Facebook is giving up on using face recognition in its app a decade after introducing the feature, and in the coming weeks Facebook’s parent company Meta says it will delete facial recognition templates for a billion different people. In other recent tech news from around the web, we have a deep-dive into performance of the […]
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Lilbits: PinePhone keyboard, Beats Studio Buds, and a mini PC with discrete graphics support
2 Comments on Lilbits: PinePhone keyboard, Beats Studio Buds, and a mini PC with discrete graphics supportThe upcoming PinePhone keyboard accessory will basically let you use the Linux-powered smartphone as a tiny Linux laptop. Just pop off the back cover, snap the phone into the new keyboard case accessory and you’ll get a QWERTY keyboard, a nice big battery, and a new way to use the PinePhone. While the keyboard isn’t […]
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Megi’s PinePhone kernel updates bring battery life, performance improvements
Until recently one of the main things keeping the PinePhone from being a smartphone most people could use as a daily driver was battery life – when my PinePhone arrived in September, 2020 I couldn’t find an operating system that would offer more than a day or so of battery life while idle, let alone during […]
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Ubuntu Touch for the PinePhone is moving to a new kernel for better hardware support
Ubuntu Touch can run on dozens of smartphones that originally shipped with Android thanks to the Halium tool that allows the Linux distribution to communicate with the hardware in those phones using Android drivers. But if you’re running Ubuntu Touch on a PinePhone, you don’t need Halium since the phone supports mainline Linux kernels or […]
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Linux 4.0 kernel released (for what it’s worth)
Linus Torvalds has released version 4.0 of the Linux kernel — one of the core components of operating systems ranging from Ubuntu to Android to some of the firmware that runs on wireless routers. Linux 4.0 comes more than 20 years after the launch of the first Linux kernel and nearly 4 years after Linux […]
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Allwinner releases kernel source code for A31 quad-core chip
The Allwinner A31 processor is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor with PowerVR SGX 544 graphics. Like other Allwinner chips, it’s proven popular with budget tablet makers in China, as a low-cost quad-core processor that offers decent performance. Allwinner also has a decent reputation with some folks in the Linux community, since the company’s earlier (and […]
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Overclock the Google Nexus 7 with a custom kernel
The Google Nexus 7 has an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, which is pretty zippy. But this version of NVIDIA’s quad-core processor runs at 1.2 GHz, while some other tablets have faster 1.6 GHz. versions. But with a little elbow grease, you can overclock the Nexus 7 to run at 1.6 GHz. Xda-developer forum morfic has […]
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Linux kernel 3.4 brings support for latest AMD, NVIDIA graphics
Linux founder Linus Torvalds has released version 3.4 of the Linux kernel. While a lot of the updates are changes under the hood that most users won’t notice, there are a few welcome features for folks thinking about picking up a shiny new computer (or graphics card) this year. Linux kernel 3.4 adds support for […]
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New kernel brings Netflix to Android 4.0 Kindle Fire
Kindle Fire owners have been hacking Amazon’s $199 Android 2.3 tablet to install unofficial versions of Android 4.0 since late last year. But while those early builds of Android 4.0 offer most of the feature’s you’d expect, up until now they’ve been based on older Android kernels and have lacked support for features such as hardware […]
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Linux kernel 3.3 released, Android kernel code merged
The latest version of the Linux kernel is now available, and the team responsible for the mainline kernel have merged code from the Android project. This will make it possible to boot Android from a vanilla Linux kernel and should make it easier for developers to write apps for both platforms. This could make it […]
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HP TouchPad tablet overclocked to 1.5 GHz
The HP TouchPad tablet has a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. It’s one of the fastest mobile processors available, so you’d think think the device would feel pretty zippy — but apparently you’d be wrong. While I haven’t played with the tablet, one of the top complaints I’ve seen from reviewers is that it […]