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Huawei expects major drop in phone sales due to US banHuawei expects major drop in phone sales due to US ban

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is projecting that its smartphone shipments will fall by around 20 percent this year, in its first year-on-year decline, as a result of US sanctions on its business.

The company shared its internal projections for 2020 to a limited number of managers from its consumer electronics division back in January, according to T

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Australia's privacy regulator is taking Facebook to court over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner said Facebook had seriously infringed the privacy of more than 300,000 Australians.

The social media giant left personal data "exposed to be sold and used for political

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When one of Louise Halford's staff members returned from a ski trip with flu-like symptoms, she advised him to work from home rather than risk bringing the coronavirus into the office.

Ms Halford also decided to work from home after

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The companies that run the UK's mobile network have agreed a deal to eliminate signal dead zones in remote areas.

The Shared Rural Network aims to extend 4G coverage to 95% of the UK, no matter which

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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Amazon opened its largest Go Grocery shop, last month, in Seattle

Amazon is offering its till-less technology to other High Street shops, just over two years after launching it via its own Go Grocery chain.

Go Grocery shoppers scan a smartphone app as they arrive, allowing

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Twitter has used its new "manipulated media" tag for the first time on an edited video of a speech by Joe Biden.

The tag, introduced on 5 March, tells readers when a picture or video has been "significantly

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