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After backing off with its deal with Huawei to launch the Mate 10 at CES 2018 due to “political pressure,” AT&T has now been urged by U.S. lawmakers to cut all ties with Huawei. Two congressional aides also revealed that the U.S. lawmakers are opposing plans of China Mobile entering the US market. The U.S. lawmakers are also advising U.S. firms not to keep ties with Huawei or China Mobile as having any commercial relationship with them could hamper their chances of working with the government....

And for many websites, the scramble for data has become absurd. You can see it most clearly in the terms of service or privacy policy of big-name platforms, which go to great lengths to obscure the information you need. Tap or click to learn how to spot fine-print privacy “gotchas.” That’s why journalists from several outfits have taken it upon themselves to reveal the depths of our global privacy crisis....

We are not going to get into the tech specs of those two worthies or their design – both have been given enough space already. Suffice to say that both represent the pinnacle of phone technology for each of their brands. They are, in a word, flagships. They are also warriors trying to win back territory that each of their brands has seemingly ceded away. Cast your mind about a year back around this time, and it seemed to be the best of times for both Samsung and Xiaomi....

Yesterday, the Criminal Court of Dijon condemned the man for his actions and various sanctions were applied, including damages to Apple worth $19,130. The 29-year-old man who destroyed many products displayed at the Apple store in Dijon with a metal ball was finally sentenced yesterday by the Criminal Court of the city about six months of suspension. “I was in a state of angry monster,” Destroyer said at the helm of Dijon court....

Many have turned to credit cards or repayment arrangements with banks to make up for a shortfall in regular income. While that might seem like a solution in the short-term, it can have lasting effects on your credit score. Tap or click here to see why your score on Credit Karma seems higher than it should. A good score can give you access to bank loans, credit cards with better interest rates or even more housing options....

The Verge has learned that several key HTC employees have left the company. Kouji Kodera, the company’s Chief Product Officer, left last week. Jason Gordon, Vice President of Global Communications, is gone; as is Rebecca Rowland, Head of Global Retail; John Starkweather, Head of Digital Marketing; and Eric Lin, Product Strategy Manager. — eric L (@ericlin) May 20, 2013 — Jason Gordon (@jasongordonhk) May 20, 2013 This is obviously terrible news....

Being comfortable to do things at your own pace with minimal distractions tend to increase staff happiness. Tap or click here to find out how to give your home office a high-tech makeover. But your boss might have other ideas and take their own steps to make sure you are not slacking off. Trust is important in the workplace. Unfortunately, if you have an overly suspicious boss, you might see some strange things happening on your computer....

The aim in recent years in the production of smartphones was undoubtedly developed, the smartphones are day by day coming with new technology with new features and slimmer bodies. If we add that the screens at larger and with increasingly higher resolution, the cameras can take snapshots with higher resolution and perfect quality record video which will be in HD, this has led to cameras’ conventional photos being displaced into the background....

The flaw was discovered by the tech giant Google and seems to only affect the South Korean giant Samsung’s smartphones that have this game installed. Installing fake applications seems to be very straightforward with this flaw. The well-known and popular battle royale game Fortnite is the game of the moment, but the Epic Game choices for its distribution were not the best. By placing the game available outside the Google Play Store, players have to open the doors to installing software from external sources, which is not advisable....

The Apple Watch Ultra is the latest in a long line of products that have a classic look. The chunky titanium. The all-you-can-eat complications. That orange band. Yeah, about that orange band. Review: I put the Apple Watch Ultra through a Tough Mudder There’s no doubt that the international orange (yes, international orange is a thing) Alpine Loop band and highlights on the Apple Watch Ultra stand out, and make quite a statement....

Detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro, such as several other cryptomining campaigns, this one is secretly compromising Linux systems, using their computing power to mine for Monero. Cryptomining attacks are often distributed by exploiting common cybersecurity vulnerabilities or are hidden inside cracked software downloads, among other methods. Compromising one system with cryptomining malware is unlikely to generate much profit, but attackers infect a large network of infected systems and servers to generate as much cryptocurrency as possible – with the associated energy bill being unintentionally picked up by the victim....

But remembering every single password is nearly impossible — unless you use a special manager. These nifty programs save all your passwords, so you only have to remember one: the key you type to enter the manager itself. Tap or click here for the full scoop on this critical cybersecurity tool. Although password managers are supposed to protect your privacy, one popular option recently went under fire for overstepping boundaries....

WeChat has provided tools (mostly APIs) to other companies to set up their own accounts in the chat app. These accounts can then be used for promoting products/services, interacting with customers, etc. The end result has been that WeChat is now an integral part of consumers’ mobile lifestyle in China and a big contributor to its parent company Tencent’s profits. Looking at WeChat’s amazing growth and financial performance, Facebook planned to do something similar for Messenger....

Next time you get a notification from an offending app, just touch hold the notification for a couple of seconds. A growing circle will exp from where you touch it, changing the notification from the default white to a darker color. Two different icons will appear: a settings gear “i” in a circle. en you touch the gear, you’ll head right into the app’s notification settings. If you don’t want to hear from this app anymore, you can block it entirely by flipping the switch next to Block....

Daydream takes you on unimaginable enterprises in virtual reality. Daydream brings excellent virtual reality (VR) to Daydream-prepared telephones. With the Daydream application, you can dispatch your most loved virtual reality encounters and peruse from a continually developing accumulation of applications and diversions. Investigate new universes, kick back in your VR silver screen, and play immersive amusements that put you at the focal point of activity. Also, the application brings highlighted content upfront, so there’s continually something new to come back to when you put on the headset....

There have been conventional ads, and clever ads too but the ones that we really remember are the wacky, edgy ones. No, they might not have always pleased the purist and some might even have been borderline offensive (hey, some have been removed from the official channels), but they always – and in all ways – grabbed attention. Which suited the brand just fine. Mind you, OnePlus does seem to have got a little more conventional with its advertising of late, but we are confident that the wackiness is still there, waiting under the surface to emerge....

Yes, you’ve read that right: Big Red is getting into the watch business. Called ar24, presumably a reference to its all-day connectivity, the wearable competes directly with the tch Sport, currently the top-of-the-line Android ar 2.0 watch. According to CNet, the Quanta-manufactured watch features a slightly bigger screen (1.39 inches vs. 1.38 inches) battery (450mAh vs. 440mAh). It also includes I7 water resistance, NFC, E, ticking off enough boxes to be taken seriously....

Vivo recently unveiled the V9 in India. The handset is currently on pre-order and goes on sale in the country from early next month. What sets the Vivo V9 apart from other handsets is its design. The front of the handset features a bezel-less design including a notch at the top which makes it look very similar to the iPhone X. Vivo proudly boasts that the V9 has a screen-to-body ratio of 90 percent which makes it as compact as a 5....

The Vivo XPlay 5 Ultimate Edition houses a Snapdragon 820 under the hood and is clad in a Aluminium-Magnesium alloy casing which apart from imparting the looks will also render a higher degree of strength for the phone. The XPlay 5 Ultimate Edition comes equipped with a 5.43-inch Super AMOLED display with 2.5D glass and Gorilla Glass 4 protection. The XPlay 5 is powered by the mid-range Snapdragon 652 along with 4GB of RAM....

What is a Disposable Email? Disposable emails. Yes, you can create email addresses with a click of a button that come with no strings attached and let you join various services without spamming your primary account. Once when you are done, you can easily dump them as well. Some of them can be configured to remain permanent and some of them are designed solely for the purpose of accessing a bit of information that requires a user account....