Samsung’s starting to build the Galaxy S24 FE, early signs show

Samsung’s Fan Edition lineup will likely get a refresh this year and if history is any indication, it’ll happen in the second half of 2024, perhaps a month or so after the company unveils its new foldable phones. So even though the launch may not happen for a good six months from now, early signs […]

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NVIDIA CEO signs his approval on Samsung’s HBM3E memory, literally

Samsung’s HBM3E 12H advanced memory chips have received high praise from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently. He confirmed that the company is testing these new memory models for integration into its GPUs, as unrelenting demand continues for its products. Such is the nature of the close collaboration between these two titans of the industry that […]

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Galaxy Tab S10 starts showing signs of existence

After launching at least seven tablets in the second half of last year, Samsung is expected to launch at least three new tablets later this year. The Galaxy Tab S10, Galaxy Tab S10+, and the Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra will likely be the high-end tablets to be launched in 2024, and their signs of existence […]

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Huawei signs a global patent cross-licensing agreement with vivo

Huawei announced today it signed a multi-year patent cross-license agreement with vivo, one month after fellow Nokia did the same. The Chinese smartphone maker has agreed to pay royalties for 5G technologies, opening the door for the company to operate in countries, where Huawei owns certain 5G patents. Alan Fan, Head of Huawei’s Intellectual Property […]

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Honor hypes up Magic6 Pro sports photography prowess, signs fencer Cecilia Berder to test it

Honor launched the Magic6 Pro in China last month, and now we are approaching the moment when the phone will go global at MWC 2024. The company is very proud of what it achieved with the phone’s camera setup and in the latest teaser it is hyping up the sports photography prowess of the flagship. […]

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Samsung signs multi-year deal with Qualcomm for Snapdragon chips

Samsung used the Snapdragon chip in all its high-end phones last year. This year, though, the company used the Snapdragon chip only in the Galaxy S24 Ultra, while the Galaxy S24 and the Galaxy S24+ used Exynos chips in most countries. In the coming years, Samsung will keep using Snapdragon chips in its flagship phones, […]

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Samsung’s upcoming mid-range phones show signs of getting announced

Now that Samsung has launched its flagship bar-shaped phones for the year, it is getting ready to introduce a bunch of mid-range smartphones. Before launching the Galaxy Z Flip 6 and the Galaxy Z Fold 6 in the second half of this year, Samsung will launch the Galaxy A35 and the Galaxy A55, and both […]

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CES 2024: This ‘MagicMirror’ Analyzes Facial Blood Flow to Monitor Vital Signs

NuraLogix this week unveiled the Anura MagicMirror, a new health product that is designed to use a combination of sensors and artificial intelligence to check vital signs and provide disease risk assessments. [embedded content] The 21.5-inch tabletop smart mirror takes a 30 second scan when a person sits in front of it, analyzing facial blood […]

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Honor signs a 5G patent license agreement with Nokia

Today Nokia announced that it’s signed a 5G patent license agreement with Honor. This covers both companies’ “fundamental inventions in 5G and other cellular technologies”, according to the official press release. Nokia boasts that it’s the fourth major smartphone agreement that it has concluded in the past 12 months, sounding more and more like a […]

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Counterpoint: global phone market shows signs of recovery, breaking a 27 month negative streak

In mid-2021 people were stuck at home and their disposable income often went towards upgrading their phones. But then the market hit several difficulties in quick succession: first it was component shortages, then inventory build-up depressed shipments, then people started keeping their old phones for longer. It has been 27 months since this all started, […]

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Recovering smartphone market brings signs of good times ahead for Samsung

Samsung and other smartphone brands have been going through tough times over the past year as smartphone demand waned due to various factors, including the global economic downturn and increasing inflation. So, almost all smartphone brands saw declined shipments and lower sales compared to 2021. However, it looks like things are about to get better […]

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Hoping to play Forza Motorsport on the Steam Deck? All signs currently point to no

What you need to know Forza Motorsport is currently available in early access on PC and Xbox Series X|S consoles.  The PC version is available on Steam, but it’s not looking good for anyone who wants to play on the Steam Deck.  ProtonDB currently shows the game as “borked” with players so far unable to […]

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Apple Signs New Deal With Arm to License Chip Designs Beyond 2040

Apple has signed a new deal with British chip design company Arm to license its chip technology that extends beyond 2040, reports Reuters. News of the deal emerged in documents filed on Tuesday for Arm’s initial public offering, which the company has priced at $52 billion. “We have entered into a new long-term agreement with […]

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Turtles Carry Signs of Humanity’s Nuclear History in Their Shells

On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along with the remains of a green sea turtle it had swallowed, wound up in a natural history museum. Today, scientists are realizing that this turtle […]

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Canalys: smartphone market declines 11% in Q2 but is showing signs of recovery

The smartphone market is in a rough shape after six straight quarters of declining shipments, but Canalys reports that there is light at the end of the tunnel – the analysts have spotted the first signs of recovery. Global smartphone shipments still fell 11% year on year, a bit better than the 12% decline in […]

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Apple Signs Another Multi-Year 5G Patent License Agreement With Nokia

Apple and Nokia have signed a long-term patent license agreement that will give Apple access to patented Nokia inventions in 5G and other technologies, Nokia announced today. The two companies had a prior licensing deal that was set to expire at the end of 2023, and the new deal will replace the one that is […]

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Your Speech May Reveal Early Signs of Alzheimer’s

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s and mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, but these are still underdiagnosed or detected too late for optimal intervention. Startup Accexible is trying to change that, based on the premise that early signs of certain conditions might be seen—or heard—in a person’s voice. “Accexible works […]

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Microsoft signs 10 year deal with Nintendo to ensure same-day releases for CoD, other games

It has been over a year since Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. This has been met with resistance from rivals such as Sony and regulators from the EU, the UK, the US and more. Microsoft has proposed a deal that might help assuage worries about reduced competition in the […]

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Samsung signs multi-year 5G patent deal with Nokia

Samsung, the biggest smartphone brand in the world, has signed a multi-year 5G patent agreement with Nokia. As a part of this long-term agreement, the South Korean firm will use Nokia’s fundamental inventions in 5G and other technologies in its smartphones and other mobile devices. Samsung Electronics will make royalty payments to Nokia for its […]

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Qualcomm’s Nuvia-based PC chips are showing positive signs, earning design wins

What you need to know Qualcomm recently discussed its upcoming chips for Snapdragon PCs during an investor call. Those chips are set to be Nuvia-based designs that rely on technology from Qualcomm’s acquisition of Nuvia, which was announced in 2021. Earlier this year, Qualcomm delayed its plans to ship Nuvia-based chips to commercial devices until […]

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