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Huawei's Honor 9X Pro loses Google apps, but gets an updated processor

The GSMA might have cancelled Mobile World Congress, but that hasn’t stopped companies like Sony and Huawei from announcing new hardware this week. In the case of Huawei, it has also detailed new devices from its low-cost Honor sub-brand. To start, the company has an update to the Honor 9X called the Honor 9X Pro. The Honor 9X came out outside of China this past October, so the 9X Pro…
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Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X will have a 12 teraflop GPU

We already know the Xbox Series X is going to be significantly faster than Microsoft’s current consoles, but in a blog post by Xbox head Phil Spencer, the company revealed a few more details about how big of a leap it’s going to be. Most notably, Microsoft…
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Santa Clara University adds support for contactless ID cards on iPhone and Apple Watch

Apple continues to expand the availability of its contactless student IDs feature in the Wallet app. Santa Clara University announced today that its students, faculty, and staff can now add their ACCESS ID cards to the Wallet app on their iPhone and Apple Watch. The process for adding a Santa Clara University ACCESS card is as follows: For a technologically savvy generation of students, setting…
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HTC plans to release its first 5G phone in 2020

HTC may be pouring most of its energy into VR headsets, but it hasn’t forgotten about its (frankly languishing) smartphone range. Company chief Yves Maitre said in an interview that HTC’s first 5G phone launches sometime in 2020. He didn’t provide any clues…
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Galaxy S20 Ultra battery test shows how much of a drain 120Hz might be

Perhaps one of the most exciting things about the Galaxy S20 Ultra is its huge 5,000 mAh battery. That number on its own should mean killer battery life, but it seems the Galaxy S20 Ultra’s 120Hz display is going to put a pretty huge drain on that. has been putting the S20 Ultra through its paces over the past several days and so far, the results on the out-of-the-box settings have been more…
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Xbox boss expects to keep a console under his TV for the next 10+ years

Microsoft is planning to launch both the next-gen Xbox Series X and the Project xCloud gaming service this year. But is that a coherent strategy? Isn’t a cloud future one without dedicated gaming devices? Well, that’s not how Xbox boss Phil Spencer sees it. Cloud gaming is going to echo music and movie streaming, Spencer said during an interview with Insomniac Games founder Ted Price for the…
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