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Drone maker DJI and chipmaker SMIC are the latest Chinese firms to be added to a US trade blacklist. In total, 77 firms were added to the list most of them Chinese. The Entity List is drawn up by the US Department of Commerce, and already includes more than 275 China-based firms, including telecoms giant […]
Spotify is now available on the Epic Games Store, signaling developer Epic’s ambitions to turn what has so far been strictly a games store into a more general app distribution platform. The Spotify app is free to download on the Epic Games Store, just like it is on the App Store, Google Play, or as […]
Google is facing yet another antitrust lawsuit. Attorneys general from 38 states and territories have filed antirust charges over Google’s search business. The action is the second antitrust lawsuit against the company this week, and the third such claim this year. On Wednesday, Texas’ attorney general led a group of states in a lawsuit calling […]
One of the things that Apple and iOS can hold over the Android ecosystem is how fast OS updates on iPhones and iPad are installed. However, compared to the abundance of potential hardware available in the Android ecosystem, Apple is restricted to a relatively smaller set. Qualcomm and Google have announced they’ll be working to […]
Facebook criticized Apple’s new rules and privacy features with full-page ads in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. The social media giant claimed that Apple is “devastating” small businesses with its changes. In response to the ad, Apple issued a statement to The Washington Post, defending its position on giving users […]
Amazon revealed the design of the antennas its customers will use to tap into the company’s upcoming massive satellite constellation, Project Kuiper, designed to provide broadband internet coverage from space. “Project Kuiper is a new initiative to launch a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and […]
Twitter announced today that it will remove tweets making false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccinations. Any tweets claiming that vaccines “intentionally cause harm to control populations” or invoke conspiracy theories will be subject to removal, according to Twitter’s blog post. Tweets falsely suggesting that COVID-19 doesn’t exist or espouse “widely debunked” claims may also […]
Starting on today, “Cyberpunk 2077,” “Destiny 2,” and many other Stadia games are playable on the iPhone or iPad, as Google is launching an iOS-friendly version of its game-streaming service. Google announced last month that mobile Safari support was coming soon to Stadia. To play Stadia on an iPhone or iPad, iOS users will merely […]
The Lunar Gateway, NASA’s outpost that can orbit the moon as a part of its upcoming Artemis program, might be provided with exterior robotics from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), NASA introduced these days. The fruits of an previous partnership round Artemis, NASA’s first primary program to carry astronauts to the moon in part a […]
Google Meet is adding live captions on the web in four languages to make meetings more inclusive, Google announced today. Live captions in Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese will be available across all versions of Meet starting today. Meet rolled out real-time captions in English last year. “We know from our work with teachers and […]
Details are still emerging about the SolarWinds breach, in which hackers inserted malicious code into software updates for the SolarWinds network management product Orion in order to conduct cyber-espionage against the U.S. federal government and multiple other targets. But the fallout from the attack, which is suspected to be linked with Russian hackers, is still […]
Microsoft announced an update today that brings native support for Apple’s new custom chip architecture to the Windows productivity suite. The apps getting the updates are Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Notably absent, however, is Teams. Microsoft says the programs will run faster and take full advantage of the performance boost provided by the […]
Microsoft hasn’t announced any new dates for when we might expect to see EA Play on Game Pass it was formerly set to arrive on November 10. EA Play was supposed to arrive on Game Pass sometime this month for PC players, possibly today given the way Microsoft phrased its blog post on the matter. […]
Demand for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 11 has reportedly surged in the last few months, despite the lasting financial uncertainty caused by the pandemic. It turns out that Apple’s first 5G handsets are enticing consumers to upgrade, while 5G rollout is expected to cover one billion people by the end of the year. By […]
If it wasn’t yet clear that Samsung is all-in on foldables, this news about its 2021 plans for the product line might dispel those doubts. That is, of course, if reports that Samsung has no less than four foldable phones planned next year is right on the mark. Make no mistake, however, we will still […]