The coronavirus-driven global shift to working from home is set to have boosted demand for Samsung Electronics' memory chips from laptop makers and data centres, but first-quarter profits are likely to remain flat as the outbreak weakened consumer electronics sales.

Apple will produce 1 million face shields per week for medical workers, Apple CEO Tim Cook said.

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it has suspended its home appliance factory in the United States after two of its workers had tested positive for coronavirus.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said on Tuesday, as the country starts to return to normal following the coronavirus lockdown.

iPhone supplier sells off LCD equipment to repay American tech giant

The updated tracker is Fitbit's first GPS wearable since the Ionic, and is similar to the current Charge 3.

Huawei warned on Tuesday that 2020 would be its most difficult year yet due to American trade restrictions which dealt a blow to its overseas sales in 2019, and predicted the Chinese government would retaliate against the United States.

Vint Cerf, vice president of research at Google and one of the main creators of the Internet, has tweeted that he tested positive for coronavirus. He also recommended people watch an HBO segment from comedian John Oliver about preventative steps that the US needs to take.

The OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro will be the company's first full lineup of 5G devices.

Senior officials in the Trump administration agreed to new measures to restrict the global supply of chips to China's Huawei Technologies, sources familiar with the matter said, as the White House ramps up criticism of China over coronavirus.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he had a "very good discussion" with U.S. President Donald Trump over the coronavirus crisis and that the two were preparing a new initiative to combat the pandemic.

China has announced a temporary ban on all foreign visitors, even if they have visas or residence permits.

Weekly jobless claims in the US surge to a record 3.28 million.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told Americans on Thursday progress in controlling the spread of the coronavirus would determine when the economy reopens but assured them the Fed was taking every action to support a vigorous rebound when it comes.

Apple is preparing the ground to possibly delay the launch of its first 5G iPhones as the coronavirus pandemic threatens global demand and disrupts the company's product development schedule, sources familiar with the matter have told the Nikkei Asian Review.

Tesla will reopen its New York factory "as soon as humanly possible" to manufacture ventilators for coronavirus patients, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Twitter on Wednesday.

A draft of the Senate's stimulus bill reveals just how far the government is going to ensure the country is prepared for future pandemics and how it is making sure the US supply chain for food, medical supplies and medicine remains intact over the next several months.

President Donald Trump says he wants the nation "opened up and just raring to go by Easter" - a date just more than two weeks away that few health experts believe will be sufficient in containing the spread of coronavirus.

Apple could start re-opening some of its retail stores in the first half of April, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing an internal memo.

Toyota Motor and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone have agreed to work together on developing smart cities and will invest 200 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in each other to cement the relationship, the two companies said on Tuesday.

The semiconductor maker is pulling masks, gloves and other gear from its factory stock.

Right on cue, Apple has released iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4.

Singapore launched a contact-tracing smartphone app to allow authorities to identify those who have been exposed to people infected with coronavirus as part of efforts to curb the spread of the disease.

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Last year, Apple said the tariffs would hurt its competitiveness.

India's cabinet has approved a 480 billion rupees ($6.37 billion) plan to boost electronics manufacturing and woo large investment to a country which, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make-in-India drive, has become the world's second-biggest mobile phone manufacturer.

With more employees working from home to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, demand is surging for laptops and network peripherals as well as components along the supply chain such as chips, as companies rush to build virtual offices.

IBM on Sunday announced an initiative to increase access to high performance computing for groups researching and fighting the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.

Apple is limiting customer purchases of iPhones over its online stores in many countries including the United States and China to a maximum of two handsets per person, checks on its website on Friday revealed.

California has issued a "stay at home" order to residents as it tries to stem the march of the coronavirus across the most populous US state. Governor Gavin Newsom earlier estimated more than half of the 40 million people in his state would contract Covid-19 in just the next two months.

Described as the "first global 5G phone" Nokia's new 8.3 flagship focuses on connectivity.

Summit, IBM's supercomputer equipped with the "brain of AI," ran thousands of simulations to analyze which drug compounds might effectively stop the virus from infecting host cells.

It's one case in a New York delivery station, but the potential of a ripple effect is real.

Spark Microsystems revamps an older technology called ultra wideband -- UWB -- for faster short-range wireless networks.

Sony's new console can output 10.28 teraflops.

Amazon is temporarily refusing to stock certain items in its warehouses, to cope with overwhelming demand for household essentials due to the coronavirus pandemic. It means third-party sellers of non-essential items could find it difficult to ship orders to customers.

Several American industries that have been decimated by the coronavirus outbreak are asking for federal bailouts. The price tag reaches into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

The addition of trackpad support to iPadOS is designed to make selection of text and controls easy. The trackpad also supports three-finger gestures.

Apple will release iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 on March 24, for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users.