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Some of Shanghai's public telephone booths have recently been retrofitted with small 5G base stations to begin providing 5G Internet access to users.

Apple released the first developer beta of watchOS 6.2.8 today, two days after the release of watchOS 6.2.6.

Global smartphone shipments are expected to fall nearly 12 percent year-over-year to 1.2 billion units in 2020 as the novel coronavirus crisis takes its toll on the economy, leading to lower consumer spending, according to a report released Wednesday by market research firm IDC.

NetEase and Huawei today signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Hangzhou, where the two sides will take the development of "Cloud + AI + 5G + Terminal" next-generation information technology as an opportunity to jointly promote the development of games, music and education businesses.

As 5G begins to become mainstream and competition to develop 6G has begun, South Korea's Samsung Electronics and China's Huawei are at the forefront of technology, especially in terms of base station technology that will form the backbone of the future, according to Nikkei Asian Review.

In mid-May, Longsys embedded storage brand FORESEE introduced a China-made storage module, and now FORESEE is introducing the G500 series of SSDs.

Most Internet users also don't change their account passwords immediately after knowing they've been compromised, according to a recent study published by CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University's security and privacy research institute.

Recently, the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), known as the "China Tianyan", discovered a new source of fast radio bursts from deep in the universe, according to the Science and Technology Daily.

Global PC (including tablets) shipments will fall 7% in 2020 due to the impact of the new coronavirus outbreak, said market research firm Canalys.

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance team has announced that LibreOffice 7.0 Beta1 is available for testing.