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Apple Music 3.4 for Android brings iOS 14 themed redesign, autoplay [Gallery]

Apple Music has received an update on Android bringing all of the latest enhancements that came with the app’s iOS 14 update, including a redesign and autoplay. While Apple is not typically known for making their apps and services available on multiple platforms, Apple Music is one of the key exceptions, offering an Android app to anyone willing to pay for the $9.99 per month subscription —…
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Apple stops signing iOS 14.0.1, blocking downgrades from iOS 14.1

As iOS 14.1 is now available to all users, Apple has just stopped signing iOS 14.0.1. That means users who have updated their devices to iOS 14.1 or iOS 14.2 beta can no longer downgrade to iOS 14.0.1. Before that, Apple also stopped signing iOS 14.0. iOS 14.0 was released on September 16 after almost a three-month beta period. The update brings a major redesign to the home screen with…
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Google Pixel 5 camera earns 120-point score from DxOMark

Despite the incredibly flawed and confusing nature of ranking cameras using a point-based system, the Google Pixel 5 has achieved a 120-point score from the defacto industry camera experts DxOMark — an 8-point bump over the Pixel 4 according to the French firm’s…
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Android 11 comes to the Raspberry Pi 4 courtesy of third-party ROM

As a computing teaching tool or even as a nifty emulation station, the Raspberry Pi is a wonderful piece of kit that runs Linux. Thanks to work by devs, you can now get a version of Android 11 running on Raspberry Pi hardware. Even though the Raspberry Pi uses effectively the same ARM architecture used on billions of Android devices, getting the mobile OS to run on the mini-computer hasn’t…
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ProBeat: Huawei sanctions are a win for Xiaomi, but a loss for the tech industry

The U.S. sanctions against Huawei are working. We learned last week that the Chinese company’s growth slowed sharply with Q3 2020 revenue of $32.5 billion, up just 3.7% year-over-year. Revenue growth for the first nine months of 2020 was 9.9%, compared to 24.4% for the same period in 2019. But market share figures from IDC and Canalys out yesterday show that Huawei’s losses are merely…
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