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  1. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    Please welcome our latest Supervisors Brandon H & Goretsky. They round out our new look Supervisor team!
    3 points
  2. Spotify starts rolling out full, real-time song lyrics widely

    jesus christ, finally!
    3 points
  3. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    I'd have to say both of them are. Brandon has helped me out a ton and been very polite about it. Congrats to both
    3 points
  4. WIN 7 Updates still being sent?

    There was a concern about spoofing windows update many yeas ago - flamer I think it was called, very complex sort of exploit with a chained cert.. This was addressed with https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityAdvisories/2012/2718704 Its not like MS ended windows 7 support of the blue, it was years in the making... You have had years knowing that the eol was coming and it would no longer supported.. They even extended - a few times.. There is NO EXCUSE for you to be still using windows 7 - none!!! Its time to move on!! If you don't want to use windows 10... Then pick another OS that is current and supported... There are plenty of linux or bsd even OSes you could run that are supported. If you choose to continue to run a no longer supported OS, then yes there are security concerns - and they only get bigger with every passing day.
    3 points
  5. More plastic and electronic waste. Just what the world needs.
    2 points
  6. Spotify starts rolling out full, real-time song lyrics widely

    YES! Why was not this in there in the first place?! Only that stupid "Behind the lyrics" thing
    2 points
  7. Spotify starts rolling out full, real-time song lyrics widely

    They used to have this feature but it was removed a few years ago.
    2 points
  8. This thing will never come to the market.
    2 points
  9. The app is great, I have been using it since beta, but there is not dark mode
    2 points
  10. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    Congrats to the both of you!
    2 points
  11. I'm glad I purchased the DVD versions of these games back in the day. It's appaling that music has been removed from the Steam version over time. I understand that licenses etc. expire but they managed to work around this no problem with Vice City where only new purchases of the game are missing the affected tracks. It's a bit disappointing that a company such as Rockstar would cheap out like this in my opinion. It just doesn't look good.
    2 points
  12. Uber improves passenger safety with on-trip report tool

    Good, I hope that Lyft implements something like this as well. I refuse to use Uber after they charged me for a ride I never took, and the final straw was when the driver could not figure out how to get to me and told me I had to come to her... I have had my share of issues with Lyft drivers who are DUII (most of the time Marijuana) , DUI, speeding, texting while driving, etc. Now after each trip I can report this behavior to the safety team, but it would be nice to have an option to report it while it is happening.
    2 points
  13. Access to the clipboard on your Android phone requires OEM support to get, it's got nothing to do with MS's app or any APIs their Your Phone link uses, which is just wifi direct. So I don't know what you're talking about with a open API.
    2 points
  14. Heart rhythm detection is done using skin conductivity and not optically (Like for heart beat), temperature changes (extreme cold) can cause bad reading in this, and that's why I am guessing they had to release fix just for certain locations. This is my guess based on working in bio-sensor related field and not based on knowing exactly what issue apple is facing,
    2 points
  15. The only thing that can and will flop harder than a new Windows Phone is the Surface Duo running Android - in a world overflooding with Android phones and entrenched Android OEMs, the Surface Duo is indeed DOA. Now I don't really mind, but it sucks that it takes the pretty cool Surface Neo down with it.
    2 points
  16. Can you believe a smartphone, with it's simple apps (certainly compared to proper, for example, Win32 programs) need 4 GB RAM, or even 6 GB RAM? Android is seriously wasteful.
    2 points
  17. Nobody wanted them back then, no one wants them now.
    1 point
  18. As expected, the original Pixel and Pixel XL will not get Android 11

    Then they wonder why more and more people make the jump to Apple. Samsung is the worst offender of them all.
    1 point
  19. Spotify starts rolling out full, real-time song lyrics widely

