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The Best Google Wi-Fi Deals and Prices in September 2018

Get the best price on the best Wi-Fi mesh setup

If you’re looking to give your Wi-Fi a much-needed boost then these Google Wi-Fi deals are our most highly-recommended option. Google Wi-Fi is what’s known as a mesh Wi-Fi network system and is built around catering to the needs of our increasingly smart and data hungry devices. Speaking of which, have you seen the latest Google Home deals?

Mesh…

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Apple Music finally sorts out its user interface

Singles and albums live in harmony

Despite past criticisms of its nonsensical user interface, Apple Music recently overtook Spotify in terms of subscriber numbers in the US, and with an organized new update, it could be about to become even more popular among music lovers.

In the update, Apple has made it far easier to browse through artist discographies, by sorting releases into studio…

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Facebook building its first Asia data center in Singapore

To be operational in 2022, the new facility will span 11 stories and see the social media company invest S$1.4 billion (US$1.02 billion) in the country.

Facebook is finally building its own data center in Asia, located in Singapore, where it is investing more than S$1.4 billion (US$1.02 billion) in the facility.

Spanning 170,000 square meters, the new site will rise 11 stories and be the…

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Hybrid cloud adoption grows in Brazil

Uptake of the mixed approach will more than double by year-end, says research.Brazilian organizations will see a surge in the adoption of the hybrid cloud computing approach, according to a new report The mixed approach of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services is expected to jump from 31 percent to 64 percent by the end of 2018, according to the IT Snapshot 2018 study,…

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform Is All About Improved Battery Life for Smartwatches

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform Is All About Improved Battery Life for Smartwatches

Working closely with Google’s Wear OS team, Qualcomm’s latest chip for wearables promises significant performance gains.

Qualcomm has spent the past two years working on the Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform. It’s not a single processor or chip, but the combination of a processor, co-processor, modem, and various other components.

The end result, according to Qualcomm, is that the 3100 is more…

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Google Hands off Control of Kubernetes Cloud Resources

Cloud Native Computing Foundation community members will manage the Kubernetes project’s cloud resources, with the help of a $9 million grant from Google.

After Google created its container management program Kubernetes, it contributed the project to the newly-formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2015. While the CNCF guided the Kubernetes project through incubation, Google…

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Samsung Has a Wearable Device Problem As it Can't Crack IDC's top 5 Vendors

Samsung Has a Wearable Device Problem As it Can’t Crack IDC’s top 5 Vendors

IDC’s second quarter wearables device tracker highlights how competition and multiple devices are thumping Samsung’s smartwatches.

Global wearable shipments–primarily smartwatches and fitness trackers–saw second-quarter shipments grow 5.5 percent to 27.9 million units in the second quarter, according to IDC data. But perhaps the biggest takeaway is that Samsung isn’t among the top 5 vendors.

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MacTel Announces Government Cloud Expansion

Macquarie Telecom has announced datacentre capacity expansions, as well as government cloud and cybersecurity growth to the tune of an additional AU$1.5 million in opex.

Macquarie Telecom has announced an expansion in its cloud and cybersecurity offerings for government agencies, with the provider reporting a rise in net profit 20 percent to AU$17 million for FY18.

Earnings before interest, tax,…

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Samsung Galaxy X Dispatch Affirmed During The Current Year Get ready for foldable telephones For year's we've been hearing bits of gossip and little declarations about Samsung's first foldable telephone, yet now we've had the primary authority word that it will dispatch eventually in 2018.

AWS declares Amazon RDS on VMware Coming soon, Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware will convey the abilities of RDS to VMware clients.

Microsoft Azure now supports NVIDIA GPU Cloud for AI, HPC workloads

Microsoft and NVIDIA are targeting data scientists, developers and researchers with preconfigured containers with GPU-accelerated software for running their AI and high-performance computing tasks.

Microsoft has added a new level of support for NVIDIA GPU projects to Azure which may benefit those running deep-learning and other high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The pair is touting the…

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IFA 2018: Acer Announces Chromebook 514 With Premium Features, $349 Price Tag

The 14-inch laptop’s upscale touches include an aluminum chassis, full HD display, and Gorilla Glass touchpad, though the company has released few other specs.

Adding to the list of Chromebook announcements at this week’s IFA trade show in Berlin, Acer is launching the 514 Chromebook to join new units from Dell and Lenovo. Like Dell’s new Inspiron Chromebook 14 and Lenovo’s Yoga Chromebook,…

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Google Maps tests a Commute UI to replace the Driving and Transit tabs

Android gets a head start

Unbeknownst to us, the Google Maps mobile app is again being tweaked. This time, it looks like the search giant could be replacing the Driving and Transit tabs, which appear on the bottom of the screen, with a single Commute user interface.

Tapping on the Commute option – which was first spotted by Android Police on an Android handset – brings up new interfaces sporting…

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Windows 10's next significant refresh affirmed for October 2018

Windows 10’s next significant refresh affirmed for October 2018

Furthermore, you’ll never think about what it’s called…

Throughout the end of the week, Microsoft made that big appearance at IFA 2018 in Berlin to report the name of the following significant refresh to Windows 10. What was before codenamed Redstone 5 is currently authoritatively the Windows 10 October 2018 Update and will arrive sometime in – you got it – October.

This will, in fact, be…

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Twitter's most recent tests cover online status and strung answers

Twitter’s most recent tests cover online status and strung answers

Still no alter catch however

Twitter is trying out several new highlights that could possibly advance out to everybody on the interpersonal organization: online status markers, so you can see who’s on the web, and strung answers to tweets, to make them less demanding to peruse on screen.

Declared by both chief of item administration Sara Haider and CEO Jack Dorsey, the new highlights are…

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iPhone not charging properly? Check this!

The other day I had a problem where one of my test iPhones wasn’t charging up properly. After some troubleshooting, I came across a weird issue that I’ve not encountered previously.

The other day I had a problem where one of my test iPhones didn’t seem to charge up properly.

Uh-oh. Did it know that Apple was getting ready to release new iPhones and decide to go into retirement? Well, over at…

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As new iPad Pros linger, Surface Go gives your everyday measurement of Windows

Versatile and reasonable, the Surface Go has propelled at the perfect time to attack a café close you. Be that as it may, with Apple likely preparing new iPads, Microsoft still has work to do on the Surfaces sans console tablet encounter.

At the point when an organization executes an item well after a checkered history, it’s enticing to state that that item is the thing that the organization…

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