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පික්සල් බිලියන 24.9 යුත් ඡායාරූපයේ ඇත්ත කතාව

පසුගිය දිනවල සමාජ ජාලවල බොහෝ සෙයින් හුවමාරු වුණ ඡායාරූපයක් තමයි චීනය විසින් යවන ළද චන්ද්‍රිකාවකින් ගත් ඡායාරූපයක් යැයි කියන පික්සල් බිලියන 24.9යේ ඡායාරූපය. නමුත් මෙය බොරු ප්‍රචාරයක් බව දැන් නැවතත් ප්‍රකාශ වෙමින් පවතිනවා. ඒ හේතුව නිසා මේ ඡායාරූපය පිටුපස තිබෙන ඇත්ත කතාව ගැන තමයි මේ ලිපිය මගින් කියන්න සුදානම් වෙන්නෙ.

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A smartphone with a greater RAM than a standard laptop?

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The “RAM” (“random access memory”) is the reason for your smartphone to work efficiently and fast. Simply, RAM is a super-fast type of storage where it is faster than your phone’s main storage where your apps, photos, videos, and music live.

The operating system (OS) and app’s data are pulled from the phone’s slower main storage into your phone’s faster RAM, once you turn on your phone and open an app for the first time. This RAM helps to function the features of the OS and apps in an efficient manner. Faster the phone’s RAM, it multitasks well, switching between all the apps and picking up right where you left off.

The conclusion is that your phone could have the fastest chip in the world and it would be slow without a RAM.

The OnePlus 6T McLaren edition has a high capacity RAM, an even faster wired-charging system, and a special black-and-orangecolourr scheme; compared to the versions of 6T released earlier this year. The phone will be available in North America and Western Europe for $699 / €699, starting on December 13th. It will arrive in China, India, and the Nordics at a later date.

The standard OnePlus 6T starts at $549 for 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, therefore to justify its price tag, the McLaren edition has 10GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and OnePlus’ new Warp Charge 30 wired charging. Highlighting the history of McLaren’s racing efforts, it ships in orange McLaren-branded packaging along with a special orange and black USB-C cable and headphone dongle, a McLaren-branded case, a piece of actual carbon fibre encased in an acrylic block, and a hardcover book.

 

On the outside, the McLaren 6T has a fluorescent orange highlight along the bottom edge of the phone’s frame, and a glossy black finish with a carbon fibre pattern woven under the back glass and also the edge-to-edge display with small teardrop notch and dual rear camera system.

You will love the special animation that pops up when the on-screen fingerprint scanner is used to unlock the phone.

The new charging system of OnePlus will thoroughly amaze you with the new Warp Charge 30 charger, refuelling the McLaren 6T’s 3700mAh battery up to 50 percent faster than the Fast Charge system on other OnePlus phones. It is very impressive to make one of the fastest wired charging systems available on any smartphone, even faster. The company says only the McLaren version of the 6T will achieve the fastest charging speeds with the included charger; other OnePlus devices will default to standard Fast Charge speeds when plugged into it.

The unique branding and accessories that come with the McLaren version will excite and impress you and is enough to justify the cost for hardcore McLaren fans.

ඔබගේ Smart ජංගම දුරකථනය PC Remote Controller එකක් කරගන්නා අයුරු

එදිනෙදා පරිගණකය භාවිතා කිරීමේදී ඔබ හට දුරස්ථ පාලකයක් මගින් පරිගණකය හැසිරවීමට ඇත්නම් කියා සිතුන අවස්ථා බොහොමයක් ඇති.

 අප බොහෝ දෙනෙක් චිත්‍රපටි නැරඹීමේදී හා ගීත ශ්‍රවණය කිරීමේදී පරිගණකය භාවිතා කරනු ලබයි. මේ සඳහා ඔබ හට දුරස්ථ  පාලකයක් (PC Remote Controller) ඇතිනම් කාර්‍ය්ය වඩාත් පහසු වේ.

ඔබට මේ සඳහා E bay මගින් USB PC Remote Controller එකක්ද රු 700 ක් වැනි මුදලකට ලබාගත හැකිය. නමුත් මෙහි යම් සීමාවන් පවතී.