    Finally! We needed this like 2 years ago! I wish it wasn't updated via stupid server side tho.
    1 point
  20. this was discussed with a forum member earlier. it is sad. but on the bright side at least it received support for android 10. maybe "unofficial" means will prevail. Surprising things is, I have Pixel 3a which is not their premium iteration, but they have promised 3 years. tragically this apparently is more support than...Sony... Not to mention Samsung
    1 point
  21. this was discussed with a forum member earlier. it is sad. but on the bright side at least it received support for android 10. maybe "unofficial" means will prevail. Surprising things is, I have Pixel 3a which is not their premium iteration, but they have promised 3 years.
    1 point
  22. Have you tried "Steam Play"? I've seen reports that No Man's Sky runs pretty well on linux via this. Personally I'd try that before buying a PS4 just for one game. Thanks for the info... never hear of it... will check it out. Another option is GeForce Now, if you are in a supported region. I read NMS works very well using it. But it's $5/mnth and you need to have purchased the game on Steam.
    1 point
  23. Google was saying it was only going to give 2 years of support?, and they wonder why people buy iphones.
    1 point
  24. It looks like plastic, feels like plastic, behaves like plastic. Therefore it is plastic. This "UTG" junk will NOT be a thing, no matter how hard they deny reality by putting "glass" as a descriptor. Sorry, folding glass does not yet exist in the form they want it to.
    1 point
  25. Have you tried "Steam Play"? I've seen reports that No Man's Sky runs pretty well on linux via this. Personally I'd try that before buying a PS4 just for one game. Thanks for the info... never hear of it... will check it out.
    1 point
  26. I haven't seen Windows natively run Android apps. Why would I trust a company I haven't heard of make it happen when Microsoft hasn't?
    1 point
  27. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    Hell, in Picard they were just walking through a "doorway" and they were transported.
    1 point
  28. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    I don't think ship counts or showing off brand new ship designs were the goal for the show to start. Who knows what we might see later or in season 2 but I just think they didn't plan for them and the VFX team hasn't done any work on more ships.
    1 point
  29. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    Without looking anything up, I can name two. One at Deep Space 5, and another in San Francisco. WITH looking it up, there are a lot more... 40 Eridani A Starfleet Construction Yards Antares Ship Yards Baikonur Cosmodrome Beta Antares Ship Yards Copernicus Ship Yards Deep Space 5 Earth Station McKinley Iadara colony Luna Shipyards Marin County Starfleet Yards Oakland Fleet Yards Proxima Maintenance Yards Riverside Shipyard San Francisco Fleet Yards (also known as "San Francisco Naval Yards" or "San Francisco Yards") Starbase 47 Starbase 234 Tranquility Base University of Copernicus Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards (also known as "Utopia Planitia Ship Yards") Tri-Rho Nautica (Located close to the Klingon border and the largest of Starfleet's shipyards) Everyone should know the San Francisco one.. It's the orbital drydock facility near Earth, as seen in Star Trek the Motion Picture and several others.
    1 point
  30. Let's Encrypt bolsters security against network attackers

    Nobody is forcing you to do anything. If you want a cert that lasts for a year just buy one.
    1 point
  31. Facebook concerned by Singapore page block request

    eh? why? I don't see why this is a good thing. So a law that can be used to "censor" is a good thing? simply because you don't like the messenger in this case, it doesn't mean this is a good thing. Also, you don't like facebook, don't use, don't visit it, don't talk about it, just walk away, please! For your own sake. is not about that if you like it or not... is about false information. Since when someone enjoying reading false information? Unless you are talking about fox news viewers. What happens when the gov starts saying truth is false information just to hide or cover something up? that's what we are seen with the current Trump administration... true is false and false information is now the new true. Facebook needs to be like twitter that it will block any false info in their platform.
    1 point
  32. Microsoft announces two new Dynamics 365 apps and other updates

    I have used lot of technologies in the past, name it, but haven't seen a bigger crap than Dynamics 365.
    1 point
  33. Facebook concerned by Singapore page block request

    eh? why? I don't see why this is a good thing. So a law that can be used to "censor" is a good thing? simply because you don't like the messenger in this case, it doesn't mean this is a good thing. Also, you don't like facebook, don't use, don't visit it, don't talk about it, just walk away, please! For your own sake. is not about that if you like it or not... is about false information. Since when someone enjoying reading false information? Unless you are talking about fox news viewers.
    1 point
  34. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    nice work, guys. keep it up
    1 point
  35. Google's Titan Security Key is now available in more countries

    The URL for "Yubico security key" in the last paragraph doesn't work. http://available%20in%20canada,%20france,%20japan,%20the%20u.k.,%20and%20the/ That is one unusual URL
    1 point
  36. Comcast data cap issues

    Horrible company.
    1 point
  37. Samsung will manufacture Qualcomm's 5nm Snapdragon X60 5G modem

    You mean I might one day be able to scroll a modern website and not have the browser freeze every time it loads in some dynamic content? What a time to be alive.
    1 point
  38. what's different in Iceland that causes this?
    1 point
  39. Can you believe a smartphone, with it's simple apps (certainly compared to proper, for example, Win32 programs) need 4 GB RAM, or even 6 GB RAM? Android is seriously wasteful. I agree, not like Apple that knows how to make efficient the memories in their devices and I am not an Apple fan. I use both android and apple devices.
    1 point
  40. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    Congratulations guys, well deserved!
    1 point
  41. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's ultra thin glass could just be plastic

    Fair point, however, just like my car, I want neither scratches or dents. 🤷‍♂️ I think the problem here is that you really shouldn't be able to dent the screen of a touch-screen mobile with your fingernail. They are calling it Glass in their promotions, to the average consumer the term Glass comes with some generally pretty safe assumptions, one of those is durability. In this case, it definitely does not have the durability implied by the term Glass.
    1 point
  42. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    I'm not gonna lie, I kind of wanna get warned by Goretsky.
    1 point
  43. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    So a OS for mobile dual screen devices is targeting mobile devices, you don't say? Who said anything about running this on desktops? Though dual screen laptops are a different story and those will run this. Though I've already seen twitter posts from people who'd like to have this shell on their desktops already, so you're clearly not talking about everyone here. And the "mobile" ship hasn't sailed, the "smartphone" ship did. Dual screen and folding devices are a whole new mobile market that no one has really taken control of yet. laptops are also mobile devices. No they are not. i don't care what you think. they are. why do you, by way of example, think that Windows Vista and later have the Mobility Center, which---guess what---only appears on mobile devices (including laptops)? you could not even address that earlier. it is obvious to all the reason why.
    1 point
  44. NASA Commercial Crew (CCtCap) test milestones

    The Crew Dragon for DM-2 is at the Cape...
    1 point
  45. Leaked Google Pixel 5 XL prototype render shows triple-camera system

    I can't unsee that now!
    1 point
  46. Why so much Google junk dependency in the news comment section?

