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  1. I hear that this news surprised many gamers, they didn't think speeds could get any slower.
    4 points
  2. Apple may resume physical store operations in the first half of April

    They should start with said executives visiting each opened location.
    3 points
  3. Microsoft is pausing optional Windows 10 updates in May

    No but it does highlight your unfamiliarity with the definition of a virus. 🙃
    3 points
  4. Microsoft throttles some its services due to high demand

    Did you know what you are talking about? AWS doesn't appear to have these issues.
    3 points
  5. Guess that azure system doesn't match up to aws after all then, can't even cope with the demand of their own in-house services.
    3 points
  6. UK gov't begins sending stay at home alerts by text message

    You do know there are more android users out there than iOS, right? Not to mention there isn’t an API to hook into to blast messages via Apple. Every single time you get a text from an automated system, it’s SMS.
    3 points
  7. UK gov't begins sending stay at home alerts by text message

    If there was a national emergency, wouldn't you want to be annoyed and woken up? And not like these things happen often. Text: "Country is being invaded"... Citizen: "Don't bother me, I am sleeping" I also cannot remember the last time, or if, I got a msg from the Government about a national emergency.
    3 points
  8. Samsung fans petition for the company to stop using Exynos processors

    Radical idea. Maybe they should vote with their wallet and not buy the S20.
    3 points
  9. qBittorrent 4.2.2

    "ATTENTION WINDOWS USERS: There's a "qBittorrent" app on the Windows Store which costs money. It isn't an official release nor it is coming from us. The person publicizing it doesn't have permission to use the qBittorrent name/logo." I assume they are referring to this... https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...e/p/qbitorrent/9nlcd0qxd3ss
    2 points
  10. Resuming operations during the early phases of a pandemic just to allow the money to trickle back in. Seems like a terrible idea, and I honestly don't understand how ANY person would be willing to drop considerable money at any store right now.
    2 points
  11. More greasy fingerprints on the area that should be clean, what a brilliant move!
    2 points
  12. Huawei's Mate 40 might add a touch display around the camera

    Seems like there are better ways to go about this. Camera zoom? Yeah that won't be awkward to control at all.
    2 points
  13. YouTube switching its stream to SD quality worldwide

    Welcome to the Stone Age!
    2 points
  14. Ubisoft is giving away Child of Light on Uplay

    You can use Uplay to play your games! He may be one of those "Steam or pass" folks; we have a few of those here on Neowin. (I have never had a problem with uPlay, and have used it for years.)
    2 points
  15. Ubisoft is giving away Child of Light on Uplay

    You're such an intelligent person; I wish I could be like you for even a moment
    2 points
  16. New Surface Go 2 benchmarks show a Pentium Gold 4425Y

    Well this is disappointing.
    2 points
  17. UK gov't begins sending stay at home alerts by text message

    Um, yeah. You know what, in this day and age I expect the government to be able to communicate vital information to the public in a simple and efficient manner. I don't care if a few people get annoyed because it disrupted their beauty sleep. BTW, I got the message this morning on Three. My phone was on mute because I'm in the office (work from home starts tomorrow), and I wasn't disturbed. So your FUD seems to be unfounded.
    2 points
  18. UK gov't begins sending stay at home alerts by text message

    'Unfortunately, the government had to work with mobile carriers to get its message out because it doesn’t have an emergency alert system set up, despite successful trials in 2014' What's unfortunate about that? BBC trying to spread yet more nonsense. All you hear from people about the canadian/american emergency alert systems is they're incredibly annoying, un-mutable, wake people up, etc. Thank goodness we didn't have that trash added here.
    2 points
  19. I quite liked the original - fun game
    2 points
  20. i sold my Samsung Note 9 and i'm not going to buy any Samsung phones if they don't use Snapdragon chips for my region... i bought Xiaomi Mi 9T pro instead. Btw this video https://bit.ly/2UvQdnF shows exactly what's going on with newly released phones by Samsung the snapdragon version of new phones is completely another phone imo, Samsung phones with Exynos Chip are half the phone with full price. you got to be stupid to pay for it especially with new phones.
    2 points
  21. I don't care which is better -- I care that it means the same device has two unpredictably different levels of support for the life of the product depending on where you are. When a customer experiences a bug and finds out it "only affects the snapdragon models", Samsung is doing something wrong. It's not just a pain for the consumer, it's gotta be an unwelcome, seemingly pointless hassle for their own developers and customer support services. If they want to use Exynos, cool. Use it -- everywhere. If they want to use Snapdragon, cool. Use it -- everywhere. If one of the two can't be used in all regions for some reason, and the other can, you've got your answer. It doesn't need to be more complicated than that.
    2 points
  22. I guess I'll never know the story around how Combines were around early in the story... There is no way in hell I'm gonna spend hundreds of € on headsets that'll be usable for this one (probably amazing) game and then it'll be collecting dust in some corner. I'll rather get a graphic card with ray tracing capability for that money and enjoy that in a lot of games instead of this VR that's still so overhyped and with literally no traction even after years now...
    2 points
  23. Samsung's Galaxy S20 5G and S20+ 5G are $200 off on Amazon

    Thanks to Covid-19, all has drop the prices (Except of toilet paper ) just kidding
    2 points
  24. qBittorrent 4.2.2

    I heard you the first time
    1 point
  25. Trump should visit. He wants America running again by Easter.
    1 point
  26. @kalkal ...to follow up (now that I'm at my computer) ... if the powercfg -lastwake doesn't give you an answer ... it very well could be Windows Update. This is under task scheduler > Microsoft > Windows > UpdateOrchestrator It could also be another program/task scheduler entry ... you can run the following in Powershell (run as Admin) which will give you a listing of all Task Scheduler entries which will "wake to run" Get-ScheduledTask | where {$_.settings.waketorun} You will get something like... Anyway ... hope one of these things help you find your issue.
    1 point
  27. New Surface Go 2 benchmarks show a Pentium Gold 4425Y

