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  1. I don't want to see that garbage dump logo in my browser, why the hell would they integrate that? Effin' cancer. Stop adding "features" nobody asked for. Jesus...
    8 points
  2. Android 11 will still say 5Ge, even if you're not on real 5G

    It should just sake "Fake5G"
    6 points
  3. For anyone looking at this game, it's worth remembering that Riot Games is fully owned by the Chinese giant Tencent. This means the CCP can potentially request player data from Riot at any time, can monitor it and generally do as it pleases. That aside, their anti-cheat software (Vanguard) installs a driver at Ring 0, and is active the entire time your machine is running (not just when you play the game). Even if the ownership of Riot and potential resulting privacy issues don't worry you, a "game anti-cheat" driver running at the highest level of privilege on your system the entire time it is running should. Obviously read up on it and make up your own minds regarding this. Check some of the coverage about this on YT; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G1vKJ27-4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOCtaBObg4
    5 points
  4. Intel Tigger Lake It was close. Good for Intel but I will wait for a new Ryzen Mobile.
    3 points
  5. That took far too long.
    3 points
  6. Why is Neowin promoting spyware?
    2 points
  7. I don't play Valorant but full disclosure, they added the option to have it off when not playing, it just means you have to let it reboot your PC before you do play. So if you do chose to trust their system you don't have to have it scanning constantly while doing other things. As far as I'm aware you still have to manually turn it off. It doesn't close when you close the game. At any rate, I guess this is the lengths you have to go to when your game is f2p. Such an intrusive thing that can and will break any piece of software it deems vulnerable on a whim is not for me but maybe other people are into that.
    2 points
  8. >Additionally, as a way of thanking its customers, T-Mobile is offering a free iPhone SE with bill credits to Sprint and T-Mobile customers starting Friday, May 22 and until Monday, May 25. To get the new iPhone SE, you'll need to trade in your current device and pay the sales tax on the new phone, and either be on a T-Mobile or Sprint postpaid plan or switch to one, with no requirements to add additional lines. Are you sure that you don't need to add a line to be eligible for deal?
    2 points
  9. Intel + 300Hz display = 1 minute battery life
    2 points
  10. Windows NT 3.5 and original Xbox source code leaks

    The NT3.5 leak means little to nothing at this point. The bigger story is probably the OG Xbox leak that could help emulators, maybe.
    2 points
  11. Windows NT 3.5 and original Xbox source code leaks

    Not legally. Any code that shows up from NT source would be DMCA'ed so fast it'd make their heads spin for years.
    2 points
  12. Sea of Thieves coming to Steam on June 3 with full cross-play support

    I wish this game had some sort of progression. I got bored of it before the first beta was over. I didn't hate the gameplay but it felt a little pointless without a goal to work towards. Not being able to customize my character's face/body didn't help either. Though I think that was changed.
    2 points
  13. Windows NT 3.5 and original Xbox source code leaks

    It can't and won't for various reasons, first being that right now they are targeting Windows Server 2003 compatibility (wich is waaay ahead of NT 3.5, and most importantly, because ReactOS can exist because the team writes its own code and uses some open source code, if they even look at that leaked code, let alone borrow some from it, then they will be on legal trouble and the project can shut down.
    2 points
  14. https://i.redd.it/s22ixzfa13931.jpg
    2 points
  15. Civilization VI is free to claim on the Epic Games Store this week

    This is a great game. Highly recommended.
    2 points
  16. Quake Champions is already ruined with all the cheating, seems they can't do anything right. That's true. Quake Champions is full of cheaters. But if you ruin the game with anticheats! what gives? In Portugal we have a saying: " If you don't die of the disease you die of the "cure"". Ruin the game with anticheat? What is being ruined? I agree if it causes the crashes or causes issues with legitimate players, but frankly I have no sympathy for people that cheat in games. One of the lower forms of humans. Same with Siege. Ruined by cheaters. Makes me not even want to play online, but I do still love the game. It's just frustrating.
    2 points
  17. Please tell me you are joking.
    2 points
  18. Didn't the 77 towers burned take place in the UK of all places? I'm confused here. UK supports Trump?
    2 points
  19. Twitter announces new labels for misleading COVID-19 posts

    Where exactly did the WHO say "no evidence of human to human transmission"? That goes against everything that I have read about COVID-19. They were saying that when it first started making the news in late Dec - Jan Source? Pretty much every newscast at the time look for yourself then it should be easy for you to back it up with a few news clips. When you make claims, it’s on you to back it up.
    2 points
  20. Intel Tiger Lake doubles GPU performance of Ice Lake in leaked benchmark

