Snapdragon 670 brings more power, better cameras and smarter AI to the mid-rangeSnapdragon 670 brings more power, better cameras and smarter AI to the mid-range

Qualcomm has just announced the Snapdragon 670, its mid-range successor to the Snapdragon 660 (found in the likes of the Nokia 7 Plus and BlackBerry Key2), and it sounds like an improvement in a lot of ways.

The chipset has eight cores, two of which are performance cores clocked at up to 2.0GHz, while the other six are efficiency cores, clocked at

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Samsung invests billions in 5G and AISamsung invests billions in 5G and AI

Samsung is to invest 25 trillion won (£17 billion) in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G and components for connected cars as it seeks to protect itself against smartphone saturation.

The Korean giant is the world’s leading manufacturer of smartphones and memory chips but slowing demand in more developed markets has seen it seek other s

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Mobile operators and landowners pledge co-operation on rural coverageMobile operators and landowners pledge co-operation on rural coverage

Landowners and mobile operators have reaffirmed their commitment to work together to improve coverage in rural areas despite a lack of progress in negotiations.

Operators have long complained about the difficulty in gaining access to sites and the ‘unfair’ demands made by landowners in exchange for building or upgrading telecoms infrastructure.

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AMD32-core Threadripper 2990WX sets a remarkable CPU benchmark record with 5.1GHz overclockAMD’s 32-core Threadripper 2990WX sets a remarkable CPU benchmark record with 5.1GHz overclock

AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has set a new record Cinebench score (for a single-socket processor) which beat the result that Intel’s as yet unreleased 28-core monster CPU (clocked at 5GHz) managed to achieve at Computex.

The prototype Intel processor hit a Cinebench R15 multi-core score of 7,344, whereas the Threadripper 2990WX managed to

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Over 1,000 US news sites still unavailable in EU following GDPROver 1,000 US news sites still unavailable in EU following GDPR

Hundreds of news websites across the world are still failing to comply with the EU GDPR rules, over two months since the new regulation was brought in, research has found. 

According to a report from researcher Joseph O'Connor, over a thousand US news sites are inaccessible in Europe due to lacking the proper data protection systems.

O'Connor, who

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Experts say Windows 10 updates are a mess and demand Microsoft fix themExperts say Windows 10 updates are a mess and demand Microsoft fix them

Microsoft’s methods of patching and updating Windows 10 have come under fire from a group of experts that have been surveyed by PatchMangement.org, and they've called on Microsoft to fix the mess.

The survey was created by Susan Bradley, a computer network and security consultant who also moderates the PatchManagement.org mailing list. The survey

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