For the uninitiated, thousands of people across several major cities in China took to the streets in late November to protest against the extended COVID-19 lockdowns in the country. The protests began after a deadly fire took several lives in Xinjiang province’s capital city Urumqi. Protesters blamed the lockdown restrictions for having delayed the arrival of firefighters, effectively contributing to the deaths. They called for the restrictions to end. As protest groups grew in size, the Chinese Communist Party-led Chinese government violently pushed back....

Currently, the smart home market is too diverse and fragmented with little to no interoperability. This limits a customer’s choice for expansion once they invest in a device. The lack of interoperability between brands means they must selectively pick up devices that work in their existing ecosystem. Matter solves this problem by enabling a global standard for smart home devices. Matter-compliant devices will be interoperable irrespective of the brand that manufactures them....

The revelation was made by a tipster on Weibo (via), effectively suggesting that Qualcomm’s 4nm chipset will make its smartphone debut first. Rumors suggest that the Xiaomi 12 could break cover in December bearing Qualcomm’s latest silicon. Moreover, phones like the Galaxy S22, the OnePlus 10 Pro, and others are coming in early 2022, so MediaTek’s advantage is seemingly short-lived. MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 9000 last week, touting it as the world’s first 4nm-class mobile chip....

The Filogic 880 Wi-Fi 7 chip supports penta-band 4×4 with a maximum speed of 36Gbps The Filogic 880 Wi-Fi 7 chip supports penta-band 4×4 with a maximum speed of 36Gbps MediaTek notes that Filogic 880 and Filogic 380 are among the first to bring Wi-Fi 7 to the market. The former brings an all-new application processor and network processing unit (NPU). It also offers optimum Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and packet processing performance....

Elon Musk claims ten percent of Twitter users are fake Elon Musk claims ten percent of Twitter users are fake Musk’s legal filing came as a response to Twitter’s lawsuit seeking a court order compelling him to complete the proposed buyout of the company. The billionaire agreed to buy the microblogging site for $44 billion in April. But soon after the deal was announced, he started expressing doubts over fake accounts....