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An Apple employee in Los Angeles has been found to be coronavirus positive. The employee worked at Apple's Culver City offices, reports Variety. "A team member in our Culver City office has informed us they tested positive for  COVID-19 . The individual had no symptoms when they were last in the office, and remains in self-isolation at home," an  Apple  spokesperson said in a statement. "We recognize this is a challenging time for our global community and our thoughts remain with those around the world personally affected by COVID-19 and the heroic medical professionals and researchers fighting it," the spokesperson added. Apple employees at the office campus have been alerted to take extra precautions. "The news comes a day after the news broke that Universal Music Chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge has been hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus," said the report. Grainge's 60th birthday celebration on February 29 in Palm ...

OnePlus CEO Pete Lau had hinted last year that the OnePlus 8 series could be an all-5G lineup, and now he has confirmed that the OnePlus 8 series phones will indeed all be 5G-ready. In an interaction with CNET, the OnePlus chief stated “Going forward, we're all in on 5G.” However, just in case you were wondering whether 5G support will make the prices of these devices shoot up, Lau has also confirmed that the new technology will add something to the cost of each device. Introducing 5G to the OnePlus 8 series will increase the prices of each device compared to their current-generation equivalents. “I want to restate our commitment to 5G and our long term investment. We've been investing in 5G for several years and we see this as the direction going forward, and one we're very much committed to,”  Lau  was  quoted  as saying. The OnePlus co-founder added that the company wants to take advantage of the rapid growth in 5G coverage that is being made at t...

Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia drew a 500 million euro ($561 million) loan last month to help it to accelerate development of 5G technology, its annual report shows. Nokia said that its R&D loan facility with the European Investment Bank (EIB), which has an average maturity of about five years after disbursement, was agreed in August 2018 and available untill last month. It drew the loan on Feb. 24. The company's finances have been in focus since it halted dividend payments in last 2019 and said it would need to invest more than previously expected in development of its 5G equipment. This week Nokia rehired former executive Pekka Landmark from energy group Fortum as its new CEO to lead efforts to revive its faltering 5G business. A Nokia representative was not immediately available to comment on details of the loan. "Nokia will use the loan to further accelerate its research and development of 5G technology, the next-generation mobile telecommunicatio...

Realme C2 has started receiving its December 2019 OTA update in India, and it brings along the November security patch amongst other changes. The latest update with version number RMX1941EX_11_A.20 also delivers a fix for a touch issue on the phone apart from the Android security patch. This update comes more than a month after the smartphone received the previous software version. The last update by the company brought October 2019 Android security patch as well as Dark Mode and an updated charging animation setting for the phone. Realme announced in its forum post that the update for Realme C2 will have a staged rollout to ensure stability. It will be made available to a limited number of users, in the beginning, to ensure there are no critical bugs. A comprehensive rollout will start in a few days if no bugs are found. As we mentioned, the Realme C2 December 2019 OTA update brings the November security patch as well as a fix for a touch responsiveness...

The supply deal would mark Japan Display’s foray into the OLED display market. Japan Display, which gets more than half of its revenue from Apple, has a small OLED pilot line at a smartphone screen plant in eastern Japan. Japan Display Inc will begin to supply organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens for the Apple Watch later this year, two sources said, a breakthrough for the cash-strapped company whose late shift to OLED has cost it orders from Apple. The supply deal would mark Japan Display’s foray into the OLED display market, the two sources familiar with the matter said, declining to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media. A spokesman for Japan Display said he could not comment on specific customers. Japan Display’s mainstay liquid crystal display (LCD) business has been slumping due to Apple Inc’s recent shift away from LCD, and disappointing sales of the iPhone XR, the only LCD model in Apple’s 2018 line-up. The OLED display ma...

There is yet another game came up to beat PUBG game .Its well known how far PUBG game attracted every age group of people.But there is a competition game came across in the market to give a fight to it.”APEX LEGENDS” is the name of the new game. This game has been released on Microsoft windows PC,Play station 4, X Box One gaming platforms. This also soon to be launching on Android and OS platforms. APEX LEGENDS can be downloaded free in case you have windows PC from its origin store.One of the games is similar to PUBG game.This also to be played with other players online.Just like PUBG game players are made available with different guns. In order to down load this game which was launched 4th of this month,there are 25 million people have downloaded including all the platforms. One will understand what sort of response this game gets with the number of downloads it clocked so far.

Google releasing new photo back up options in India(REUTERS) Google Photos on Monday launched its “Express” back-up feature for users in India. The feature will be available to a small percentage of Google Photos users on Android. It allows faster back up at reduced resolutions, making it easier to store pictures even with poor or infrequent Wi-Fi availability, the company wrote in a blog post. “We learned that over a third of the people using  Google Photos  in India have some photos that hadn’t been backed up in over a month. We want to make sure that our app meets the unique needs of people wherever they are,” the post said. “You will still have the option to choose from the existing back-up options: Original Quality and High Quality,” the post said. In addition to “Express”, Google will also introduce a new “Data Cap” option for back up to give users more granular daily controls for using cellular data to back up. The company is slowly releasing the “E...