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  1. Only add-on I needed it to support was ublock origin and it did.
    3 points
  2. AWS adds new Amazon Fraud Detector to fight fraud

    they can add it to amazon vendors.
    2 points
  3. Biden's campaign bans TikTok from employees mobile devices

    As if a Chinese company wouldn't lie to keep its business.
    2 points
  4. They're still saying in the video it's "Coming Holidays 2020" with a disclaimer, "Pre-release product shown; actual product, software and features subject to change.", and I for one hope it gets it's release. Even if it only has Windows 10 as the OS, which has dual-screen capabilities and a number of other required features available, I'd hope the device itself lives up to the hype of it's potential as a Surface product.
    2 points
  5. The New Me.

    You've done bloody well mate!
    2 points
  6. The New Me.

    best I got.
    2 points
  7. The New Me.

    was testing the portrait mode on the back of my iPhone SE 2020. (This is the compressed, sent to someone on Telegram version). Those are the same glasses. Look how much smaller they looked on my fat face lol.
    2 points
  8. Microsoft and PepsiCo announce a five-year cloud partnership

    You mean that bullcrap lawsuit? "Oh, they are not our competition. Yes, we are using them for unfair competition practices! No, I don't see the contradiction"
    2 points
  9. Downloaded, thank you. All running well on my iPhone
    1 point
  10. The outside diameter of the cable(s) is quite large, but will vary in size depending on the armoring, shielding, strength members, fibre counts and any additional wiring within it. The weight per meter is fairly heavy so the traditional method has been to roll off hundreds of meters of cable and allow it to sink to ocean floor. They will anchor the cable periodically to help it maintain its route and not become a casualty of ships. Because optical signals degrade like others (much less, of course), there are key points along the route that will have a form of repeater in-line that will help propagate the signal great distances. Typically, these repeaters are EDFA lasers meant to re-amplify the optical signal. The planning that goes into charting the best route, or path of least resistance is also critical to the cable(s) installation. Because we're talking about the Atlantic ocean here, the depths can be prohibitive, so they'd likely look to ocean-floor geography to keep the installation as consistent as possible throughout. Source: I design/plan outside plant systems for an ISP.
    1 point
  11. Kodi 18.8

    Until Kodi includes built-in support for Chromecast (without having to go the route of using Chrome / Stream desktop), I'll stick with Plex.
    1 point
  12. Literally nobody cares.
    1 point
  13. Okay, how about getting Stadia working on Android TV now or making the iOS app actually useful and able to play games ....
    1 point
  14. Remove the useless macro camera, and add useful wireless charging. Also remove the ugly punch out and add a beautiful notch.
    1 point
  15. Even heard of phishing? Your network doesn't need to be beached to get a ransomware on it. If the ransonware got on the wrong machine via an email or so it's very possible it was able to spread to most of the network.
    1 point
  16. The New Me.

    That camera will never be the same again.... All kidding aside, good job man 👍
    1 point
  17. Telegram now lets users send 2GB files, adds profile videos, and more

    Yes I also hated it as without customizing the theme carefully, the default theme didn't care for clearing indicating active vs inactive windows!
    1 point
  18. If somebody was able to encrypt multiple servers and services then they must of had full access to their systems so it would be foolish to think no user data was accessed or taken. The reputational damage is going to be ongoing although the near monopoly will mitigate but expect class action lawsuits.
    1 point
  19. Sounds like you need a better internet connection.
    1 point
  20. Probably me, I want a good way to play those games. I have some good GB, GBC, GBA, GG games I want to play, but on TV it isn't the same. I would like a high end small display like this device has.
    1 point
  21. Firefox 79.0

    That's not Neowin's fault, that's Mozilla's. Mozilla always pushes to the download servers first and delays the main page and in browser updater once a build is "finalized" and they send out notifications to people subscribed at that point; which includes our writer. Mozilla doesn't have a true RC process anymore and they basically use this time frame as that; hence why the build can still be pulled at this point before finishing the rollout ...
    1 point
  22. Google Pixel 4a '100%' launching on August 3

