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Google adds COVID restriction alerts, new road-trip mapping features, as vaccines enable safer travel

If you’re like me, the vaccine shot in your arm means you’re looking into finally taking a trip after staying locked down for a year. To help you travel safely and in line with local guidelines, Google will now send you alerts regarding pandemic-related restrictions at your destination along with other handy travel tools for the COVID era. Google is today announcing three new features to…
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Samsung has updated these phones to Android 11

It usually takes Android OEMs a fair bit to get the latest version of the OS on older devices, but Samsung has been getting better and better at this every year. For Android 11, the official update schedule kicked off in early December and continues to expand. Here’s every…
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Sony pulled a profit on its Xperia smartphones for the first time since 2017

The smartphone world keeps consolidating into just a handful of major brands, and frankly, Sony is not one of the brands we thought we’d still be talking about in 2021. Unexpectedly, though, Sony just managed to squeeze out a profit on Xperia phones for the first time in a few years recently. With the release of its latest earnings report, Sony confirmed that its Xperia smartphone division…
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Snapdragon 888 Plus to power Q3 flagships, Honor will make one of them

Ever since Huawei sold off the Honor brand, the company has been cleared to work with Qualcomm again and we already know that the brand is working on the Honor 50 Pro+ that is to be powered by the Snapdragon 888 SoC. According to leaker , Honor will be one of the OEMs to equip a flagship with the updated chipset. Honor 30 Pro+ According to the leaker, the Snapdragon 888 Plus (or Pro), is already…
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Check this video of Harmony OS 2.0 running on Huawei Mate X2

The Harmony OS 2.0 is Huawei’s in-house platform that should be available by June to customers. It is already in the final stages of development, and we now have the first video, showing how the OS looks like on a Huawei Mate X2. Check it out: At first the UI has a lot of…
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Apple tried to help Adobe bring Flash to iOS, but the results were ’embarrassing’

Following the depositions of former Apple head of software engineering Scott Forstall in the Epic vs. Apple case, we’ve come to learn some interesting details about the early days of the iPhone and the App Store. Now Forstall has revealed that Apple once considered letting Adobe bring Flash to iOS, but the results were “embarrassing.” iPhone and iPod touch never supported Flash, which was…
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