Google released version 76 of Chrome yesterday. The browser update feature allows users to update their browser to the latest version. The current version does not contain any new major changes to the browser's user interface, but some developments in version 76.0.3809.87 are interesting to mention.... Read more
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Samsung's profits in Q2 have been halved due to price declines in the market for memory chips and slower sales of the brand's flagship smartphones. The company recorded a profit of 6.6 billion, a decrease of 56 percent compared to a year ago. However, Samsung's memory division still contributed most... Read more
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Dropbox states that the adoption of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology has reduced the cost and energy consumption of its data centers, and added hundreds of petabytes of new data storage capacity. SMR technology was deployed last year. SMR is a magnetic storage technology used in HDDs to ... Read more
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Apple, Microsoft and Google are testing a new standard that allows patients to access health data. The standard, called CARIN Blue Button API, was developed by partners in the private sector, and is also tested by American BlueCross/BlueShield providers and the state of Washington. CARIN Blue Button... Read more
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Huawei has seen its turnover grow significantly in the first half of 2019, despite being blacklisted in the US. Turnover rose 23 percent from the first half of 2018 to 401.3 billion yuan (52.30 billion euros). Although sales increased in the first half of this year, Huawei is now arguing that it con... Read more
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the Apple Card, Apple's own credit card, will roll out next month. Earlier there were rumours that the credit card would appear at the beginning of August. At the moment there is a beta test of the map, says Cook opposite TechCrunch. Thousands of Apple employees... Read more
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The mobile apps for Microsoft Office and Windows 10 Enterprise do not yet meet the privacy requirements set by the central government. This is evident from a privacy impact assessment by Privacy Company, commissioned by the Strategic Supplier Management Microsoft Rijk (SLM Rijk). The central governm... Read more
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a number of new neural text-to-speech models. One of those models has a style that has to imitate the way the newsreader sounds. AWS states that speech quality is important, but that more can be done to make a synthetic voice sound more realistic, says TechCrun... Read more
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Microsoft will stop using Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021. After that, users can use Teams for their business calls. New Office 365 customers will be put on Teams from September 1st this year, and will no longer be able to select the old service as an option. Microsoft has been saying sin... Read more
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On Tuesday, Google announced a series of tools for organizations that apply a hybrid and multi-cloud strategy. A beta version of a new service for migrating virtual machines from Microsoft Azure is also part of this. Google is also expanding its network portfolio for companies that are modernising ... Read more
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