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The Nubia X Smartphone

Nubia X

At a glance, this new smartphone bears nothing significant than a metal frame which combines two glasses, the back and the sides slightly curved to create a soft and stylish feel and comfortable grip; which is the general trend today. But within few days since the release, the ZTE Nubia X conquered the attention of the internet. The Nubia X is one of the most unique smartphones we can ever come across. It is undoubtedly has become a delightful surprise for the smartphone market.

The new ZTE smartphone comes with a 6.26-inch screen with a resolution of 2280×1080 pixels. The bezel is optimized for screen ratios of 93, 6%.

The most eye-catching feature of Nubia X is the hidden second screen under the glass back. This second screen allows the front of the device to be completely notch-less without the need for a front camera cutout. The back of the phone is simply reflective and blue but possesses a display hidden underneath which is equipped with an OLED screen size up to 5.1 inches and a familiar dual camera system. The Nubia X sub-screen interestingly does not inferior the main screen; has an impressive display quality of 19: 9 aspect ratios with a resolution of 1520×720 pixels.

The fingerprint scanner is where your thumb rests. Based on the way you hold the phone, it knows which screen you are using and it will instantly light up. Since there is no front camera, you can use the rear camera to take the selfies, and the photographs get switched to the front screen with a higher resolution. The Nubia X’s rear camera system has 24 MP f / 1.7 and 16 MP f / 1.8 resolution, dual PDAF, HDR, AI which helps to capture photographs with high quality.

The two screens do not work at the same time, except in some cases like gaming. Switching between the two screens is not very convenient when the user has to interact with the fingerprint sensor pair which is located on the two sides. The Nubia X version to ZTE will gracefully use sensors or AI to help make the second screen role more obvious, the conversion is also easier.

Stating the Nubia X configuration; it uses 845 Snapdragon 8 core, Adreno 630 graphics processor, 6/8 GB LPDDR4X high-speed memory, 64/128/256 GB memory option, 3,800 mAh battery supports Quick Charge 4.0, Android OS Oreo 8.1 with custom interface Nubia UI 6.0 X.  The smartphone comes in attractive colors such as black, blue, gold and red.

 

 

 

Meet Sophia the Robot

Sophia the robot

The field of robotics is invading the world, representing the intersection of humanity and technology. Robots can now perform complicated delicate movements with elegance. With the intuitive idea that technology can enhance humanity, this intersection will help to actualize the higher states of being.

Humanoid robots are robots which resemble the human body, possess a great demand nowadays. Sophia; activated on February 14th 2016, is among these well reputed humanoid robots. It is a social humanoid robot developed at a small research and design laboratory by a Hong Kong-based company, Hanson Robotics. “She is a tool for science in studying human to human interaction, and she’s now a platform for allowing AI to express natural-like human emotional state(s), which is something we’re developing. True emotive AI,” says Hanson.

 

One of it’s most significant features is the ability to exhibit more than 50 facial expressions. Not only she can represent a number of emotional states, but she can also see emotional expressions on a human face as well.

The creator of Sophia, Hanson says it has simulations of every major muscle in the human face, which help in generating expressions of joy, grief, curiosity, confusion, contemplation, sorrow, frustration, among other feelings.

Since Sophia’s first public appearance at South by Southwest Festival(SXSW) in mid-March 2016 in Texas, United States, it has become a cultural icon. Sophia has been covered by media around the globe and has participated in many high-profile interviews. She also has made way across late night, graced the covers of magazines, headlined major tech conferences and even delivered a speech to the United Nations, about issues ranging from artificial intelligence to the role of robots. Sophia became the first non-human to be given any United Nations title and was awarded the United Nations Development Programme‘s first-ever Innovation Champion in November 2017. She was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship and became the first robot to have a nationality.

 

 

 

 

“I don’t know what it is about Sophia, that speaks to people, but I hope that we can develop our AI and robots in a way that makes a deep emotional connection,” said Hanson.

