Samsung building 8K ultrawide monitor with DisplayPort 2.1: Details here

by Hansraj Agrawal | Nov 4, 2022 | Technology

South Korean giant Samsung is building an ‘8K’ ultrawide monitor which will feature DisplayPort 2.1, to replace its Odyssey Neo G9.

Computer chip company AMD had revealed at its event that a record-breaking 8K resolution version of a large curved screen is about to be unveiled by the tech giant, reports The Verge.

The upcoming monitor will feature DisplayPort 2.1 and more details will be out in January next year.

“While the 32 by 9 aspect ratio of these monitors suggests the screen won’t be a true 8K resolution,” the report said.

Earlier, the company had launched the world’s first 55-inch 1000R curved gaming screen in the Indian market.

The Odyssey Ark monitor was available for sale at a starting price of Rs 2,19,999. It came with a 55-inch screen that surrounded the user’s field of vision with its 1000R curvature.

It also had a cockpit mode that allowed the screen to be rotated vertically 270 degrees. For the best screen positioning, this mode enabled the screen to pivot, tilt, and rotate using a HAS (Height Adjustable Stand).

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Twitter back after suffering brief outage for some Indian users: Reports

by Hansraj Agrawal | Nov 4, 2022 | Technology

Twitter suffered a brief outage for some Indian users on Friday morning and came back to life soon, as the new CEO Elon Musk prepared to sack several employees starting Friday.

Twitter on mobile was working fine but users on the desktop version had some troubles logging into the platform.

The Twitter website also went down for some users, with a message saying “Something went wrong, but don’t fret – let’s give it another shot”.

According to downdetector.com, a website that monitors online outages, 94 per cent users had issues with Twitter on Web, while just 6 per cent faced issues with the mobile platform.

In July, the micro-blogging platform suffered a mega outage as several users across the world had error messages like “this page is down”.

Several users also faced “over capacity” error messages across Twitter web, mobile and the TweetDeck app.

In March, Twitter users experienced difficulties accessing the platform on desktops as an outage was reported in Japan, India, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Twitter faced two mega outages in February as users were not able to post tweets for several minutes.

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AMD introduces advanced gaming graphics cards based on RDNA 3: Details here

by Hansraj Agrawal | Nov 4, 2022 | Technology

Graphics chip giant AMD has introduced new graphics cards that are built on the high-performance and energy-efficient RDNA 3 architecture for high-end gaming experience.

The RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT are the first graphics cards powered by its new architecture, RDNA 3.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series graphics cards deliver up to 1.7 times higher 4K gaming performance than the previous flagship graphics cards, the company announced at its flagship event here late on Thursday.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series graphics cards are expected to be available from December 13. The 7900 XTX will cost $999, and the XT is $100 cheaper at $899.

“These new graphics cards are designed by gamers for gamers. As we were developing the new cards, we not only incorporated feedback from our customers, but we built in the features and capabilities we wanted to use,” said Scott Herkelman, senior vice president & general manager, Graphics Business Unit at AMD.

“We also realised that we needed to do something different to continue pushing the envelope of the technology, and I’m proud of what the team has accomplished with AMD RDNA 3 and the Radeon RX 7900 Series graphics cards,” Herkelman added.

The new graphics cards are the world’s first gaming graphics cards to feature an advanced AMD chiplet design.

They deliver exceptional performance and superb energy efficiency to power high-frame rate 4K and higher resolution gaming in the most demanding titles.

The AMD RDNA 3 architecture’s chiplet design combines 5nm and 6nm process nodes, each optimised for specific jobs.

The breakthrough architecture delivers up to 54 per cent more performance per watt than AMD RDNA 2 architecture, and features the world’s fastest interconnect linking the graphics and memory system chiplets at up to 5.3 TB/s2.

It also offers up to 96 new unified compute units, second-generation AMD Infinity Cache technology, and up to 24 GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory with up to a 384-bit memory interface.

The new graphics cards also support DisplayPort 2.1 displays capable of delivering ultra-high frame rates and stunning visuals at up to 4K 480Hz and 8K 165Hz refresh rates, said the company.

The world’s first gaming GPU with a chiplet design delivers up to 15 per cent higher frequencies at up to 54 per cent better power efficiency.

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Nothing Ear (stick) gets Rs 1000 cheaper for Ear (1), Phone (1) customers

by Hansraj Agrawal | Nov 4, 2022 | Technology

UK-based consumer technology start-up Nothing recently launched the Ear (stick). Second product in its audio accessories line, the wireless earbuds are priced at Rs 8,499. These will be available in India on Myntra and Flipkart from November 17. At the launch, Nothing announced that it will soon be announcing a special offer on the Ear (stick) for the existing Nothing customers.

On Thursday, Nothing India vice president and general manager Manu Sharma posted on its Twitter handle that existing Nothing customers can avail a discount of Rs 1,000 on the Ear (Stick). The discount can be availed on Flipkart during a limited sale on November 14, starting at 12pm. Besides, the offer will be available during open sales that starts from November 17. It is going to be a limited period offer.

