Miscellaneous Tech News
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Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.
A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.
It's a Google division. Google is a brand name designated to warn us that all products are temporary and will be going away soon.
Crap. I was thinking of getting a Pixel for my next phone. Dunno now.
All depends if you want a phone from a company that is dedicated to long term manufacturing, or you just care about the one phone. It doesn't change what the phone itself is like.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.
A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.
It's a Google division. Google is a brand name designated to warn us that all products are temporary and will be going away soon.
Crap. I was thinking of getting a Pixel for my next phone. Dunno now.
All depends if you want a phone from a company that is dedicated to long term manufacturing, or you just care about the one phone. It doesn't change what the phone itself is like.
Don't get me wrong. I think the product is fine. My brother and son-in-law have one and they are fine with them. I'm just thinking that they won't continue to develop the line by the time I'm ready to move.
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Firefox Send lets you send files up to 2.5GB with time and download limits
It was in "Test Pilot" before. Now it's live and offers more control.
Firefox Send can handle files as large as 2.5GB. When the Test Pilot period for the service began in August of 2017, the limit was 1GB; that limit still applies until you sign in with your Firefox account (opening an account is free).
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Yes, 5G will cost you more—Verizon plans $10 add-on charge for 5G access
Verizon 5G is only for unlimited data plans, will cost $85 to $105 a month.
Verizon today announced that its 5G network will go live on April 11 in "select areas of" Chicago and Minneapolis and eventually hit "more than 30" US cities in 2019. To use the 5G service at launch, you'll have to pay $50 for "the Verizon-exclusive 5G Moto Mod," which can be attached to a Motorola Moto Z3, a phone that Verizon sells for $480.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yes, 5G will cost you more—Verizon plans $10 add-on charge for 5G access
Verizon 5G is only for unlimited data plans, will cost $85 to $105 a month.
Verizon today announced that its 5G network will go live on April 11 in "select areas of" Chicago and Minneapolis and eventually hit "more than 30" US cities in 2019. To use the 5G service at launch, you'll have to pay $50 for "the Verizon-exclusive 5G Moto Mod," which can be attached to a Motorola Moto Z3, a phone that Verizon sells for $480.
could be worth it - IF truly unlimited - which we all know it's not going to be.
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Google Play apps with 150 million installs contain aggressive adware
Google removes 210 apps after outside researchers report them as abusive.
The 210 apps discovered by researchers from security firm Checkpoint Software bombarded users with ads, even when an app wasn’t open, according to a blog post published by the company on Wednesday. The apps also had the ability to carry out spearphishing attacks by causing a browser to open an attacker-chosen URL and open the apps for Google Play and third-party market 9Apps with a specific keyword search or a specific application’s page. The apps reported to a command-and-control server to receive instructions on which commands to carry out.
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GNOME 3.32 Release
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/03/best-gnome-3-32-features -
It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days
Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range
The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days
Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range
The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.
Sure I hear people clamering for this - but I'm just not sure how much difference this will really make to the home users masses.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days
Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range
The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.
If updating Windows wasn't so intrusive and prone to failure I'm sure more people would update. This is just giving MS time to fix any bugs that are found post public release.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days
Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range
The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.
If updating Windows wasn't so intrusive and prone to failure I'm sure more people would update. This is just giving MS time to fix any bugs that are found post public release.
That's assuming they pay attention to people. That update bug that was deleting files was reported to them repeatedly for 3 months before they released the patch. They've really got to completely overhaul their patch processes.
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Google launches the next version of Android—Android Q—in beta
The beta is open to any Google Pixel phone.
On Wednesday, Google released a preview of the next version of Android, codenamed "Android Q." The final release should happen sometime toward the end of the year, but for now we get a work-in-progress build that will get several new versions throughout the year. The highlights for this release include new privacy and security controls, support for foldables, a share menu that actually works, faster app startup, and more.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google launches the next version of Android—Android Q—in beta
The beta is open to any Google Pixel phone.
On Wednesday, Google released a preview of the next version of Android, codenamed "Android Q." The final release should happen sometime toward the end of the year, but for now we get a work-in-progress build that will get several new versions throughout the year. The highlights for this release include new privacy and security controls, support for foldables, a share menu that actually works, faster app startup, and more.
Hm.... To Beta... or not to Beta, that is the question.
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Steam Link Anywhere lets you take your PC gaming with you
Move comes as Google, Sony expand game streaming options.
The only requirements for today's "early beta" release, according to the announcement, are that "your computer has good upload speed and your Steam Link device has a good network connection." Those are imprecise terms, of course, but Steam's in-home streaming has previously shown a pretty good ability to scale visual quality up and down based on network conditions.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Steam Link Anywhere lets you take your PC gaming with you
Move comes as Google, Sony expand game streaming options.
The only requirements for today's "early beta" release, according to the announcement, are that "your computer has good upload speed and your Steam Link device has a good network connection." Those are imprecise terms, of course, but Steam's in-home streaming has previously shown a pretty good ability to scale visual quality up and down based on network conditions.
This could be decently interesting.
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GNOME 3.32 released & coming to Fedora 30
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Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.
Malicious hackers wasted no time exploiting a nasty code-execution vulnerability recently disclosed in WinRAR, a Windows file-compression program with 500 million users worldwide. The in-the-wild attacks install malware that, at the time this post was going live, was undetected by the vast majority of antivirus product.
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Any Steam game can now use Valve’s low-latency, DoS-proofed networking
43 percent of gamers have enjoyed reduced latency from the network.
At 30 different locations around the world, Valve has established relaying servers that route networking traffic between clients and servers. These relay points provide DoS-resilience in several ways. They're equipped with an aggregate of several terabits of bandwidth, so they can handle a certain amount of flooding in any case. Games can also switch from one relay to another without necessarily interrupting their connection. This switching can be to another relay in the same location or even to another point-of-presence entirely.
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Hands-on: What’s new in Android Q
Lots of little changes in the first beta of Android Q.
A lot of things are half-implemented, inconsistent, or broken, but this is just a beta. Hopefully everything will get fixed in the future, but we'll still point out problems in this release. Compared to the leaked builds of Android Q that came out before this release, there are actually fewer features here in some cases. Google is holding out on us.
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Apple updates $499 iPad Air, $399 iPad mini ahead of services event next week
Apple wants all of the spotlight on its new services and subscriptions next week.
We're one week out from Apple's services-focused event in Cupertino, and the company just announced a pair of devices we've been expecting for quite some time. Apple debuted a new, $499 10.5-inch iPad Air and a new, $399 7.9-inch iPad mini today. Both have familiar designs but also have the company's new A12 Bionic chip.
