TECH

Raspberry Pi Foundation, the institution in charge of the popular minicomputer that has helped expand GNU/Linux around the world, has announced the availability of a variant of the Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM.This new variant of the latest generation of mini-PC offers, of course, greater possibilities when it comes to supporting…

SpaceX and NASA successfully launched two astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday night. It is the first commercial space trip with astronauts on board ever, and the first launch of that kind from U.S. soil since 2011.For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built…

Rocos, a leader in Robot Operations software based in New Zealand,  announced its partnership with Boston Dynamics, a leader in mobile robotics. Rocos is providing remote mission design and execution as well as teleoperation functionality, enhancing Spot’s existing capabilities.Boston Dynamics' four-legged robot, Spot, is being used in…

Today, AMD announced global availability of the world’s first x86 7nm commercial notebook processors, the AMD Ryzen PRO 4000 Series Mobile family, delivering the most cores and threads in an ultrathin business notebook.These new processors are fully optimized for remote work capabilities and designed to take business computing to the next…

Intel, as expected, today introduced the long-awaited tenth generation of processors for mass desktop systems, also known as Comet Lake-S. In the new family, the number of cores in some chips has increased, in the vast majority of processors, support for Hyper-Threading has been implemented, and the clock speed has also increased.Intel is…

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced the general availability of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with a particular emphasis on security and performance. This is a long-term support release which means that it will receive security updates, critical fixes, and software updates for the next 5 years - i.e, until April 2025.In the technical aspect,…

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the allocation of a 6-GHz range for unlicensed use. This means that there are now many more radio frequencies to transmit Wi-Fi signals, which should lead to an increase in the speed and quality of wireless networks.In fact, this is the largest expansion of the frequency range…

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile is working with Huawei to deploy 5G base stations on Mount Everest. After the project is completed, it will be the highest place in the world with 5G network connectivity. The installation of equipment required to enable 5G services on the world's tallest mountain has been completed at two Everest camps.…