    If it had a Core M at the current price it would be an awesome tablet! But you are paying 700 Euros (with a keyboard) for an Atom based tablet, a Windows tablet at that. But I do understand interest from companies yeah Pentium gold is garbage *Atom They are Atoms just called something different.
    1 point
  28. Microsoft throttles some its services due to high demand

    Did you know what you are talking about? AWS doesn't appear to have these issues. I'm going to say this has more to do with Office services then Azure, Azure can handle massive computing fine... this is just them tweaking office services to reduce strain on office systems, not azure directly. Sharepoint does a lot in the background and can consume significant resources if you ever redeployed an on-prem version of it you would know what I mean.
    1 point
  29. Exactly, just like Facebook lowering the quality of their videos/streams.
    1 point
  30. Solar Power finally kicked off today.

    Need a few more people to subscribe to Neowin before I can do that 😛
    1 point
  31. I'm with Brandon on Patchmypc .. while Sumo may have a much larger software database, Patchmypc includes the most commonly installed applications. Plus, the only applications they allow, are those with option of a "Silent / unattended" install, which means if you open patchmypc and it says it wants to update 10 apps, it will do so one after the other automatically with no user interaction.
    1 point
  32. New Surface Go 2 benchmarks show a Pentium Gold 4425Y

    If it had a Core M at the current price it would be an awesome tablet! But you are paying 700 Euros (with a keyboard) for an Atom based tablet, a Windows tablet at that. But I do understand interest from companies
    1 point
  33. New Surface Go 2 benchmarks show a Pentium Gold 4425Y

    I've seen reports of organizations adopting the Surface Go because of its size, pen support, and portability. While all those things remain the same if Microsoft switched to an ARM processor, I'd imagine x86 support was a major factor in organizations choosing the Go. The Go has a niche. Probably not the niche Microsoft wanted but it is what it is. Switching to ARM now might dramatically harm sales. What Microsoft needs is a Go 2 and a Go X with ARM.
    1 point
  34. for drivers I use the free version of IObit Driver Booster for software I recommend PatchMyPC
    1 point
  35. Apple is bringing the App Store to 20 more countries later this year

    Via a Global Appstore, that was not tailored to a specific country. (my guess)
    1 point
  36. I hope that was tongue in cheek? If not, you do realise that there are a lot of users who don't have a smart phone? Stuff like this you work to the lowest common denominator. Every mobile in the last nearly 25 years can do SMS. Considerably less than half can do iMessage. Which is the better option to get the message out to the most users?
    1 point
  37. I wouldn't mind the frequent messages as long as it is effective in keeping people inside
    1 point
  38. I'm shocked it's not global already. Fair play!
    1 point
  39. Samsung's Galaxy S20 5G and S20+ 5G are $200 off on Amazon

    They do this with everything. Just don't buy first round....
    1 point
  40. Half-Life: Alyx pre-load is 48GB, now available on Steam

    I guess you have not been hearing about this for the past 4 months... This game is flop Based on what evidence? This game single handedly sold out VR units all over the world. Valve can't make index units fast enough to meet demand. Everything seems to indicate that no matter how good the game actually is, it is not a flop. Yeah, coz they couldn't sell ###### otherwise lol. And after people finish Alyx, those 500+ € headsets will be ultimate dust collecting units again. Best investment ever, would buy again! This is probably the kind of thing older adults said way back when the early gaming machines were coming out. "Why would you waste money on that when you can go outside and be active???"
    1 point
  41. Longhorn Explorer Beta 2

    ... i am not sure why you would ever need this ... as Windows Vista itself had all of the necessary functionality ... surpassing that of which this is capable ... ... but it is available at DeviantArt ... and you will need to register for a free account if you do not already have one ... https://www.deviantart.com/sucxces/art/LongHorn-Explorer-405091307
    1 point
  42. The page turn button is one of the big pluses of the Oasis, but the cost difference is HUGE.
    1 point
  43. If I am not mistaken they have some exclusivity agreement due to patents, the deal dates as back as 1993: https://www.androidcentral.com...amsung-selling-exynos-chips There are also more than one licencing agreement which prevents Samsung from selling their own modem based processors in the United States. Qualcomm is very aggressive company when it comes to patents
    1 point
  44. Here's hoping everyone stays in F@H after this whole thing is over. Alzheimer's and cancer patients need love too!
    1 point
  45. So nothing, for people who are already a subscriber?
    1 point
  46. SInce I bought my first Kindle, being the 2018 Paperweight edition. I've read more books than before. From an amazin 1-2 per year...I'm now 7-8. At least from my standard, it's a huge improvement!
    1 point
  47. Have there been features removed? Serious question. According to this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...dows-10-deprecated-features ...and this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...windows-10-removed-features ...nothing shows with respect to 2004. As far as I know ... the only real change (removing features) is the Downloads folder has been removed from Disk Cleanup (thankfully). I asked seriously as well, thanks for pointing that out, looks like nothing drastic is out this time!
    1 point
  48. Longhorn Explorer Beta 2

    Hello? The link is broken. Is there any way to download this thing?
    1 point
  49. Active noise cancellation on earphone is anyways not a good choice! You wanna die on the road? and it does not work that well in small form factor devices anyways, due to lake of space between microphones. How would I die because of active noise cancellation sitting on my daily commute? The AirPods Pro, Bose QC25 and the Sony WF-1000XM3 all have decent active noise cancellation.
    1 point
  50. No active noise cancelling, no thanks.
    1 point