What’s on TV: ‘Call of Duty,’ ‘Shameless’ and ‘The Dark Tower’

Last week we saw a monster gaming lineup, but this week the heavy hitter is Call of Duty: WWII. As that series takes a step back in time, we’re also seeing the return of Bubsy and a Zoo Tycoon collection. On TV, CBS is premiering S.W.A.T. and The Good Wife has its season finale, while Netflix premieres Alias Grace, Greenleaf, 6 Days and The Big Family Cooking Showdown. Look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).

Blu-ray & Games & Streaming

• Cars 3 (VOD)
• The Dark Tower (4K)
• Kidnap
• Dawn of the Dead
• Scarecrow
• The Lift
• Nausicaa
• Castle in the Sky
• 21 Grams
• Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection (PC, Xbox One, PS4)
• Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back (PS4, PC)
• Beast Quest (PC, PS4)
• Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers (Switch)
• Disneyland Adventures (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
• Monster Jam: Crush It (Switch)
• PixelJunk VR Dead Hungry (PS4)
• Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection (PS)
• Monopoly for Nintendo Switch (Switch)
• Perception (Switch)
• Maria the Witch (Xbox One, PS4)
• 8-Bit Adventure Anthology: Volume 1 (PS4)
• Ben 10 (PS4)
• Call of Duty: WWII (Xbox One, PS4 – 11/3)
• Mutant Football League (Xbox One, PS4 – 11/3)
• Steven Universe: Save the Light (Xbox One, PS4 – 11/3)
• .Hack//G.U. Last Recode (PS4 – 11/3)

Monday

• Broncos/Chiefs, ESPN, 8:15 PM
• Lucifer, Fox, 8 PM
• The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 8 PM
• The Voice, NBC, 8 PM
• 9jkl, CBS, 8:30 PM
• Dancing with the Stars, ABC, 8 PM
• WWE Raw, USA, 8 PM
• Supergirl, CW, 8 PM
• Superior Donuts (season premiere), CBS, 9 PM
• Valor, CW, 9 PM
• The Gifted, Fox, 9 PM
• Me, Myself & I, CBS, 9:30 PM
• Scorpion, CBS, 10 PM
• The Brave, NBC, 10 PM
• The Good Doctor, ABC, 10 PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11 PM

Tuesday

• The Mindy Project, Hulu, 3 AM
• Zumbo’s Just Desserts (S1), Netflix, 3 AM
• Judah Friedlander: America is the Greatest Country in the United States, Netflix, 3 AM
• MLB World Series Game 6, Fox, 8 PM
• The Flash, CW, 8 PM
• Finding Your Roots, PBS, 8 PM
• The Voice, NBC, 8 PM
• NCIS, CBS, 8 PM
• WWE Smackdown, USA, 8 PM
• The Middle, ABC, 8 PM
• Fresh Off the Boat, ABC, 8:30 PM
• Major Crimes (season premiere), TNT, 9 PM
• DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, CW, 9 PM
• Black-ish, ABC, 9 PM
• Bull, CBS, 9 PM
• This is Us, NBC, 9 PM
• Inside the NFL, Showtime, 9 PM
• Fantomworks, Velocity, 9 PM
• The Mayor, ABC, 9:30 PM
• Brooklyn Nine-nine, Fox, 9:30 PM
• Snoop Dogg presents the Jokers Wild, TBS, 10 PM
• The Mane Event, BET, 10 PM
• Undercover High, A&E, 10 PM
• Cyberwar, Viceland, 10 PM
• Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, ABC, 10 PM
• Law & Order: True Crime, NBC, 10 PM
• NCIS: NO, CBS, 10 PM
• American Horror Story, FX, 10 PM
• The Challenge, MTV, 10 PM
• Tosh.0, Comedy Central, 10 PM
• The Jim Jefferies Show, Comedy Central, 10:30 PM
• Drop the Mic, TBS, 10:30 PM
• Weediquette, Viceland, 10:30 PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11 PM

