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Audio player loading… Micron has unveiled the world’s highest-capacity microSD card , the i400, with storage space of up to 1.5TB, 50% more than the former champion, the C200 . The semiconductor giant reached that capacity by using its 176-layer 3D NAND technology (similar to that used in SSDs ) and will target the enterprise market, especially anything that has to do with video storage at the edge. In other words, don’t expect the card to be cheap or easy to source, especially as it is designed to handle five years of continuous 24x7 high-quality recording and a whopping MTBF of two million hours. No details have been provided about its performance, but this is clearly an industrial-grade product - unlike the C200 - which means that write and endurance are likely to be at the top end of the spectrum. The C200 used a 96-layer 3D NAND technology and the i400 (also available in capacities as small as 64GB) is likely to have some spare capacity for wear leveling. … [Read more...] about World’s highest-capacity microSD card can store more than one million floppy disks

Microsoft Store is now able to display more than 2,000 reviews per product. The tech giant has recently announced that this review cap has been fixed by the Microsoft Store team. Rudy Huyn , a Microsoft Store official has also shared a tweet to confirm the same and mentioned that the cap on displayed reviews was caused by an "old technical limitation." From Social , This issue is now fixed which will allow users to find more reviews than the previous limitation. Huyn has also shared examples of games with 66,000, 219,000, and 536,000 reviews. Also Read Microsoft, Alphabet results raise hopes about Big Tech weathering slowdown How will new changes help users? The latest Microsoft Store update will make it easier for users to determine the best Windows apps and best PC games based on reviews. According to a report by WindowsCentral, users who are looking to buy an app or game will have more confidence when buying one with thousands of reviews … [Read more...] about microsoft: How Microsoft Store will help users to know more about apps, games before installing them

TL;DR: It's Steam survey time. Valve's monthly software and hardware report gives us a good indication of what the platform's 120 million active monthly users are packing in their machines. July saw one of the largest jumps for AMD in the processor category, eroding more of Intel's share and reaching a record high. There was also a surprise drop in the number of Windows 11 users, and it seems more people are taking advantage of falling graphics card prices. Starting in the Steam survey processor section, July was one of the best months for AMD in recent memory. Team red saw a rare decline in the number of participants using its CPUs in June, falling -1.28%, but it rebounded last month by +2.22%. That gives AMD a record-high share of 33.73%. It's not the news Intel wanted to hear, especially after its disastrous quarterly report caused Chipzilla's market cap to fall below its rival's . Click to expand Moving onto the best-performing GPUs of the month, we find a lot … [Read more...] about Latest Steam survey shows graphics card deluge, AMD hitting record high, and Windows 11 losing share

Meta is ever so slowly expanding its trial of end-to-end encryption in a bid to protect users from snoops and law enforcement. End-to-end encryption, often abbreviated as E2EE, uses strong cryptography to encrypt messages with a key that is unique to each user. Because the key is in the sole possession of each user, E2EE prevents everyone else—including the app maker, ISP or carrier, and three-letter agencies—from reading a message. Meta first rolled out E2EE in 2016 in its WhatsApp and Messenger apps, with the former providing it by default and the latter offering it as an opt-in feature. The company said it expects to make E2EE the default setting in Messenger by sometime next year. The Instagram messenger, meanwhile, doesn’t offer E2EE at all. Starting this week, the social media behemoth will begin testing a secure online storage feature for Messenger communication. For now, it’s available only to select users who connect using either an iOS or Android device. Users who are … [Read more...] about Amid backlash from privacy advocates, Meta expands end-to-end encryption trial

South Korea 's telecommunications regulator recently said, it has plans to launch an investigation into app store operators such as Apple Inc , Alphabet's Google and One Store over suspected violations of in-app payment law. Potential fines for infractions could be as high as 2% of the average annual revenue from related business practices, the law says. The regulator didn't specify the scale of any possible fines in this instance. , Under the law passed last year and in effect since March, major app store operators such as Google and Apple are banned from forcing software developers to use their payment systems. Also Read South Korea develops nanotech tattoo as health monitoring device The Korea Communications Commissions ( KCC ) said in a statement it had conducted an inspection since May 17 to determine whether Google, Apple and One Store had violated the rules and had determined that all three might have done so. In a statement, … [Read more...] about korea: South Korea to probe app store operators over suspected in-app payment violations

