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Huawei Mate 40 Pro review: Hot hardware with added software shenanigans [Video]

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro has been released into a very different landscape to that of its predecessor, the Mate 30 Pro. Restrictions have tightened, but that hasn’t dulled the Chinese firm’s enthusiasm for flagship smartphone releases. Hardware can only take you so far. The crux of almost all decent tech is the still software. Yes, the underlying base of the Mate 40 Pro is the same Android…
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VW CEO: a Biden win is better for our global electric car strategy

Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess said today that a Joe Biden win in the US presidential election would boost the German automaker’s efforts to mass-produce electric vehicles globally. Diess said on a Bloomberg webcast [via Reuters]: A Democratic program would be more aligned with our worldwide strategy to fight climate change to go electric. The United States, when it comes to market share…
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Google Chat adding support for rooms with unthreaded conversations

Since launch, rooms in Google Chat have had conversations grouped into threads. This approach made sense for some, but was a barrier to high-volume teams and contrasted with Slack. Google is now adding the ability to have unthreaded Chat rooms. Today, conversations in rooms must be grouped into threads. This change introduces a simpler type of conversation, without threads — giving you…
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The Samsung Galaxy W21 5G launches as larger, China-exclusive Z Fold2

Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy W21 5G in China as a slightly larger region-exclusive alternative to the Galaxy Z Fold2. The Z Fold2 is an exceptional smartphone that showcases our folding tech future probably better than the original ever could. But for some reason, Samsung has decided that China deserves its own version of the upgraded foldable that is not only more expensive…
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