Qualcomm is ramping up its effort to put 5G mobile phones within reach of billions of people and backing new connected laptops aimed at the growing number of people working at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The US chipmaker on Thursday unveiled a 5G-ready version of its Snapdragon 4 chips that will run on […]

India has banned another set of 118 apps from China’s technology giants, including Tencent’s wildly popular game PUBG Mobile Lite, the country’s search engine leader Baidu and online payments giant Ant Group’s platform Alipay, as tensions escalated on the nations’ disputed border. The apps are “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India” as well as […]

Facebook has threatened to block Australians from sharing news articles if lawmakers there approve a proposal to make it pay news outlets for their content. In a blog post dated Monday, the social-media titan indicated it will “reluctantly” stop users and publishers from sharing local and international news on Facebook and Instagram rather than negotiate […]

A 5G-covered road for testing self-driving cars was formally opened in Baohe District of Hefei City, east China’s Anhui Province on Thursday, welcoming the first batch of passengers. The 4.4-km-long ring road will be open to both self-driving vehicles and ordinary vehicles. Construction on the road started in August 2019 and has since achieved 5G […]

China is planning a sweeping set of new government policies to develop its domestic semiconductor industry and counter Trump administration restrictions, conferring the same kind of priority on the effort it accorded to building its atomic capability, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Beijing is preparing broad support for so-called third-generation semiconductors for […]