Tag: Huawei
Tech Digest daily round up: TikTok settles facial recognition lawsuit
TikTok has agreed to pay $92m (£66m) to settle a lawsuit accusing it of misusing artificial intelligence to track and store users' data, writes the BBC. A group challenge alleged it breached laws by using software to recognise facial features in user videos and algorithms to identify age, gender and ethnicity. It also alleged that…
Tech Digest daily round up: Facebook ‘sells Amazon rainforest illegally’
Parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are being sold illegally on Facebook, the BBC has discovered. The protected areas include national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples. Some of the plots listed via Facebook's classified ads service are as large as 1,000 football pitches. Facebook said it was "ready to work with local authorities", but…
Tech Digest daily round up: NHS faces legal action over data deal
The NHS is facing a legal challenge over its data deal with controversial Silicon Valley firm Palantir, Sky News can reveal. Palantir, which has become notorious for its close ties to security services and immigration agencies in the United States, secured its first ever deal to handle NHS data in March last year for the…
Tech Digest daily round up: Tesla rival Lucid Motors to go public
Tesla rival Lucid Motors has agreed to go public by merging with blank-check firm Churchill Capital IV Corp in a deal that values the combined company at a pro-forma equity value of $24 billion. Lucid, which is run by an ex-Tesla engineer, is the latest firm to tap the initial public offering (IPO) market, with…
Huawei announces £2000 Mate X2 foldable phone
Huawei has announced the Mate X2, its first all-new foldable device since 2019’s Mate X. The new phone has received a radical redesign compared to the original device, with a large screen that unfolds from the inside, rather than the outside. Announced in a YouTube video - below - the Huawei Mate X2 comes with top…
Tech Digest daily round up: Parler is back, Bitcoin hits $50,000
Controversial social-media app Parler is back online after a month out of service. The Twitter-like app was a favourite among supporters of former US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. It was banned from Google and Apple's app stores and Amazon's web-hosting service, after an armed mob broke into the US Capitol building on 6…
Huawei telecoms ban set to come into force
A new security bill being unveiled on Tuesday (November 24th, 2020) will ban Huawei from the UK's network and threatens telecoms giants with hefty fines if they fail to tighten up their security. The Telecommunications Security Bill bans the involvement of Chinese firm Huawei in the UK's 5G mobile network. But it also says that…
Huawei sells its youth brand Honor
Chinese company Huawei has decided to sell its youth-oriented brand Honor. In a statement, it explained that the consumer business has been under tremendous pressure 'due to persistent unavailability of technical elements needed for its mobile phone business'. Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd has therefore decided to sell all of its Honor business assets…
Ericsson announces BT/EE 5G partnership
Ericsson will be a key BT partner for 5G deployment in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff and other major cities, managing around 50 percent of its total 5G traffic Ericsson will also modernize BT’s existing 2G and 4G Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure enhancing customer experience and network performance for BT and EE customers This…
Smartphone sales down 20% in Q2, claims Gartner
The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to impact the global mobile phone industry, as worldwide smartphone sales to end users totalled 295 million units, a decline of 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. Among the top five smartphone vendors, Samsung experienced the largest decline in sales while Apple’s smartphone sales were…
