Hey guys Brainy Here and welcome back to a brand new video on the channel.
In today's video I have a lot of things to cover in terms of tech news, so let's
get right into it.
So first off we have some new info about The Samsung GALAXY S8.
If you haven't yet seen my recent video on the S8 Check it out using the link below
but this bit of info is more about something that works directly with the S8.
Samsung's DeX dock for the Galaxy S8 costs $150 and will ship in April.
The dock that unlocks the Galaxy S8's desktop PC-like experience will retail for $149.99,
according to Samsung's website.
It's scheduled to ship in "late April," likely coinciding with the widespread launch
of the S8.
The DeX Station, as Samsung calls it, attaches to your Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus via USB-C and
lets you plug in an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
It's designed to heighten productivity, giving users the tools and experience that
they're accustomed to getting from a full-fledged desktop.
You also have full access to your regular phone notifications and incoming calls / texts.
The DeX Station features two USB 2.0 ports, an ethernet jack, HDMI, and a USB-C port for
charging everything.
There's a fan built in to keep your Galaxy running cool while in desktop mode.
Onto other news, Twitter has redesigned replies so usernames don't count against the 140-character
limit.
Something that twitter has been missing for a while actually.
Twitter usernames will no longer count against the 140-character limit in replies, the company
said yesterday, following months of testing in which users complained that the redesign
was confusing.
Twitter hides their name unless you mouse over a link, making replies harder to browse.
The goal of the redesign is to "let you express more with 140 characters," Twitter
said in a blog post.
The move follows a change last year that excluded media attachments including photos, GIFs,
and polls from being included in the character count.
I personally think this is a pretty useful improvement as it will obviously give you
more space when typing out a tweet.
Therefore more can be said in a reply to one person.
Moving onto our next tech bit, it looks like Microsoft is selling its own Samsung Galaxy
S8 Microsoft Edition.
Pretty interesting bit of new here.
Samsung originally bundled Microsoft's Skype, OneDrive, and OneNote apps on the Galaxy S6
and S7, but it appears things are a little different this year.
Samsung unveiled its latest Galaxy S8 handset this week , and now Microsoft is planning
to offer its own customized version.
The Samsung Galaxy S8 Microsoft Edition is available for preorders right now at Microsoft's
US retail stores, and will include Microsoft's range of apps and services.
"A Microsoft customization is applied to the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ Microsoft
Edition when the devices are unboxed and connected to Wi-Fi," says a Microsoft spokesperson.
"This customization ensures customers a best-in-class productivity experience with
Microsoft applications such as Office, OneDrive, Cortana, Outlook and more."
That's truly something I never expected amidst the news surrounding Samsung's Newest
Flagship.
Onto other news, Samsung confirms the Note 7 is coming back as a refurbished device.
There's gonna be a good bit of Samsung News in this video by the way.
the company has released a statement regarding its plans to recycle Note 7 devices.
The process comes in three parts: save salvageable components such as camera modules and semiconductors,
extract metal parts with the help from "eco-friendly" third-party companies, and sell refurbished
devices "where applicable."
The announcement appears to walk back on what Samsung initially pledged last fall, when
it said it would dispose of the Note 7 and had no plans to repair or refurbish them.
Instead, Samsung has confirmed it will work with local authorities and carriers to sell
it as a refurbished device, rumored to come with a smaller battery to prevent it from
overheating and catching fire.
The company said available markets are to be determined as they work with local regulators
to approve of the sale.
"The objective of introducing refurbished devices is solely to reduce and minimize any
environmental impact," Samsung told The Verge in a statement.
It also hinted that the phone may be renamed entirely when more details are unveiled.
"The product details including the name, technical specification and price range will
be announced when the device is available.
Samsung will not be offering refurbished Galaxy Note 7 devices for rent or sale in the US."
My question here is will people actually buy.
And yes, I know people will, but how will the numbers look compared to what we've
seen from previous editions of Samsung Phones.
It's a refurbished device, and I don't really expect numbers to be extremely high,
but it will indeed be interesting to see how things turn out.
