South Korean tech giant Samsung has reported a slump in its profits for the fourth quarter of 2019, down 38% from the previous year. A continued fall in memory chip prices and weaker sales of display panels have been largely blamed as the reason for this slowdown in growth. However, Samsung has said it's hoping the increasing popularisation of 5G networks will play a hand in boosting sales, especially since the brand has an ever-expanding wide variety of 5G devices on offer. News of this slump comes less than two weeks before the company launches its flagship S-series devices for the 2020 model year at its Galaxy Unpacked event in on 11th February.

South Korean tech giant Samsung has reported a slump in its profits for the fourth quarter of 2019, down 38% from the previous year. A continued fall in memory chip prices and weaker sales of display panels have been largely blamed as the reason for this slowdown in growth. However, Samsung has said it's hoping the increasing popularisation of 5G networks will play a hand in boosting sales, especially since the brand has an ever-expanding wide variety of 5G devices on offer. News of this slump comes less than two weeks before the company launches its flagship S-series devices for the 2020 model year at its Galaxy Unpacked event in on 11th February.

Ever felt like you had a complex emotion that the existing set of emojis just couldn't convey? Well, Google has an answer to your problems. Google is rolling out a new feature to the Gboard keyboard app, called Emoji Kitchen. You will now be able to merge different emojis&nbsp; to create new ones. It's also easy! For example if you pick the cowboy hat emoji you could make a ghost, monkey&nbsp;or robot cowboy. The Emoji Kitchen upgrade for Gboard should be rolling out to Android users soon.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Saturday called for tighter regulation of harmful content on social media, adding that it was not for companies like his to decide what counts as legitimate free speech. Citing China as an example, he said excessive control also risked stifling individual expression. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg added that Facebook was seeing election interference coming more from domestic sources, but he was 'more confident' about Facebook's security in the face of 'increasingly sophisticated' threats.

Google has removed popular chat app ToTok from its Play Store for the second time after claims of it being a spying tool for the United Arab Emirates government. Apple and Google had previously pulled the app from their respective stores in December following a New York Times report about the same. Downloaded by millions of users, the app has access to microphones, cameras, user calendars and can reportedly mine data from users' contacts list and track locations by offering a localised weather forecast.

Nokia has slashed the price of its entry-level smartphone--the Nokia 2.3--by ₹1,000 in India. The device, which was launched in December last year, is now available for ₹7,199 on Nokia online store and Amazon. The smartphone features a 6.2-inch HD+ display, MediaTek Helio A22 processor, and a 4,000mAh battery. It comes with a 13-megapixel dual rear camera and packs 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

Social media giant Facebook has cancelled its Global Marketing Summit in San Francisco over coronavirus concerns. According to reports, the event was scheduled from March 9-12 with over 5,000 participants expected from across the world. Earlier this week, the world's largest mobile phone showcase--the Mobile World Congress (MWC)--was cancelled after a mass exodus by major tech companies over coronavirus scare.

South Korean tech giant Samsung has revealed the prices of its latest flagship smartphones--the Galaxy S20 series in India. The Galaxy S20 starts at ₹66,999, the Galaxy S20+ at ₹73,999, while the Galaxy S20 Ultra will be available at a starting price of ₹92,999. All three devices are up for pre-bookings and will start shipping from March 6. Galaxy S20 Ultra comes with industry's first Space Zoom technology capable of 100X zoom, 108-megapixel camera, 8K video shooting capabilities and 120Hz display.

PUBG is getting a team deathmatch mode with its imminent v6.2 update, which promises an exciting 8v8 combat experience spread across a total of four maps and seven battlefields. PUBG&rsquo;s Team Deathmatch&nbsp;will be first-person perspective only, and won't support Down But No Out feature either. The new update is live on PUBG test server and also brings grenade changes, leaning and peeking right, Karakin loot balance, blood effects, and parachute &lsquo;follow&rsquo; feature.

iFixit&rsquo;s teardown of the Motorola Razr revealed that the foldable smartphone isn&rsquo;t easy to fix. The expert repair site gave Razr a repairability score of 1 out of 10, saying that it is the &ldquo;most complicated phone-based contraption&rdquo; it has ever taken apart. iFixit points out major issues, including a glued-on outer cover that makes the device difficult to open and multiple flex cables that could accidentally snap while repairing. However, it also gave some credit to Moto for the "numerous feats of engineering" it achieved with the iconic clamshell as well as its &ldquo;surprising&rdquo; $299 screen repair program.

