as buying existing ones, to augment its nascent Apple TV+ service. While its

The US Attorney General has been banging on about 5G, hot on the heels of demands the country wins at 6G too. Never before has telecoms been so politicised. US President Trump is increasingly relying on his demonization of Huawei for political capital and now Attorney General Bill Barr has decided to position the ‘race

Over two years have passed since its initial release, PUBG is still one of the most popular battle royale games out there that you can enjoy on PC and consoles. PUBG Mobile is the version of the game available for Android and iOS. However, we are sure that nothing matches the PUBG experience that you

Facebook has announced its challenge to the video-conferencing segment and a reignition of its venture into the world of collaboration and productivity. Back in 2016, Workplace by Facebook was announced, an attempt to diversify the Silicon Valley giants output and create a starting point to work with enterprise organisations in way outside of advertising. Much

Some might assume the strategy to combat COVID-19 is being devised on the hoof while patchy delivery suggests there is little communication between departments, and the cynics would be right! After a week of bouncing from department to department and representatives being unable to offer any clear guidance or in-depth knowledge of the contact tracing

A alleged new model of the OnePlus TV and a new OnePlus remote were spotted on the Bluetooth SIG website. The OnePlus TV is listed with model number 55UA0A00, while the remote is listed with model number RC-003A. This suggests that OnePlus is already working on a new OnePlus TV model, just months after unveiling

Just over a month after they started working on it, Apple and Google have made their COVID-fighting framework available to public health authorities. The key to using smartphones for exposure notification and contract tracing is giving them the ability to constantly sense each other. This is best done through Bluetooth LE, but both iOS and

It is most likely anyone reading this article is doing so from the comfort of their own home, but the question is whether this has become the new norm is a digitally defined economy? With many economies and sectors dependent on a fully functioning telecoms network and a healthy digital ecosystem, perhaps we should be

Messaging apps users are being tricked into installing a trojan on their Android phones that spies on them by collecting photos, videos, messages, and recording audio. The researchers at Cisco Talos are calling it “WolfRAT”. It targets users of Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Line in the guise of a Google Play or Flash update and

With its main smartphone manufacturing sites situated in Wuhan, Lenovo has been hit hard by COVID-19, spoiling what would have otherwise been a very productive year. Group revenues for Lenovo were down 1% to $50.7 billion, though it should be noted that revenues were down 10% year-on-year for the final three months, the period impacted

SHENZHEN, China – During Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2020, Huawei’s “Leading Intelligent IP Networks, Accelerating the Transformation Towards Intelligent Connectivity” summit was successfully held. This summit shed light on three typical characteristics of intelligent IP networks: super capacity, intelligent experience, and autonomous driving. Besides this, Huawei shared its numerous success stories of intelligent IP networks

Apple’s next iPhone operating system, iOS 14, has been in the news for a long time. In March it was reported that the Cupertino-based company will bring a new AR app called ‘Gobi’ and the company will add new features to its existing Find My app with the next-gen software version. Now, a new report

With society under lockdown and consumers becoming increasingly sensitive to enclosed spaces, Uber was always in a precarious position and now it appears the axe is swinging. Less than complementary financials were released in recent weeks, and now the Wall Street Journal is suggesting 3,000 jobs could be lost at the firm as 45 offices

Japanese conglomerate SoftBank had a nightmare quarter thanks to massive losses at its Vision Fund investment arm and it might need to raise a few yen quickly. Most of SoftBank group is doing fine. Its Japanese operations, its stake in Alibaba and ARM have no worries, and it finally managed to complete the merger of

Huawei is set to launch its Enjoy Z 5G smartphone on May 24, the company said. The phone’s teaser poster was published by the company’s online store on Weibo, revealing the launch details. Although the name of the phone and launch date were mentioned, no other details of the phone were provided. The poster apparently

The US move to impose a ban on any US tech being used in the production of Huawei chips has sent shockwaves through the semiconductor industry. A couple of reports illustrate this well. Bloomberg notes that the Chinese state is pumping $2.25 billion into Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. This will apparently give the Chinese state