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Note: With COVID-19, there will be far fewer real estate transaction for several months. This could distort the house price indexes - since there will be far fewer repeat sales. CR Note: This is a repeat of earlier posts with updated graphs. A few key points: 1) There is a…

Dale Maharidge is a journalist and J-school professor who is dear old friends with the muckracking, outstanding political documentarian Laura Poitras. Jessica Bruder (previously) is a a writer and J-school prof who's best friends with Maharidge. When Laura Poitras was contacted by an NSA whistleblower who wanted to send her…

(Natural News) Former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden warned this week that governments including the United States are sure to employ sophisticated surveillance technology and methods to ‘fight’ the COVID-19 outbreak, and that it could even become permanent, long after the outbreak crisis has passed. During a remote appearance at the…

Huawei's Honor sub-brand today unveiled the first phone under the Honor 30 family, the Honor 30S. While it isn't a flagship-grade phone, the Honor 30S boasts a premium design and packs impressive specs. The new Honor 30S is the first device to be powered by HiSilicon's 7nm Kirin 820 5G…

Eric Bednash, CEO of RackTop, admits that cybersecurity is a crowded field, but he says his company is different. “If you look at the way the cybersecurity market evolved it was very much based off of the natural evolution of the firewall and antivirus,” Bednash said.  RackTop CEO Eric Bednash,…

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Image via EFF / Flickr (CC 2.0) Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy In the 1970s, the Soviets managed to intercept top secret communications in the US embassy in Moscow and nobody could figure out how. While an antenna was eventually…

Today, Xiaomi announced the launch of its Redmi K30 Pro. The handset comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 5G chipset paired with up to 12GB RAM and 256GB ROM on the Zoom Edition. It features a unique design. Further, it is expected to be made globally available soon. However, here’s…

SHENZHEN, China, March 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile Internet, today announced that it will unveil the new product series ZTE a1 in Japan, in cooperation with the leading local operator KDDI in 2020. The new 5G smartphone…

Samsung unveiled its premium mid-range smartphone, the Galaxy A71, three months ago. Although the device lacks 5G connectivity, we had reported that the South Korean firm has plans to launch a 5G version of the device in China and in the US. Now, specifications of the Galaxy A71 5G have appeared on…