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Quick Charge Podcast: October 31, 2020

November 2, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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MobileNews

ProBeat: Huawei sanctions are a win for Xiaomi, but a loss for the tech industry

November 2, 2020
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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MobileNews

Google Search rivals urge EU to revisit Android antitrust case

November 2, 2020
A group of search engines from around the world are banding together to demand European Union regulators address Google’s dominance in the online search market. They are also urging the EU to take a closer look at Google’s controversial auction process. The news comes…
MobileNews

The quick iPhone 12 Pro review: Apple’s on 5G and camera autopilot

November 2, 2020
Thirteen years after the first model hit stores, there’s no question that the iPhone is a massive success: Hundreds of millions of active users, unit sales measured in the billions, and a sprawling app economy are just a few of the more obvious signs. Regardless of how much has changed from prior models, every new iPhone matters to an audience of millions, and thus is automatically worthy of…
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MobileNews

iOS 14.1 makes 5G only a little less confusing than Android 11

November 2, 2020
It’s easy to describe early 5G networks right now as messy: under-built, inconsistently performant, and quite likely to confuse potential users. All of the major carriers now portray 5G as a journey, not a destination, and since customers won’t necessarily find 5G…
DefenseNews

Houston Army Recruiters Encounter Outrage, Hostility in Wake of Vanessa Guillen's Death

November 2, 2020
An enlistment ceremony for Houston residents at Halliburton’s headquarters in Houston, Feb. 27, 2019. (U.S. Army/Sgt. 1st Class Kelvin Ringold) At Fort Hood, Texas, Army leaders have acknowledged they have to rebuild trust with soldiers following the disappearance and alleged murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, whose family says she was being sexually harassed before she disappeared. But…
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