    Where will the price be in the US? If it holds steady (same price as the no-longer-manufactured Pixel 3a), I will recommend it in the 3a's place. (I called the 3a last year "the mainstream phone for everyone and "Everybody's Pixel".)
    1 point
  23. Unfortunately a lot of people "buying" these things are doing it through carriers or other loan-like things. I mean, it is a phone. If you can't afford it outright, buy something cheaper. This is not a flat or a car. I can afford to buy one outright, but I would not, at the end of the day, what is so special that makes it that price apart from it having the samsung name on it and i know some people seem to see Samsung like Apple. Sorry, but the majority of people who buy phones for this do so because it is like some sort of trophy as if people are really interested in what phone they have. I have a Huawei p10 lite and it cost me £200 3 years ago and it works great, it is pretty fast, have a good screen, for the price, take good photos, not great but good, but no phone is going to take great photos, some will take better ones, but not great as the sensor is far too small. My phone plays music and it browses the net and runs apps, also have NFC and all the other stuff most people need. Sure you pay a bit more and you get a better screen, maybe a bit larger, a faster processor and some other little things, but i think paying over £500 for a phone is going a bit far and that phone will still do what mine does. At the end of the day it is up to people what they spend their money on, I paid £400 on a coffee maker a few years back, people said I had more money than sense, but it makes good coffee, cheap ones don't. i pay extra if I think I am getting something for that extra bit of money I pay. You are right, people have these phones on a contract for a couple of years and then that phone is replaced and is either dumped in a drawer or go to landfill. It is time laws was made to force phone providers to take the old phones back. My Huawie hopefully will last for another couple of years at leats, if it last me 5 years I will have saved money as my sim only contract is a lot cheaper than having a phone contract. To be honest, if my Nexus 4 was still in fully working order I would still be using that. yeah you hit all the nails on the head. I prefer no contract at all, that's why I stick with no contract carriers like Metro by T-Mobile. I'm fine buying a phone outright every few years or so. The cheap service pays that back much quicker than "subsidizing". On that subject I hate the term "subsidizing"; maybe if they called it what it is, a Loan Contract, then people wouldn't be so gung ho about the system. If I can't do outright at the time I'll charge a phone to my credit card or split the payment and finance part or all of it on a simple loan program like Afirm.
    1 point
  24. Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 shown off in hands-on video

    they are there in hardware but they have yet to get approval from the government agencies as siad on Engadget site dfew months ago https://www.engadget.com/samsu...ecg-approval-174543781.html Samsung only expects to release the Health Monitor app for the Active 2 sometime during the third quarter of the year. It also can’t make the ECG feature available in other countries until it receives approval from relevant government agencies. You could be waiting a while longer to use the feature in your part of the world. Future Galaxy Watches will have the app as well,
    1 point
  25. Firefox 79.0

    It's not on the website yet nor is it on the updater. This is posted early on Neowin every time despite the fact that the previous release had an issue and was pulled. This really is not good practise.
    1 point
  26. uTorrent 3.5.5 Build 45724

    It's grown of course, the main executable has been UPX packed for a while, but it sits around the ~2 MB mark if I'm not mistaken. It's just that they now use some AdAware installer instead of their own so the actual uTorrent/BitTorrent executable is inside of it along with other stuff. Fair enough it's grown and I used to remember it growing by a few k every couple of version but from like 160k to 4.8megs, I suspect most of that is the installer and other fluff. One of the main reasons I used to use Utorrent in the past was because it was lean, light on resources and small compared to a lot of others at the time.
    1 point
  27. White Xbox Series X controller reportedly shows up online

    what an horrible d pad, 2d games will suffer its like going back to xbox 360 era.... what a step back compared to xbox one controller
    1 point
  28. Google is working on a 'Read Later' feature for Chrome

