October, 2020

• 9 October

  Kerala Model May Not Have Lived Up To The Hype But It's Far From Being Written Off As A Failure

  

  With more than 10,000 COVID-19 cases in a day for the first time, Kerala is turning out to be a major concern for India’s battle against coronavirus. Kerala crossed the 2.5 lakh mark on Wednesday and has the highest number of active COVID-19 cases per million population in the country followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka. …

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• 8 October

  Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 adds new portrait features and moving photos

  

  Adobe is releasing the 2021 versions of its Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements software for editing photos and videos, respectively, the company said Thursday. The new apps use AI to help you easily edit, create, organize and share your photos and videos.  The Elements line offers less expensive versions of Photoshop and Premiere with fewer features, but more than enough …

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• 8 October

  US announces $600 million for 5G military experiments

  

  The US Department of Defense has announced it’s providing $600 million in funding for 5G experiments at five military bases. The tests will focus on things like virtual reality training, robotics and drones, with the DOD on Thursday calling 5G “vital to US national and economic security.” The test sites are located at Naval Base San Diego; Hill Air Force …

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• 8 October

  WD Black lights up its SSD storage for gamers

  

  WD brings gamers SSD upgrades — to store all those 200-plus GB games coming down the pike — with the RGB lighting they crave. The three new products in the company’s WD Black family add some novelty to its NVMe: a bootable SSD RAID 0 array on an 8-bit PCIe 3 card, a Thunderbolt dock with up to 2TB of …

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• 8 October

  Bose Sport Earbuds review: Excellent sound and fit with one downside

  

  I first wrote about the Bose Sport Earbuds way back in June 2019. Back then, Bose was calling them the Earbuds 500 and I got to try on a nonworking prototype. At long last, more than a year later, they’re about to hit stores. At $179 (£180, AU$300), they’re the more affordable, non-noise-canceling alternative to Bose’s flagship QuietComfort Earbuds, which retail …

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• 8 October

  AMD unveils Ryzen 9 5950X gaming PC CPU with 16 cores, Zen 3

  

  AMD on Thursday announced the Ryzen 5000 series, its flagship consumer desktop CPUs for gaming and creation. And if the company’s smattering of benchmarks are to be believed, it’s managed to squeeze quite a performance increase out of the new processors without changing the basic specs — like number of cores, total cache and power envelope — and just switching …

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• 8 October

  The Roku Channel launches today on Amazon Fire TV

  

  After launching on Android and iOS last month, the Roku Channel, the streaming company’s free, standalone TV service, is now available on Amazon Fire TV devices, the company said in a blog post Thursday. That includes Fire TV streamers and also Fire TV Edition smart TVs and soundbars. With 115 live channels and a library of more than 100,000 ad-supported …

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• 8 October

  When is iPhone 12 coming out? We now know for sure

  

  Editors’ note: We were right! The iPhone 12 launch will take place on Oct. 13. Below is our original prediction and analysis.  Although Apple held a September virtual event (here’s everything Apple announced), those expecting iPhones were disappointed — the event focused on the new Apple Watch 6, Apple Watch SE and iPads instead. The announcement date for the iPhone …

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• 8 October

  Buy the Nintendo Switch for $299 and get 10% back from Amazon (Update: Expired)

  

  Happy Thursday, cheeps! A few quick odds and ends: If you have 5G-capable phones (or plan to in the near future), Metro by T-Mobile has a pretty good in-store offer: Two unlimited 5G lines for $70 a month, taxes and fees included. Actually, your first payment will be $80, but when you sign up for autopay, it drops to $70 …

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• 8 October

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  T-Mobile has announced an expansion of its Home Internet pilot to 450 more areas, which it says covers 20 million households. The service uses T-Mobile’s 4G LTE network and was launched as an invite-only pilot in rural areas in March last year, with the carrier saying it’s now opening the service to non-T-Mobile customers. T-Mobile’s home internet service is $50 …

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