Sunday, October 30, 2016

Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy and other top stories.

  • Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy

    Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy
    Edward Chester reader comments 34 The all new Samsung 960 Pro, released today, is the follow up to last year's 950 Pro. It offers the same core set of features, with an M.2 form factor, four-lane PCIe 3.0 interface, NVMe communication standard, and 3D V-NAND. But the 960 Pro isn't just a minor spec bump. Samsung has seriously cranked up the speed (and capacities) of its flagship drives to the point where such ludicrous performance may be lost on all but the most demanding of users. These a..
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  • LG's V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the f*%k can't you buy it?

    LG's V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the f*%k can't you buy it?
    For beleaguered Android phone makers, you might think a juicy prize has just appeared. For some of them, it could be a life-saver. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was expected to ship around 20 million units over its lifetime. An inflammable battery emphatically put paid to that - with the potential loss of tens of millions of more sales from “contagion”. In the short term, some five to seven million Note 7 owners are looking for an alternative. Most, it is reasonable to assume, would prefer to stick w..
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  • Google Pixel: Australian Review

    Google Pixel: Australian Review
    Google built a phone. For real this time. AU Editor’s Note: Since Google’s Daydream View VR headset won’t be available in Australia until November, we’ve kept any mention of it out of this review entirely. Stay tuned for a proper review of Google’s own VR headset in the days before you can actually buy it. Also, throughout this review, I’ll be talking about the Pixel and Pixel XL interchangeably since apart from their screen sizes and resolutions (5 inches, 1920×1080 pixels / 5.5 inches, 2560×1..
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  • Xiaomi signs deal with Indian retailer StoreKing for offline sales presence

    Xiaomi signs deal with Indian retailer StoreKing for offline sales presence
    Xiaomi India has entered into a partnership with rural retailer StoreKing as per a report by IANS. According to the report, the partnership is aimed at expanding Xiaomi’s reach into the interiors of the country and was announced earlier today by StoreKing Founder and CEO Sridhar Gundaiah. “With Mi India on-board, we aim to serve rural consumers better regardless of their location and give them access to the best of products,” Gundaiah stated. The commerce retailer StoreKing partners..
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  • Apple smart-car project stalls

    Apple smart-car project stalls
    Apple has reportedly scrapped plans to make a car. Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty ImagesRod ChesterNews Corp Australia NetworkTHE dream of an Apple Car has just hit a dead end with reports the technology giant has scrapped its plans to build a self-driving vehicle and has slashed hundreds of people from the clandestine Project Titan.Apple reporter Mark Gurman yesterday broke the news that the top-level research team working on a car as Apple’s next big thing was being dismantled.Apple has never pu..
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  • Horror Stories From The Samsung Galaxy Note7 Flight Ban

    Horror Stories From The Samsung Galaxy Note7 Flight Ban
    On Saturday the federal flight ban on Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones went into effect in the United States. All four major Australian carriers have also banned the phone. We asked our readers how this was working out around the globe and from the replies we’ve received, it’s safe to say that, so far, this sucks. The US Transportation Department’s decision to ban the Note7 from all flights came just days after Samsung announced that it was killing the phone for good. That short window left little ..
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  • Cybersecurity skills gap is a danger to businesses

    Cybersecurity skills gap is a danger to businesses
    October 18, 2016 • Security Skills gap in IT Security is widening and this is presenting a real danger to local businesses. (Image source: Tashatuvango/ Shutterstock.com) The number of cyber attacks being carried out globally is continuously growing, and has seen significant acceleration in the last five years. A recent study by PwC found that the number of cyber security incidents across all industries rose by 38% in 2015 – the biggest increase in the 12 years since the global study was first..
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  • XG.Fast delivers 8Gbps over copper in NBN lab trials

    XG.Fast delivers 8Gbps over copper in NBN lab trials
    NBN has achieved speeds of up to 8 gigabits per second over 30 metres of copper using XG.Fast, the company announced today.The peak aggregate speed over twisted-pair was achieved during lab tests of the emerging standard. NBN has been trialling the technology in conjunction with Nokia. The two companies also achieved up to 5Gbps over 70 metres, which NBN says is about three times the length of the average copper lead-in to an Australian home.NBN chief technology officer Dennis Steiger said that..
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