• Asus and HP Announces New Chromebook As The Google Pixel Slate Rumor Kicks In

  Asus Chromebook C423 comes in two variants – a 14-inch non-touch 1366 x 768 display and 1920 x 1080 display with touch. On paper, the device carries an Intel Celeron dual-core N3350 or Pentium quad-core N4200 processor. It has 4GB and 8GB RAM options.

  Asus Chromebook C423 will provide 10 hours of battery life. The device has a stunning 14-inch up to FHD NanoEdge display, coupled with 5.8mm bezels. Also, Asus Chromebook can be laid flat on the surface with 180-degree Hinge.

• Samsung Galaxy Android Pie Update To Arrive In Jan 2019: New Features And Updates

• Top 10 Things To Expect From “Made By Google” Event

• Here Is Everything About Google Pixel 3 Ahead Of The “Made By Google” 2018 Event

• Quick updates about /e/ !

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• Most Common Android Optimization Myths Debunked

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Huawei last year denied reports that it's developing its own mobile OS to lessen its dependence on US giants like Google.

The South China Morning Post had reported that Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei blessed the doomsday project, to be activated in case of a "worst-case scenario". The Alibaba-owned paper said Huawei has such projects already running on PCs and tablets. Execs said it had no need to do so, finding Android perfectly acceptable.

But the European Commission is keen for competition to Google to develop, and doesn't see it coming from outside the Android ecosystem because of the dearth of apps on any new platform. Logically, then, the competition will come from forks built on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) base.

In its always-interesting annual predictions, CCS Insight has said the prospect is real and possibly even likely by 2022, as US tech dominance fragments. CCS sees China taking a lead in 5G and winning mindshare for its home-grown services.

• Pokémon veteran Junichi Masuda reflects on the series’ early days

  One of the more happy episodes or more positive stories, I really don’t remember so well, but I think the most memorable [...] happening that I still have in my mind after all these years is that we were developing the game on these Unix computer stations called the Sun SPARCstation 1. [...] We’re developing, and they’re these Unix boxes, and they crashed quite a bit. Back then, computers would crash fairly frequently.

• Junichi Masuda Remembers How A Computer Crash Nearly Wiped Out Original Pokémon Games

• Pokemon developer: Original games were nearly wiped out in computer crash

  The team was using Sun Sparcstation 1 computers, running Unix, to make the game, and the machines were prone to crashing.

• All Pokemon Game Data Was Nearly Lost in a Computer Crash: Junichi Masuda

  Pokemon video game veteran Junichi Masuda – who has served in several capacities over the years, including composer, director, designer, producer, and programmer – has revealed how they nearly lost all Pokemon data in a computer crash, calling it “the most nerve-racking moment in development”.

  In a wide-ranging interview with gaming website Polygon, Masuda touched upon the early years of making Pokemon games, how his life has changed, and the upcoming Pokemon: Let’s Go! among other topics.