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  1. Microsoft is beginning to phase out 32-bit support for Windows 10

    32bit windows 10 should never have been released.
    7 points
  2. I was able to get in with some refreshes, but my favorite part is when it drops me into a foreign language to do it. Fortunately, I have taken advantage of the Free Games feature enough times that I already knew what buttons to click and so I was able to get my free copy "purchased" even in Chinese.
    3 points
  3. Apple might be making a nine-inch iPad Mini next year

    If they did a Pro but at Mini size, I'd be all over that
    3 points
  4. Apple might be making a nine-inch iPad Mini next year

    They need stop changing sizes every time they come out with something. All this changing to whatever is cheaper (at the time) is creating a lot of confusion in iPads/Mac arena (mostly in the Mac arena).
    3 points
  5. An unexpected error has occurred even!
    3 points
  6. Huawei trade ban with the US extended through 2021

    Does anyone really believe that this has to do with controlling companies or security? It's all about US companies not being able to compete and losing market share.
    3 points
  7. Microsoft is beginning to phase out 32-bit support for Windows 10

    To what end? Because bigger numbers and no clue!
    3 points
  8. Microsoft is beginning to phase out 32-bit support for Windows 10

    That's not going to happen for a long, long time with 64 bit processors theoretically being able to access 17,179,869,184 GB of RAM, vs. 4GB on a 32 bit processor.
    3 points
  9. E does stand for Embedded. OEMs who use these for laptops should be taken out back and shot.
    3 points
  10. Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 on the PlayStation 5

    That look 100% better than anything the xbox X video showed off. Hope it's real. This is the type of graphics I expect for a next-gen console.
    3 points
  11. Apple might be making a nine-inch iPad Mini next year

    That’s what she said.
    2 points
  12. Apple might be making a nine-inch iPad Mini next year

    The mac size arena hasn't changed for years. The new 16 inch one has been the first change in a long time.
    2 points
  13. Apple might be making a nine-inch iPad Mini next year

    I love how "Mini" keeps getting bigger and bigger
    2 points
  14. Epic is being epic again.
    2 points
  15. Finally a good game for free that I don't already have. I'm assuming by the services being down, I'm not the only one that wants to play this.
    2 points
  16. Yea. This has brought down the entire Epic Games client. Can't even access local library of installed games. This is a bad oversight on their part.
    2 points
  17. This is fun, once I get the page up, it comes up as a different language, each time.
    2 points
  18. Ditto, guess they are overloaded.
    2 points
  19. Huawei trade ban with the US extended through 2021

    National emergency? Hardly. Was 9/11 a national emergency? What about that hurricane that wiped out New Orleans? What about the amount of starving people, or Mexicans "coming over here and stealing our jobs"? No, he decides to continue this stupid tirade on Huawei. Not bothering to chase Apple, Amazon, Google, Tesla or the hundreds of TV stars that are paying very little in tax.
    2 points
  20. I just purchased the Redmi Note 8 Pro myself.. and for a mid-range phone, I have nothing to complain about. Lots of features, (I do like the Game Boost feature) some I might not ever use like Second Space, Dual apps.. etc. And with this phone, if you miss an OTA update/upgrade, you can download the files directly from the Xiaomi servers... which I did to upgrade it to Android 10. Not bad for under $200.
    2 points
  21. RJ45 keystone - extend a run

    It works!
    2 points
  22. Huawei trade ban with the US extended through 2021

    Huawei is a pretty massive tech company with expertise and production in a variety of fields/markets. I'm wondering if this move is to limit companies US govt can't control. Nevertheless, I hope this prompts huawei to continue to develop Google/Qualcomm free solutions, and contribute to Open Source projects.
    2 points
  23. E does stand for Embedded. OEMs who use these for laptops should be taken out back and shot. :: cough cough :: HP :: cough :: Walmart :: cough :: My daughter has been running a HP laptop she bought, must be 4 or 5 years ago now? It has an AMD E1-6010 in it, and initially shipped with 2GB of RAM. I have since upped it to 8GB, but Windows 10 is a dog on it. I think opening Notepad spikes the CPU to 100% lol. That CPU has a benchmark score of 538. The slowest computer in my house that i use is my voice mail server which is an intel nuc Celeron 840 ..and it's score is 933
    2 points
  24. 32-bit Apps will still run on 64-bit Windows (ARM or Intel), so no change there. This announcement is about the OS, not the Apps. It's all about RAM. A 32-bit OS can only access 4GB of RAM, which isn't much in 2020. The amount left available to running Apps will be less than that (after the OS takes some), and multitasking many Apps at once will be a problem. A 32-bit App can only access 4GB of RAM, but the PC itself can have more. So running many Apps at once is easy.
    2 points
  25. For me, this is the biggest gaming news I've heard all year. Mafia 1. Absolute masterpiece. I still have the original (From original retail CDs) PC version installed on my current PC. Can't wait. I just hope it doesn't get delayed and we're all still alive in August. ;-)
    2 points
  26. Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 on the PlayStation 5

