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In this photo provided Nov 23, 2022, security personnel in protective clothing were seen taking away a person during protest at the factory compound operated by Foxconn Technology Group who runs the world's biggest Apple iPhone factory in Zhengzhou in central China's Henan province. Employees at the world's biggest Apple iPhone factory were beaten and detained in protests over pay amid anti-virus controls, according to witnesses and videos on social media Wednesday, as tensions mount over Chinese efforts to combat a renewed rise in infections. (AP)

Protesting workers beaten at Chinese iPhone factory

Police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple’s iPhone, whose new model is delayed by controls imposed as China tries to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases.

Consumer groups want grocers to ditch digital-only deals

FILE - A voter uses an electronic voting machine to cast a ballot in the Mississippi primary election at a polling location in Jackson County, Miss., on June 7, 2022. Mississippi voters will be able to use their smartphones as voter identification in the November election, marking the first real test of a new statewide program that integrates technology into the voting process. (Hannah Ruhoff/The Sun Herald via AP, File)

Mississippi rolls out mobile ID for statewide elections

Smartphone maker Foxconn unveils EV for Taiwan brand Yulon

FILE- New iPhone 14 models on display at an Apple event on the campus of Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022. Apple Inc. will manufacture its latest iPhone 14 in India, the company said on Monday, as it seeks to curb its production in China. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Apple Inc will manufacture iPhone 14 in India

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FILE - The cockpit of a Ford Mustang Mach-E electric car is pictured at the Motor Show in Essen, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Edmunds: The pros and cons of vehicle touchscreens

There’s no denying the impact that smartphones and tablets have had on modern vehicles. Look into just about any new car and you’ll find a touchscreen and maybe even a bank of capacitive touch buttons that seek to approximate the function of mechanical buttons.

Fans attend the first half of an NCAA college football game between Cincinnati and Kennesaw State, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Tech company’s outage leaves fans unable to download tickets

A technology company that handles ticketing for many of the biggest college football programs encountered a problem Saturday that left fans across the country unable to download digital tickets onto their smartphones for several hours.

FILE - Customers buy fruit at a stall in Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 20, 2021. China has blocked imports of citrus and fish from Taiwan in retaliation for a visit to the self-ruled island by a top American lawmaker but avoided sanctions on Taiwanese processor chips for Chinese assemblers of smartphones and other electronics, a step that would send shockwaves through the global economy. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

China blocks some Taiwan imports but avoids chip disruptions

China has blocked imports of citrus, fish and other foods from Taiwan in retaliation for a visit by U.S.

FILE - Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Sadigura Hasidic dynasty celebrate the Jewish feast of 'Tu Bishvat' or "New Year of the Trees." as they sit with their rabbis around a long table filled with all kinds of fruits, in the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak, Israel, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. In April 2022, the country's communications minister made it easier for the Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, community, to use the devices without the knowledge of their rabbis, raising tensions within the Haredi community and between them and the rest of Israeli society. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israeli policy on ‘kosher cellphones’ outrages Haredi rabbis

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Shmuli looks outside the windows of his cellular phone store fearfully. He pulls at his long beard and swaying sidelocks.

FILE- A man speaks on his mobile phone in front of a shop selling Oppo phones in Noida, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday, June 18, 2020. Indian investigators have raided an Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, accusing it of evading customs duties totaling 43.9 billion rupees ($551 million), the government said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India raids second Chinese mobile company this month

Indian investigators have raided an Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, accusing it of evading customs duties totaling $551 million.

Flowers, Sony cameras, and a cup of coffee sit outside the memorial service of a Ukrainian soldier killed during a battle with Russian soldiers in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this Saturday, June 18, 2022 photo taken with an iPhone. "Sometimes I use the phone camera when I want to send an image immediately by message or Whatsapp — a way to communicate something to someone through an image and no words," wrote Pisarenko. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

AP PHOTOS: The iPhone at 15, through pro photographers’ eyes

This week marks 15 years since the iPhone first went on sale and ushered in a new era: the age of the smartphone.

