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  1. I first read this as a butthole flaw. Yes I am immature.
    7 points
  2. What a shock - an IT company that sells the most outrageously overpriced products in the universe, and has duped people into believing they are somehow worth it. Good grief, they have a monitor stand that costs $1,000.
    5 points
  3. OK... so back in the real world, the thing that really made it happen for iPhone was the release of iPhone SE 2020... which accounted for large chunk of iPhone sales. The phone which is an excellent value, BTW (seeing that you know it will be supported for at least 4 years). https://www.macrumors.com/2020...-sales-bright-spot-q2-2020/ . Add to that the last year's iPad which also starts at $330, the timing of Apple releasing lower cost products was just right. I have pretty high degree of confidence that $1000 stands are not where it's at.
    4 points
  4. Panasonic aims to increase Tesla battery capacity by 20%

    Making them smaller but longer lasting is a double boost to a EVs miles per charge since you're also reducing the weight. It'll be interesting to see what the range is in 5 years if they can keep getting steady battery advances.
    4 points
  5. Dumb. Nobody is going to have their map app persuade them to wear a mask or not. If it was more a reminder like "don't forget to bring your mask", that'd be one thing, but "wear a mask, save lives". Yeah, people have basically already decided on how they feel about masks. A simple reminder would be silly too even, my mask never leaves my car. I don't need it when I'm home. And if I'm anywhere else, I'm wearing it.
    3 points
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  7. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Windows has sure come a long way. A little inconsistent here and there but they're getting close.
    3 points
  8. The best time is yesterday and the second best time is now. Just buy it and don’t time the market. Hold on to the stock for a long time and you’d get rewarded. I myself will be buying Apple and Microsoft stock.
    2 points
  9. The iPhone came out in the late 2000s; that's not innovative?
    2 points
  10. I'M SHOCKED! No I'm not, it's this type of stuff that the hearing is all about, I hope they get dragged through the courts to no end, all of them.
    2 points
  11. So much for the level playing field unless you are a huge multi national corporation.
    2 points
  12. Getting tired of everyone and everything nagging about masks. There is enough info and PSAs out there to notify users. It is not an awareness issue. It is a people issue for not wanting to comply. Do not need anymore nags.
    2 points
  13. Pretty much everything is now known about the Surface Duo

    What support do Qualcomm offer in that lifespan?
    2 points
  14. Hehehehhehee. . . . Hey Beavis. . . he said "Butthole" . . . hehehehehe
    2 points
  15. Pretty much everything is now known about the Surface Duo

    So this will be supported for, at max, two years? (Qualcomm only supports mobile SoCs for three years and the Snapdragon 855 is 1.5 years old)
    2 points
  16. Another proof that US is in its own world
    2 points
  17. the flash intensity is a great addition! i hate when trying to take a pic of something close up, but just need a little extra light, not to get blown out by a flash as bright as the sun...
    2 points
  18. at least they didn't call it the 'gaping boothole' flaw....
    2 points
  19. NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)

    ...and the spacecraft is talking to mission control. So, everything is looking good.
    2 points
  20. NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)

    Successful launch and separation of Mars 2020 with the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter... it's on its way. Landing on Mars on February 18, 2021.
    2 points
  21. NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)

    Less than an hour away from launch (Launch at 7:50 a.m. EDT) Livestream is ... ummm ...live.
    2 points
  22. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    iOS 14's features were announced a month ago. Homescreen widgets are being introduced just now in iOS. Windows for phones has been around for years. If anyone is copying, it's Apple. How deluded can one be ?
    2 points
  23. Microsoft releases Edge 85 to the Beta channel with new features

    Not trolling, genuinely curious. Why would anyone still be on 8.1? Because it gets security updates until January 10, 2023 and doesn't receive bi-yearly feature updates.
    2 points
  24. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Windows 10 solidified my move away from Windows as my daily driver OS. I couldn’t deal with the inconsistencies, botched updates (both cumulative and feature), and constant beta testing feeling. As soon as they axed the majority of their QA in favor of agile and public betas, I knew the quality would tank. Other OSes also follow the agile model, but have a far better track record for consistency. Windows 10 may be better in its development cycle now, but I’ve already left and see no incentive to come back.
    2 points
  25. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Well said. This is to be expected when young kids are let loose without mature supervision having actual worldly experience, coupled with minimal testing before being unleashed to an unsuspecting world. MS should not have been so hasty to "kill" Windows-7 until they had a truly worthy successor. (Yes, businesses got a multiple year reprieve, but what about individual users for whom Windows-7 is a much more suitable OS?)
    2 points
  26. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    If you mean Cortana, she did talk back then, unless your sound card driver was not installed. She went away in the recent releases. But then again, badmouthing Cortana is standard ranting cliche here in Neowin.
    2 points
  27. Luxus cursors for Windows

    Hi, In case you're interested in new cursors for Windows or macOS you can check out my DeviantArt account here for a set called Luxus 3 External link to my DeviantArt account macOS cursors are in my gallery there too should you want. I've gotten a request to look into making the cursors(main arrow) a bit smaller. I await response on that elsewhere.. Is that the desire here also? it's only a couple of pixels height and width wise. Look at the attached images and comment 😄 Also, if you want to try these and don't want or have a DeviantArt account, you can download them out from my Jumpshare account here (Windows only) External link to Jumpshare -Allan
    1 point
  28. Panasonic aims to increase Tesla battery capacity by 20%

