Month: February 2020
Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile team with Airbus, China Telecom and more on stratospheric cell networks
A new industry alliance led by Alphabet’s Loon high-altitude balloon technology company and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile stratospheric glider subsidiary aims to work together on standards and tech related to deploying network connectivity using high-altitude delivery mechanisms. This extends the existing partnership between HAPSMobile and Loon, which began with a strategic alliance…
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PC shipments expected to drop this year because of coronavirus outbreak
The coronavirus outbreak could result in at least a 3.3% drop — and as high as a 9% dip — in the volume of PCs that will ship globally this year, research firm Canalys reported Thursday evening in its revised projections to clients. PC shipments will be down between 10.1%…
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Google is cracking down on Android apps that track your location in the background
Google is placing new restrictions on which Android apps can track your location in the background, with a new review process that will check whether an app definitely needs access to the data. The changes were announced in a blog post to Android developers earlier this week. Google says that…
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Best MacBooks (2020): Which Model Should You Buy?
MacBook Pro or MacBook Air? Do you need a Touch Bar? Let us help you navigate Apple’s laptops. Source
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Facebook will now pay for your voice – here’s how to cash in
To improve its speech recognition algorithms, Facebook is now offering to pay some of its users for voice recordings. These snippets will be used to ‘teach’ systems used in devices like its Facebook Portal smart speakers and cameras. Tech giants including Facebook. Google and Amazon found themselves in hot water…
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Oppo Find X2 release date could be right around the corner
The Oppo Find X2 smartphones were set to launch at MWC 2020, but when that event was cancelled, we weren’t sure we’d see the new phones any time soon. A new leak, however, suggests we could see the new Oppo phones on March 6. This news comes from PlayfulDroid, which…
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