Wednesday

• Chance, Hulu, 3 AM
• MLB World Series Game 7 (if necessary), Fox, 7:30 PM
• The Blacklist, NBC, 8 PM
• Empire, Fox, 8 PM
• The Goldbergs, ABC, 8 PM
• Survivor, CBS, 8 PM
• Riverdale, CW, 8 PM
• Speechless, ABC, 8:30 PM
• Dynasty, CW, 9 PM
• Modern Family, ABC, 9 PM
• Law & Order: SVU, NBC, 9 PM
• Seal Team, CBS, 9 PM
• Star, Fox, 9 PM
• Misfit Garage (season finale), Discovery, 9 PM
• American Housewife, ABC, 9:30 PM
• Mr. Robot, USA, 10 PM
• Shannara Chronicles, Spike TV, 10 PM
• Liar (season finale), Sundance, 10 PM
• Wags (season premiere), E!, 10 PM
• Criminal Minds, CBS, 10 PM
• Chicago PD, NBC, 10 PM
• Designated Survivor, ABC, 10 PM
• Liar, Sundance, 10 PM
• Are You the One, MTV, 10 PM
• You’re the Worst, FXX, 10 PM
• Garage Squad, Velocity, 10 PM
• Rosehaven, Sundance, 11 PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11 PM

Thursday

• I Love You America, Hulu, 3 AM
• Call My Agent! (S2), Netflix, 3 AM
• Grey’s Anatomy, ABC, 8 PM
• Superstore, NBC, 8 PM
• Gotham, Fox, 8 PM
• Supernatural, CW, 8 PM
• The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 8 PM
• Young Sheldon, CBS, 8:30 PM
• The Good Place (season finale), NBC, 8:30 PM
• Mom (season premiere), CBS, 9 PM
• The Eleven, A&E, 9 PM
• Arrow, CW, 9 PM
• Scandal, ABC, 9 PM
• Van Helsing, Syfy, 9 PM
• The Orville, Fox, 9 PM
• Will & Grace (fall finale), NBC, 9 PM
• Life in Pieces (season premiere), CBS, 9:30 PM
• Great News (fall finale), NBC, 9:30 PM
• S.W.A.T. (series premiere), CBS, 10 PM
• Chicago Fire (fall finale), NBC, 10 PM
• Better Things, FX, 10 PM
• The Mist, Spike TV, 10 PM
• Bong Appetit, Viceland, 10:30 PM
• The Rundown with Robin Thede, BET, 11 PM
• The Timeline, NFL Network, 11 PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11 PM
• The Comedy Get Down, BET, 11:30 PM

Friday

• Alias Grace (S1), Netflix, 3 AM
• The Big Family Cooking Showdown (S1), Netflix, 3 AM
• Blindspot, NBC, 8 PM
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW, 8 PM
• Macgyver, CBS, 8 PM
• Once Upon a Time, ABC, 8 PM
• A Football Life: Jim Kelly, NFL Network, 9 PM
• The Exorcist, Fox, 9 PM
• Jane the Virgin, CW, 9 PM
• Marvel’s Inhumans, ABC, 9 PM
• Z Nation, Syfy, 9 PM
• Lavell Crawford: Home for the Holidays, Showtime, 10 PM
• Superstition, Syfy, 10 PM
• Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus, Cinemax, 10 PM
• Tracey Ullman’s Show, HBO, 11 PM
• Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City (season premiere), Comedy Central, 11 PM

Saturday

• LSU/Alabama college football, CBS, 8 PM
• 2017 Breeders’ Cup, NBC, 8 PM
• The Lost Wife of Robert Durst, Lifetime, 8 PM
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, BBC America, 9 PM
• Saturday Night Live: Larry David / Miley Cyrus, NBC, 11:30 PM

Sunday

• The Toy Box, ABC, 7 PM
• Raiders/Dolphins, NBC, 8:20 PM
• Outlander, Starz, 8 PM
• America’s Funniest Home Videos, ABC, 8 PM
• Star Trek: Discovery, CBS All Access, 8:30 PM
• Wisdom of the Crowd, CBS, 8:30 PM
• Outlander, Starz, 8 PM
• Shameless (season premiere), Showtime, 9 PM
• The Walking Dead, AMC, 9 PM
• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, CNN, 9 PM
• Poldark, PBS, 9 PM
• The Girlfriend Experience (season premiere), Starz, 9 PM
• NCIS: LA, CBS, 9 PM
• Smilf (series premiere), Showtime, 10 PM
• Nude, Starz, 10 PM
• Talking Dead, AMC, 10 PM
• Good Behavior, TNT, 10 PM
• Madam Secretary, CBS, 10 PM
• Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO, 10 PM
• Shark Tank, ABC, 10 PM
• This is Life with Lisa Ling, CNN, 10 PM
• Unsung Hollywood, TV One, 10 PM
• White Famous, Showtime, 10:30 PM
• Vice Principals, HBO, 10:40 PM
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 11:15 PM

