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Huawei debuts Mate Xs with no Play Store access, 8-inch unfolded and 6.6-inch folded display, Kirin 990 5G chipset, and 8GB RAM, coming later in 2020 for €2,499 — Huawei has officially unveiled its second-generation Mate Xs foldable and MatePad Pro 5G tablet at a behind closed doors launch event in Barcelona, Spain.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Huawei updates the MateBook X Pro with Intel's 10th-gen CPUs and a green option, retaining the 13.9" edge-to-edge touchscreen, starting at €1,499 in April — A new paint job for 2020 — Huawei is updating its MateBook X Pro this year with a new green color option and Intel's 10th Gen processors.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Huawei unveils MatePad Pro, a 10.8-inch tablet with a 7,250mAh battery, optional keyboard and stylus, 5G, and no Google Play apps, starting at €549 in April — Huawei's big MWC reveal that never was is the MatePad Pro, a stylish tablet that will come with a keyboard folio and companion stylus …
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| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Microsoft reveals more Xbox Series X details: 12 teraflops of GPU performance, up 2x from the Xbox One X; support for 8K gaming; and a “quick resume” feature — Next-generation Xbox boasts 12 teraflops GPU — Microsoft revealed new details on its next-generation console …
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| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt raised over $10M in 2019 to operationalize Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data — Sir Tim Berners-Lee's start-up Inrupt to expand operational team and launch pilot projects — Inrupt, the start-up company founded …
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| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Safari will reportedly no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that are valid for more than 398 days beginning on September 1, down from 825 days — Keep your crypto below 398 days after September 1 and you're all good — Safari will, later this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates …
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| Laurens Cerulus / Politico: |
EU Commission tells staff to use end-to-end-encrypted messaging app Signal, saying it was selected as “the recommended application for public instant messaging” — The move is part of EU's efforts to beef up cybersecurity, after several high-profile incidents shocked diplomats and officials.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Sony unveils Xperia 1 II 5G flagship with a headphone jack, wireless charging, 21:9 6.5-inch 4K HDR OLED display, 8GB RAM, and a 4,000 mAh battery — Now featuring a headphone jack and wireless charging — One year after the debut of its super-tall Xperia 1, Sony is back with a successor, the obscenely titled Xperia 1 II.| Shubham Agarwal / Digital Trends: |
A look at how tech giants are tailoring their offerings uniquely for India, where millions of new consumers will soon use the internet for the first time — India has been on the minds of many tech companies of late. Most, however, end up running into a wall while trying to crack the secret … Thanks:@smashdawg
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eMarketer estimates Twitch will have 37.5M monthly active viewers in the US this year and is on pace to surpass the 44M mark by 2022 — Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming service for gamers, is poised to surpass 40 million monthly active viewers in the U.S. as of next year, according to a new forecast from eMarketer out on Thursday.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Intel announces three 5G chips: a second-gen AI-focused high-end Xeon Scalable CPU, Atom P5900 for 5G base stations, and an updated eASIC for datacenters — Intel's sale of its consumer 5G modem unit signaled its exit from the smartphone business last year, but the company remains heavily committed …
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 979 tech experts: 49% say tech will “mostly weaken” democracy between now and 2030, 33% say it will “mostly strengthen” democracy, 18% see no change — About half predict that humans' use of technology will weaken democracy between now and 2030 due to the speed …
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