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It has been a few weeks since Huawei launched the Watch 2 in the United States. The company initially released the plastic and ceramic-made variants in the country. It has now announced the launch of the Huawei Watch 2 Classic in the United States. The Classic is a dressier version of the smartwatch and will go well with formal outfits.

The Huawei Watch 2 Classic has been fashioned out of stainless steel and it’s accompanied by leather bands that complete the whole premium look and feel of this smartwatch. That’s also a big reason why this variant is a bit more expensive than its counterparts.

Everything else remains the same. The Huawei Watch 2 Classic has the same 1.2 inch 390×390 pixel resolution circular display with 4GB of RAM and 420mAh battery.

It also features a built-in GPS, NFC, heart rate sensor, and runs Android Wear 2.0. The smartwatch is also dust and water resistant and is compatible with both Android and iOS devices.

Customers who are interested in picking one up can now do so. The Huawei Watch 2 Classic has been priced at $369.99. It costs $70 more than the plastic and ceramic variants of the Huawei Watch 2.

It’s now available for purchase from Amazon, Best Buy and New Egg. For a limited time, all customers will receive 10 weeks of free access to Google Play Music.

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Huawei has launched a couple of new handsets this week. The new devices are sequels to the original Nova and Nova Plus smartphones from last year. The company did say recently that it was going to officially confirm the details about these devices in the near future and now it has. The new devices come with specs improvements and subtle design improvements as well.

Like their predecessors, the Huawei Nova 2 and Nova 2 Plus both have a metal unibody design and similar specifications. The big difference between them is the display size and battery.

The Huawei Nova 2 features a 5-inch full HD display with a HiSilicon Kirin 659 processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB of storage, a 20 megapixel front and 12 megapixel + 8 megapixel dual rear camera with LED flash. The handset also features a 2,950mAh battery, Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.1, fingerprint sensor, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a USB Type-C port.

Huawei Nova 2 Plus has a larger 5.5 inch full HD display with the same processor and RAM. It does have more storage, 128GB to be precise. It has the same 20 megapixel front and 12 megapixel + 8 megapixel dual camera system on the back. The battery is bigger as well, it’s a 3,340mAh pack.

Huawei has only launched the Nova 2 and Nova 2 Plus in China so far where they will be available in black, gold, green, blue and rose gold colors for $465 and $423 respectively. No word as yet on when the company is going to launch them in other markets.

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Game of Thrones is without a doubt one of the most popular TV shows. HBO is gearing up to premiere the seventh season of this hit show in July. There’s a lot of anticipation among fans across the globe, which number in the tens of millions. There were rumors that the eighth and final season of the show is shorter than all previous seasons, and a new report confirms that this is going to be the case.

Entertainment Weekly reports that the Game of Thrones season 8 episodes will only be six in total, this means that the final season is also going to be the shortest season ever for Game of Thrones.

It hears from sources that showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss always planned to cap the show at 73 total episodes. They are now said to be writing the final episodes that will make up the eighth season alongside finishing post-production work on the upcoming seventh season.

The franchise isn’t going to end with the eighth season, though. HBO is believed to be developing as many as five Game of Thrones prequel ideas with different writing teams to take the franchise forward. However, it doesn’t mean that HBO will greenlight any one or all of the prequel ideas.

HBO released the first official Game of Thrones season 7 trailer earlier this week. The upcoming season premieres July 16th.

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A blue whale that washed ashore in northern California was struck by a ship, experts believe.

The female whale, 79 feet long, washed ashore Friday at Agate Beach in Bolilnas, about 13 miles north of San Francisco. Scientists from the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito and San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences conducted a necropsy on site Saturday and took blood and tissue samples.

The carcass had major blunt-force trauma along its left side.

Scores of people were traveling to the beach to see the whale, but the smell of the decaying carcass was becoming overpowering, witnesses told ABC-7 TV. Several people were emotional about the dead beast. But scientists were eager to learn what they could from the body.

“We rarely have the opportunity to examine blue whales due to their endangered status,” Barbie Halaska, a research assistant at the Marine Mammal Center, said in a statement. “The opportunity to perform a necropsy on a carcass in this good of condition will help contribute to our baseline data on the species.”

The entire left side of the whale was damaged from a boat strike, and the whale had 10 broken ribs and 10 fractured vertebrae from close to its tail to mid-body, according to Halaska.

The whale was identified through photographs of its tail in a database of the Cascadia Research Collective. It was spotted 11 different years beginning in 1999, most often off Santa Barbara.

The dead whale will be left on the beach to decompose and be eaten by birds. A reef along Agate Beach would make towing the carcass back out to sea difficult.

Blue whales are the largest creatures on Earth. There are as many as 9,000 of them around the globe, and an estimated 2,800 off the California Coast.

Ships are a major threat to whales especially during migration season. Early this month the Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries asked large ships to voluntarily cut their speeds in half to about 11 mph in shipping lanes heading toward the Golden Gate Bridge, according to the Monterey Herald. While whale strikes will continue to occur, officials hope the animals will be more likely to survive a collision at lower speeds.

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte — congratulated last month by Donald Trump for his murderous war on drugs — told his soldiers that he will back them up if they rape women while enforcing martial law.

It was apparently intended as humor, and drew stinging rebukes from human rights and women’s organizations.

Duterte promised to back up his men in a rambling speech delivered Friday on the island of Mindanao, where he imposed martial law last Tuesday to battle militants linked to the Islamic State.

If any of them were to rape three women, he said, he would personally claim responsibility for the attacks, according to a transcript of the speech released by the president’s office, The Guardian reported.

“Fight, and I will pray for you and I will answer for everything,” he said at one point in english in a videotape of his speech. “If you go down, I go down. I and I alone will be responsible.”

He added: “Just do your job. I will take care of the rest. I will go to jail for you. If you rape three, I will admit it.”

He also said: “You can arrest any person, search any house.”

Phelim Kine, a deputy director with Human Rights Watch’s Asian division,
said that the president’s “pro-rape comments only confirm some of the worst fears of human rights activists that the Duterte government will not just turn a blind eye to possible military abuses in Mindanao, but may actively encourage them.”

The Gabriela Women’s Party in the Phillippines issued an angry statement saying: “Rape is not a joke. This attempt to please the military forces using women to feed the macho fascist mentality … emboldens military forces to systematically use rape as a tool of war.”

Chelsea Clinton took to Twitter to lash the idea of a rape comment as a joke, saying: “Not funny. Ever.”

Duterte’s spokesman responded to the outrage by saying that the president was using “heightened bravado” to lift troop morale, Agence France-Presse reported.

Last year Duterte “joked” about an Australian missionary who was killed in a prison riot after men lined up to rape her. Duterte said she was beautiful and that he should have been first in line.

Duterte is notorious for his war on drugs that has resulted in the extra-judicial killings of at least 7,000 suspects. He once boasted that he himself had pushed a drug trafficking suspect out of a helicopter, but later said he was joking.

President Trump called him in April to congratulate him on a job well done.

“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem,” Trump said in the April 29 phone call, according to a transcript of the call leaked to the media. “Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.”

Trump has invited Duterte to visit him in the White House. Duterte hasn’t yet accepted the invitation.

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