FILE - European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton speaks during a media conference on a common charging solution for mobile phones at EU headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. European Union officials agreed Tuesday, June 7, 2022 on new rules requiring a uniform charging cord for smartphones and other devices, a move that would make life easier for consumers fed up with rummaging through a tangle of cables for the right one. (AP Photo/Thierry Monasse, File)

One plug and done: EU to require common way to charge phones

European Union officials have agreed on new rules requiring a uniform charging cord for smartphones and other devices.

FILE - Smart phones are displayed at a shopping mall in Pittsburgh, Feb. 24, 2021. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wasted nearly $2 million dollars when many of the smart phones bought during the pandemic for homeless veterans went unused, according to an inspector general's report. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Thousands of smartphones purchased by VA went unused

An inspector general’s report has found that most of the 10,000 smartphones purchased for a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs program during the pandemic went unused.

Guests gather to check out Xiaomi's newly launched products at an event in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Indian authorities on Saturday, April 30, 2022, seized $725 million from Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi after an investigation found it had broken the country's foreign exchange laws by making illegal remittances abroad, officials said. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

India seizes $725 million China’s Xiaomi over remittances

Indian authorities have seized $725 million from Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi, accusing it of breaking the country’s foreign exchange laws by making illegal remittances abroad.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen delivers a speech at the launching ceremony of the Cambodia-China Friendship Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, March 21, 2022. Hun Sen declared Monday, March 28, 2022, that he would not appoint anyone to be a provincial governor who is not knowledgeable in the use of social media and smartphones. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian leader says officials must master mobile internet

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s long-ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen declared Monday that he would not appoint anyone to be a provincial governor who is not knowledgeable in the use of social media and smartphones.

Benjamin Frey, American Studies professor at the University of North Carolina, sits under the native Ilex vomitoria tree on campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Frey, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, led the language research behind a new smartphone interface by Lenovo-owned Motorola. The Cherokee language interface on its newest line of phones, uses the syllable-based written characters first created by the Cherokee Nation's Sequoyah in the early 1800s. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Cherokee on a smartphone: Part of a drive to save a language

By itself, being able to read smartphone home screens in Cherokee won’t be enough to safeguard the Indigenous language, endangered after a long history of erasure.

People ride a subway carriage as some of them read on their smartphones in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)

Propaganda, fake videos of Ukraine invasion bombard users

TikTok videos, propagandized headlines and tweets being shared on smartphones and screens around the globe are confusing millions about the reality of how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unfolding on the ground.

People ride a subway carriage as some of them read on their smartphones in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)

Propaganda, fake videos of Ukraine invasion bombard users

TikTok videos, propagandized headlines and tweets being shared on smartphones and screens around the globe are confusing millions about the reality of how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unfolding on the ground.

At Olympics, cybersecurity worries linger in background

Warnings to use disposable “burner” phones and laptops. Privacy-protecting software. Concerns about a security flaw in an official Games smartphone app.

A man uses his phone to film a screen outside a mall showing a live broadcast of the fireworks explode over the iconic Bird's Nest Stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

BEIJING SNAPSHOT: As Olympics ebb, smartphone synchronicity

As part of the closing ceremony for the most locked-down and sequestered Olympics in human history, a carefully curated crowd watched as the famed Bird’s Nest stadium as a warm and humanistic show unfolded.

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, with the S-Pen, is on display, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 in San Francisco. Samsung is trying to reclaim lost ground in the coveted high end of the smartphone market with a new lineup of Galaxy S models designed to appeal to consumers who are increasingly sharing videos of their antics on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other popular apps. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

Samsung unveils new phones as premium market share shrinks

Samsung is trying to reclaim lost ground in the coveted high end of the smartphone market with a new lineup of Galaxy S models designed to appeal to consumers who are increasingly sharing videos of their antics on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other popular apps.

Google to invest $1 billion to push India’s digitalization

Google plans to invest up to $1 billion in partnership with India’s Airtel for providing affordable access to smartphones to over a billion Indians and accelerating the cloud ecosystem for businesses.

Avalanche deaths persist despite improved forecasting

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — When Knox Williams first started warning people about avalanches in Colorado from his small office in Fort Collins, there was only one way to receive the information: People had to call an avalanche hotline on a landline and listen to his recording of the forecast.

Report: Chinese Olympic app has serious security flaws

A new report shows that an app that’s expected to be widely used by athletes and others attending next month’s Winter Games in Beijing has glaring security problems that could expose sensitive data to interception.

