The world is watching the spread of a coronavirus from China, and in the lead-up to one of the year’s biggest tech conferences, the GSMA is announcing measures to combat the virus.
Coronavirus won’t stop MWC 2020 in Barcelona itself, but Chinese telecoms equipment company ZTE is pulling the plug on its press conference.
In a statement today, GSMA confirmed that MWC 2020 will go on as planned…
How AI helped upscale an antique 1896 film to 4K
February 4, 2020
When the 50-second silent short film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat premiered in 1896, some theatergoers reportedly ran for safety at the sight of a projected approaching train, thinking that a real one would burst through the screen at any moment…
Ahead of this month’s MWC 2020 in Barcelona, Spain, the largest annual gathering of wireless device makers and carriers, event organizer GSMA today said that despite seeing “minimal impact” from the Wuhan coronavirus, it’s implementing additional measures to…
President Trump is set to give the 2020 State of the Union address tonight, February 4th at 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT. Here’s how to watch it on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and the web.
This marks President Trump’s last State of the Union speech before the upcoming presidential election in the fall.
As noted by PBS, the State of the Union address comes just a day before the Senate is going to…
LG will only sell premium 5G flagships in NA and Europe, move mid-rangers production to ODMs
February 4, 2020
LGs mobile division is bleeding money, but the company has plans for a turnaround in the 2020-2021 period. The core of the new strategy is to focus high-end phones where they will be best received and move the production of entry-level and mid-range handsets to ODMs.
The…
An update for the Samsung Galaxy A51 has started rolling out in several European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and the UK.
The update promises improved stability for the Camera app. Its a relatively small…
If Amazon has its way, companies will soon tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) en masse to create voices tailored to their brands. The Seattle tech giant today launched Brand Voices, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly, Amazon’s cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech, that pairs customers with Amazon engineers to build AI-generated voices representing certain personas.
As Amazon…
U.S. interviews iOS app makers in Apple antitrust investigation
February 4, 2020
(Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department has reached out to app developers as part of its investigation into Apple, one of the four big tech companies being probed for alleged anti-competitive behavior, according one of the developers and another person familiar with the…
Apple has updated its iCloud.com website with proper mobile sites for iOS and Android, making it easier to access Apple services like Notes, Photos, Reminders, and Find My iPhone from a web browser on a mobile phone, as spotted by AppleInsider.
The site has been accessible…
Earlier this year, Samsung announced two new smartphones that aren’t quite flagships, but they’re very close. The Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite have since launched in a handful of markets and now, they’re launching in Spain.
To recap, the Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite are stripped-down versions of the 2019 flagships, but with different designs and still flagship-tier specs. The…