    Motion blur is the first thing i have to disable in games as it makes me feel sick, loved the demo here though.
    2 points
  27. The OnePlus 8 Pro's color filter camera can see through plastic objects

    Now try it on cloths.
    2 points
  28. Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 on the PlayStation 5

    If something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Tech demos are pointless.
    2 points
  29. The OnePlus 8 Pro's color filter camera can see through plastic objects

    Sony released a video camera in the early 2000s that had a "super IR" feature for better visibility in low light. I bought said video camera for my nephew to use at my wedding. Turns out, if you used the feature in daylight, it could see through certain layers of fabrics. So, this yielded unusable video because: 1) It was all green-tinted akin to a light nightvision effect 2) You could see which ladies opted to not have a visible panty-line
    2 points
  30. Interesting effect, and could be useful for some applications. BTW, pretty much all camera sensors can see IR leds. It's a handy way to quickly check if your remote control is working.
    2 points
  31. It's clearly not a simple "color filter" camera. To achieve such thing the sensor has to be able to poke very specific light range and not something you can just do via software filter or something.
    2 points
  32. Huawei trade ban with the US extended through 2021

    That's been the problem of the US government, using trade as a weapon isn't a good move to entice investment in the country. After all, would you as a business want to use any US tech or services if the US can come up with any trumped-up charge and ban you from using it? It makes a lot of sense now for a lot of governments and companies around the world to diversify by having more options around the world so the US can't do that on them because if they can do it to China and Huawei, they can do it to any country and company around the world if they see them as a threat to US power. The ones paying the price for this is the US economy and US companies and everyone else is gaining because it leaves a void open for others to take advantage off whiles also giving us more options, the American consumers are paying the price by having less choice which usually means higher prices. China must be laughing at Trump because it's backfiring.
    1 point
  33. Apple might be making a nine-inch iPad Mini next year

    read the reply I just made. If they do indeed remove the home button then that could be why the screen size is technically changing. The physical device might remain the same size in that case. iPad Pro Mini? Would be cool.
    1 point
  34. Grand Theft Auto V is free to claim on the Epic Games Store this week

    Oh goodie a new wave of modders about to come back.
    1 point
  35. Reviews can be paid for, I’d rather go with trusted user experiences here. I trust the members here a lot more than most review websites I appreciate all the info though, thank you! 💪 That is why I go to different sources and not just one and also try to get users views as well, but sometimes they can be iffy, nothing to do with being paid for but because they have no idea what they are doing or saying. My LED printer for a start, a colleague got the one below mine and showed me the printouts over a coffee, this was way before the lockdown. I liked the print outs, but looking at the specs of the printer, I thought the model above would be better, so I looked for user reviews and some people saying it can't do this or that, duplex don't work. I went to YouTube in the end and got some good reviews on it and duplex is fine on it, the driver is a bit strange that is all. so I got it and it is a great printer. So you can not always rely on user reviews either. That is the point, I wonder if anyone has reviewed this service on YouTube. Ok, I had a quick look and there are some, but not great, the company is Swedish, but has a footprint in the U.S. i found this in their help section . It's like Dropbox, but not at all! Degoo and Dropbox differ in several ways. Degoo is purely focused on backup and Dropbox is a more complex product with features like file syncing and file sharing. Focusing solely on backup enables us to create a truly awesome backup experience without any compromises. For instance: It drastically reduces our server costs, which is why we can offer so much more space for free.You get up to 100 GB free on sign up with Degoo compared to Dropbox where you start of with only 2 GB. Which proves what I said, they are more for straight forward backup.
    1 point
  36. I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but the game doesn't support the Ring-Con from Ring Fit Adventure. It seems to be related to the setting of the battles, as in they take place inside a ring.
    1 point
  37. That's strange. This machine is a Studio 1737 with 4G ram and it runs just like it did in 2008. I'm not willing to give it up because it has a full sized professional keyboard. I have thought about adding more ram, but the 4G DDR2 sticks cost like $130 per. And it doesn't need it. Windows 10 runs just fine in 4 gigs. I have this too ! Do you use SSD ? Please write that you are not using the integrated graphics ! I added a SSD about five years ago, but it also still has the original Disk drive. And yes, I use the integrated graphics. I have no need for anything else. I love this machine.
    1 point
  38. Reviews can be paid for, I’d rather go with trusted user experiences here. I trust the members here a lot more than most review websites I appreciate all the info though, thank you! 💪
    1 point
  39. Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 on the PlayStation 5

