NXP forecast hints Apple might keep bucking China smartphone slump

There is no denying that using your phone in the rain is never an easy experience because, in most cases, you are going to miss the touches, or your phone won't really register the touch at all. Yet, we don't have smartphone manufacturers running to the solution, perhaps because no one thinks that these are important. Well, OnePlus thinks otherwise because the company is bringing a Rain Water Touch screen that will, you guessed it, work in the rain.

China has imposed strict game time limitations for minors partly out of concern they could develop addictions, but a new paper published in Nature Human Behavior found no evidence that the rules have had any impact on excessive gaming at all.

The foldable smartphone segment has seen significant advances in recent years. Using Samsung's most recent launch as an example, users should be impressed with the breakthrough hinge technology that allows both the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5 to fold completely without any noticeable gaps.

With the date for Apple's next big event being leaked, the new iPhones are finally on the horizon. Unlike last year where the standard iPhone models got modest upgrades at best, the Cupertino-based tech giant has kept a slew of new features up its sleeve even for the vanilla iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Amidst talks of manufacturing issues and supply-chain problems, we finally have a tentative date of when the new iPhones could be rolled out.

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The breathlessness that's greeted a new material made of lead and copper is, well, breathtaking. LK-99 is heralded as a room-temperature superconductor that, if it survives the barrage of peer reviews, could transform the world as we know it. Everything from electricity to transportation to medicine to chip technology might get more efficient and affordable. At the end of a nerdy tweet, Ming-Chi Kuo, an influential analyst at TF International Securities in Taiwan, declared, “Even a mobile device as small as an iPhone can have a computing power comparable to a quantum computer.”

Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and HP Inc. are among the biggest names freezing new imports of laptops and tablets to India after the South Asian country abruptly banned inbound shipments without a license.

Apple Inc. posted its third straight quarter of declining sales and predicted a similar performance in the current period, hurt by an industrywide slump that has sapped demand for phones, computers and tablets.

Apple Inc. grew revenue in China by a surprisingly strong 8% while setting a record for Indian iPhone sales, bright spots in an otherwise disappointing quarterly check-in from the world's most valuable company.

India on Thursday said it will impose a licensing requirement for imports of laptops, tablets and personal computers with immediate effect, a move that could hit hard the likes of Apple, Dell and Samsung and force them to boost local manufacturing.

Apple charges $29 for an AirTag, and though there have been instances where the circular-shaped tracker has been a worthwhile investment, there is a ‘homemade’ solution that was made in China, which is significantly cheaper. Best of all, it supports the Find My app, meaning that this particular AirTag can be tracked effortlessly.

AMD wants to compete with NVIDIA and others in China by offering cut-down AI GPUs to bypass US regulations.