[All times listed are in ET]

Instagram Makes Stories Previews More Prominent, Tests Stop-Motion Camera

Instagram today told TechCrunch that it is now featuring Instagram Stories more prominently with a larger preview box located between Instagram posts.

The Stories preview box now features a tiled design that’s much more noticeable when scrolling through an Instagram feed. Previously, the mid-feed box looked similar to the smaller Stories bar at the top of the feed, which Instagram says it does not have plans to replace.

“We recently updated the design of the stories bar that you see while scrolling through feed. This update makes it easier to preview the stories from the people and accounts you care about.”

In addition to making Stories more prominent, Instagram is also testing a new Stop Motion camera tool, as discovered by The Verge. The Stop Motion tool is designed to let users take a series of photos which Instagram then stitches together into a GIF.

The Stop Motion feature is available inside the Story camera alongside other options like Boomerang and the recently released Superzoom tool. Stop Motion is not available for all users at the current time, but Instagram has confirmed it’s in testing.

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Samsung Wants to One-Up Apple’s Genius Bar With New WeWork ‘Care Centers’

Samsung is teaming up with co-working startup WeWork to create customer “Care Centers” that are similar to Apple’s own in-store Genius Bars, reports Fast Company.

Apple’s Genius Bars are designed to allow customers to receive technical support and repairs on a range of Apple products, including Macs and iOS devices. Samsung’s upcoming Care Centers will work in the same way, but Samsung wants to one-up Apple with a better waiting experience.

A WeWork facility in New York
At one of three pilot service centers opening in WeWork locations in Detroit, Miami, and New York later this month, Samsung customers can come in and get help for their products while also using the WeWork facilities.

Because it’s a co-working space, WeWork gives customers a place to get their own work done while also enjoying fresh coffee and fruit-infused water.

Samsung Electronics America VP of design Mick McConnell tells Fast Company that he came up with the idea while waiting for an hour and a half at a Genius Bar at an Apple retail location. “I was like, there’s gotta be a better way to do this,” he said.

“Service is a hassle. I know I’m going to have to take time out of my day to do it,” says McConnell. “The concept was, if I take time out of my day, at least I can sit in a conference room, make phone calls, and do work, as opposed to sitting in a busy room with a bunch of angry people.”

Samsung is taking over a portion of each WeWork location and installing a steel and glass box with shared tables and Samsung workstations. The space features a midcentury-inspired design that matches up with the rest of the WeWork facility, but with special touches like higher-end furniture and Samsung video conferencing systems.

Image via Fast Company
Samsung Retail Design project director Danny Orenstein told Fast Company that the aim is to make Samsung customers “feel welcome” at WeWork while also making WeWork subscribers feel comfortable working in the Samsung space in an effort to expand Samsung’s potential customer base.

Along with offering Care Centers at select WeWork locations, Samsung also plans to host after-hours talks with creatives in WeWork spaces, much like Apple does at its own retail stores.

Samsung will use the WeWork spaces to experiment with what works and what doesn’t work before considering expanding to additional locations. WeWork currently has 235 locations, and should the project pan out, it could mean a major expansion of Samsung customer support locations.

At the three centers opening this month, Samsung will offer “tier 1” support, letting customers get help with using features on their phone. Staff can also send Samsung equipment to repair centers, but there are no on-site repairs available.

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Apple Considering Eliminating Qualcomm Chips From Next Year’s iPhones and iPads

Amid an escalating legal battle with Qualcomm, Apple is designing its 2018 iPhones and iPads without Qualcomm LTE chips, reports The Wall Street Journal. Apple is instead considering using only modem chips from Intel and perhaps MediaTek in its next-generation devices.

Qualcomm is allegedly withholding software that Apple needs to test LTE chips in its iPhone and iPad prototypes, necessitating the move.

