The US government approved the landmark national security package which was signed into law by President Joe Biden yesterday. The new regulation effectively gives TikTok parent company ByteDance an ultimatum to sell TikTok’s US business to a local company in the next nine months or face an effective ban on the platform.

Reuters is now reporting that ByteDance is not willing to sell off TikTok to a US company and would rather have its platform shut down. TikTok’s algorithms are deemed core to ByteDance’s operation making a potential sale of the platform non-viable. ByteDabce will appeal…

AndroidHeadlines just came out with a report that Samsung may be readying an Ultra variant of the Galaxy Z Fold6 for Unpacked event on July 10. This leak comes out to confirm the Ultra’s existence.

Galaxy Z Fold6 Ultra and Z Fold6 model names

The new information includes a model number – SM-F958N, which in turn suggests that this is an Ultra device because historically, all Ultra handsets in Samsung’s portfolio end with “8”. The internal model name Q6A, but that alone doesn’t give us any additional clues.

Judging by Samsung’s usual naming scheme, however, the SM-F958N model…

The Oppo A60 surfaced in the Google Play Console earlier this month, and today it quietly went official in Vietnam. Undoubtedly, it will be launched in more markets in the coming weeks.

Oppo A60 official images

Despite what its name implies, it can’t be considered a succesor to the A59 from December 2023, since that model has 5G support, while the A60 doesn’t. Thus, think of it like the successor to the A58 4G from July 2023.

The A60 comes with a 6.67-inch 720×1604 90 Hz LCD touchscreen with 950-nit peak brightness and 240 Hz sampling rate, the Snapdragon 680 SoC at the…

OnePlus has already made the Nord CE4 smartphone official, and it’s powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset. Today a new leak from a generally reliable tipster brings us the details about the chipsets powering the next two Nord branded devices, because there will apparently be two more coming in the following weeks.

The Nord 4 will employ the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, while the Nord CE 4 Lite will go with the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1. The Nord 4 is expected to be a rebranded OnePlus Ace 3V, a device which launched in China last month, and is also powered by the Snapdragon 7+ Gen…

Non-invasive blood sugar monitoring is the next frontier for wearables and a new report from South Korea suggests Samsung may launch its next-generation smartwatches with the ability to monitor users’ blood sugar levels.

According to the report, Hon Pak who serves as SVP of Samsung Electronics and is the head of digital healthcare met with Samsung Health advisory board members at the company’s Medical Center in Seoul to discuss the progress on blood sugar monitoring and its implementation into smart wearables.

The talk reportedly covered a host of other topics including AI…

Realme launched the 4G-only C65 earlier this month, and today, the brand followed up with a 5G version of the phone, powered by the Dimensity 6300 SoC.

The Realme C65 5G is the first Dimensity 6300-powered smartphone, and it comes with up to 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, expandable up to 2TB via a microSD card. The smartphone runs Android 14-based Realme UI 5.0 out of the box, with Realme promising two years of Android OS upgrades and three years of security updates.

The Realme C65 5G is built around a 6.67″ HD+ 120Hz LCD with 625 nits peak brightness. It supports Rainwater Smart Touch…

Tempered glass lens protectors for the upcoming Xperia 1 VI and 10 VI appeared on Japan’s Rakuten Market ahead of the Xperia launch event scheduled for May 17. The notable bit is that both protectors are physically larger than those of their predecessors and feature wider apertures which could translate to larger camera sensors.

Xperia 1 VI camera protector in comparison to Xperia 1 V

The lens protector for the Xperia 1 VI is 1.5 x 5.2cm in size compared to the 1.3 x 4.9cm structure on the Xperia V while the one for the Xperia 10 VI is 1.6 x 3.3cm which is also physically larger…

We recently heard that Samsung is working on the Galaxy S24 FE, which will be launched in late 2024. While there’s no word about the Galaxy S24 FE from Samsung, the phone’s listing on UK carrier EE’s database confirms its existence and moniker.

The UK carrier also revealed the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE’s model designation, which is SM-721U. However, it didn’t divulge anything else about it. But if rumors are to be believed, the Galaxy S24 FE will come with a 6.1″ AMOLED screen, 12GB RAM, and two storage options – 128GB (UFS 3.1) and 256GB (UFS 4.0). The smartphone will be fueled by a 4,500…

Last year’s Infinix GT 10 Pro was quite a hit, and the brand is now putting the finishing touches onto its successor, the GT 20 Pro. This is expected to be unveiled in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on April 28, according to an exclusive leak we brought you earlier this week.

Today the GT 20 Pro’s specs have been leaked, along with official-looking images. The phone is rumored to have a 6.78-inch FHD+ 144 Hz AMOLED touchscreen, the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 Ultimate SoC, the Pixelworks X5 Turbo visual processor, 8/12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a triple rear camera system with a 108 MP main sensor and…

Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, announced on Threads that the company is expanding its mute filters to apply to more parts of the app than before.

Called Hidden Words, the feature had so far applied only to posts directed towards to you, so you could only mute certain words or phrases from appearing in your replies. Starting today, the feature has been expanded to your timeline, search, profiles, and replies you see under other posts.

Hidden Words is simply just a mute filter. Add a word, phrase, or even an emoji to the list, and the app will hide any post containing those from…