    This will also make any explosions more exciting as well!
    1 point
  29. Relentless innovation? Apple hasn't innovated since the early 2000s. Maybe someone doesn't have a clear grasp of the meaning of the word 'relentless'
    1 point
  30. I replaced mine a few years ago (Cyberpower 1500AVRLCD) from Batteries Plus...and the price was pretty good if I recall correctly. They are Duracell's. Haven't had any issues.
    1 point
  31. Apple reportedly favored Amazon with lower App Store rates for Prime Video

    And why so? Do you really believe that other companies do not do the same? Do you think that if you negotiate to buy 100 office 365 licenses you will be able to get the same deal of someone else buying 10,000 licenses?
    1 point
  32. Pretty much everything is now known about the Surface Duo

    What support do Qualcomm offer in that lifespan? driver and security updates, if at all. though Google, OEMs, carriers don't necessarily forward it to users.
    1 point
  33. what a surprise /s
    1 point
  34. Microsoft announces new Teams features for education

    This is cool, but how many schools actually use Teams for Education? It seems all the school districts in my city (we're one of the largest cities in the country) utilize Chromebooks and Google education apps.
    1 point
  35. Neowin.net Minecraft Server (Old Server)

    sorry, I didn't get out of work until late yesterday so completely forgot to give it a kick. I'll grab it tonight or @Louisifer if you want to give it a kick sooner do me a favor and save the logs to the desktop and I'll look over them and update everything tonight 🙂
    1 point
  36. Huawei is huge on the African continent people. Not just in China https://youtu.be/jrwZ-fykqAE
    1 point
  37. Google's basically stopped user-facing feature updates to Android native apps.(most feature updates now are just a couple of basic fine tuning security, supporting new tech, and under-the-hood improvements), and are trying to push their own Google Play services and Google Apps. The native apps(camera, browser, files, etc.) are pretty much all but useless, and this in turns makes Android without Google or proprietary OEM softwarebarely useable. There are fantastic FOSS apps out there(hosted on f-droid) like opencamera which can easily replace them - i don't understand why they don't make it native/part of the OS. We need a company like Red Hat or Groups like KDE to bring Community control over Android.
    1 point
  38. That still puts you at risk. Secure Boot offers protection from unauthorized changes at boot level and this attack compromises its security, meaning you're left with the same level of protection you'd have without Secure Boot enabled (not worse than that). It would practically be a little better with Secure Boot turned on because one would still need to exploit this vulnerability to get through, which is a possible but not trivial task.
    1 point
  39. Google chrome home page

    New tab redirect extension solved this issue. Thx
    1 point
  40. Samsung please do it and stop making a duplicate app for every single app Google has. I haven’t bought a Samsung since Galaxy S for this reason.
    1 point
  41. Google One app now includes free phone backups, and heads to iOS

    Two things: 1) Apple's free storage tier is 5 GB, while Google's free tier is 15 GB. I wish Apple offered a bit more for their free tier. 2) I have much more faith/better experience in the backup/restore process from Apple. I've had less than stellar experience with Android's backup/restore, where certain apps don't restore at all (it's a surprise if an app restore properly). 5 GB is worse but the backup/restore works perfectly as intended, unlike the Android one. Honestly, I'd rather pay a bit for convenience.
    1 point
  42. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    I picked up a 950 to use to replace my 640 for note taking on the go. The keyboard on Windows Mobile was amazing and nothing can really compare to it. The best part of WP IMO was its Driving Mode. I love how it would automatically switch on when paired with your car radio and automatically read texts and such allowing you to reply via voice completely hands free. Even today I haven't seen a native or 3rd party Car Mode on either Android or iOS that works as seamlessly for this portion.
    1 point
  43. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Hmm... as you probably know, anything that you see in a release version has, at one point, been seen in an insider build. I mean yeah, technically yes, RTM is always in Insider before launch. What I mean is that I don't remember it being in builds before RTM in like April/May
    1 point
  44. It sounds like this build gets rid of any A/B testing going on in the previous build, so everyone should have all the same changes now.
    1 point
  45. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    far behind the original Windows Search which came out in 2006
    1 point
  46. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    I miss 1507 where on a clean install and the first boot, the bitch doesn't start talking you.
    1 point
  47. Big Tech CEOs release opening remarks before congressional hearing

    Why is Congress investigating the superheroes of America? They're using their mighty capitalist superpowers to lift the US market up during this crisis. Congress should give them the Congressional Gold Medal and more tax cuts instead of vilifying them so unjustly.
    1 point
  48. Google to lay a new subsea cable connecting the US, UK and Spain

    Yeah becuase let's cut off our nose to spite our face. These cables are literally the backbone of most of what we do why would anyone want to damage it? Because they hate the U.S.A and the U.S.A have a lot of enemies. I'm struggling to understand your comment and why anyone would do that. These sort of cables have been around for a number of years and let's be honest the USA hasn't exactly been a saint yet nothing has happened. If anything we're now even more reliant on these cables.
    1 point
  49. What I wish they would do is stop treating all users like idiots.. What is the "specific" reason you have my machine on the block list.. Give me the details.. So I can replace it, or update it or whatever... But just saying your machine is not ready is just nonsense.. Sure billy bob user doesn't know or care - but where is the button for those that do want to know can get the info.. Or for that matter command I need to run...
    1 point