Onto more tech news, Intel Launches Optane Memory M.2 Cache SSDs For Consumer Market.
Last week, Intel officially launched their first Optane product, the SSD DC P4800X enterprise
drive.
This week, 3D XPoint memory comes to the client and consumer market in the form of the Intel
Optane Memory product, a low-capacity M.2 NVMe SSD intended for use as a cache drive
for systems using a mechanical hard drive for primary storage.
The Intel Optane Memory SSD uses one or two single-die packages of 3D XPoint non-volatile
memory to provide capacities of 16GB or 32GB.
The controller gets away with a much smaller package than most SSDs (especially PCIe SSD)
since it only supports two PCIe 3.0 lanes and does not have an external DRAM interface.
Because only two PCIe lanes are used by the drive, it is keyed to support M.2 type B and
M slots.
This keying is usually used for M.2 SATA SSDs while M.2 PCIe SSDs typically use only the
M key position to support four PCIe lanes.
The Optane Memory SSD will not function in a M.2 slot that provides only SATA connectivity.
Contrary to some early leaks, the Optane Memory SSD uses the M.2 2280 card size instead of
one of the shorter lengths.
This makes for one of the least-crowded M.2 PCBs on the market even with all of the components
on the top side.
And, ok I won't be going through all the specifics when it comes to Intel's new release,
but you can go through all the needed info using the links provided below as usual.
In other news, Google Home is getting a bunch of new smart home integrations.
Google Home is becoming a much more capable control center for smart home devices today,
with the addition of support from several more products and systems.
August, Wink, LIFX, TP-Link, Rachio, Vivint, and Best Buy's Insignia are all announcing
integrations with Google Home, allowing owners of their products to issue voice controls
through Google's speaker.
TechCrunch reports that First Alert, Frigidaire, Logitech, Geeni, and Anova are also adding
integrations.
Here's what some of them will let you do:
August will let you lock its smart lock and check whether it's locked or not (but not
unlock it by voice) Wink will let you control lights and thermostats
connected to a Wink Hub LIFX will let you control the color and brightness
of its lights TP-Link will let you control its smart lights,
outlets, and switches Rachio will let you control its sprinkler
system by voice Vivint will let you control products connected
to its system by voice.
And all this seems to increase the productivity of our lives little by little by giving us
more time to do important work and focus less on the small things.
Moving on with the tech news, Razer upgrades its 17-inch Blade Pro to Kaby Lake.
Razer is upgrading last year's model with an overclockable quad-core Kaby Lake processor,
faster memory (2667MHz), and THX certification for both the screen and the audio jack.
Razer also "upgraded" the price: the laptop now has a $3,999 starting price, compared
to $3,699 for the original.
Razer says the laptop should have the same thermal performance as the last generation,
even with overclocking and the faster RAM.
For graphics it's the same GeForce 1080 since there's no 1080 Ti for laptops, sadly.
And finally for today's tech news, Microsoft lets you download the Windows 10 Creators
Update a little early.
Microsoft is making the final version of its Windows 10 Creators Update available early
for those who want to install the update ahead of its general availability.
Microsoft is prepping for a gradual, multi-stage rollout of the Windows 10 Creators Update
starting on April 11th.
But if you're eager to get your hands on it a bit early, you can manually download
it on April 5th.
The company said in a blog post that it will make the Creators Update available through
its Update Assistant so anyone who is using a licensed version of Windows 10 can install
it one week ahead of the official rollout.
For everyone else, the Creators Update is being pushed out on April 11th, first to newer
PCs and onward to other devices over the course of a few months.
Windows Phone users will have to wait until April 25th for Microsoft to start rolling
out the update.
Microsoft is making an effort to ensure the update process allows for more customization
options on the user end.
"These include the ability to specify a time that is convenient for you, pause updates
for a week, and expand the 'active hours' time window during which you don't want
to be disturbed by an update," And that's it for today's video.
A fun quick Tech News review for this week.
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