    I wish Intel stop focusing on GPUs and focus more on their CPUs.
    2 points
  21. For all the mess in the history of Teams, Skype, S4B and so on, it's amazing that they might finally get all of them talking to each other faster than Google cleans up their Chat dumpster fire.
    2 points
  22. Huh. So a game that came out in 2008 has a worse UI than one that came out in 2010? Who would have thought?
    2 points
  23. Twitter begins testing the ability to restrict replies to tweets

    Sounds like the sort of thing that's perfectly reasonable on a social network (control over who can post something that would effectively be visible on your profile). But somehow I imagine this will upset someone with a red hat somewhere. "Twitter" + "restrict" = angry magaderps
    2 points
  24. Twitter announces new labels for misleading COVID-19 posts

    Where exactly did the WHO say "no evidence of human to human transmission"? That goes against everything that I have read about COVID-19. They were saying that when it first started making the news in late Dec - Jan Source? Pretty much every newscast at the time look for yourself No need. Debunked above as stupid #### taken out of context.
    2 points
  25. package managers need update all the time too * shrugs *
    2 points
  26. Games like this easily suck in younger audiences. Parents think it's just another cartoony shooter and don't even think about what the software is doing in the background. Riot can throw all the slogans about how good their anti-cheat software is, but it amounts to a rootkit. Once installed, they can update it with any monitoring they deem fit and bury the notes in EULAs nobody reads. And even without that - all the data the game & current iteration of Vanguard collects is accessible to the Chinese government. You don't need a tinfoil hat to see how that is a very bad thing.
    1 point
  27. iPhone 12 may not come with EarPods in the box

    I am a fully subscribed member of the Apple family (watch, TV, phone, MBP, airport etc) and normally see a reason why they have done something. However, if they got rid of *ALL* the ports, then I'm out. @adrynalyne is right, its no way mature enough
    1 point
  28. Firefox Reality public release now on the Microsoft Store

    And yet regular old Firefox doesn't get to go onto the regular old Microsoft Store.
    1 point
  29. iPhone 12 may not come with EarPods in the box

    A move like this is to save Apple money, not the consumer.
    1 point
  30. They have to focus on both because in many areas, both matter, especially on the low and mid tier of PC's and they know AMD is ramping up it's igpu performance so if Intel ignored that, it would make the Ryzen cpu's more appealing for more people, especially lower end user or mobile chips.
    1 point
  31. Cannot wait for this!
    1 point
  32. Microsoft Edge Canary gets updated with Pinterest integration

    Here we go again. The bloating begins. This is the same nonsense like Pocket on Firefox. It should be a extension, not built into the browser.
    1 point
  33. Microsoft Edge Canary gets updated with Pinterest integration

    I too hate when features I don't want are disabled by default. What would be really ideal is if no one can have features I personally don't use, I'm with you there.
    1 point
  34. Microsoft Edge Canary gets updated with Pinterest integration

    I'd rather have a feature that removes all pinterest image results when searching. Appending "-site:domain_to_exclude" is a pita since pinterest has multiple domains.
    1 point
  35. AMD has always been on top for price-to-performance. They also now have total performance under their belt. Great outcome, so please I switched over last year.
    1 point
  36. Didn't the 77 towers burned take place in the UK of all places? I'm confused here. UK supports Trump? Remember to whom you are writing. Consider the source.
    1 point
  37. Samsung Galaxy Note20+ could ship with a 108MP camera

    Phones have become just a new scam in my opinion. Not worth it. The new iPhone SE at $400 made the case perfect that a $1000 phone was just silly. Pretty much. Walk away with an iPhone SE, AirPods, Watch for $760... with 5 year support on the phone, flagship CPU, and devices that work well together. I'm about to get my grandmother setup for the heart monitoring finally. Too many close scares.
    1 point
  38. Twitter begins testing the ability to restrict replies to tweets

    By "Redhat" I assume you mean American? Of course you do, you're not one. I welcome viewpoints on the other side, it's just they don't know how to have a conversation without saying juvenile things like "Magaderps" - Those people are a lost cause that no one will notice when they're gone. No; by 'redhat' he means anti-American. And the part I bolded is, well, a bold faced lie.
    1 point
  39. The super ironic thing about this is during the 3G -> 4G transition, T-Mobile did essentially this by rebranding their 3G network as a 4G network. Pot calling the kettle black.
    1 point
  40. Microsoft might release a Windows 10 VHDX for Hyper-V on ARM64 PCs