    If it wasn't from the Unreal Engine guys no one would believe it, especially given the heavily edited Sony preview footage ads from the past, but it is from the Unreal Engine guys, they're showcasing an engine people will not only have high level access to for testing and production but also the source code, and they've proved their stunning work many times over in the past. No ones questioning the ability of the engine itself. It's just that tech demos like this, for any engine, don't always translate to actual games. Their old UE4 tech demo has stuff in it that no game actually used to the same extent, if at all. Exactly. I'd be surprised if PS5 games actually look like this in reality.
    1 point
  40. Amazon is making it easier to find free content on Fire TV

    I wish they'd spend some time helping its Firestick not choke when moving through your channels and the stupid auto preview clips start. Sometimes I think its just going to give up and turn off.
    1 point
  41. Intel announces its Comet Lake vPro processors for mobile and desktop

    vPro is the name of their enterprise spins on their processors. It is nothing new.
    1 point
  42. I run 64bit Windows since Windows Vista. That's what, 16 years now? Something like that. Even on ASUS Transformer with only 2GB of RAM. There is just no point in running 32bit in this time.
    1 point
  43. E does stand for Embedded. OEMs who use these for laptops should be taken out back and shot. :: cough cough :: HP :: cough :: Walmart :: cough ::
    1 point
  44. Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 on the PlayStation 5

    Ya, interesting Sony got them to demo it on the PS5 - especially considering the technology Unreal is demonstrating was created by Microsoft. (Both Nanite's and Lumen's core technologies come directly from Microsoft and DirectX.) It is encouraging to see the PS5 and Sony supporting these technologies, as things like this could have meant a massive difference in visual quality. I'm very much an Xbox first gamer, but like the idea that everyone gets access to the latest technologies. However, for anyone curious, yes the Xbox Series X also fully supports these technologies, and a bit more. Yes, the Xbox will support the same features. But it will only be able to stream data and assets in while traversing the world or scenes quickly at less than half the data-rate of the PS5, due to the vastly faster (more than twice as fast) NVME technology that Sony has decided to use. It’s gonna be interesting to see if the much faster data rate and GPU speed (frequency) in the PS5 will compensate for the lack of CU’s versus the Xbox GPU.
    1 point
  45. ...until it starts throttling plus the inevitable bios update that will introduce bugs that theyll never fix.
    1 point
  46. Microsoft is beginning to phase out 32-bit support for Windows 10

    But you're getting 32 more bits, it's like a 2 for 1 deal.
    1 point
  47. Rename, not a remaster? I really, really, really hope I will be able to import music and dubbing from Mafia 1, it is a Czech masterpiece.
    1 point
  48. Microsoft is beginning to phase out 32-bit support for Windows 10

    I actually agree with this. They've been talking about phasing out 32 bit since at least windows 8, if not windows 7... I honestly don't remember when it was "news" exactly... It's past time for 32 bit to go the way of the dodo.
    1 point
  49. Basically since the steam sales system changed a few years ago, every single sale (winter, summer, etc.) is now exactly the same - all the exact same games are on sale each time and all for the exact same 'reduced' price. Prior to that you'd get random things showing up with random amounts off which would change throughout the sale So its basically a marketing BS, and every single day of the 365-day year is special sales day anyway? Pretty much. The Steam Sale used to be highly looked forward to and Engaging from a user perspective. Sure a LOT of games were reduced to a base discount however you would have flash sales that lasted say 4 hours, Daily Specials that had more knocked off and it had you looking constantly checking the prices. Most forums tracked this information as normally if a game had a flash price it would end up as a daily special at some point and vice versa. You could get quite a few decent games for heavy discounts and many people would wait till the sales to get a lot of their games. Now it's just the base discount taken off everything for the entire duration, the the whole affair is generally "meh" with most games having a token amount knocked off and there's so much competition now it's normally the same sort reduction you get all year round from one site of another.
    1 point
  50. Elon Musk defies lockdown order and asks to be arrested

    The whole Coronavirus baloney has been blown way out of proportion. Yes, people have got sick, and, yes, people have died. But, this isn't even close to Black Plague status as it has been made out to be. Fear is being used and people are being played. Too many people have a Sheep mindset and are looking to their government and/or science gods to save them. So for one thing, this virus disproportionately affects the elderly and those who are immunocompromised (although healthy adults can also become badly ill or even die). Another key problem with it is that the vast majority of people that get it are either asymptomatic or present mild symptoms, and so they can come into contact with those that vulnerable (without knowing) and potentially make them seriously ill. Moreover, people do not have a sheep mindset by following proper social distancing protocols (which includes avoiding certain activities in more dense areas until there is more abundant testing) so the healthcare system is not flooded until there is a viable anti-viral treatment and later a vaccine. Unless of course, you would prefer to go through what countries like Italy (and even States like New York to a degree) have gone through where the healthcare system had become so overwhelmed that doctors have had make choices on which patients to give ventilators and who to let die. Also, those of us that put our trust in the scientific method and scientific consensus, do so because it has delivered us results that have allowed us to advance as a species and increased our quality of life and longevity. It has proven far more useful than blind faith and wishful thinking.
    1 point