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Mario Kart Tour opens multiplayer racing to all players on Android and iOS

At launch, Mario Kart Tour was missing the key multiplayer component, but it was quickly added in follow-up updates. Unfortunately, this multiplayer racing element was behind a steep $5 per month Gold Pass subscription. We have good news though, as Nintendo has confirmed in an official blog post that the multiplayer racing element is now open to all Mario Kart Tour players on Android and iOS as…
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Microsoft’s software plan for the Duo Android phone is surprisingly realistic

I’m going to leave the analysis of the truly bonkers story of Jeff Bezos’ phone hack to Casey Newton’s newsletter, The Interface. Go subscribe now. He’s drafting it as I write these words and it contains Very Practical Advice like “Never open a WhatsApp message from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.” For me and my personal obsession with the various ways companies are trying to…
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DOJ letter reveals the FBI recently cracked an iPhone 11

While the Department of Justice, US attorney general and even the president continue to pressure Apple for additional technical support in unlocking iPhones tied to the naval base shooting in December, a letter reveals that the FBI recently cracked a password-protected iPhone 11. That phone belonged to Lev Parnas, an associate of the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who has been indicted…
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Sony Xperia 5 review: The not-so-compact, ‘compact’ phone

Finding a flagship phone in compact form is something that has become increasingly difficult as OEMs steadily move to building more oversized devices. However, Sony has persisted with their now-defunct “Compact” series, and more recently the Xperia 5. Sony called time on…
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Microsoft releases Surface Duo preview SDK with Android Studio emulator

At its October hardware event last fall, Microsoft made quite a splash with the Android-powered Surface Duo. Slated to launch holiday 2020, the Windows team today released a preview SDK with an emulator and other documentation. With this release, Microsoft wants to let Android developers “get started and optimize for dual-screen devices.” The preview SDK for Microsoft Surface Duo is available…
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