Miscellaneous Tech News
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Caavo drops price of Control Center, adds Sonos support and parental controls
But the mandatory service plans are getting more expensive
Caavo is making several software improvements today to its Control Center, a voice-driven box that acts as a universal remote for all of your home theater devices -
Slack vocab game that gave away money for no real reason is getting shut down
The Word of the Day Slack channel is shutting down over policy violations
Workplace communication platform Slack says it will be deactivating a public channel dedicated to giving away $1,000 per day to anyone that can guess that day’s selected vocabulary word -
Facebook wants AI researchers to figure out privacy
The company will pay for 5,000 people to learn about "secure and private" artificial intelligence because, as its CEO says, The future is private.
Facebook is working with online learning site Udacity to try to enable AI research that doesn't hurt privacy. -
This DDoS Attack Unleashed the Most Packets Per Second Ever. Here’s Why That’s Important.
https://www.imperva.com/blog/this-ddos-attack-unleashed-the-most-packets-per-second-ever-heres-why-thats-important/ -
Deepin 15.10 is out.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Deepin 15.10 is out.
Here are the notes:
https://www.deepin.org/en/2019/04/28/deepin15-10/ -
3 apps to manage personal finances in Fedora
There are numerous services available on the web for managing your personal finances.
Although they may be convenient, they also often mean leaving your most valuable personal data with a company you can’t monitor. -
Microsoft Defines New Privacy Controls for Office 365 ProPlus Users
Microsoft announced this week that it will be reorganizing its Office 365 ProPlus privacy controls with an aim toward becoming more "transparent" about the information it collects.
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Moto Z4 leak suggests it could bring back the headphone jack
Courage
A leaked image of the unannounced Moto Z4 suggests that the phone could be the first flagship Moto Z device to have a headphone jack. -
Alaska will connect to the continental US via a 100-terabit fiber optic network
That’s a lot of cable
Late last year, Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr got an “earful” from remote Alaskan residents who were concerned with how poor their access to the internet is — and they weren’t wrong. -
Qualcomm will get at least $4.5 billion from Apple as part of its patent settlement
Nothing says ‘sorry’ like a giant pile of money
How much is an apology worth? Well, if you’re Apple, it turns out the number is at least $4.5 billion -
Smart display debate: Are these speaker-tablets worth it or not?
Andrew likes smart displays. Megan doesn't. Let's have a fight.
My colleague Andrew Gebhart is pro-smart display. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Andrew likes smart displays. Megan doesn't. Let's have a fight
Andrew is right!
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Charter data use “rising rapidly” as cord cutters average 400GB a month
And median data usage exceeds 200GB for all residential customers.
Charter cable Internet customers who don't subscribe to Charter's TV service are using an average of more than 400GB of data a month, the company said yesterday. -
AMD to launch new 7nm Navi GPU, Rome CPU in 3rd quarter
No mention yet of when the Zen 2 Ryzen 3000s will arrive.
In its earnings call, AMD offered a little more detail about the launch of its next-generation processors, built using the Zen 2 architecture and TSMC's 7nm manufacturing process, and new GPU architecture, Navi, again built on 7nm. -
@mlnews AMD seems to be keeping ahead of Intel again these days. So much good stuff coming out.
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Putin reportedly approves creation of an independent internet
He decides to take his internet ball and go home.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly signed a law to create an independent internet for security reasons. -
Dragon was destroyed just before the firing of its SuperDraco thrusters
"There was an anomaly and the vehicle was destroyed."
ring a news conference Thursday in advance of a SpaceX supply mission to the International Space Station, the company's vice president of mission assurance, Hans Koenigsmann, provided some additional details about a failure with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft 12 days ago. -
Life-saving kidney delivered by drone
A donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.
Many see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Andrew likes smart displays. Megan doesn't. Let's have a fight
Andrew is right!
We have an echo DOT in the bathroom (with the camera covered). I really like the display aspect because it shows me a weather forecast for the next week, besides just telling me. Absorbing that data visually is better for me.
Though Amazon recently changed the default display behavior, and I'm less liking it now. Before when you asked what the weather was, it verbally told you today's forecast, and showed you the next 7 days. now it shows you an hour by hour for the same day.
If you ask for the next 7 days forecast - it reads it all to you and displays it.. I'd like to kill the voice portion of that.
