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For a number of years now, Activision has stuck to a Call of Duty development schedule that sees three different studios working on yearly releases. As a result, each individual studio has three-year development cycles for its respective Call of Duty games, but now a new report says that a major shake-up has taken place at Activision. The result is that we'll see Treyarch's Black Ops 5 land a year earlier than anticipated, giving the developer only two years to make it.

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There's a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 coming your way later this year, and it's going to be a doozy of a device. Over the past few weeks we've been gathering and analyzing all reputable Samsung Galaxy Note 10 leaks, and today we've compiled the lot into a relatively easy-reading short format. Here lies the latest report on the Galaxy Note 10 in the weeks and months before its release.

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The next iPhones are still months away, but they've despite that, they've been the subject of numerous leaks and rumors. Many of those rumors have focused heavily on the cameras these phones will have, with the iPhone XS and XS Max successors rumored to have three and the iPhone XR follow-up with two. Today, yet another leak is corroborating this information, along with how those triple camera arrays will look.

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WWDC 2019 is right around the corner, and though the show will likely hold some surprises, one topic that's sure to come up is iOS 13. It's during WWDC that we'll learn which iPhones are getting iOS 13, and Apple certainly has a tough show to follow in that regard - last year, it announced that all phones running iOS 11 would receive upgrades iOS 12. Will the company be making a similar announcement this year? A new report today claims that it won't be.

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Apple has given the green-light to production of its next-generation chip, insiders claim, set to power the 2019 iPhone range which will pack even more cameras than today. The Apple A13 will be the successor to the A12 Bionic, announced in 2018, which is found in the current iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR.

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Huawei is planning an 8K TV with an integrated 5G connection, insiders claim, aiming to leapfrog the usual smart TV and on-demand media with a high-spec cord-cutting behemoth. The new Huawei TV would mark the expansion of the company's ecosystem play, which has so far centered predominantly on smaller, portable devices, and could launch as soon as this year.

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Two new AirPods versions could launch as soon as this year, it's been predicted, introducing an all-new design and new features. Apple's best-selling wireless earbuds have been a persistent hit since the Cupertino firm launched them back in 2016.

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Apple's augmented reality push looks set to get some very interesting hardware support, with WWDC 2019 this year tipped to debut stereo AR headset support. Apple has offered ARKit, its framework for augmented reality applications and games, since iOS 11, though until now it has focused primarily on mixed reality experiences through an iPhone or iPad.

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Samsung will delay the release of the Galaxy Fold, it's reported, with this week's expected debut of the innovative folding smartphone pushed back after a rocky start to the review process. The near-$2,000 Android handset was originally intended to launch at the end of this week, on April 26, in the US.

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If you don't want to buy an unlocked Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL from the Google Play Store, you don't have many other options. You can always pick up a used Pixel 3, but those wanting to finance a phone through a carrier have to go through Verizon, as the Pixel 3 is a carrier exclusive. Now that may all be changing, assuming a new report is accurate.

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Apple won't be talking about iOS 13 until WWDC 2019 in a few months time, but that hasn't stopped a huge leak of features for the new iPhone and iPad software from dropping today. After a mixed reaction to iOS 12 last year, widely seen as Apple's attempt to deliver more and over-promise less, it seems iOS 13 will crank up the number of new features.

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Microsoft is reportedly preparing to take on Apple's AirPods with some smart wireless earbuds of its own, joining the line-up alongside the Surface Headphones. If the earbuds make it to market, it would mean further validation for the audio-focused wearable space, where virtual assistants communicate via voice interactions rather than showing data with displays.

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