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Have Army Emergency Relief Debt? It Could Soon Be Canceled

Several hundred soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division were reunited with their families following a nine month deployment, July 23, 2019, at Fort Drum, New York. (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Paige Behringer) More than 1,000 soldiers and Army families who received loans this year from Army Emergency Relief are about to get a windfall, as the nonprofit forgives those debts, converting them instead to…
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US Drone Strike Kills 17 Jihadists in NW Syria

U.S. military convoy drives through the town of Qamishli, north Syria, by a poster showing Syrain President Bashar Aassad Saturday, Oct. 26. 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) The U.S. Army said Thursday it carried out a drone strike against Al-Qaeda leaders in northwestern…
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Huawei reportedly bets on Shanghai chip plant to overcome US trade ban

Huawei might have a way to avoid some of the worst consequences of tightening US trade restrictions, provided it’s willing to be patient. Financial Times sources claim Huawei is planning a dedicated chip factory in Shanghai that would make parts for its core telecom infrastructure business. It would be run by a partner, the city-backed Shanghai IC R&D Center, and would be considered…
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Samsung Galaxy Watch3 Titanium hands-on

Samsung is a key player in the smart wearable business and its current line of Tizen-powered Galaxy Watch3 smartwatches are among the most popular around. But up until September the Galaxy Watch3 line didn’t have a truly premium model on sale to compete with rivals…
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More Oppo K7x specs appear ahead of launch

Oppo is launching the K7x smartphone on Wednesday, November 4, and initially, the company revealed this device will have a big battery. Now the phone with model number PDM00 appeared on Geekbench with a Dimensity 720 5G chipset, while a new official Weibo post unveiled an LCD panel with a 90Hz refresh rate. The benchmarked unit had 8GB RAM which is rather impressive for an entry-level handset. We…
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Honor V40 phones to arrive mid-December with two chipsets

Back in October we spotted a teaser about the Honor V40 series, showing that the brand is still keen on manufacturing smartphones despite the troubles its parent Huawei is having. Today we know a bit more about the upcoming lineup, thanks to one leakster in China – the…
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Weekly poll: will the OnePlus Nord N10 5G and N100 fly or die?

In the beginning, OnePlus released only one phone a year. Then two. In 2020, the company has already unveiled six new models (not counting carrier-specific variants) and it’s the last two phones that are now in the spotlight. The two Nord-series phones are the most…
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Samsung highlights some of the new One UI 3.0 Android 11 features

One UI 3.0 builds are well into public beta at this point. Galaxy S20 family devices in both the US and Germany, signed-up for the program are already running test Android 11, One UI 3.0 ROMs and in a more-recent development, so are US Note20 units. A new page has now gone up on the company’s official Malaysian website, highlighting some of the major new additions and changes in One UI…
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