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Kid-focused Pok Pok Playroom iOS app gets major update to kick off 2022

The phenomenal kids’ app Pok Pok Playroom has received a neat update today for the Busy Book toy featuring all-new dinosaur and Lunar New Year sections. This updated toy is great for open-ended play that encourages storytelling, fine motor skills, understanding cause and effect, and much more. As I’ve shared before, if you have young kids and haven’t checked out Pok Pok Playroom, it…
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Here’s why the world’s second-ever USB-C iPhone sold for over $80k less than the first

Last fall we saw engineer Ken Pillonel replace an iPhone X’s Lightning connector with a functioning USB-C port and ended up selling it for almost six figures. Inspired by Pillonel, Gernot Jöbstl successfully created the second USB-C iPhone, this time with waterproofing, and listed it for sale. However, interest in the world’s second iPhone with USB-C fell far, far short of the first, here’s…
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Honor is bringing a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flagship to the MWC

Honor plans to attend the Mobile World Congress where it will announce the global launch of a Magic phone – the Honor Magic V, perhaps? The company’s first foldable is one of the more interesting devices to be unveiled recently. Qualcomm’s Weibo account chimed in to…
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Face ID with a mask tidbits: iOS 15.4, supported iPhones, glasses, Apple Pay, more

Apple has released iOS 15.4 beta 1 to developers and public beta users. With this version, the company is finally testing the ability to use Face ID with a mask. Here’s everything you need to know about this upcoming feature. Just after you update your iPhone to iOS 15.4, a new prompt screen will appear explaining the new “Use Face ID with a mask” feature. Even though Apple actively gives…
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Lenovo releases Android 12L Beta 2 for the Tab P12 Pro

Just over two weeks after the release for Pixel phones, Android 12L Beta 2 is now available on the Lenovo Tab P12 Pro. An upgrade from Developer Preview 1, Android 12L Beta 2 is paired with the 2021-12-01 security patch. Like before, Lenovo offers the “SW flashing packages” and now a “12L Beta2” image. We had some trouble installing the first version, but hopefully those issues have now…
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