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OnePlus had recently launched its OnePlus 8 series in India and now the company CEO has hinted that OnePlus might launch affordable smartphones in India soon. Talking about launching budget smartphones in India, in an interview with Fast Company , OnePlus CEO Pete Lau said, “We can look at it as having a more affordable product offering but all products that still remain up to the OnePlus standard . . . and through this enabling, more people to have access to OnePlus products.” In the interview, he revealed that OnePlus will announce a new strategy in India soon after which it will introduce "lower-price" devices in the country and markets like Europe and North America later this year. He further clarifies that just because OnePlus will launch affordable phones, doesn't mean that it will ditch flagship smartphones; the company just wants to expand its product portfolio. He adds, "Once known for selling nice phones at hard-to-believe prices, OnePlus wants to get...

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies . Republican Trump, who accuses social media firms of bias against conservatives, without evidence, stepped up his attacks on Twitter after the company put a fact-checking label on two of his tweets about mail-in ballots on Tuesday for the first time. “We have a different policy I think than Twitter on this,” Zuckerberg told Fox News , Trump’s preferred broadcaster. Both sites take down content that violates their terms of service, but Facebook’s approach, he said, has “distinguished us from some of the other tech companies in terms of being stronger on free expression and giving people a voice.” While Facebook does apply labels to misleading posts , it exempts from review posts by politicians , a decision that some lawmakers and presumptive Democratic presidenti...

New research shows how dangerous the coronavirus is for current and former cancer patients. Those who developed COVID-19 were much more likely to die within a month than people without cancer who got it, two studies found. They are the largest reports on people with both diseases in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain and Canada. In one study, half of 928 current and former cancer patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized and 13 percent died. That’s far more than the various rates that have been reported in the general population. Results were published Thursday in the journal The Lancet and will be discussed this weekend at an American Society of Clinical Oncology conference being held online because of the pandemic. A second study in The Lancet from researchers in England of 800 patients with various types of cancer and COVID-19 found an even higher death rate — 28 percent. The risk rose with age and other health problems such as high blood pressure. The studies hav...