    What I find amusing about all this is that it's being made out that it's just Neowin that has become completely broken with these blockages. As has been pointed out, there are going to be plenty of other places that suffer similar issues. I find my opinion on this is much the same as when people report that the site isn't working correctly when they have their adblocker active. If you want to block such things then that's fine, Neowin cannot stop you. But you can't complain that the site is broken when you are the one breaking it for yourself...
    1 point
  47. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    Except this one has both the user experience optimized for tablets and the compatibility with Win32 apps back to Windows 95, which Windows RT didn't have. The goal isn't just to make dual screen devices, that's just the justification for this OS differences as it isn't ready to replace Win10 Pro on desktops at this point. But the long term plan is clearly to build the next Windows, and instead of breaking compatibility and starting over again, this time they include everything. Windows 10X currently supports containers for backward compatibility with Win32 and MSIX-contained Win32 apps, but it's easy to see the possibilities... we're getting a lightweight and efficient modern OS built for WinRT, which can bring up compatibility containers for Win32 at the moment, but which is based on the same architecture as the Linux WSL2 container on desktops, and - why not - an Android container based off it as well. A single OS that can technically run WinRT, Win32, Linux and Android apps consistently. And on top of that, the UI could adapt when connected to external monitor + mouse + keyboard to turn it into a full Windows + Linux desktop. I'd rather run Linux and use Wine to run Win32 apps I need than having this abomination of Windows running its native apps in container which does not guarantee performance and also strips off user of the experience which made Windows - Windows. Making Win32 second class citizen is not going to work, clearly MS. does not understand their Windows user base. Having said that, whatever vision they have for the future, and you are right there saying Windows 10x is what they are planning on the long term, won't last. They are going to lose people to Linux at much faster rate than having Windows user base accepting this baloney. After all, 500 millions of people are still sitting in Windows 7 after 5+ years of jerking with Windows 10 which is garbage as well. If I wanted Linux experience in Windows, I go and I turn my Linux machine on to have that experience. This baloney run all in one is just baloney and waste of everyone time. Except they are not second class citizens. Your win32 apps run natively without a hit to performance (except for a tiny delay when you open a Win32 app without any others open and that’s because the system is loading the legacy Windows backend when you open a legacy Win32 app without others being open). Plus you get the benefits of not having rogue or buggy Win32 apps getting access to the native system registry since they are in containers. And when you are done running a Win32 program or when the program is idle and minimized the system either offloads the legacy backend or suspends it respectively. Also, there are already different containerization and compatibility technologies already inside Windows serving different purposes. UWP apps are inherently containerized for security and performance reasons. On 64 bit x86 systems and ARM systems, 32 bit Win32 apps are already run in a semi-containerized compatibility mode using WOW64. And there are numerous sand boxing technologies for Win32 apps already being used. So containerization is nothing new for Windows. I am really not sure why you are complaining about something that lets you run your apps in a more secure manner, with little hit to performance, and with optimizations that should yield better battery life and less resource usage when your legacy Win32 apps are closed or idle and minimized. Yes they are a second class citizens cause people want their Win32 to run as service or task scheduled where they can apply overclocking at start up or have a nice display of gpu/cpu temperature, things like right click extract files using 7Zip and I can write pages and pages of it. No, Microsoft does treat it as a second class citizen and there will be penalty in performance running within container. I am sure they will improve that. There is no such a thing as Win32 App. Any new game you install and play are Win32 apps. No one in industry is buying into this Microsoft baloney especially not companies like Valve and what not. you just keep believing that; the average user doesn't care about any of those things. Only us "power" users and we will develop alternative methods if we so choose .... You would be surprised. We already have granmas and granpas who played Doom 2 and were ultimate power users and do hardware / software modifications on their old Commodore 64 and Amiga machines. Do not do what MS. does, insulting people IQ. who's insulting IQ? I also didn't mention an age with the power users comment. The truth of the matter is the majority of people on Windows just care about accessing Facebook and their Email and couldn't care less about customization and such.
    1 point
  48. Why so much Google junk dependency in the news comment section?

    Tinfoil hat on there pretty tight there. Ajax frameworks is probably why you can't do anything... google what Ajax is if you want to know why, but it's basically scripting that any site uses nowadays, Google just happens to have some nice packages that provide a good base to build off. Google scraping what fonts your browser renders and frameworks to generate the look and feel of a page? Shock. Horror. You'll probably have half the internet broken for you which such an encompassing block.
    1 point
  49. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    You've got a lot of advice to give. Why not take it up directly with Microsoft?
    1 point