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At least 19 people have been charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

In a move that might not sit well with the custom ROM community, Huawei has announced that it’s halting its bootloader unlock program indefinitely. The company says that it’s taking this decision to provide a better user experience to its customers. To that end, it’s shutting down the bootloader unlock program indefinitely for its devices and even those handsets sold under its Honor brand.

Huawei says that this decision is based on its aim to provide users with a better experience and avoid issues that are caused by ROM flagship.

Huawei had a separate website up for those who wanted to unlock the bootloader on their device. They could sign into the website with their Huawei ID and input their phone’s information to obtain a code that would be placed in the unlock command.

It really was that simple to unlock the bootloader of a Huawei device but that’s no longer going to be the case. Huawei has officially confirmed that smartphones and tablets released by May 24th, 2018 will not be eligible to receive a code. That’s not all. The devices that were released before May 24th, 2018 are only eligible to receive a code 60 days after this date after which they will become ineligible as well.

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Verizon confirmed a long time ago that it’s also developing its own standalone online TV streaming service but we haven’t heard much about it since. The streaming service would have be a competitor to the likes of Sling TV by Dish and PlayStation Vue by Sony. However, it has been reported over the past couple of years that the project keeps getting delayed and now it seems that Verizon has decided to cancel the service altogether even before it was launched.

Verizon actually bought the technology for a standalone streaming service that Intel created but never launched. It had made that acquisition with the goal of launching its own service down the line. The last we heard about a potential launch of this service was back in late 2017 when it was claimed that Verizon was aiming for a spring 2018 launch.

It was later reported that Verizon’s service was going to offer themed channels which would have resulted in separate standalone apps for news, entertainment, sports, etc. The model would have been different to that of existing online streaming services which are somewhat comparable to conventional cable.

Verizon has now reportedly decided to cancel its online streaming service and will partner with an unspecified existing service to distribute content from its many Oath brands. “By the time we launch in fourth quarter, we will have a partner picked out and we’ll integrate our Oath assets into the linear assets that they have and bring the full package to customers,” Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said in an interview earlier this week.

So basically, the company has gone from being a potential contender in this market to a content provider.

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Florida, Alabama and Mississippi declared states of emergency on Saturday.

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