US Version of The Huawei Mate 9 Getting its Android Oreo Update

January 31, 2018 Android, Android Oreo, Huawei Mate 9 No Comments
Huawei Mate 9

After being released in various other markets, the Android Oreo update for the US variant of the Huawei Mate 9 is now rolling out.  Both the MHA-L29 and MHA-L09 are getting the update and it should be coming to your Mate 9 over the course of the next few days.  The 29 is the dual SIM variant while the 09 is the single SIM.

Along with the update to Android Oreo itself, you will be getting the January Android Security Update patch, a new portrait mode for the rear camera, and the new AI-driving EMUI 8 user experience.

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Essential Scraps Its Android Oreo 8.0 Build Over Stability Issues – Moving to 8.1

January 31, 2018 Android, Android Oreo, Android Oreo 8.1, Essential, Essential Phone No Comments
Essential Phone - Black

In a somewhat surprising announcement on Twitter yesterday, Essential, makers of the Essential Phone, said that they were abandoning their current Android Oreo 8.0 build to start an 8.1 build for customers.  The 8.0 build has been in beta for a few weeks now and the company stated that stability issues where the driver behind the decision.

The decision means that any Oreo build for the Essential Phone is going to be delayed, in the company’s terms, “a couple of weeks”.

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Google Leveraged Machine Learning to Remove 700,000 Rogue Apps

January 30, 2018 Android, Google, Google Play Store, Machine Learning No Comments
Google Play Store

Through the use of Machine Learning to detect apps that impersonate, have inappropriate content or malware, Google removed over 700,000 rogue apps from the Google Play Store, taking 100,000 repeat offender developers along with them.  The injection of ML can find patterns that detect bad behaving apps quicker than human inspectors, resulting in a 70% increase in removing of apps from the Play Store over the previous year.

Not only did we remove more bad apps, we were able to identify and action against them earlier. In fact, 99% of apps with abusive contents were identified and rejected before anyone could install them.

The end result is that the Play Store, while still not perfect, is a far safer place than it was this time last year and it will only get better as the Machine Learning models get smarter.

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Verizon Kills Plans to Sell Huawei Phones

January 30, 2018 Android, Huawei, Verizon No Comments
Huawei Mate 10 Pro

Facing political pressure to scrap the deal, Verizon is dropping their plans to sell Huawei phones to their customers here in the United States.  The plan is a blow to the Chinese manufacture who suffered a similar blow from AT&T earlier this month.

The news comes from sources at Bloomberg who state the main thrust behind the decision was political pressure due to concerns about the company potentially spying for the Chinese government, something Huawei has long denied and there being no evidence from the other countries where their devices are sold as this being an issue.

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Google Cloud Platform Opens its Netherlands Data Center

January 30, 2018 Google Cloud Platform No Comments
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Google Cloud Platform has announced that their new Netherlands data center is now online and available to customers.  It becomes the forth region available in Europe, following on from Belgium, London and Frankfurt.  It also marks the 14th region that is available globally for GCP.

The new data center, located in Eemshaven, is 100% powered by renewable energy from its opening.

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