The big picture: There's a new dynamic springing from the trade war that shows China is taking a big interest in shaping global surveillance standards. This could be just a coincidence, but the country is currently expanding its economic influence in underdeveloped regions, mostly through telecom infrastructure, which is at the heart of the current political tensions with the US.

One of the hottest subjects in tech right now is facial recognition , a technology that's slowly being adopted by governments for its potential to improve surveillance efforts and border

In brief: In what can be filed under the category of news that will surprise absolutely nobody, Atari’s upcoming VCS won’t make it out to early Indiegogo backers by the end of the year as originally promised. The good news is that we're talking about a delay of only a few weeks and according to Atari brass, backers should still get their units before the general public.

In a recent Medium post on the matter, Atari Chief Operating Officer Michael Arzt said that given the work that still

In context: The Mandalorian, a Disney+ exclusive, is the first-ever live-action Star Wars television series in the history of the franchise. It is also the first production of the property that uses Epic’s Unreal Engine.

Fans started noticing Epic Games listed in the credits of The Mandalorian shortly after the show debuted back on November 12, but Disney revealed the collaboration back in a 2018 investors brief. However, the company didn't mention the show by name, so it

Cyber Monday gives you another opportunity at scoring great savings on your favorite items for this holiday season. Just like we we did for Black Friday, we've put together a big list of noteworthy deals for the day divided by category, so based on your needs and wants you can browse the selection of deals for discounts on items you were looking to buy in the first place.

One thing to note – some of these deals may expire before the day ends, so act fast if you are set on buying something

Something to look forward to: Curiously enough, T-Mobile made no claims regarding speed in its press release. We know it will be slower than 5G service offered by the competition but how will it compare to modern 4G LTE? We should find out within the week.

T-Mobile on Monday flipped the switch on its 5G network which the carrier says covers more than 200 million people across 5,000+ cities and towns nationwide. In total, more than one million square

In brief: Star Citizen, a game that’s proving to be as controversial as it is ambitious, has just passed another milestone: $250 million in crowdfunding.

It was just over one year ago when Star Citizen passed the $200 million crowdfunding mark. Now, Roberts Space Industries reports that it has now raised $250,456,659 from 2,447,236 individual Star Citizens. In this year alone, it has brought

In brief: Virgil Griffith, a cryptocurrency expert and member of the Ethereum project has been arrested by US law enforcement at the Los Angeles International Airport on charges of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Griffith allegedly did so by travelling to North Korea to talk about blockchain technology. If convicted, the 36-year-old man, US citizen and resident of Singapore, faces up to 20 years in prison.

To put things in context, Virgil was previously denied permission to travel to North Korea and even

Why it matters: Facebook is launching a new feature that allows users to transfer their media from the social network to another online service. It will be available in Ireland first, before rolling out to everyone else in the first half of 2020.

If you want to transfer your photos and videos from Facebook to another service, it currently involves manually saving everything and re-uploading the content, but the new tool allows everything to be transferred quickly and easily. The first service on offer will be Google Photos