The Wall Street Journal’s sources say Qualcomm stopped sharing the software following the January lawsuit Apple filed against the company, hindering Apple’s development efforts, but Qualcomm claims Apple has already tested the chip that would be suitable for the next-generation iPhone.

Qualcomm said its “modem that could be used in the next generation iPhone has already been fully tested and released to Apple.” The chip company said it is “committed to supporting Apple’s new devices” as it does for others in the industry.

Apple has used Qualcomm modem chips in its devices for many years, but began diversifying last year with the addition of Intel modem chips in the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus. The iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus also use both Intel and Qualcomm chips. In the United States, AT&T and T-Mobile models use chips from Intel, while Verizon and Sprint models use chips from Qualcomm.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple’s plans to stop using Qualcomm chips in its 2018 devices could still change. Apple could switch suppliers as late as June, three months before the launch of the 2018 iPhone.

Apple and Qualcomm have been embroiled in a legal battle since the beginning of the year after Apple sued Qualcomm for $1 billion, accusing the company of charging unfair royalties for “technologies they have nothing to do with” and failing to pay for quarterly rebates.

Apple stopped paying licensing fees to Qualcomm at that time, as did Apple suppliers. Apple maintains that Qualcomm charges excessive licensing fees by requesting a percentage of an iPhone’s entire value, while Qualcomm says its technology is “at the heart of every iPhone.”

Qualcomm has since countersued and filed several patent infringement lawsuits against Apple. Qualcomm has also asked the United States International Trade Commission to block imports of some iPhone and iPad models and has requested that China stop manufacturing and selling iPhones.

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Kobo quadruples the storage for limited-edition Aura One e-reader

Enthusiasm for e-readers has slowed in recent years, meaning new entrants have to boldly differentiate or they’ll fall under the wheels of Amazon’s niche-dominating Kindle. Kobo’s Aura One, released in August, is unique in the world of devices: It’s waterproof, meaning you can finally take an e-reader into the bath, and has softer light for nighttime perusing. Now Kobo is releasing a limited edition of the device with 32GB of storage, quadruple the space of the original — which is great news for fans of comics and manga.

Visual formats like those take up so much more space: By Kobo’s estimate, the larger Limited Edition Aura One can hold 28,000 text e-books…or 700 manga titles. If that’s your ticket, the newer e-reader will run you $280 ($50 more than the stock Aura One). Kobo VIP members can start pre-ordering the device on Kobo’s site on September 29th before early purchasing opens up to all US customers December 6th. It will also be available to order in Japan.

Source: Kobo

Intel confirms it is on track to fire off ‘Cannonlake’ 10nm chips this year

Why it matters to you

Intel’s promise to deliver a processor based on 10nm process technology by the end of the year translates into high-performance, super-ultra-thin devices.

During Intel’s third-quarter earnings call with the press and analysts, company CEO Brian Krzanich reaffirmed Intel’s promise of delivering a processor based on 10-nanometer process technology by the end of 2017. The new family of chips, codenamed “Cannonlake,” will complement Intel’s current eighth-generation “Coffee Lake” processor rollout based on 14nm process technology.

“We’re on track to ship our first low-volume 10-nanometer part by the end of the year,” he said. “That will be followed by the initial ramp in the first half of 2018, with both high volume and system availability in the second half of 2018.”

Intel’s initial batch of Cannonlake chips could very well appear toward the end of December just before the holidays, and the CES 2018 technology convention in Las Vegas right after New Year’s. The architecture will be based on Intel’s latest Coffee Lake design, but reside on a smaller form factor using 10nm process technology. That simply means Intel can use smaller parts than what is crammed in the current Coffee Lake processors to create a high-performance chip that could easily reside in a super-ultra-thin device.

Cannonlake won’t be the first time Intel will shrink a current processor design. Intel made a similar move in 2014 when it released its fifth-generation processors codenamed “Broadwell.” With this processor family, the company took its fourth-generation processor design based on 22nm process technology, aka “Haswell,” and shrunk it down using the 14nm process node. For the record, Cannonlake will be Intel’s first use of the 10nm process node.