Tokyo-based startup Telexistence this week announced it will deploy NVIDIA AI-powered robots to restock shelves at hundreds of FamilyMart convenience stores in Japan. There are 56,000 convenience stores in Japan — the third-highest density worldwide. Around 16,000 of them are run by FamilyMart. Telexistence aims to save time for these stores by offloading repetitive tasks like refilling shelves of beverages to a robot, allowing retail staff to tackle more complex tasks like interacting with customers. It’s just one example of what can be done by Telexistence’s robots, which run on the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI and robotics platform. The company is also developing AI-based systems for warehouse logistics with robots that sort and pick packages. “We want to deploy robots to industries that support humans’ everyday life,” said Jin Tomioka, CEO of Telexistence. “The first space we’re tackling this is through convenience stores — a huge network that supports daily life, especially in … [Read more...] about AI Flying Off the Shelves: Restocking Robot Rolls Out to Hundreds of Japanese Convenience Stores

Audio player loading… Silicon Motion has announced its new MonTitan SSD , a PCIe Gen5 SSD with up to 14GB/s of sequential read speed and 3M IOPS of random read performance. The SSD is available in capacities up to 128TB, making it one of the highest-capacity options on the market, and uses a NVMe 1.4 interface in a U.2 form factor, alongside a Silicon Motion SM2262EN controller and 3D TLC NAND. Aimed at enterprise and data center applications, Silicon Motion’s MonTitan SM8366 is based on Arm core complexes and hosts 16 independent flash channels and the ability to connect up to 128TB of flash memory. The acceptable memory formats are 3D TLC, 3D QLC or XL-flash memory. Additionally, this MonTitan can support DDR4-3200 and DDR5-4800 DRAM buffers with a dual-channel interface. SSD boost SSD controllers are one of the most important drive components, being responsible for handling the interface between the drive and the host device, as well as managing the data … [Read more...] about Silicon Motion’s new highly programmable platform sports 128TB capacity

Valve’s Steam Deck has been in high demand from the moment reservations went live last year, but if you’re still waiting for an order email to come through, good news: if you have a reservation, Valve says you’ll get your Steam Deck by the end of the year. And even if you make a new reservation, as of this writing, Valve says you’ll get your Steam Deck in Q4. “We’re excited to announce that we’re going to be able to fulfill demand sooner than we had estimated for everyone in the reservation queue,” Valve wrote in a blog post . “Many of the supply chain shortfalls that affect Steam Deck are gradually clearing up, and we’re continuing to ramp production, so we’re able to produce more Decks faster than ever before.” Great news: Everyone who currently has a reservation can get their Steam Deck by the end of this year! We’ve cleared up supply chain issues, a bunch of folks got moved up to Q3, and all other reservations are now in Q4. https://t.co/Xj2yEHqpKZ … [Read more...] about Valve says you’re getting your Steam Deck by the end of the year

Audio player loading… The global chip shortage, also called the semiconductor shortage, seems to have snuck up on everyone in the world, even though it's something that should have been obvious. Just about everything nowadays has silicon chips in it, from phones and computers to kitchen appliances and even cars. And all of this tech is becoming increasingly advanced, so the best processors aren't being reserved for just the latest gaming PC. This isn't the first time this has happened: major chip shortages occurred on several occasions previously, including in 1988 (opens in new tab) due to high demand and in 2000 due to a shortage of several Intel products (opens in new tab) . And then again in 2011, when an earthquake in Japan caused a severe shortage of NAND memory and displays (opens in new tab) . Chip shortages tend to happen due to either supply chain or human labor reasons. Yet rather than the industries that are so reliant on these chips … [Read more...] about Global chip shortage: what is it, why is it happening, and when will it end?

Even as the British government considers alternatives to the fragile GPS systems that power everything from smartphones to warships, the British authority which is responsible for mapping the oceans is set to dispense with traditional paper charts, pushing ship’s navigators worldwide to digital instead – a move a leading naval expert has called shortsighted. Navigational charts, the extremely accurate plotting of the sea floor and above-surface navigational hazards and landmarks with which mariners have kept their ships safe and on course for generations, are to be phased out within years, the British government office responsible for producing them has announced. Yet the push for digital, which the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) announcement on the matter makes clear is a cost-cutting exercise, comes as the satellite-based replacements for traditional navigation are dramatically revealed as deeply fragile by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Global Positioning Satellite … [Read more...] about UK to End Traditional Ship Navigation Despite Russian GPS Jamming