September 2017

Version 5.7 of digiKam has been released. This photo management and image editing application for KDE has downloads for Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows. It includes support for various file formats and can also be provided with more…

Version 4.8.2 of WordPress has been released. With this program, which is made available under a GPL license, it is possible to set up and maintain a weblog. WordPress is easy to set up and can be up and running in under five minutes if…

Website droidlife has posted prices and photos of the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL online. According to the website, that is the official name of the device that is made by LG and will be announced on October 4. Google would ask 649 and…

The first ultra high speed cable, which is suitable for the HDMI 2.1 standard, has appeared in Apple's online store. Compared to the current high-speed HDMI cables, this cable achieves a much higher bandwidth of up to 48 Gbit/s.The Belkin…

US Navy plans to use Xbox controllers in Virginia-class submarines. The craft crew probably won't use them for a game of Naval Assault; the controllers are used to operate the periscopes.The periscope in the submarines is normally…

Intel has been collaborating with Google's Waymo project for autonomous vehicles for years. Waymo's Chrysler Pacifica cars feature Intel processors, fpgas and modems. The chip giant has independently invested $1 billion in artificial…

The US Senate has voted in favor of a bill banning US government agencies from using Kaspersky software. This ban is being imposed because the use of the software is seen as a risk to national security.The vote on the ban was part of the…

Lenovo has announced that its Moto G4 Plus device will receive an update to Android O. A few days ago, the manufacturer announced the devices that would receive the update, but the phone was not listed.Lenovo has updated the original blog…

Google has made an update to Gmail so that the service now displays text in messages as links in certain cases. This concerns, for example, addresses and telephone numbers.Google writes that the changes apply to the web version of its…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US civil rights organization, has announced its withdrawal from the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. The decision stems from a conflict over the adoption of a DRM specification.The organization had…