November 2020

Jolla is discontinuing security support for Sailfish OS on the Jolla 1 after seven years. That phone was released in 2013. According to the makers, the phone has an old kernel and bluetooth stack. Version 3.4 will therefore be the latest…

Privacy advocates criticize a Microsoft tool that gives employees a productivity score. It is a feature built into Microsoft 365 that assesses users on the use of certain tools and software. Microsoft announced the Productivity Score…

Microsoft Flight Simulator will get a VR mode with the SIM Update 2 on December 22, Microsoft and developer Asobo have announced. VR mode will work with all headsets, including those from Oculus and HTC Vive. Not only will the sim itself…

Tuxedo Computers has released a Linux support package for Intel's QC7 gaming laptop. The company makes all the software and necessary drivers available to put its own Tuxedo_OS on the TongFang barebone. The software package is available…

The Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi has domestically presented the Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G, a smartphone with 6.67 "LCD with 120Hz refresh rate, 5G support and a primary 108 megapixel camera. Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 pro 5G, November 2020The Redmi…

Updates have been released for Drupal versions 7.7, 8.8, 8.9 and 9.0. Drupal is a user-friendly and powerful content management platform written in PHP, which can be used to create websites, for example. It's simple enough for a novice…

Photography fair photokina, which took place every two years in the German city of Cologne, is ending. The 2020 edition was canceled due to the outbreak of the corona pandemic and now the stock market is not returning at all. Photokina…

Florian Heidenreich released version 3.04 of Mp3tag. With this program the meta tags of the most common music formats can be adjusted. Support is available for ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, mp4, wma, Vorbis comments and Ape tags. Furthermore,…

The Taiwanese testing agency NCC has approved a new version of HTC's wireless earphones. Six months ago, the NCC also showed wireless earphones from HTC, but they have not been released so far. The earbuds have the type number HTC TWS1,…

Rockchip's upcoming RK3588-soc has support for decoding 8K video at 60fps, according to the presentation the company gave at its developer conference. The system-on-a-chip should be released next spring. Rockchip RK3588Coding of video is…