But while Intel branded Haswell and Broadwell as generational releases, that doesn’t appear to be the plan with Cannonlake given the company is just now rolling out eighth-generation desktop processors. Adding to that, Intel dropped its “tick-tock” design/manufacturing model with the launch of its Kaby Lake processors. Thus, Intel’s ninth-generation chips based on the 10nm+ node will supposedly fall under the “Ice Lake” code name.

Confused? Here’s a chart to better explain some of the code names and their time frames:

Generation
Year
Processor Number
Code-Name
Process Node
3
2012
Core ix-3xxx
Ivy Bridge
22nm
4
2013
Core ix-4xxx
Haswell
22nm
5
2014
Core ix-5xxx
Broadwell
14nm
6
2015
Core ix-6xxx
Skylake
14nm
7
2016
Core ix-7xxx
Kaby Lake
14nm+
8
2017
Core ix-8xxx
Coffee Lake
14nm++
8
2018
Core ix-8xxx
Cannonlake
10nm
9
2019
Core ix-9xxx
Ice Lake
10nm+

Intel first introduced us to Cannonlake at the beginning of 2017. Since then, it has only appeared in slides mapping out the company’s processor rollout schedule. Over the last year, Intel’s fourth-quarter 2017 stance hasn’t changed regarding Cannonlake and the conference call solidifies the company’s promise to deliver the chip by the end of December. But as Krzanich pointed out, don’t expect to see a large number of devices sporting the upcoming 10nm processor until this time next year.

Meanwhile, Intel’s eighth-generation processors for desktops are rolling out now, aka Coffee Lake-S. They follow the notebook-focused models introduced in August just before the solar eclipse, aka Coffee Lake-U.

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MIT built an A.I. bot that writes scary stories — and some are terrifying

Why it matters to you

MIT’s new A.I. is another illustration of how spookily useful artificial intelligence can be in the creative process.

If you want something really spooky to get you in the mood for Halloween, how about the prospect of machines which don’t just carry out regular routinized work, but can actually be creative — thereby performing a function we typically view as being quintessentially human? That’s (kind of) what researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed with a new October 31-themed artificial intelligence project: The world’s first collaborative A.I. horror writer.

Found on Twitter, “Shelley” tweets out the beginning of a new horror story every hour, alongside the hashtag #yourturn as an invitation to human co-writers. Anyone is welcome to reply to the tweet with the next installment of the story, thereby prompting Shelley to reply again with the next part.

“Shelley is a deep learning-based A.I. that took her name [from] horror story writer, Mary Shelley,” Pinar Yanardhag, one of the researchers on the project, told Digital Trends. “She initially trained on over 140,000 horror stories on Reddit’s popular r/nosleep subreddit, and is able to generate random snippets based on what she learned, or continue a story given a text. We expect Shelley to inspire people to write the weirdest and scariest horror stories ever put together. So far, Shelley has co-authored over 100 stories with Twitter users, and some of them are really scary.”

Meghan Murphy

A collection of some of the stories generated by Shelley can be found here. The researchers say that the work is designed to tap into some of the fears that surround humans and A.I. relationships, and the project builds on the success of MIT’s 2016 Halloween project, which used neural networks to generate scary images.

Can machines really replace human writers? “Human authors have nothing to fear in the short term,” Iyad Rahwan, an associate professor in MIT’s Media Lab, told us. “Today, A.I. algorithms can generate highly structured content, such as reports on market developments or sports games. They can also generate less structured, more creative content, like short snippets of text. But algorithms are still not very good at generating complex narrative. It will be a while before we have an A.I. version of J. K. Rowling or Stephen King, [although] there are no guarantees about where things are headed in the medium or long term — and machines may eventually be able to construct complex narratives, and explore new creative spaces in fiction.”

As Rahwan points out, however, if we really do build machines that are able to experience the world around them as fully as humans can, and use this to generate their own unique ideas, we have bigger problems than simply losing a few jobs in creative writing.

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MIT built an A.I. bot that writes scary stories — and some are terrifying

Why it matters to you

MIT’s new A.I. is another illustration of how spookily useful artificial intelligence can be in the creative process.

If you want something really spooky to get you in the mood for Halloween, how about the prospect of machines which don’t just carry out regular routinized work, but can actually be creative — thereby performing a function we typically view as being quintessentially human? That’s (kind of) what researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed with a new October 31-themed artificial intelligence project: The world’s first collaborative A.I. horror writer.

