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  1. Chinese trust at its finest yet again.
    7 points
  2. Facebook hopes to shine a light on true COVID-19 case numbers

    This will be the most unreliable Corona data possible
    6 points
  3. AMD announces new mainstream Ryzen chips for desktops

    wow, may be about time for me to start building a new system. My main system is running an i5 Devils Canyon with a GTX750 Ti right now. It's treated me well over the years but I think I'm ready for an upgrade now that AMD is finally rocking it again and starting to overtake Intel with price and performance
    4 points
  4. Office 365 consumer subscriptions become Microsoft 365 today

    Oh, when idiots in Redmond rename the thing that was in use more than 10 yrs to something different that has no real meaning. Just for the bloody sake of rename. Otherwise the rename commando on floor 7 has to be fired as they have nothing to do.
    4 points
  5. At the moment, China has zero trust left in them.
    4 points
  6. Your sentiments surprise me... /s
    3 points
  7. I have to say the spacing of the buttons on the XP one looks truely awful
    3 points
  8. This makes 12,000!

    For as much as I've been a PITA, nuisance, idiot, etc. this post will be my 12,000 post!! Only took 17.5 years to get here. Probably the only place any place has tolerated for me so long. 😜
    3 points
  9. Office 365 consumer subscriptions become Microsoft 365 today

    It's more than just Office. Office 365 never made sense (except for the Office brand name). It includes multiple offerings from Microsoft now, so the name change makes sense. It's not really that confusing... Change is hard.
    3 points
  10. Super Mario 3D World for Switch spotted on Best Buy database

    Which will affect almost no one, really. For better or worse, the Wii U did terribly, and it's no surprise that Nintendo believes they can make more money from games that originally came out on the Wii U. I never owned one, so I already have 3 Wii U games on my Switch, and I'll definitely get this one too.
    3 points
  11. "...the company is also working on sensors that can register smells or tastes." It will take about 2 seconds from release before somebody farts in their phone.
    3 points
  12. Publishers really need to understand that we really don't want to open up 20 different launchers, or deal with 20 different launchers/store fronts/whatever that you might A. Get bored with and discontinue or B. Get forced out of the market. You had a REALLY good thing with Steam managing to pull the PC platform back from being one where games were mostly pirated to one where that is much less commonplace. For everyone's sake stop it and realise you can't just keep on making more and more money. And don't you dare blame piracy, COVID19, or anything else like that when you cause the market to implode through your own greed.
    3 points
  13. Facebook hopes to shine a light on true COVID-19 case numbers

    Just don't say that on their platform, or else they might ban you for saying something about COVID-19 that doesn't fall in line with what they consider to be "official" information.
    3 points
  14. Microsoft's Surface Go 2 will reportedly include a larger 10.5-inch screen

    The 4GB model needs to go.
    3 points
  15. I agree. I enjoyed changing the UI with XP because it was ugly. Now I don't see the need so much. Windows has dark mode - that's all I need.
    2 points
  16. Customizing your desktop like this feels so mid/late 90s.
    2 points
  17. right, because american corporations would never ever do anything like this... it's only the Chinese ones do it.
    2 points
  18. Wish they'd fix the camera on my s20 ultra...it's absolute ###### just taking pictures in many situations. We're the guinea pigs proving the current setup won't work through software fixes. Trust you with another $1400? Pft.
    2 points
  19. What's the point of a camera that has higher resolution than human vision?
    2 points
  20. "With your 600MP camera you can store 1 image on your 64GB internal storage"
    2 points
  21. This makes no sense what so ever. I am paying to rent computing power from Nvidia to play my OWN GAMES that I have PURCHASED in Steam. I will never, and won't ever, subscribe to something like xCloud, Stadia, or anything similar to that. All I want is to sometimes rent computing power to PLAY MY OWN PURCHASED LIBRARY, so that I can continue using MY OWN EXISTING SAVE GAMES. When will these cloud providers get that through their very extremely dense skulls? The ONLY storefronts I will use on PC is Steam and Battle.net. Everything else is not an option, as I'm getting tired to logging onto different services for each and every game!
    2 points
  22. New Graphic Card for old System

    Thinking about it. In that case I would change my recommendation to: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G - £80 ASRock AMD B450M-HDV R4.0 £58 8GB DDR4 ram - 45 Total = £183 GTX 1050ti = £150 GTX 1650 Super = 160 RX 5500XT =170 So as you can see you get a reasonable 1080p system, get rid of the ancient hardware and have a modern upgrade path for GPU/CPU/Ram all for around the same price of a discrete budget GPU...
    2 points
  23. Building a new PC.. Help!

