The trade dispute between the United States and China constantly affects companies from both sides. The U.S. officials are seriously imposing sanctions on Chinese companies. These companies are reportedly collaborating with the Chinese government for espionage and censorship. In the newest case, the United States Trade Representative has announced on its annual report that it is putting AliExpress and WeChat on its black list due to counterfeiting and piracy. The report represents “notorious markets” that “reportedly engage in or facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy....

The news comes just as Android 12L is expected to launch in early spring for tablets and foldable phones. But not, perhaps unsurprisingly, with a run of dates that should cause any issues with that. Not least of all, that’s because the Developer Preview versions of Android 13 — if all goes according to schedule — won’t wrap up until some time in April. With February and March set as the range for the previews....

The change, first discovered and shared in a video by Esper’s Mishaal Rahman, is fairly straightforward. Summarily, once activated by the end-user, it deletes all contents of the Android system-level clipboard. And it does so automatically. More specifically, the automated process takes place whenever an hour has passed between any content being copied or pasted to or from the clipboard. That, in effect, means it works similarly to how the clipboard found in Google’s Gboard keyboard does....

Not only was the TCL 30 5G among the few phones announced at the event that runs on 5G in its segment. The phone is also a big step forward in terms of design and highlights a refocused vision from the company in the budget space. And that vision should give competitors reason to pause. This isn’t the heaviest-hitting phone but maybe it doesn’t need to be This isn’t the heaviest-hitting phone but maybe it doesn’t need to be...

There is a fairly sizable market for people who want a rugged smartphone, especially in a harsh working environment. Construction workers, oil riggers, and farmers are some people that could make good use of a smartphone like the Cat S62 Pro. The headline-grabbing feature of this rugged smartphone is a very high-resolution FLIR Lepton 3.5 sensor which coupled with the new MyFLIR™ Pro app allows the Cat S62 Pro to be useful in a lot of different harsh work environments....