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Huawei's Eric Xu told CNBC that blocking the company's 5G networking products will increase prices and make it harder for the US to become No. 1 in 5G. However, it has been a huge benefit to the two Scandinavian suppliers: Ericsson and Nokia.
Apple was widely applauded for becoming the first American company to break the trillion dollar barrier. However, its value has slumped to $839bn for a variety of reasons, though other technology stocks have also suffered in a stock market reversal.
Which? tracked the prices of 94 selected tech products at four major UK retailers for six months before and six months after last year's Black Friday, and found that most were available cheaper at other times of the year. There certainly are Black Friday bargains for careful buyers, but you might get a better deal in the January sales.
Virtual Reality began in Binghamton with Link flight simulators, and the local TechWorks museum has won the Computer Conservation Society's Tony Sale Award for restoring three very different simulators from a bellows-mounted WWII Link to an all-digital Super GAT trainer from the 1980s.
French start-up Notilo Plus claims it has launched the world's first intelligent, autonomous, wireless (not tethered) underwater drone. It can follow and film one or more divers, but it could also be used to inspect hulls or underwater infrastructure, or monitor wildlife.
Expect a significant change in the camera landscape as new full-frame mirrorless cameras from Nikon, Canon and -- next year -- Panasonic threaten the Sony Alphas that have dominated the market for the past five years.
An innovative Windows laptop first announced in December 2017 is now, at long last, available to British buyers. But will the NovaGo's 22-hour battery life and always-on LTE connection be enough to open many wallets?
The most configurable "power user" web browser just got a lot better with the launch of version 2.0. The main attraction is synchronisation with end-to-end encryption, but long-term users may also enjoy dramatically faster start-up speeds.
Some Twitter users have complained about seeing "the best" tweets in a Facebook-style timeline and want to return to the old days when they were in chronological order. Twitter now offers that option, and plans to make it easier to switch between the two views..
Lenovo's new ThinkPad P1 workstation is certified to run programs like ArcGIS, AutoCAD and Catia, but the ability to pack 64GB of memory and 2TB of storage into an ultraportable form factor should give it wider appeal.
Amazon is the second American company, after Apple, to be worth a trillion dollars. So which tech company will be the third to reach the milestone?
Some simple changes to your Twitter account settings instantly removes most of the bots and trolls and anything else you don't want from your feed, which results in a much more pleasant experience.
A school in Ayr is combining wireless and light-based networking -- Wi-Fi and Li-Fi -- using LED bulbs mounted in classroom ceilings, while an IEEE task force is working to add Li-Fi to the 802.11 standard
Three months after the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), European news sites have reduced their use of tracking cookies by 22 percent, according to research from the University of Oxford. Companies that run websites should be aware of the problem and ready to act.
Apple became the first publicly traded American company to be worth $1 trillion when shares traded at $207.05. With new iPhones on the way, it could soon re-pass the milestone and stay there.
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