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Huawei announces Matebook X Pro Windows laptop with 13.9" touchscreen that has 91% screen-to-body ratio and 3 Android tablets - 8" and 10.8" M5 and 10.8" M5 Pro — The webcam is built into the keyboard — Huawei isn't bringing a new flagship phone to Mobile World Congress this year …
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Hands-on with 13.9" Huawei MateBook X Pro that starts at €1499: great design, only 12 inches wide due to thin bezels, unique pop-up camera inside the keyboard — Huawei squares up against Apple and Microsoft — Not yet rated By , Matt Hanson, Joe Osborne — What is a hands on review?
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| Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
Hands-on with Huawei MediaPad M5 and M5 Pro tablets: excellent multimedia capabilities and top-notch sound, but third party keyboard docks may not work well — Sharp, bright screen. Powerful audio. Fast LTE. — CONS — BOTTOM LINE — We don't see high-end Android tablets all that often any more.| Jacob Brogan / Slate: |
Indictment claims Paul Manafort and Robert Gates exchanged incriminating evidence over email because Manafort wanted Gates to convert PDFs to editable Word docs — There are two types of people in this world: those who know how to convert PDFs into Word documents and those who are indicted money laundering.
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| Justin Duino / 9to5Google: |
Three-minute promotional video for Galaxy S9 and S9+ leaks, showing off new DeX Pad and other features, emphasizes S9 as a great business phone — As if the Galaxy S9 hadn't been leaked enough before its official announcement at MWC, Samsung accidentally went and uploaded its launch video.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is working on a branded over-the-ear wireless headphone product that could debut in the fourth quarter of 2018 at the earliest — Capitalizing on early success with AirPods, Apple is readying a branded over-the-ear wireless headphone product that could launch … | Antonio García Martínez / Wired: |
How the Trump campaign increased its Facebook ad purchasing power with provocative content and mastered ad tools like Custom Audiences and Lookalike Audiences — Why Russia's Facebook ads were less important to Trump's victory than his own Facebook ads. — IT'S NOT EVERY day that a former …
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| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Critics say FCC's new National Broadband Map, like its previous iteration, overstates available ISPs, lists inaccurate data about speeds, and lacks pricing info — At the core of the problem is, unsurprisingly, the influence of deep-pocketed telecom operators on lawmakers and regulators.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
US officials say Russian hackers breached several hundred computers during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony and made it look like a North Korean operation — Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to U.S. intelligence.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
At CPAC, the NRA presented FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with a “courage under fire award” and a rifle for his efforts to roll back net neutrality regulations — The Republicans who lead the country's top telecom agency arrived at an annual gathering of influential conservatives Friday hoping …
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Politico, Reuters, Motherboard, Variety, CNN, The Next Web, New York Magazine, and Mashable. Thanks:@tonyromm
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
To comply with local laws, Apple will store keys to Chinese users' iCloud accounts in China starting next week, giving authorities easier access to user data — SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center …
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| Christian de Looper / Digital Trends: |
HTC announces U.S. layoffs as smartphone and VR divisions merge — It looks like HTC's smartphone business may be shifting away from the U.S. Last week Chailin Chang, HTC's president of smartphone and connected devices, announced his resignation from the company.
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