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iPhone SE review: Requiem for a truly competitive mid-range Android phone [Video]

Straight up, the 2020 iPhone SE is a good phone. It probably won’t replace the phone in your pocket unless you happen to own a old device, but it really is impressive — even if it does run iOS. We’ve reviewed a number of affordable Android phones but, like anything, things need to be omitted to help keep down costs. Apple is no stranger to this but hasn’t really offered anything that…
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Leaked Samsung Galaxy A21s render shows a familiar design

The Samsung Galaxy A21s has been popping-up in the rumor mill from time to time, over the last couple of months. Now, a new leak claims to showcase a render of its front side. It’s a slightly odd, yet totally believable development, since the front of the phone, as shown…
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Vivo iQOO Z1 earns its 3C certification

MediaTek and vivo have been entangled in a rather quickly-developing plotline, during the last couple of days. It revolves around the announcement of the Dymensity 1000+ chipset, followed immediately by various hints from vivo of an ambassador phone for said chipset – the iQOO Z1. Merely hours later, a mysterious vivo phone, bearing the model number V1986A, has popped-up on the 3C certification…
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LG Q70 lands at Verizon starting at $239.99

Today Verizon has launched the LG Q70, and it’s already available to order online from the carrier. If you want to get it outright, you’ll have to pay $349.99, which is the full retail price. However, if you don’t mind choosing Verizon’s installment…
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AI Weekly: CDPA bill shows progress on coronavirus-tracking data privacy, but there’s still a ways to go

Contact tracing has quickly emerged as the go-to method of tracking the spread of the coronavirus among the general population, but there have been crucial questions around the most effective, ethical, and legal ways of doing so. New legislation introduced this week, the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), seeks to enact legal guardrails around the collection and use of people’s…
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Samsung patches security vulnerability impacting all Galaxy phones sold since 2014

Android gets a lot of flak for security, but most of the time errors can be traced back to changes that were made to the open-source platform. This week, a security vulnerability in every Android phone Samsung has sold since 2014 was patched after being exposed by Google’s Project Zero. Project Zero is a team within Google that focuses on finding major vulnerabilities in various platforms, and…
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