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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 2-February-2017 15:35:16 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Telstra are suffering various outages after an exchange fire in Sydney. Customers of Telstra are experiencing major disruptions to their services due to a reported fire at one of the company's exchanges. Telstra announced the fire location to be Chatswood Exchange, Sydney, via Twitter.
But when things are working for Telstra, they're super fast. Mobile internet has overtaken the NBN on peak speed, as Telstra has launched the world's first Gigabit LTE network. In a media demonstration in Sydney on Tuesday, a computer connected to Gigabit LTE was put through several tests on speedtest.net, connecting to a non-Telstra server. The peak speed reached 886Mbps – showing it was capable of downloading data up to 10 times faster than the maximum a home user can reach on the NBN. PCPerspective have an article about Gigabit LTE as well.
As if the news wasn't scary enough lately, a new technology could change what people say in real-time video. Nick Bilton reports on the next round of fake news tools that allow users to manipulate audio and video to change what's being said, a sort of real-time Photoshop for moving images and audio. Want to make it look like a celebrity used a taboo word, or misquote a politician? No problem!
HardOCP checked out the FSP Twins PSU I mentioned on the news page recently. Now, this is not the first redundant power supply we have seen (previously we reviewed the Athena Atlas 800 which you can still buy today for $629) but after reading the above, it seems as if this may be the first redundant unit that truly tries to appeal to end users. Maybe not enthusiasts looking to put a power supply into a system destined for massive overclocking and gaming needs, but those same DIY enthusiasts are likely to be the kind of end users who like to tinker with all of their builds and who whitebox everything in their ever increasingly automated home.
Microsoft have been working on virtual reality. During the 2016 Windows 10: The Next Chapter press event, Microsoft has announced their collaboration with Intel, HTC, Lenovo, Acer, Qualcomm, Dell, Asus, HP, etc. to create specification for the Windows holographic, which will be ready for PCs, head-mounted displays (HMDs), and other Windows 10-based devices. The Windows holographic is set to be introduced with a headset called Microsoft HoloLens.
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