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COVID-19 test kits from China: How good are they?

India has imported about 1 million COVID-19 test kits from China which many of the state governments using them to find out the number of people who are infected. But many reports of problems over the accuracy of test results have raised concerns among the different state governments At least three Indian states have expressed dissatisfaction with the kits, with the northern state of Rajasthan refusing outright to use them. Officials there said the state only had an accuracy of 5%. They added that they used the kits on patients who they already knew were positive, but the tests had…

Nvidia and AMD grabs all excess capacity of 7nm fabs at TSMC for this year

Taiwan’s TSMC(Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is now the most sought after foundry in the world, with giants like Apple, Huawei, AMD, Nvidia etc, using their fabrication process for making chipsets for the respective device manufacturers. But now with Huawei reducing capacity due to a shortage in phone sales, a large chunk of the capacity was up for grabs, and both AMD and Nvidia have grabbed all they could. According to the Digitimes report “A ramp-up in short lead-time orders placed by AMD and Nvidia will allow TSMC to post relatively strong results compared to other foundries in the first…

Facebook bought a 9.99% stake in Indian telecom arm, Reliance Jio

Facebook is spending 5.7 billion dollars or Rs 43,574 crore in Indian terms, for a 9.9% stake in India’s largest mobile operator, Reliance Jio, and teaming up with the Chief Managing Director, and Asia’s second richest man, Mukesh. D. Ambani. Jio Platforms is the digital technology arm of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries. Jio Platforms has many services under its umbrella, which includes Reliance Jio, the mobile network that has taken India by storm since launching less than four years ago, racking up almost 400 million users, which caused other local operators to merge in order to…

Motorola launches 2 new 5G phones: Edge+ and Edge

Motorola is getting back into the flagship market with their new Moto Edge+ with 5G, and the latest flagship Snapdragon chip. You also get a lower version with a upper midrange chip, Snapdragon 765G, which is the only other midrange snapdragon to support 5G. The top end variant has a Verizon exclusive 5G which supports mmWave bands. It also features the same 108MP camera which is used on the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, and 2 day battery life with the beefy 5000mAh battery. Moto’s flagship Moto last released a flagship almost 3 years ago. It was the Z2…

Need a speedy external SSD? Patriot has you covered with the PXD!

When pen drives/flash drives/USB sticks arrived, you could carry gigabytes of data in your pocket. But now, thanks to the rise of external SSDs, you can carry terabytes of data in your pocket. Patriot PXD SSDs is the answer. Back then, external storage drives were great for portability, but were really slow as hard drives had a read write speed of around 30 to 50MB/s. But now, thanks to SSDs(Solid State Drives), we can transfer files at around 1000 MB/s using the USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3 interface. We shouldn’t have to sacrifice performance when using external storage devices, and…