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Google Chrome for iOS to disable Payment Requests in March

January 30, 2020
When making a purchase on the web, one of the ways you can provide credit card details is through your browser’s built-in Payment Request API. However, due to mounting security and user experience challenges, Google is disabling the Payment Request API on Chrome for iOS. The Payment Request API is capable of transmitting payment information from a service like Google Pay or Apple Pay (on…
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Samsung’s delayed Galaxy Book S will arrive on February 13th

January 30, 2020
Samsung’s Galaxy Book S laptop that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx processor is now available for preorder at Samsung.com starting at $999.99, and it will start shipping on February 13th. Samsung is giving out $100 gift cards toward Samsung PCs, tablets, and accessories if you buy one before release date. Additionally, it will be available for purchase from the Microsoft Store and Verizon…
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Early iPhone hit SpellTower gets reimagined a decade later

January 30, 2020
In 2011, designer Zach Gage decided to try something different: make a game in a genre he hated. The result was SpellTower, a mashup of word games and puzzlers, which went on to become one of his most popular titles to date, with more than 1 million downloads. Its…
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Report: Huawei surpassed Apple to become 2nd largest smartphone vendor in 2019 despite sanctions

January 30, 2020
According to a new report, Huawei has surpassed Apple to become the second-largest smartphone vendor globally for 2019, as Samsung retains top spot yet again. The report comes from and shows the volume of smartphone shipments actually declining by 1% across the entire industry. Even with heavy trade restrictions in place, Huawei has seen growth within Chinese borders, where it made up almost…
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Google highlights 62 new emoji coming to Android 11 ‘later this year’

January 29, 2020
The Unicode Consortium just detailed Emoji 13.0 with 62 new characters, and 55 skin tone and gender variants. Google today announced that the new emoji will be available with Android 11, as well as the company’s five contributions to the 2020 set. For Emoji 13.0, Google proposed all gender variants for “person in veil” and “person in tuxedo,” as well as “person feeding baby with a…
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