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What comes after microSD cards for removable storage? Samsung has the answer: UFS. The company announced today the  world's first removable UFS  (Universal Flash Storage) memory cards, offering storage capacity of either 32, 64, 128, or 256 gigabytes, and performance speeds that simply blow older formats out of the water. Read speeds five times faster than the best microSD cards The UFS cards have sequential read speeds of up to 530 megabytes per second — five times faster than the best microSD cards. That means reading a 5 gigabyte, full HD movie in roughly 10 seconds, says Samsung, compared to a UHS-1 microSD card which manages the same feat in around 50 seconds. Write speeds are also significantly im proved, with rates of up to 170 MB/s. That's nearly double the performance of the very fastest microSDs (this SanDisk Extreme Pro card, for example, has  write speeds  of up to 100 MB/s), but seven or eight times faster than the cards  recommended  to non-professionals

Telecom gear makers Ericsson and Nokia have initiated talks with Indian telecom companies and policy makers so that they could look out for possible engagements in fifth-generation (5G) technology.  5G, which is still in its standardisation phase, is likely to be ready for commercial deployment by 2020.  The talks have begun around telcos' interest and preparedness for 5G, while also identifying relevant spectrum band so that it can be supported. Executives from both Ericsson and Nokia, whihc are globally known for their rivalry, have visited Inida to hold meetings with industry stakeholders.  Magnus Ewerbring, CTO of the APAC region at Ericsson, was recently in India to meet telco customers and government officials. "It's important to start to think about it now and ensure that step by step we are prepared for it both from network and regulatory perspectives," he said.  Ewerbring also said that there is already a good understanding of 5G in India. "I can

Among the hordes of developers who attended Apple's annual  World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC  ) this year in  San Francisco  , nine-year old Indian-origin  Anvitha Vijay  held the distinction of being the youngest.  The  Melbourne  resident, who taught herself to code at the age of seven, already has two apps to her credit and intends to develop more.  Vijay spent a year watching free coding tutorials on  YouTube  and the web, and learned how to program. "Coding was so challenging. But I'm so glad I stuck with it," she said.  She attended WWDC after being selected for  Apple's  scholarship program, which gives hundreds of free tickets to developers from around the world who are creating apps for Apple devices.  Vijay had dreamt of meeting Apple's CEO  Tim Cook  and not only was she able to make that a reality at the WWDC but also managed to get a shoutout from Cook himself.  In the first few minutes of the show, an impressed  Tim Cook  pointed t

Experts refute U.S. Govt. study finding linking cancer to cell phone use!! You may have seen the recent headlines reporting on a new study that's supposedly found a link between   mobile phones and cancer .  But all is not quite as it seems. And much of the alarm raised by the study is misplaced. First, a bit of background. The study was set up by the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) in response to concerns about the potential health effects of radiofrequency (RF) emissions from mobile telecommunications devices. It was set to determine whether chronic RF exposure caused cancer in mice and rats. This was a large, well-funded study, and as such has been eagerly awaited by RF health scientists and policy makers alike. The issue of whether RF emissions can cause cancer has been hotly debated, and the evidence to date has been unable to settle the matter conclusively. The report concludes that: […] the observed hyperplastic legions and glial cell neoplasms [cancer] o

Facebook and Microsoft team up to lay a massive internet cable across the Atlantic!! A 4,100-mile cable capable of 160 terabits per second.     T he companies deal with a tremendous amount of data every day, whether it's showing photos to Facebook's 1.6 billion users, or loading documents stored in Microsoft's cloud services. Instead of solely relying on telecom companies for bandwidth, they're taking matters into their own hands. Called MAREA, Spanish for "tide," the cable will offer speeds of up to 160 terabytes per second, making it the highest capacity cable running this route, according to the companies. It's not the first time consumer tech companies have branched out into infrastructure.  Google  has been busy building its Google Fiber business to bring broadband connections to U.S. cities.  Facebook    and Google are working on experimental tools like giant balloons and laser-equipped drones to bring internet to underserved locations.