Found on Twitter, “Shelley” tweets out the beginning of a new horror story every hour, alongside the hashtag #yourturn as an invitation to human co-writers. Anyone is welcome to reply to the tweet with the next installment of the story, thereby prompting Shelley to reply again with the next part.

“Shelley is a deep learning-based A.I. that took her name [from] horror story writer, Mary Shelley,” Pinar Yanardhag, one of the researchers on the project, told Digital Trends. “She initially trained on over 140,000 horror stories on Reddit’s popular r/nosleep subreddit, and is able to generate random snippets based on what she learned, or continue a story given a text. We expect Shelley to inspire people to write the weirdest and scariest horror stories ever put together. So far, Shelley has co-authored over 100 stories with Twitter users, and some of them are really scary.”

Meghan Murphy

A collection of some of the stories generated by Shelley can be found here. The researchers say that the work is designed to tap into some of the fears that surround humans and A.I. relationships, and the project builds on the success of MIT’s 2016 Halloween project, which used neural networks to generate scary images.

Can machines really replace human writers? “Human authors have nothing to fear in the short term,” Iyad Rahwan, an associate professor in MIT’s Media Lab, told us. “Today, A.I. algorithms can generate highly structured content, such as reports on market developments or sports games. They can also generate less structured, more creative content, like short snippets of text. But algorithms are still not very good at generating complex narrative. It will be a while before we have an A.I. version of J. K. Rowling or Stephen King, [although] there are no guarantees about where things are headed in the medium or long term — and machines may eventually be able to construct complex narratives, and explore new creative spaces in fiction.”

As Rahwan points out, however, if we really do build machines that are able to experience the world around them as fully as humans can, and use this to generate their own unique ideas, we have bigger problems than simply losing a few jobs in creative writing.

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6 of the best Huawei Mate 10 Pro cases to protect your device

After recently announcing that it had overtaken Apple to become the world’s second-largest phone manufacturer, Huawei is hoping to follow that success with the Mate 10 Pro. Loaded with the latest and greatest technological advances that Huawei can muster, the Mate 10 Pro has the artificial intelligence-tuned Kirin 970 processor, a gorgeous 18:9 screen, and a truly incredible camera. A curved glass body completes the experience, giving the Mate 10 Pro style and substance.

Huawei’s newest phone looks good and feels good — but good looks can be a double-edged sword. How do you keep your new smartphone safe from harm? Well, a protective case is a very good start. We’ve put together a list of the best Huawei Mate 10 Pro cases that you can buy to keep your phone safe and stylish.

Gosento Clear TPU Case ($8)

Simple and effective, clear TPU cases are the choice of many when it comes to device protection. While lacking in some of the more protective elements that heavier-duty cases offer, this clear gel case from Gosento protects your phone from scratches, and the soft TPU material provides extra grip and some impact resistance. Thin and completely clear, this case offers a full view of your phone at all times, and thanks to the precise cut-outs for all of your Mate 10 Pro’s features, ports, and buttons, you can happily forget it’s even there. An excellent choice for anyone who doesn’t want to obscure their phone.

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Amazon

MYLB Carbon Fiber-Style Protective Case ($6)

If you’re looking for a bit more protection, but don’t want a bulky case, you could look at this case from MYLB. Made from flexible and durable TPU, this case has a futuristic carbon fiber-style design that helps you to keep a firm grip on your phone, and also resists shocks and drops with a series of internal spider web patterns and reinforced corners. A raised edge on the front and rear of the case help to keep your screen and camera lenses elevated from surfaces and safe from dirt and grit. The TPU extends to cover the buttons of the device and also has openings for all the ports and functions.

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Amazon

KuGi Premium Hybrid Case ($5)

If you’re looking for something that is a bit more off the beaten path, then KuGi’s premium hybrid case might be to your taste. The outer layer of TPU allows your phone to simply slip into the comfortable confines of the case, giving scratch protection and impact resistance. Slanted lines down the sides of the case add grip to your phone, and the button covers also help to protect those vulnerable parts of the phone. The real star here, though, is the integrated back panel of PU leather. Color-matched to the case (we chose the navy option, though black, gray, and red are also available), this PU leather is soft and comfortable, and adds even more grip to the back of phone — so it doesn’t slide off anything when placed down. The edges of the screen and camera lenses are also raised, elevating those areas from potential dirt and grit and keeping them from harm.

