Monthly Archives: May 2016

HDD Units Down, Average Capacities Up

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While the decline in HDD shipments for client, consumer electronics and performance HDDS will likely continue, increases in SATA near-line HDDs as well as external HDDs used for backup and archiving will increase, since the amount of data needing to be stored at low costs, but not needing the higher performance or latency increases. This provides some growth potential for HDDs, assuming that they can keep their areal density increasing by at least 30% annually.

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Google Keyboard 5.0 update brings lots of new features

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Google has released v5.0 of the Google Keyboard, and this is a big one.

The UI gets lots of little changes. You can now enable borders for keys so it doesn’t look like one plain surface. Google dropped the old Holo themes and the light and dark Material Design themes are the only ones available.

Google moved the emoji button inside the special character menu. There is also a new numpad button there now, which shows the numbers arranged in a traditional layout but the old row of numbers is also available. There is also a one handed mode now, which shifts the keys to either side…

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El Samsung Galaxy Note 6 podía tener un USB Tipo-C

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Ya son varias las filtraciones que han ido llegando sobre el nuevo Samsung Galaxy Note 6 que caerá en nuestras manos en el mes de agosto cuando sea anunciado por el fabricante coreano. Una Samsung que está consiguiendo algunas buenas noticias para su gama alta al saber que esos dos años de declive de este tipo de teléfonos se ha visto irrumpido para obtener unas cifras positivas.

Fue ayer mismo cuando surgió otra filtración por lo que respecta a la memoria interna, RAM y chip del Galaxy Note 6. Ahora es cuando un nuevo reporte sugiere que el dispositivo llegaría con USB Tipo-C. Un tipo de USB al que se van sumando más fabricantes y del que hemos conocido algunos problemas dados en ciertos terminales al usar un cargador que freía literalmente un Chromebook Pixel tal como ocurrió hace unos 3 meses.

De momento se desconoce si el Galaxy Note 6 usará la versión 3.1 de este USB que ofrece soporte HDMI sobre la carga rápida o un estándar anterior. Los rumores anteriores habían sugerido que el Note 6 podría ser resistente al agua y al polvo al igual que los buques insignia Galaxy S7 y S7 edge, al igual que podría tener un escáner de iris para la autenticación.

Aparte del USB Tipo-C, se ha especulado que el fabricante coreano lanzará un nuevo terminal Gear VR. La versión actual del Gear VR tiene un puerto microUSB, por lo que esta nueva generación del dispositivo de realidad virtual podría contar con un puerto USB Tipo-C.

De los últimos rumores, hemos sabido que el Note 6 tendrá una pantalla de 5,8 QHD, 6 GB de memoria RAM, batería de 4.000 mAh y que podría tener una cámara Dual Pixel de 12 MP al igual que la usada en el S7 y S7 edge. Desde otro rumor, el de ayer, incluso se hablaba de la posibilidad de incluir 256GB de memoria interna y lo que sería un chip Snapdragon 823.

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Microsoft Monday: Windows 10 Nagware Stops Reporter, Iron Man Xbox One, Cortana Drops Google Search

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“Microsoft Monday” takes a look back at the past week of news related to Microsoft. This week, “Microsoft Monday” includes details about Windows 10 nagware interrupting a weather forecast on live TV, Windows 95 being hacked to run on an Apple Watch, a partnership with Rolls-Royce, the shutdown of Lionhead Studios, the release of Skype for Business Mac Public Preview, Office Lens updates for iOS and Android, potentially new Xbox hardware to be announced at E3, an Iron Man themed Xbox One, the purchase of ten million strands of DNA, the launch of an IFTTT tool called Flow, Cortana no longer allowing Google searches and more.
Microsoft Windows 10 Upgrade Interrupts Weather Forecast On Live TV

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Update brings camera and WiFi-related improvements to HTC 10

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HTC’s newest flagship – the HTC 10 – is yet to go on sale but that hasn’t stopped the Taiwanese company to roll out an update to the device. Weighing in at around 85MB, the update is currently hitting the handset’s European units.

As for what all it includes, the change-log notes that there are some improvements related to the phone’s camera as well as WiFi connectivity. In addition, the update – which bumps the software version to 1.30.401.1 – also brings along some general bug fixes.

Here’s the complete change-log:

– Improved WiFi connectivity, including Smart MIMO

– Camera:…

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The Rock made an alarm clock app for your phone

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Why wake up to your phone making beeping sounds every morning, when you can wake up to The Rock actually saying “beep beep” instead?

Yeah, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has made an alarm clock app called The Rock Clock, and it’s a bit odd (or fun, depending upon how you see it).

The app is goal oriented, so you can type the name of the project you need to perform or choose from one of the preset options such as ‘gain five pounds of muscle’, ‘lose ten pounds of non-muscle’, ‘learn a new language’, etc. Then you can choose an end date for the project or skip it. After that you set the…

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