It has been a long period of time coming, however they have actually just announced that the extension to the Green Line along Sukhumwit Road to Samut Prakan will be opened on Wednesday 5th December 2018. Work began on the 13km stretch 6 years back in June 2012. A year …
Read More »Hands On With New Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2019
It’s popular, and completely fair, to complain about how hard high-end photo and video editors are to use. That includes Photoshop CC and Premiere Pro, of course. It used to be that the only way to deal with that was a painstaking and perhaps painful process of extended learning. …
Read More »Manufacturers Struggle to Improve QLC NAND as Yields Sit Below 50 Percent
When Micron announced that it would bring QLC (quad-level cell) NAND to market earlier this year, we were genuinely surprised to hear it. While stuffing more bits of data into each NAND cell is one of the most fundamental ways to improve NAND storage capacity, the industry went through significant …
Read More »Forza Horizons 4 Buyers Can’t Download Game Thanks to Windows Store Bug
Microsoft rolled out the Windows Store about six years ago, but it doesn’t seem like that long ago, does it? We’ve all gotten accustomed to ignoring it — once it’s unpinned from your taskbar, you never need to think of it again. Well, unless there’s an exclusive game launch in the …
Read More »The Next Wi-Fi Version Will Be Wi-Fi 6
Ever since Wi-Fi technology was introduced, it’s been known principally as 802.11x, where the “x” stands for one or more letters. First, we had 802.11b, followed by 802.11a — yes, you read that right — which begat 802.11g, which begat 802.11n, which begat 802.11ad, unless of course you consider 802.11ac …
Read More »Astronomers May Have Found the First Exomoon
We used to wonder if there were planets outside our solar system, and today the answer to that is a resounding “yes.” Even with our admittedly crude detection methods, scientists have identified thousands of exoplanets. We had every reason to expect those planets would have moons, but we had no …
Read More »NASA Switches Curiosity Rover to Backup Computer Following Glitch
NASA’s Curiosity rover has already long outlived its minimum projected lifespan with more than six Earth years — more than 2,000 Martian days or “Sols.” However, NASA has announced that it recently had to make use of the rover’s computer redundancy to keep the mission going. Curiosity has flipped over …
Read More »Africa Roundup: Paga goes global and 4 startups raise $99M in VC
Nigerian digital payments startup Paga is gearing up for international expansion with a $10 million round led by the Global Innovation Fund. The company is exploring the release of its payments product in Ethiopia, Mexico, and the Philippines—CEO Tayo Oviosu told TechCrunch. Paga looks to go head to head with regional and global payment …
Read More »ZTE hit with 2-year ‘monitoring’ extension after breaking probation terms
Embattled Chinese tech firm ZTE narrowly survived after the U.S. Department of Commerce hit it with a $1 billion fine and forced changes to its business earlier this year, and. Now it is back in the news for negative reasons after it was judged to have broken the probation around a …
Read More »Google’s Voice Access App Lets You Control Your Phone Entirely Hands-Free
Today’s mobile devices rely on touch-screen technology for almost everything, but you can now control your Android phone entirely by voice. Just download the “new” Voice Access app from the Play Store and start talking to your phone. This could be a boon to those who have trouble using …
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