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According to Ross Young of DisplaySearch, a good source of information regarding smartphone screen tech in the past few months, 2021 will be a great year for foldables. Specifically, the second half of next year. That's when, Young says, we'll see such devices launched by Oppo, vivo, Xiaomi, as well…

Earlier this year, Google One introduced a VPN for Android users on the 2TB+ subscription plan. At launch, it could be enabled from quick settings, but the latest Google One app update has oddly removed the VPN tile. Update 12/10: The quick settings toggle for Google One’s VPN is back.…

What was Hong Kong obsessed with in 2020? As usual, Google has all the answers. According to the search engine’s annual “Year in Search” data released on Wednesday, COVID-19, US elections and the late tycoon Stanley Ho were among the most googled terms in Hong Kong in the past 12…

Apple and Google have banned X-Mode, a major data broker, from collecting location from users whose mobile devices run iOS and Android, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The tech giants told developers they must remove X-Mode's tracking software or risk being cut off from their app stores — and therefore…

A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus linked to the Wuhan outbreak. — Reuters/FilesGoogle on Wednesday issued its annual 'Year in…

A year ago, Google tweaked Chrome so that it can fill out your credit card details even if you don’t switch on the browser’s sync feature. Now, the tech giant is making it even easier to access your logins and payment details without having to sync across devices, so long…

Google has announced that Stadia will be available in eight new European countries over the next 24 hours. This includes Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland. As before, the price is €9.99 a month for the Stadia Pro service, with the first month being free. This doesn't…

Hey Google, play nice with Apple Music Ben Patterson/IDG Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by Macworld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors It’s not quite a hell-freezing-over moment but it’s close. Google and Apple have announced that Apple Music is now available to stream on all…

The European Space Agency’s satellite has provided precise new data about outer space, Google employees sign a letter demanding to know why an AI researcher was fired, and Steve Wozniak is starting another company, 45 years after co-founding Apple with Steve Jobs.It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now.…

Photo: Kimberly White / Stringer, Getty Images More than 1,500 Google employees and some 2,000 academic, industry, and civil society supporters have signed a petition protesting the termination of Timnit Gebru, a Black scientist and artificial intelligence ethicist who claims that she was fired by Google after she raised concerns…