| Google's new OnHub is a $200 Wi-Fi router and smart home hub Google today revealed a new smart home hub in the form of the OnHub, a $200 cylindrical router that promises a “new way to Wi-Fi.” Users can control it via an app, and Google has promised frequent software updates for the device. The device supports not only 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, but also Bluetooth 4.0 and a few smart home protocols. One such protocol is Weave, the Android team’s Internet of Things (IoT) communications layer that it announced at Google I/O alongside Brillo, its Android-derived OS for IoT. It also supports Thread, an IoT wireless protocol created by Google’s Nest Labs and Samsung. OnHub also offers IEEE 802.15.4, the basis for Zigbee, another IoT protocol that is popular in many devices.
Google gets into the Wi-Fi router business. We’ll be getting one of these in-house and taking a look at it, so stay tuned for our review down the road. The interesting thing is that their hub supports a ton of different protocols other than just Wi-Fi, which means that this will eventually be a smarthome hub that can connect to and control many devices from any vendor. Since Google owns Nest, and a ton of smarthome vendors are already onboard with the “Works with Nest” program, this is likely the next level of integration. It’s also going to receive frequent updates, which is more than we can say for most routers on the market. Definitely something to pay attention to, if nothing else, as it will push the router market forward. The Flash Storage Revolution Is Here As exciting as a 16TB SSD may be, it still represents an iterative step, a manufacturing trick that found new ways to stuff the same basic pieces into increasingly smaller spaces. The potentially much bigger breakthrough? Intel and Micro's 3D XPoint (pronounced "crosspoint") technology, which completely rethinks the way we've been making memory for years.You can read a more in-depth take on how 3D XPoint works here, but the short version goes something like this: Rather than rely on transistors to store information, as traditional flash memory does, 3D Xpoint deploys a microscopic mesh of wires, coordinated by something called a "selector" that can be stacked on top of one another. The result is "non-volatile" storage, meaning it holds onto its data even when the power's off, that's 1,000 times faster than NAND flash, and 10 times denser than the volatile DRAM (dynamic random access memory) that PCs use to keep track of temporary data. In other words, it's a single solution that can handle both memory and storage, and do both better, in most ways, than anything currently available.
We’re still a few years away, but from a computing architecture standpoint, Xpoint is going to enable us to do things that simply weren’t possible before. Today your CPU has a small, super fast cache on the chip, and a larger and slightly slower set of RAM, and then a much larger and much slower hard drive to store data. If you need to work on a large set of data (processing a movie), the data has to be retrieved slowly from the hard drive and pushed into system RAM, and then each little chunk gets moved into the cache on the chip and worked on. Xpoint makes your hard drive storage almost the same speed as your RAM, which basically means your computer can work on extremely large data sets directly from storage. This is obviously an overly simplistic explanation, but it’s a complete revolution in how computers will be architected. To put it another way, with this technology, your computer should be able to cold boot in a single second. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10525 We got a lot of feedback on the default color for Start, Acton Center, Taskbar, and Title bars and that you wanted to be able to change to reflect your preferences. This feature is now available (though still early) in build 10525 for you to try. This is off by default, but you can turn it on by toggling this (Settings > Personalization > Colors)
Even though Windows 10 was released, you can continue getting Insider builds ahead of schedule, and they just released a new build that solves my biggest gripe with Windows 10: those ugly white title bars. Sure, you can use a hack today to get rid of the white title bars, but it’s infuriating that they removed the customization option in the first place. | 
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