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February 24, 2020, 9:55 AM

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Damien Wilde / 9to5Google:
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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.
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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