    I recently priced out a computer with pc parts picker against a similar spec'd ibuypower. You save between 1-200 doing it yourself. Under 1000 that is a big difference, over 1000 that difference (percentage wise) diminishes. Best I can tell you is to find something you like on ibuypower or nzxt or whatever other sites and try to build it yourself with pcpartpicker.com. You might find out that the cost savings isn't worth the headache of building it yourself in your price point. pcpartpicker tries to pick the cheapest vendor, but sometimes you can find cheaper on your own. FWIW, I had a powersupply fry (a good high end corsair) that ended up burning a few pins on the socket of my mother board. The replacement psu came in a few weeks and the replacement motherboard came a month later. If I were dealing with one of the big box companies (dell, hp) and the computer was under warranty, I would have parts the next day to replace in. something to consider when buying or building yourself. Single vendor, less time wasted dealing with multiples, single source of drivers, single source for troubleshooting, single source of replacement.
    2 points
  24. Facebook hopes to shine a light on true COVID-19 case numbers

    How will a survey tell us how many cases there are?! ”I have a cough so I’m going to say yes”?
    2 points
  25. SPen with a plastic screen is a bad idea.
    2 points
  26. I still don't see what niche this is satisfying. When it's fully open, it's awkward to hold.. and when it's closed and in phone mode, it's tall and narrow, hard to type on. It's still a from factor that nobody asked for. Folding screens will certainly be useful for future form factors, but how it stands now, in use with the Fold... no.
    2 points
  27. The full Windows-Office-Xbox-Azure tie-ins aren't there yet... but they're coming. The latest major re-org combined Windows with Azure, and M365 already covers some Windows+Office(+AzureAD) scenarios... so getting Xbox under a compatible umbrella isn't impossible... it just might not be priority just yet.
    1 point
  28. AMD announces new mainstream Ryzen chips for desktops

    Might upgrade my Ryzen 5 2600...
    1 point
  29. Office 365 consumer subscriptions become Microsoft 365 today

    It's more than just Office. Office 365 never made sense (except for the Office brand name). It includes multiple offerings from Microsoft now, so the name change makes sense. It's not really that confusing... Change is hard. Not confusing at all. I hope it doesn't take MS too long to get Teams for consumers in place. It likely won't; as it will basically augment (not replace) Skype in this area - as Skype for large businesses is augmented (but not replaced) by Teams today.
    1 point
  30. This makes 12,000!

    Nice one mate It is good to see so many old accounts still active
    1 point
  31. This makes 12,000!

    congrats man 🙂
    1 point
  32. It's despicable but all companies do this nothing to do with China. Everyone remember the doctored screenshots of the original XBox that did not look remotely close to the final product displayed on your TV.
    1 point
  33. Nothing but a selling point in my opinion. Pointless to take pictures your own eyes can't take advantage of. This is the telling of the fact that there's nothing new for phone development currently. All they can add is different cameras, or an non-needed second screen.
    1 point
  34. GeForce Now to lose titles from Xbox Game Studios, Warner Bros., and more

    Uh huh, except you own a license to play the game on your PC, not up in some cloud server. That's the stance publishers are taking, specially when you have someone like Google who is doing the same thing but paying them to do it. And I find the idea that you're limiting yourself to just Steam and Battle.net for gaming is silly. I have Steam, GoG, EGS and Xbox Game Pass all installed, I'm hardly logging in every time I start a game. If anything the constant steam client updates annoy me more than all the choice of where to get games from. And why does it matter if a PC I'm playing it on is right next to me or in a datacenter?
    1 point
  35. What the Font

    Certainly looks like Avenir, for reference Neowin's logo text is Avenir 65 medium and I am seeing a lot of resemblance in bold format.
    1 point
  36. I always thought he was.
    1 point
  37. US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery

    Tweet later removed but thought it was worth posting
    1 point
  38. Building a new PC.. Help!

    Another thing to take into account, along with what sc302 has stated, is warranty. One thing I like about some of the pre-builts, or companies that build them for you and ship, is the warranty. The hassle with building your own is dealing with many different OEMs if something goes wrong; that always annoyed me. When I was younger and had time to troubleshoot and didn't really need a mission critical computer, tinkering and troubleshooting wasn't an issue, but the older I get the less time I have for that and just want something up and running. 😁
    1 point
  39. Samsung Galaxy S20 series sales affected by coronavirus pandemic

    LOL US version S20 - is actually not too bad. Just not different enough from S10 at all.
    1 point
  40. Yammer Communities app for Teams is now available

    I am so glad that I work for a company that would not put up with a pissy attitude like that. Don’t like it, go get another job where you can express your...individuality.
    1 point
  41. Yammer Communities app for Teams is now available

    Or... use what you are told to use. My phone, so they can not force me to install it. As i said to them, if they want me to use it then I will in their time on their computers/tablets. They don't force people to use Yammer, when it first started they did a fair bit of pushing to get people to sign up for it. We used to manage without it before, if there is anything important then tell us. Also not everyone has a smart phone. Or... they can write a policy to force you to install it on your own phone or gtfo. No they can't and what about people without smart phones? Even if they could force us to install it, they can not force us to read it. Yes they can, Mr. Individual. Yup. Teams (not sure about Yammer) has read receipts. And people without smartphones? Well, if the company really needs to use Teams they will get a work phone issued.
    1 point
  42. Yammer Communities app for Teams is now available

