Month: May 2020
Apple is reopening more stores but you’ll need a face mask to enter
Apple is set to open 25 more stores in the US and 12 in Canada, but be prepared to follow strict COVID-19 guidelines if you want to enter. For one thing, face masks will be required and will be provided if you don’t have one. Temperature checks will… Source
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Honor 9X Pro on sale May 21 at a big discount, alongside two other phones
The Honor 9X Pro was announced a while back, but we’re only just learning of the UK release date and price – and fortunately there’s not long to wait, as the phone will be available from the company’s HiHonor store from May 21. Usually it would cost £249.99, but to celebrate…
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Huawei hits back at US as TSMC cuts off chip orders
Huawei rotating chairman Guo Ping has hit back at the US government’s stricter export controls intended to stop the Chinese tech giant from obtaining essential chips, following reports that its biggest supplier has already cut it off. “We still haven’t figured it out,” Guo said on stage at Huawei’s annual…
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India’s Swiggy to cut 1,100 jobs, scale down cloud kitchen operations
Swiggy said on Monday it is cutting 1,100 jobs and scaling down some adjacent businesses as India’s top food delivery startup looks to reduce costs to survive the coronavirus pandemic that has made people cautious about ordering food online. In an internal email, which the Bangalore-headquartered startup published on its…
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Google Pixel 5 could skip Motion Sense tech
Google ambitiously added an array of radars on the Pixel 4 last year, suggesting an alternate way of interacting with smartphones. A new report claims that Motion Sense will not make it to the Pixel 5. Motion Sense was the hallmark feature of the Google Pixel 4 series, which added…
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TSMC reportedly stops taking orders from Huawei after new U.S. export controls
Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract semiconductor maker, has stopped taking new orders from Huawei Technologies, one of its largest customers, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. The report said the decision was made to comply with new United States export controls, announced last Friday, that are meant…
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