FILE - A person walks into the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC) headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Oct. 20, 2021. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips, reported Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, its quarterly profit rose 16.4% over a year earlier to $6 billion amid surging demand for chips for smartphones and other electronics.(AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC says quarterly profit $6 billion

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips, says its quarterly profit rose 16.4% over a year earlier to $6 billion amid surging demand for chips for smartphones and other electronics.

FILE - Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett (13) carries the ball against Auburn during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, in Auburn, Ala. Georgia plays Alabama in the College Football Playoff national championship game on Jan. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Flipping out: UGa QB Bennett goes old school with phone

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Stetson Bennett went old school with his smart phone.

Determined to block out any distractions, Bennett purchased a flip device this past summer.

This photo shows a view of the ARM-structure server processor Yitian 710, developed by Alibaba's in-house semiconductor unit T-Head, at the Apsara Conference, an annual cloud service technology forum hosted by Alibaba Group, in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province on Oct. 19, 2021. To help make China a self-reliant "technology superpower," the ruling Communist Party is pushing the world's biggest e-commerce company to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor chips, a business unlike anything Alibaba Group has done before. (Chinatopix via AP)

China pursues tech ‘self-reliance,’ fueling global unease

China’s ruling Communist Party is pressing entrepreneurs to make the country a “technology superpower” that doesn’t need the United States or other foreign suppliers.

FILE - Nearby buildings are reflected in the windows of the Oregon State Treasury office in Tigard, Ore., on Oct. 30, 2019. A spokeswoman for Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read said Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, that Read is looking for clarity in the murky situation surrounding a 2017 investment by the state in a private equity fund called Novalpina Capital, which later acquired a majority share of NSO Group, an Israeli company that produces smartphone spyware and has been blacklisted by the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

Oregon might dump controversial spyware investment

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s treasurer is exploring legal options with the state attorney general in the state’s large investment in a smartphone spyware company — a firm that has been denounced by human rights groups, the U.S. government and tech giants.

Evoq Technologies LLC Announces Launch of First Smartphone-Based Product for Retinal Health Testing

FILE - A person uses an iPhone on Oct. 8, 2019 in New York. Apple is letting some iPhone users fix their own phones, a sharp turnaround for a company that has long guarded its software in a walled garden that only Apple-approved technicians can unlock. The company said Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2021, it will enable users of two of the newest iPhone models and later some Mac computers to get access to genuine Apple parts and tools to be able to repair them. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Under pressure, Apple allows self-repairs to iPhones, Macs

Apple is letting some iPhone users fix their own phones, a sharp turnaround for a company that has long prohibited anyone except Apple-approved technicians from fiddling with its proprietary parts and software.

A patient moves past a display showing the real-time electrocardiograms of patients at the department of cardiovascular medicine of the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. The hospital in southern China's Guangdong Province is using 5G and IoT technologies to collect, transmit and monitor more data in real time, allowing healthcare workers to provide better medical service for patients. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Amid US sanctions, Huawei highlights uses for 5G technology

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. is providing smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare, creating new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from U.S. sanctions.

One of the electric cars unveiled by Foxconn is seen during a press event held in Taipei, Taiwan Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. The Taiwanese company that manufactures smartphones for Apple Inc. and other global brands announced Monday plans to produce electric cars for auto brands under a similar contract model. (AP Photo/Wu Taijing)

Smartphone producer Foxconn announces electric car venture

The Taiwanese company that manufactures smartphones for Apple Inc. and other global brands says it plans to make electric cars for auto brands under a similar contract model.

Louisiana: tag and validate deer, turkey by smartphone

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hunters in Louisiana can now use their smartphones to tag and validate deer and turkey immediately after killing one, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said.

Mississippi works to offer driver’s license in digital form

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is developing a way for people to have their driver’s license, vaccination card and other state-issued documents available in a smartphone wallet, Commissioner of Public Safety Sean Tindell said Tuesday.

Ex-mayor ordered to repay investors $300,000

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed two more charges faced by a disgraced former Massachusetts mayor and ordered him to repay more than $300,000 to investors in his smartphone app, according to court records.