The US Justice Department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and two of its US subsidiaries, accusing the company in a plot to steal trade secrets from competitors in America, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The case comes as the Trump administration is raising national security concerns about Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and is lobbying Western allies against including the company in wireless, high-speed networks.&nbsp;Huawei&nbsp;already faced bank fraud charges in Brooklyn and a separate trade secrets theft in federal court in Seattle.
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According to Counterpoint Research, Chinese tech giant Huawei will be among the worst hit as smartphone sales in the first quarter plummet in China due to the coronavirus outbreak. The industry researchers slashed estimates for offline smartphone sales in the world&rsquo;s biggest market by 50 per cent during the outbreak and overall 20 per cent in the first quarter. Oppo and Vivo are also likely to suffer, but&nbsp;Xiaomi, OnePlus and Realme&nbsp;should be better off, since they're more online-centric and overseas-focused.

Taiwanese electronics maker BenQ has launched a new gaming monitor in India--the EX2780Q--with a 144Hz refresh rate. It comes integrated with the company&rsquo;s own HDRi technology with intelligent visual optimisation, tailored 2.1 channel Hi-Fi audio, and eye-care technology. Besides automatically adjusting to screen brightness, the monitor also features enhanced image contrast and clarity. The 27-inch QHD gaming monitor adopts an IPS panel and comes along with FreeSync, Black eQualizer, Color Vibrance, and a USB-C port. It&rsquo;s available for purchase at Amazon for ₹36,990.

According to a Reuters report, Apple is planning to reopen five stores in Beijing from February 14th, but with reduced opening hours. The stores will be open from 11am to 6pm, instead of the usual 10am to 10pm timing until at least February 20th. These are the first stores to reopen in China following a 14-day hiatus, while several other stores in mainland China continue to remain shut following a coronavirus outbreak.

Realme C3 has gone on sale in India via Flipkart and Realme.com at a starting price of ₹6,999. It features a 6.5-inch HD+ display with a waterdrop-style notch, MediaTek Helio G70 processor, and up to 4GB of RAM and 64GB internal storage. The C3 packs a 5,000mAh battery, two rear cameras with a 12-megapixel primary shooter and a 5-megapixel selfie camera. The smartphone comes in two colour options: Blazing Red and Frozen Blue.

A Moscow court on Thursday fined social networking giants Twitter and Facebook for ignoring a Russian law requiring them to store Russian citizens' user data inside the country.&nbsp;A court slapped the US-based companies with fines of four million rubles each for failing to move their servers containing data of Russian users into Russia.&nbsp;They have 10 days to appeal. Russia has already blocked Telegram and LinkedIn&nbsp;for violation of the same law.

Apple's iPhone 11 Pro, which was launched last year in September has received its first discount in India. The 64GB variant of the phone will now cost ₹93,900 on Amazon instead of the original price of ₹99,900. To recall, the iPhone 11 Pro boasts a 5.8-inch Super Retina XDR OLED screen, runs on the A13 Bionic chip and gets a rear triple-camera setup.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has launched two new flagship devices--the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro--in China. Both the smartphones pack a Snapdragon 865 processor, a more efficient LPDDR5 RAM, and faster UFS 3.0 storage, besides offering 5G compatibility and wireless charging support. In addition, both come with a quad rear camera setup that includes a 108-megapixel main snapper. The Xiaomi Mi 10 starts at &yen;3,999 (~₹40,000) for the base 8GB RAM and 128GB storage variant, while the Mi 10 Pro costs &yen;4,999 (~₹50,000) for the base 8GB+256GB variant.

Essential Products, the phone company created by Android co-founder Andy Rubin, has announced that it&rsquo;s ceasing operations and shutting down. The startup was in the process of developing &lsquo;Project Gem&rsquo;, a new slim candybar-shaped mobile form factor that it showcased late last year. Essential said that it took this decision since it had &ldquo;no clear path&rdquo; to deliver the smartphone to its customers. The company was founded in 2015 and two years later in May 2017, launched its Essential Phone.

Sony has expanded its Wireless Noise Cancellation Headphones range with the launch of Flipkart specific WH-H910N headphones priced at ₹21,990. The headphones provide high-resolution audio with a battery back up of 35-hours with quick charge function. They&nbsp;also sport Quick Attention mode that turns the volume down for instant conversation and gets Amazon Alexa and Google assistant with voice assistant features.

According to a Bloomberg report, the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is expected to publish a set of rules later this month that could give the government access to the identities of social media users. The previous draft required sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and WhatsApp to help the government trace the origins of a post within 72 hours of a request. In addition, they&rsquo;d have to deactivate the users account within 24 hours, keep records for at least 180 days, establish a brick-and-mortar operation within India and appoint a grievance officer as government&rsquo;s liaison.

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced that it's amassed over 2 billion users worldwide. The end-to-end encrypted platform has reiterated its commitment to data encryption and user privacy, despite law enforcement agencies and child protection groups calling for backdoor access to be built to better fight extremism, child pornography and other criminal activities. It's worth noting that despite WhatsApp's claims of strong encryption, the service has been exploited in the past, including being infected by spyware, and being used to conduct cyber-espionage.

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