What’s new
Microsoft OneDrive for Business allows the recovery of corrupted or deleted files from the past 30 days
The feature called File Restore lets users restore files from any point in time over the past 30 days. It also allows the users to review changes made to files over those 30 days, including who made changes and at what time. Files Restore will be launched today for OneDrive for Business users and will continue to become available for more users over the coming weeks.
You can read more here.
Android Oreo can now display Wi-Fi speeds before connecting
Users with Android 8.1 installed will see one of four qualifiers next to open Wi-Fi networks: Very Fast, Fast, OK and Slow. According to Google, Fast is fine for most videos, and Very Fast is required for much higher quality. OK should suffice for reading sites and streaming music, while Slow is okay for Wi-Fi calling and texts.
More info are available here.
New products
Nokia 10
Nokia 10 will have Snapdragon 845 processor, will have wireless charging and a fingerprint reader on the rear. It will come with penta-lens design meaning the phone will have five lenses in a circular pattern.
More info here.
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Integral Memory will release a 512GB microSD card in February
The new 512GB microSD card is also classified as an SDXC UHS-I U1 card (it has a minimum write speed of 10MB/s) and meets the V10 standard for video transfer rates, so it’s designed to capture full HD video off cameras. It will work with any device that supports the microSD XC standard.
You can read more here.
Google is building an AI research team in France
Google announced it will open a research centre in Paris devoted to artificial intelligence. The company said that the team’s work will be published and any code it produces will be open source.
More info can be found here.
Fun stuff
Facebook invented a new unit of time
The new unit of time called “flick” is equivalent to precisely one 705,600,000th of a second; larger than a nanosecond, and smaller than a microsecond. Flicks are designed to help measure individual frame duration for video frame rates. For instance, at the 24 FPS of most movies, each frame is 29,400,000 flicks.
You can read more here.