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Amazon

Riffue Denim-Style Wallet Case ($10)

If you’re looking for something a little more stylish for your Mate 10 Pro, then you might be interested in this case from Riffue. Styled in a two-tone denim effect, the PU leather on the case is soft to the touch and durable enough to take daily life’s knocks and bashes. It’s also easy to maintain and keep clean. Inside, a silicone shell keeps your device within the case’s embrace and offers extra protection. Opposite your device, you will find a single card slot within a cover that protects your screen when not in use. The cover also doubles as a kickstand, folding around the back when you need to set it down and watch some quality YouTube cat videos. It’s thin, barely adding any extra bulk to your slim phone, and comes in a variety of colors to match your personal style.

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TopAce Super Slim Hard Case ($10)

Want a super-slim case, but not a fan of silicone? There is still a case for you. TopAce released its new polycarbonate case for the Mate 10 Pro, giving silicone-phobes an option for minimal protection and maximum style. Adding just 0.33mm of thickness, raised edges around the camera keep those vulnerable lenses safe and clear of surfaces. While the hard material won’t offer as much shock-resistance as TPU, it will hold up even better against scratches and similar accidents. It’s finished with a matte paint that helps you to keep your phone in your grip, as well as a coating that resists fingerprints and is easy to keep clean.

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Amazon

Riffue PU Leather Wallet Case ($10)

If you’re looking for a more traditional wallet case for your Mate 10 Pro, then Riffue has you covered. This PU leather wallet case comes in a variety of colors, including the staples of black and brown, but also includes more radical blue and purple options. The PU leather itself is soft, but durable and easy to maintain, and comes with an inner silicone case that snaps onto your phone, keeping it snug within the confines of the wallet. The front cover folds around the front of your device when not in use, protecting the screen, and can also be folded into a kickstand for media viewing. The inner lining of the case also comes with a number of card slots, as well as space for cash.

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Amazon

Can’t get enough of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro? You can see how it racks up against the LG V30 in our showdown! Or if you’re looking to fill that Mate 10 Pro up with awesome new apps, check out our monthly list of the best Android apps, and the best Android games!

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Why it matters to you

The archive lost to the Northern California wildfires was an important set of materials recounting the history of two trailblazers of American computing.

Over the last few weeks, areas of Northern California that were ravaged by recent wildfires have been assessing the damage done to homes and businesses. Now, there’s word that an important chapter in the history of Silicon Valley may have been lost to the flames.

In 1938, William Hewlett and David Packard formed a technology company in a garage in Palo Alto. By 2007, Hewlett-Packard was the world’s leading manufacturer of personal computers, a title that it would hold until 2013.

Keysight Technologies is one of the many companies that can count themselves as a spin-off or subsidiary of HP, and today the firm is headquartered in Fountaingrove in Santa Rosa. When the wildfires hit California earlier this month, two modular buildings on that site were burned to the ground.

Inside these buildings were over 100 boxes containing documents and speeches authored by Hewlett and Packard, as well as personal correspondence between the two men, according to a report from The Press Democrat. In 2005, these materials were appraised at a value of $2.5 million, but their historical value may be even greater.

“A huge piece of American business history is gone,” commented Brad Whitworth, who served as HP’s international affairs manager in the 1980s, overseeing the creation of the archive. Kate Lewis, the archivist who the company brought in to establish the collection, has criticized the storage methods employed by Keysight.

Lewis was hired to produce the archive in the 1980s, in the run-up to the company’s 50th anniversary in 1988. It was so highly regarded – described as a “family treasure” by Whitworth – that it was housed in a specially designed room while it was stored at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters.

This setting had humidity control, and was windowless to reduce any damage that might be caused by sunlight. It was also outfitted with foam retardant to safeguard against the threat of fire. By contrast, Keysight’s protections amounted to damage-resistant boxes and a sprinkler system.

There are still questions to be answered about whether certain materials may have been stored elsewhere, either at another location maintained by Keysight, or by remaining in the possession of HP since before the two companies split. Still, it seems clear that the bulk of the collection is gone for good.

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