“As a thank you, our supporters can experience Ear (stick) for less. We are giving ₹1000 off on Ear (stick), only on Flipkart, exclusively to anyone who owns a Nothing product,” tweeted Manu Sharma, VP, Nothing India.

Nothing Ear (stick): Specification

The Nothing Ear (stick) is a pair of half in-ear wireless earbuds with transparent design. It comes in a cylindrical case, which rolls to open and close. It is compatible with both Android and iOS devices. It is IP54 rated for dust and water resistance. The earbuds feature 12.6mm audio drivers and boast up to 29 hours of battery life with a charging case.

It comes with clear voice technology with three microphones on each bud to offer wind-proof and crowd-proof calls. It features press control on each bud for play, pause, skip, voice assistance and change volume functions. The earbuds functions are integrated in the Nothing Phone (1), allowing users to customise gesture controls, adjust EQ settings and access find my earbuds function via quick settings menu. Other smartphones (Android and iOS) get the similar functionality enabled through the Nothing X app.

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Bharat Electronics partners Motorola in broadband, push-to-talk service

by Hansraj Agrawal | Nov 4, 2022 | Technology

Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has signed an MoU with Motorola Solutions India Pvt Ltd for co-operation in the field of broadband, push-to-talk service.

The MoU aims at leveraging the complementary strengths and capabilities of BEL and Motorola, the Bengaluru-headquartered company said in a statement.

“It will enable BEL and Motorola to address the needs of professional mobile radio segment users to connect their teams with greater speed and efficiency using Motorola WAVE PTX, a push-to-talk (PTT) service,” it said.

WAVE PTX is a network independent multimedia communication service that instantly connects cross-functional teams at the push of a button without any boundaries, it was noted.

BEL has also inked an MoU with INERY, Singapore, for co-operation in the field of Blockchain technology.

The objective of the MoU is to take advantage of the combined strengths and capabilities of INERY and BEL in the field of Blockchain technology.

“Integrating BEL’s complementary functionalities with INERY’s solutions will enhance product offerings of both the companies,” the statement said.

BEL has signed an MoU with Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd (BGSW) for jointly implementing projects in the areas of e-Governance, ERP and Cloud solutions.

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Twitter down for some users across globe, including India: Details here

by Hansraj Agrawal | Nov 4, 2022 | Technology

Twitter is down for desktop users. The platform shows a message on the website that reads, “Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.” The outage is limited to Twitter’s website for PCs and not the app, according to outage tracker Downdetector. There have been over 135 reports of outages on the platform until 8:25 am, of which about 95 per cent of reports were related to the Twitter website and the rest about the app. Twitter has over 23.6 million users in India as of January 2022, according to Statista.

“I’m unable to access Twitter and getting an error prompt…Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.Try again,” a social media user wrote.

Reportedly, the outage started around 3 am and saw a relatively big spike around 7 am.

Meanwhile, Twitter has been in news for other reasons as well, thanks to Elon Musk. Last week, he took control of Twitter and fired its top executives.

He has also started mass layoffs today. As per an unsigned internal memo seen by The Verge, Twitter employees were notified in the email that the layoffs were set to begin.

Employees will receive an email by 9AM PST on November 4 confirming whether they have been laid off or not, according to the internal memo, which also states that employee badge access to Twitter’s offices will be shut off “temporarily.”

“We acknowledge this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through, whether or not you are impacted,” the memo read.

“Thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere,” the memo added.

Musk is expected to cut roughly half of Twitter’s roughly 7,500-person workforce.

Musk has already indicated that he would make job cuts at Twitter, telling employees at a town-hall meeting this summer that there needs to be “a rationalization of headcount” at the social network.

Recently, the Meta-owned social media platform Instagram faced an outage, locking many users out and telling many of them that “we suspended your account on October 31, 2022”. Owned by Facebook parent Meta Platforms, users of the photo-sharing application (app) could not retrieve their account despite clicking on the ‘Disagree with decision’ option. The social media platform has over 230 million users in the country as of January this year.

According to the outage-tracking website Downdetector, over 7,000 users reported being unable to log in at the peak of the outage. Instagram had admitted these accounts were inaccessible to users.

“We are aware that some of you are having issues accessing your Instagram account. We are looking into it and apologise for the inconvenience,” Instagram said on its Twitter account.

Some users reported seeing a message that they were locked out but could still scroll through their feeds. Others posting on Twitter said they were completely shut out. Some reported that their number of followers dropped, presumably because those accounts were locked.

Service disruption was reported days after WhatsApp, another Meta group entity, suffered a global outage.

Thousands of WhatsApp users complained of a brief outage on October 25. The messaging application later said that the outage resulted from a “technical error”.

“We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp. We’ve fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience,” a spokesperson for Meta had said.

It was followed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology seeking a report on the outage. The ministry asked the messaging platform to submit its report to its nodal agency Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). The main worry was a probable cyber incident causing the outage.

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