    Hmm, looks pretty interesting. But what Google really needs to do with their browser is also enable an 'install later' feature for all other browsers when you log into their service from like Edge and you're prompted to install their POC browser. I'd like the option of not getting prompted until say, July of 2054. Can you do that Google?
    1 point
  29. Qualcomm announces Quick Charge 5 for 100W+ charging

    USB-PD chargers are rare and expensive. You can get QC chargers literally everywhere. My bigger issue is the fact finding QC4 or QC4+ is almost impossible. We've had phones that support QC4 for ages, yet they were mostly shipping with QC3 chargers. And you can buy QC3 chargers all over the place for cheap. QC4, not so much. QC5 will be basically unobtainable. With this obsession with quick chargers, it would be nice if phones had user control over battery charging. Like deciding how far it should charge it (like only up to 80%). And you could pick what kind of charge you want when you plug it in. Like Night Charging so it optimizes charging as slow as possible to reach desired charge in the morning. Normal Charge to charge at lets say 1A when you're not in a rush, but can do charge in 2 hours or something like that. And Fast Charge that just charges as fast as it can.
    1 point
  30. Qualcomm announces Quick Charge 5 for 100W+ charging

    No, just no. Use USB-PD and forget about this prorietary cr@p already.
    1 point
  31. Brilliant, thanks ACCC. That's a scum move by Google, if proven
    1 point
  32. Telegram now lets users send 2GB files, adds profile videos, and more

    People just want a simple chat app, is that stupid? If KIK then yes.
    1 point
  33. The best true wireless earbuds to buy

    Yes, ecosystem lock-in ploy by OEMs.
    1 point
  34. Telegram now lets users send 2GB files, adds profile videos, and more

    Oh I didn't notice this. Might finally switch back to the desktop app instead of Unigram now.
    1 point
  35. Telegram now lets users send 2GB files, adds profile videos, and more

    Another small feature is the ability to set the titlebar to be native to the OS. For me this is great, I hated the small titlebar & buttons that Telegram had.
    1 point
  36. IMO the alternative of having settings strewn across Control Panel (which is outdated and aged AF) and Settings is far worse. I do not agree with your sentiment, bring on the death of Control Panel. It does not have the same functionality as the control panel. If it did I wouldn't mind. Settings is not a suitable replacement for the control panel. They are still changing it to have such functionality. The thing is, you are complaining about them doing that. If there is anything to complain about, it’s that they haven’t finished it yet. When will we get this? 2050? Its been 7 years and settings is still useless as it was in Windows 8. Its not designed for mouse and keyboard usage. There is no way to open multiple instances. It sometimes crashes randomly with no error box to the reason why. Its slow at times to open up. I can tell the UI is having performance issues because sometimes it randomly shutters. Its frustrating to use! The whole setting UI is jam packed in a vertical column, so I have to scroll through a list of items with no visual order. The settings UI components are placed in random places, its flat, bland and one color. There is no grid for lists views and huge amount of functions are missing because of that. For example, changing views, sorting by, grouping by, and choosing column details, expanding columns. In apps & features, long titled programs are cut off, and the only way to see them is hovering my mouse over each item. In control panel applet, I can expand the name column to adjust the width. Even Linux environments have this. Its sad when open source desktop environments settings look and function better than a billion dollar company’s. Was settings made by employees on there free time? It doesn't feel like they put any effort into it. I would like if they gave us the option to use the old one without having to click links off the side of settings. It will be years until Microsoft makes settings is usable as control panel. A checkbox option “Use Control Panel Instead of Settings” would be nice.
    1 point
  37. The New Me.

    1 point
  38. The New Me.

    I'm approaching 11 YEARS since my weight loss journey began! Don't let anyone tell you that losing weight is easy, it’s not. It takes effort and a lot of it! It’s MUCH easier to never put it on than it is to take it back off. Once you lose the weight, keeping it off is a lifelong commitment! One more thing. Never be ashamed of your fat pics! Don't hate them and never look at them ever again. Embrace them!! Use them as a reminder of someone you never want to be again.
    1 point
  39. Lucifer (TV)

    Nope
    0 points