 

අළුතෙන් ආපු Apple iPad Pro, Mac Mini හා MacBook Air

පසුගිය ඔක්තෝබර් 30වන දින Apple සමාගමේ තවත් product release එකක් සිදුවුණා. එහිදී Apple iPad Pro, MacBook Air සහ Apple Mac Mini කියන productsහි නවතම සංස්කරණ එළිදැක්වූවා. මෙහිදී ප්‍රධාන ලෙසම කතාවුණ product එකක් වුණේ MacBook Air.

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The best Action Cam you can buy today – The GoPro Hero 7 Black

Nowadays, truly transforming improvements are rare in the tech world. The companies slightly modify the existing features; such as slightly better resolution, USB-C charging, increased device storage, waterproofed etc., and release their products into the market; mostly sugar-coated with new names. The same scheme is applied for the world of action cameras. The 2018 Hero, Hero6 Black, Hero5 Black, and Session are all meager improvements.

Despite all these schemes, the Hero 7 Black possesses substantial improvements. It is acknowledged as “the best action cam you can buy today”. This not only occupies a top-notch stabilization system, the Hero 7 Black has a feature that will make people pay for the $400 upgrade. The new high-end GoPro camera doesn’t need to emphasize the details regarding its stabilizing magic and how it is achieved through digital software or optical sensors, but itself proves the quality.

The Hero 7 turns chaotic action videos into a worthy footage. This result is achieved by eliminating the annoying and largely subconscious micro-motions caused by distractedly abrupt camera shake. This stabilization trigger of GoPro is called “HyperSmooth” and it will also assist another mode called “TimeWarp”, which is the GoPro’s time lapse setting. The camera records video, then speeds it up to add drama to otherwise mundane scenes, such as stars passing through the sky at night, a train station or flowers blooming.

There’s another interesting feature named “SuperPhoto”, which is a high dynamic range (HDR) system, where the camera captures several exposures of the same photo and combines the best elements of each one, creating one exceptional image. These results won’t replace your mid-range mirror-less camera, but they are undoubtedly more alluring than smartphone photos.

The Hero7 also can shoot 4K at 60 frames per second, or 1080p at 240 frames per second for some slow-motion fun. It can also live-stream with an intermittent video quality, so you can toss up a feed on Facebook Live,while saving a full high-resolution version to the SD card.


The Hero 7 Black camera is well suited for deliberate adventurers or photography experts. A GoPro will live up to their expectations and even more, and will reach places which expensive smartphone couldn’t. It definitely is a camera worth your consideration. Superb image stabilization, improved audio quality, impressive video and decent stills, waterproof without needing a case, huge range of mounts and accessories and offers live streaming are astonishing features which will make you not to think twice.

OnePlus 6T

OnePlus 6T

It has not been a long time since the OnePlus 6 came to market on the 21st of May 2018. Moreover, the OnePlus 6T flagship phone will be in the market from the 6th of November 2018. Knowing that OnePlus 6 was a phone that was low in price, top-notch in trend and absolutely amazing in specifications, what could one expect from the OnePlus 6T?

The all-new OnePlus 6T went public on the 28th of October and will be available in the market pretty soon. The OnePlus 6T has improved from its previous version in bringing out an in-display fingerprint scanner, the “Screen Unlock” and is made almost of Glass with a 3700 mAh Battery and OnePlus followed the Apple Cooperation by removing the headphone jack from the phone.

 

Let’s see what this phone offers, in detail.

OnePlus 6T Design

The flagship OnePlus 6T is slightly bigger with 6.41 inches display compared to its predecessor which had a 6.28 inches display. Not only does it look bigger when you hold it, but it is also safer from shattering as it has a Corning Gorilla Glass 6 Protection upgrading from the Gorilla Glass 5 in OnePlus 6.

We can also see the notch on the top has come down to a teardrop notch which is a huge development in a bezel-less phone in 2018. The fingerprint scanner is inbuilt and has been removed from the back like in the previous device. Although the inbuilt fingerprint sensor is not a surprise to most of us since the VIVO brought it to the market, this particular technology built into a device which as a result makes it faster and good in performance is a huge plus point.

OnePlus has made the decision to ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack. OnePlus tells that the handset is “water resistant for everyday use”. The new inbuilt touch fingerprint and the new battery has apparently occupied so much space.  OnePlus 6T has the same colors, Mirror Black and Midnight Black.

