Motorola to delay release of foldable Razr in North America

And unlike its competitors in the space, the delay isn't because of a technical issue. Motorola told BNN Bloomberg in a statement that it was delaying the launch of the foldable Razr because of high demand. The company isn’t setting a new date yet, but the initial plan was to make it available for pre-order in the US this month, with shipping happening in January. As for Canada, Motorola didn't give a definite date, but Telus recently offered sign-up notifications for those who wanted to know when pre-orders are going to happen.

Motorola promises the new release timeline won't be a "significant shift" from the original launch schedule. The smartphone maker also intends to release the foldable device in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia, but it won't commit to a launch date yet.

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Google Translate improves offline translation

Google just updated its Translate app to improve its offline translation capabilities. It promises better word choice, grammar, and sentence structure. Google claimed offline translation for the 59 available languages is now 12 percent more accurate. And for specific languages — like Japanese, Korean, Thai, Polish, and Hindi — the quality of the translations are 20 percent better. 

In case you need it, Google Translate also offers transliteration to help with pronunciation. Google also added offline support for 10 more languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Apple offers 8TB SSD upgrade for the Mac Pro

Maybe you need extra storage for your new Apple Mac Pro? Well, be prepared to spend on it. Apple is offering a new 8TB SSD option for an additional $3,120. As MobileSyrup points out, this will push up the price of the new Mac Pro to a total of $76,526, if you include the Pro Display XDR monitor, too. It's extremely expensive, but it packs in the best Apple has to offer for those who need this kind of workstation. The 8TB option is listed as "coming soon," along with one or two Radeon Pro W5700X with 16GB of GDDR6 GPUs and a rack mount variant of the Mac Pro.