    Or... use what you are told to use. My phone, so they can not force me to install it. As i said to them, if they want me to use it then I will in their time on their computers/tablets. They don't force people to use Yammer, when it first started they did a fair bit of pushing to get people to sign up for it. We used to manage without it before, if there is anything important then tell us. Also not everyone has a smart phone. Or... they can write a policy to force you to install it on your own phone or gtfo. No they can't and what about people without smart phones? Even if they could force us to install it, they can not force us to read it. Then why are you complaining you are missing important information? You have the means to get it but you choose not to.
    1 point
  43. Samsung Galaxy S20 series sales affected by coronavirus pandemic

    Too expensive. No bang for the buck. Nope, let's blame it on the CARS virus (China Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
    1 point
  44. Yammer Communities app for Teams is now available

    Or... use what you are told to use. My phone, so they can not force me to install it. As i said to them, if they want me to use it then I will in their time on their computers/tablets. They don't force people to use Yammer, when it first started they did a fair bit of pushing to get people to sign up for it. We used to manage without it before, if there is anything important then tell us. Also not everyone has a smart phone. Or... they can write a policy to force you to install it on your own phone or gtfo. No they can't and what about people without smart phones? Even if they could force us to install it, they can not force us to read it.
    1 point
  45. Yammer Communities app for Teams is now available

    Or... use what you are told to use. My phone, so they can not force me to install it. As i said to them, if they want me to use it then I will in their time on their computers/tablets. They don't force people to use Yammer, when it first started they did a fair bit of pushing to get people to sign up for it. We used to manage without it before, if there is anything important then tell us. Also not everyone has a smart phone.
    1 point
  46. Yammer Communities app for Teams is now available

    I searched for "Communities" in the Teams app store, but it brings up nothing relevant, only "LumApps SAS" and "Jive Communications".
    1 point
  47. A Stadia controller is only required to play on the Chromecast Ultra. PCs support USB controllers, and phones support Bluetooth controllers, like the Xbox Wireless Controller. Thanks for the info. I seem to remember hearing at launch that 3rd party controller support was planned but not ready yet. Glad to hear they have that working. then you read it wrong. 3rd party controller support was there right when it launched.
    1 point
  48. Wish all phones were like this instead of the fragile and slippery glass slabs that live inside thick and opaque cases.
    1 point
  49. When was recognition of objects added for search in Windows 10 ?

    When you search for red, what does it return - photos with red in them? A file with the word red in it as text.. The info indexed is an a database - yes you can search this database outside of the photo application, ie from the shell.
    1 point
  50. Bill Gates calls Trump's de-funding of WHO dangerous

    Yes everyone made mistakes, nobody was prepared but WHO is a bigger picture org and they failed to ring the alarms about the pandemic in China to take protective measures. There is no transparency about their COVID-19 activities either which makes people think they arent doing something. They are certainly not talking about distributing ventialtors and decontamination of developing and 3rd world countries, there is no talk of vaccines. This. Forget about Trump, if your information from the WHO is bad, how do you prepare? The United States isn't the rest of the world, and surely the world isn't looking to Trump's expertise on the issue. This is literally the WHO's job though and if they're going to play politics or move at such a slow pace, they need to be ousted for people who are willing to communicate and act, rather than sit on stage talking about which country they'd like to be treated in the most like it's some internet debate lol. Let's put it another way, do you honestly expect Trump would shut down the US economy if the WHO advised that? No chance, Trump wasn't going to listen to anyone and the only reason the shut down happened was because of intense pressure on him to do so and even now he seems desperate to open up the economy when it's way too early to do that. At the end of the day, all countries had their own experts and knew what was going on, many made jokes about this virus, thinking it wouldn't happen over here, they didn't prepare and waiting until it was too late, it's highly unlikely anything the WHO would have said would have changed anything on that. Trump is just trying to deflect blame away from him self because he's getting a lot of heat and he knows he's the one that would get it in the neck if things go wrong, so he needs a scapegoat, anything that it can stick too and as we know, Trump has form in deflecting blame on others. What's really frightening for Americans is that if the US got infected first before Europe, would the US have closed down, I have a feeling the US wouldn't because they wouldn't want to give an edge to Europeans with their economy being open, Europeans having a more social system tends to put people first and with Europe getting the virus early, it made it easier for the US to shut down as well, but I have my doubt about the US on if they would have done the same thing if it was the other way round. I said forget about Trump, but you made a 180 and decided to talk about him more, then going off on the deep end with hypotheticals. Your only comment about the WHO is that maybe people wouldn't listen to them. Here's a news flash: if people can ring the bell on global climate change on a daily basis, the WHO can at least get off their ass when they see a serious issue. Hell, you can go take a look at the COVID-19 thread on the forum back when I posted about it in January and literally watch how many people said it wasn't a big deal... up until a point when it started to become serious. If the WHO actually stood their ground on calling this what it was, maybe there would be less people actually blowing it off. Hell, I recall people saying, "Yeah, well it's not a pandemic yet so relax..." That's just stupidity at its finest and if that's the best we can hope for with millions sunk into this organization, then I don't think we (as a collective of countries) aren't getting our moneys worth, US or no US.
    1 point