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Roku vs. Google: Who’s really to blame in this battle that only stands to hurt customers?

May 2, 2021
This week, a feud between Google and Roku boiled over to the point where the YouTube TV app was removed from the Roku platform. This story is still developing, but as it stands today, we’ve heard stories from both sides, so let’s try to summarize everything that’s happened so far. Table of contents Here’s what Roku says Here’s what Google says Looking at the context How does AV1 play…
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iOS 14.6 beta 1 hinted at Apple Music HiFi support with Dolby audio references

May 1, 2021
A curious report earlier today claimed that Apple is working on a HiFi plan for Apple Music. While the report itself doesn’t come with much evidence, 9to5Mac was able to find code in iOS 14.6 that suggests support for HiFi songs coming to Apple Music in the future. The original report says that Apple is expected to announce HiFi support on Apple Music in the coming weeks, as it also mentions…
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Samsung's Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha brings 11th gen processing for $849

May 1, 2021
Yesterday Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro360 laptops (each in 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch flavors) alongside the 15.6-inch Galaxy Book Odyssey and 15.6-inch Galaxy Book. But it also quietly put up a new laptop up for pre-order on its US website. The Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha is a successor to the Galaxy Book Flex and comes in the same 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch configurations. The…
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Exclusive: This is the Honor Play 5

May 1, 2021
Honor recently announced its Play 5T Youth and now we have exclusive images of another device from the series called the Play 5. The phone will feature a flat frame design instead of the round corners found on more recent Honor phones. The front will house a waterdrop notch…
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Samsung Galaxy Book Go is a €449 Windows 10 laptop with an ARM processor

May 1, 2021
Samsung laptop news just keep arriving these days. After announcing four laptops yesterday and another one today, Samsung looks set to premiere an affordable Windows laptop with an ARM processor. The Samsung Galaxy Book Go runs on an 8nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c chip and the ARM version of Windows 10. The machine is fanless, has a 14-inch 1920x1080px IPS LCD, built-in LTE, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB…
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