 

The Hardware

Although it is true that the device has more improvements in the design area, there are few unnoticeable hardware upgrades to this device. The battery has gone from a 3300 mAh to 3700 mAh. This is a huge upgrade for a fast and efficient smartphone like OnePlus 6T.

The death of the headphone jack and the transition to the type C headphones is another huge hardware upgrade by the OnePlus. Other than these the network connectivity and the camera have no upgrades and same as the OnePlus 6. The device comes with a 128 GB default memory and 6 GB of RAM.

Pricing

There have been no changes in the prices. It is still at $549 for 128GB OnePlus 6T.

The predecessor was priced the same but came with a 64GB internal storage.

 

The OnePlus 6T will be equipped with Google’s Android Pie OS out of the box, which will come with the firm’s own OxygenOS skin on top.

All in all, the mediocre upgrade of the flagship phone OnePlus6 to OnePlus 6T is definitely an upvote with the new teardrop notch, gorilla glass 6, inbuilt fingerprint, 3700 mAh Battery and a default 128 GB storage with 6GB ram.

 

Microsoft Surface now to your pockets?

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Microsoft has been longing for a pocketable double screen Surface gadget for a considerable amount of time.

Tech giant Microsoft, reinvented the idea of laptop computers when it brought forth the Microsoft surface book. Surface book performance and portability were sufficiently successful to pick up an income in excess of 5 billion US dollars. Microsoft Surface has now advanced to another idea of pocketable double screen surface computer.

This concept device, Andromeda, which was booked to be in the market by October didn’t make it to advertising. Yet the Head of Surface specified that they are currently working on the trend-setting device Microsoft Andromeda with a built andromeda OS – a subversion of the Windows 10.

Microsoft’s Surface Andromeda venture is both a product and equipment exertion. On the product side, Microsoft is building another form of Windows 10 that is intended to convey the OS to another classification of cell phones. This rendition of Windows 10 is codenamed Andromeda OS and is a piece of Microsoft’s Windows Centre OS exertion inside. On the equipment side, Microsoft is building its own Andromeda-based devices as well.

It is broadly anticipated that this would be Microsoft’s comeback into the versatile market. In any case, gossipy propose Microsoft won’t position this gadget like a cell phone. Rather, Microsoft will attempt and cut out another, low-volume advertise for the endeavor, schools, and prosumers/makers. Microsoft completed a comparable thing with the Surface Studio and unique Surface Genius, where it assembled new gadget classes for business sectors that were, at the time, low-volume or non-existent.

The hardware specifications of the Microsoft’s Andromeda

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microsoft is known to bring out innovative ideas to the competitive business market, for example, we can always talk about the new Nokia 3,6,7 and 8 that conquered the Asian market resulted in Microsoft windows phone to reincarnate after long due fall and shutting down of Windows phones. Microsoft Andromeda is another example that could result in a major comeback of Microsoft in the smart device business by potentially competing with the giants of the industry like Apple, Samsung and new trendsetters Google’s pixel.

The concept art is rapidly in the works by the surface engineers in Microsoft. So let us all sit back and wait until a concept phone that could be featured in a sci-fi movie come alive

 

වැඩ පහසු කරන Virtual Assistants

Assistant කිව්ව ගමන් ඔබට මතක් වෙන්නෙ කෙනෙක්ගෙ වැඩක් කරල දෙන්න ඉන්න කෙනෙක් විදියටයි. ඇත්තටම ඒ වගේ දෙයක් ගැන තමයි අද මේ කියන්න හදන්නෙ. Google assistant, Siri වගේ නම් ඇහුණ ගමන් ඔබට මතක් වෙන්නෙ කටහඬ මගින් මොනව හරි දෙයක් search කරල දෙන tool එකක් විදියට. මෙහි  නිවැරදි technical term එක වෙන්නෙ Virtual assistant කියන එක. Virtual assistant කෙනෙක් කියන්නේ විවිධ tasks හෝ services කරන්න පුළුවන් software agent කෙනෙක්.

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