Google has tweeted a few hours ago that it was going to make all calls to Belgium and Turkey free in response to the recent bombing in Brussels and the ongoing attacks of violence going on in Turkey.

Free calls via Hangouts to Belgium & Turkey + info in search for Brussels → https://t.co/0OwKw9M4Fc #BrusselsAttacks http://pic.twitter.com/QBNMBCCGPh— Google (@google) March 22, 2016

Google says that all calls to Belgium and Turkey will be free through hangouts via the desktop page or respective platform’s (iOS or Android) hangouts app. Calls to landlines in either Turkey or Belgium will…

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After its departure from an all plastic and hyper-glaze design, Samsung scrapped water-resistance from the Galaxy S6 family. However, this year, Samsung has decided to give immersion-protection a second try with its new Galaxy S7 line.

Sony was among the first companies to introduce an elegant glass and metal design which incorporated water resistance throughout its Xperia line of devices but it was not until the Xperia Z3+ that screens were better able to differentiate touch from water drops.

Samsung was definitely able to stand up to Sony with its beautiful all-glass-and-metal design…

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Yesterday Apple took the wraps off the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and during the announcement it said the tablet sports the same A9X chipset as the 12.9-inch iPad Pro launched last year.

However, in the meantime a pretty big caveat has emerged for this information. See, while the two tablets do share the SoC, the A9X in the smaller 9.7″ model comes with both an underclocked CPU and an underclocked GPU compared to the iPad Pro 12.9.

This is made clear from the quick comparison you can see in the image below, which is now available on Apple’s website. While the company never likes to publish…

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Google’s Photos service keeps receiving update after update. The latest one is rolling out starting today on the website as well as through its Android and iOS apps.

It’s all about smart album creation, this one. After an event or trip, Google Photos will show you an automatically created album of photos and videos you took. This is curated, containing just your best shots. It will also tell you how far you traveled, and place location pins on a map for you to remember where you’ve been.

Once you’ve received the album, you can add text captions to it, as well as turn on…

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Back at MWC in February, LG announced some “Friends” alongside its G5 smartphone. These LG Friends are either modular accessories for the G5 itself, or standalone gadgets that supposedly work best in conjunction with the G5.

Almost the full set of Friends has now been priced in the UK, courtesy of online retailer Clove. The LG Cam Plus is both a camera grip and an extended battery pack for the G5, and it will be sold for £69. You can already pre-order one, with shipping starting on April 8.

The LG Hi-Fi Plus (with B&O Play) is a DAC aimed at music enthusiasts, as it includes its own amp…

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The Huawei P9 has been more or less confirmed for an April 6 announcement, quite possibly even multiple versions of it. Meanwhile, it’s often been in the news, posing for some live photos on more than one occasion, most recently in the hands of the company’s president.

Well, time for some official images, finally. But if you thought they’d show something we didn’t already know, think again. The three images of various size and resolution only show close-ups of select details.

Huawei P9 official images • Samsung Galaxy Note 4 for comparison

The dual-camera setup has been…

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Yes, you read that correctly, it has 24GB of video memory and yes, it can run Crysis, but that would be a criminal misuse of resources. The Quadro M6000 is is one of a number of current professional-grade GPU offers from the US titan and it now has a new mid-cycle upgrade, the main aspect of which is doubling the available RAM. This gives the card a neck up compared to AMD’s 12GB FirePro W9100 champion, although it might be short lived, as the latter has a theoretical maximum memory of 32 GB yet to fill up.

This massive bump in memory is truly impressive, but was also expected….

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After literally dozens of leaks about it, the HTC 10 is finally set to become official next month. The Taiwanese smartphone company has used its Twitter account to unveil that the big announcement will happen on April 12 (one day later than rumored).

It seems like you’ll be able to watch a video stream of the introduction online on the HTC website. What isn’t very clear is whether the event will be online-only, or if HTC has planned something offline as well in the three cities mentioned in the image you can see below.

If there’s going to be a media event taking place somewhere in…

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The Galaxy S and the iPhone release schedules are out of lockstep, so each gets a shot at sticking around at the top level for at least half of the year. This season, the new Samsung Galaxy S7 lands right in the fast lane with the iPhone 6s already at cruising speed. Come fall, the lanes will change but the chase will continue.

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Apple has always prided itself with innovation. Among the company’s latest achievements to go under this category is the Force Touch feature introduced with the Apple Watch, and later found its way to the MackBook. The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus also sport a similar feat but under the 3D Touch moniker.

We should note that the difference in the names isn’t random and digging through Apple’s patents shows that the two do the same thing, but 3D Touch is more sensitive and reacts immediately, whereas ForceTouch is slightly less capable of measuring touches and presses. It also reacts…

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