Miscellaneous Tech News
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Firefox 70 brings Enhanced Tracking Protection and longer battery life
Firefox 70 brings users privacy, battery, and performance improvements.
Yesterday, Mozilla released Firefox 70. The newest version of the most-popular fully open source browser expands on the Enhanced Tracking Protection we saw as an option in Firefox 69 and turns that protection on by default for all users. We already saw most of these new features in our Firefox 70 beta coverage, but since then, the features have been expanded upon and fine-tuned, and major new features have appeared or have been added in the Lockwise online password manager for users who have a Firefox cloud account. In addition to automatically generating pseudorandom passwords for you, saving them, and automatically filling out login forms with them, Lockwise continuously scans the Internet for password and database dumps that might contain leaked copies of your credentials. Lockwise does this by comparing a hash of each of your passwords to hashes of the passwords in the dumps and leaks—so you don't have to worry about Mozilla itself, or its employees, "knowing" your password. -
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Microsoft beat expectations with strong Windows revenue, but Xbox had a rough quarter
Surface didn't post good numbers, but that could change in the next quarter.
Microsoft beat analyst expectations in its quarterly earnings report, achieving $33.06 billion in revenue in the start of its first 2020 fiscal quarter (which ended September 30) compared to a projected $32.23 billion. That's a 14% increase over the same quarter the prior year. Much of the growth still came from Azure, the company's ever-expanding cloud-services platform, which saw 59% revenue growth. However, that's down just a little from the previous quarter, which saw 64% growth. Azure and other cloud services saw $10.85 billion in revenue.That's not what disappointed analysts and investors. Most expected a similar figure as Azure's growth slows down quarter by quarter and it achieves greater market saturation. (Amazon's more popular AWS has seen slowing growth lately, too). -
@mlnews Im' not surprised. Xbox doesn't sound like a current product any longer. It's lost mind share in my limited view. It seems like something that quietly faded away. I forget that it's still a thing. Two years ago, that was not the case.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews Im' not surprised. Xbox doesn't sound like a current product any longer. It's lost mind share in my limited view. It seems like something that quietly faded away. I forget that it's still a thing. Two years ago, that was not the case.
oh? so what still has mindspace for you? PS4?
MS is starting the move away from the console - like everything else - they are about to release an online streaming gaming solution, no xBox required.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
oh? so what still has mindspace for you? PS4?
PS4, Switch, phones, PC....
They all seem to get more discussion now.
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Ubunto 19.10 is available for Raspberry Pi now.
https://ubuntu.com/download/iot/raspberry-pi
Install server and then add desktop afterwards. Runs all flavors of ubuntu; lubuntu, xubuntu etc.
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4K projector turns any wall into theater-quality screen from inches away
Vava's 4K projector offers ultra short throw distance and Harman-Kardon speakers.
This is Vava, a 4K definition Ultra Short Throw (UST) home theater projector retailing for $2,700. For those of you not familiar with the term, UST refers to "throw distance"—the amount of space you need between a projector and screen in order to get the desired image size. This projector also features a built-in Harman-Kardon speaker, motion sensors to keep you from blinding yourself by staring into the laser, and plenty of inputs. A few weeks ago, we reviewed Cinemood, a miniature and fairly low-cost portable projector that unfortunately did not really impress us. Vava is the projector we thought we were getting then, and we're happy to report that it impressed us a lot. -
@mlnews man I want one of those!
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews man I want one of those!
That's quite a price tag though...
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews man I want one of those!
Oh, but 25,000 hour lamp life! And lots of lumens! That alone is worth the replacement costs of the bulbs of regular projectors.
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Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It should come with it's own cart!
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
Fuck off @DustinB3403.
I was going by what Amazon said, but who gives a shit.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
Fuck off @DustinB3403.
I was going by what Amazon said, but who gives a shit.
w/e
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews man I want one of those!
Oh, but 25,000 hour lamp life! And lots of lumens! That alone is worth the replacement costs of the bulbs of regular projectors.
Yeah, that's laser based. So no traditional bulb, makes "super bright" easy, along with the super short throw.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
Probably product weight vs. shipping weight. Chances are a nearly 24lbs laser device is going to include a lot of hefty packaging.