    Won’t ever do what again? I doubt you have ever run Windows on ARM (Windows RT was not WoA).
    1 point
  41. Mafia Trilogy includes a remake, a remaster, and a re-release

    I don't know when you played it, but I got it on release. It was buggy as hell, you could sit down with the group of enemies in sight and they will magically unsee you. it was a joke to play. maybe they fixed it with patches, but by that time I lost interest and moved on. I am really looking forward to Mafia 1 though... Wonder if they keep that 1 race super hard, I think I spend over 5 hours to win 1 single race to move on... The first game was so good, I just kept on trying again and again. Nowadays, some games story takes only 5 hours. The race is not that hard. Just don't drive like a lunatic and use brakes. dustojnikhummer ; did you play it pre-patch? ; because after they patched the game the racing mission was a lot easier to win to where unless you suck at racing games you will comfortably win. but prior to the patch it takes many retries to where it's almost luck since you have to drive pretty much perfectly to win. thank you. I was wondering what was up. i was by far not the worst player in the room, but it took FOREVER to beat it. yes, of course i played the release version, i never had any patches applied.
    1 point
  42. Spotify is adding Joe Rogan's podcast as its latest exclusive

    And... why exactly?
    1 point
  43. Google: No more custom AI tools for oil and gas firms

    And this kids, shows that politics and political correctness has a very firm hand in capitalism too! Let's have a look at these electric cars? https://interestingengineering...han-a-diesel-car-study-says Tesla Model 3: 3,552 lb (1,611 kg) BMW G20 3 Series 330i: 1445 Kg / 3186 lbs. They even do more damage to the road than a premium petrol car through their excessive weight, yet they pay less taxes, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Nice!
    1 point
  44. Google: No more custom AI tools for oil and gas firms

    And that is what Google's position is really about - both. (It also helps that Google was a distant third in both areas - behind Microsoft and Amazon.) Sour grapes much, Google?
    1 point
  45. Twitter announces new labels for misleading COVID-19 posts

    Where exactly did the WHO say "no evidence of human to human transmission"? That goes against everything that I have read about COVID-19. They were saying that when it first started making the news in late Dec - Jan Source? A cherry-picked fragment of a tweet: https://www.truthorfiction.com...avirus-on-january-14-2020/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.truthorfiction.com...navirus-on-january-14-2020/ The WHO message was passing on a statement issued by the Chinese government. Placing the issue further in context of a novel pathogen: you start with a few sick people that share a group of symptoms. Run normal tests and normal treatments, then realize that the pathogen is new. Now you have a population with an unknown number of infected and you have to build new tests from scratch and demonstrate that they are accurate and effective (negligible false-positives, false-negatives). Once you have that, you can confirm patients that are infected, and start testing people that turn up in contact-tracing the initial patients. If you have a small patient pool and the contacts that turn up sick also share mutual potential sources of infection (for example they all are workers or visitors at a zoo) then you have to also deal with the possibility that the infection came from one or a few non-human sources. If provided a pure sample, a well-equipped academic research lab could probably kludge together a functional test kit in two weeks based on detection of nucleic acids. Antibody-based detection kits take longer to make from scratch. Getting through the process of proving clearly takes time without unethical measures, like taking a sick person and having them intentionally trying to infect healthy people. Not surprised.
    1 point
  46. PayPal adds support for QR code payments in 28 markets

    I've seen poeple on flea markets using it to pay for things. One seller had a printed PayPal QR code out. As these are private sellers, they won't have a credit card reader.
    1 point
  47. Vivaldi adds Startpage as search option under new agreement

    Reminder that Startpage.com has been compromised. It was bought by System1, an advertising and data harvesting company. Do not use it.
    1 point
  48. iPhone 12 may not come with EarPods in the box

    i thought he was holding a nano size phone?
    1 point
  49. "As usual, sales of these Pride Edition watch bands help support organizations that work for the LGBT community, including GLSEN, PFLAG, The Trevor project, and more." Isn't that more than Nike themselves ever did for the black community? I could be wrong, but they made a buncha money off Colin Kaepernick to sweep their sex scandals and sweat shops under the rug pretending to be "woke". Goes to show marketing works I guess. Anyway, I'm glad the white band looks at least decent than the blatant "throw a rainbow on it" strategy.
    1 point
  50. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Oh, my...thrusters plus it's still wearing the protective poly film. Once that's peeled off 😎 Processed...
    1 point