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Fairphone 5 sets 8-10 Years of Android support
The Fairphone 5 will keep on trucking until at least 2031. The Fairphone 5 is official and full of surprises. As you might expect, it’s the usual repairable phone from Fairphone, with parts available to order and easily installable with just a screwdriver. A new phone means faster components and a more modern design. What… Read more
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PyCharm and Android Studio to Feature Wayland Support for Linux
If you are a developer using Linux or WSL, you are in for a treat. Good news for developers using Linux! The Jet Brains platform announced that IntelliJ-based IDEs will finally support the Wayland display server protocol. If you did not know, PyCharm and IntelliJ IDEA are some impressive IDEs based on the IntelliJ platform, and Android… Read more
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Linux leads Gaming vs MacOS
After the rather exciting development in the last Steam Hardware & Software Survey where Linux users overtook macOS for the first time, the latest survey shows Linux continues to be above macOS but with the numbers dipping down. The latest results for August 2023: Windows 96.61% ( change of +0.40)Linux 1.82% (change of -0.14)OSX 1.57%… Read more
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Google’s watermarking tool for AI-generated images
It’s the first Big Tech firm to publicly launch one, after a group of them pledged to develop them at the White House in July. Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool that labels whether images have been generated with AI. The tool, called SynthID, will initially be available only to users of Google’s… Read more
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D Review
AMD’s limited-edition $229 Ryzen 5 5600X3D comes with all the goodness of the company’s game-boosting 3D V-Cache technology, propelling it to the highest gaming performance in the mid-range price class. Overall, the 5600X3D is ~20% faster in gaming than the Intel Core i5-13400 that currently tops our list of the best CPUs for gaming. However,… Read more
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Reports of the PC’s death are greatly exaggerated, says IDC
Demand may be ‘tepid at best’ but analyst sees return to pre-2019 levels next year. The PC market is expected to return to growth in 2024, according to estimates from IDC analysts. Still, industry players might want to taper their enthusiasm. PC shipments are forecast to grow 3.7 percent year-on-year to hit 261.4 million units… Read more
