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  1. The UK begins research into space-based solar power

    With a really long electricical cable, silly! The real trick will be stopping it from wrapping around the Earth with each rotation.
    4 points
  2. Tiny bit of water? They've been submergible for at least a couple revisions now. Come on.
    3 points
  3. Privacy with google? LOL, that is so funny, Google wants to know everything about you and collect a load of data from my phone.
    2 points
  4. The UK begins research into space-based solar power

    They need to let Elon Musk handle it. He should be on speed dial for this kind of stuff.
    2 points
  5. Falcon 9: Crew Dragon Crew-1 (ISS mission)

    SpaceX Crew-1 stream
    1 point
  6. Lenovo Legion 5 review: AMD Ryzen 4000 gaming

    The max should be the minimum? 😉 Nobody is going above 100Wh because it’s a logistical nightmare (and possibly other regulatory reasons).
    1 point
  7. How about making it so bluetooth doesn't need location access? That was a very silly idea to begin with
    1 point
  8. Teams for personal use - "use your phone"?

    Many thanks for the advice and luck! I'm getting a bit ahead of myself since it isn't confirmed that I will get an interview, but I saw that it would be conducted through Teams if it happens and I wanted to be sure. Yeah, I've had meetings through Zoom and Teams before so it was more about the sign-in on my personal machine, but I'm glad your other advice covers the various factors I'd been thinking about.
    1 point
  9. Teams for personal use - "use your phone"?

    I dont know if it helps but for stability i always sign in on Teams using the web browser version as i found the app approach a little convoluted, i did this on macOS Catalina + Google Chrome for maximum compatibility, it seemed more seamless than the app approach. If you wanted a backup then if you have a tablet have the app + link ready to go on that also. I tend to do this to keep my options open, ensure your internet and WIFI is top notch too, i.e. make sure the signal is really strong on WiFi. However the main thing is to remain calm, ive done plenty of interviews and have been interviewed over Zoom & Teams and work in IT, we all understand there are problems sometimes with joining, the worst is panicking, just calmly work through the problem and youll get there. Ive never marked anyone down for having a problem with Zoom/Teams (if they do i dont know if i would want to work for them). Sorry if this is off at a tangent please feel free to ignore, Make sure the background is as clear as possible / professional as possible, blank wall is perfect, however clean with not too many things in the background is always good. The virtual backgrounds are good if you have a problem with this. Make sure your face gets plenty of light (not blinding sharp light), make sure the light source is not behind you, dark rooms, lighting from behind will make the video more blocky/noisy hard to see as the DSP tries to keep up. Having a blank background with nothing moving is also useful if you have low bandwidth (especially upload speed). A good cheap microphone from amazon is really worth the purchase unless your laptop has a really really good microphone, ive found that many of these come across as rather tinny. Of course a nice set of headphones with microphone is also a big win here. Keep pets/family distractions out of the room to help you concentrate. Try and get the camera up to face/eye level, having the camera low shooting up your nose is not the end of the world, but camera's up high lends itself to a professional look. Also try to keep eye contact on the camera and not on the screen so much, of course you will need to read the screen to read as much body language, however trying to keep your eyes on the camera looks great from the other side as youre looking straight at us instead of looking off at the side, again this is not the end of the world, just a little extra pro touch. Keep a glass of water with you, its easy to forget this as with interviews you always get that offer as you walk through the door, however remote it's up to you to remember. Hope you get it, good luck!
    1 point
  10. VR headsets?

    My opinion is that they are not gimmicky, certainly not like 3D TVs. I was looking into getting a VR headset recently as well, and I've tried one or two out. When thinking about getting a headset, I would first take a look at each headset's games library as well as the equipment you already have with you. For example, if your son doesn't have a Playstation there is not much point in getting the Playstation VR headset. Has your son used a VR headset before? If not then it might be an idea to try one or two of them out first; not to see if there is one that he prefers (although that doesn't hurt) but to make sure that he would be comfortable using one. They can cause disorientation and nausea for some people.
    1 point
  11. Teams for personal use - "use your phone"?

    I have it installed on my desktop and laptop and you can use it fine. When you join a meeting set up by a corporate user they just have to admit you as a guest. I use it to join most of my work Teams calls.
    1 point
  12. Wonder Woman 1984

    Yeah, I've been thinking the same thing. How many screens are still going to be around 8-12 months from now? They should just release them world wide and let the movies play where they can, let them run longer since nothing else is out like Tenet. Then just go to VOD/streaming/DVD+BD sales and cross your fingers. On the flip side maybe this will make studios rain in some of these insane budgets they've been spending on movies these past 10 or so years.
    1 point
  13. Price reduction is good news, but to me it indicates phones are at point where there's diminishing returns for the next generations with only small increments in quality and performance possible. I'd say the bulk of the smartphone market will be people looking to upgrade because they haven't for a few years, since there isn't much bleeding edge here for those who upgrade ASAP based on new tech.
    1 point
  14. Apple spying on you?

    I said potentially... we dont know what all they are doing yet... there have been a couple security researchers claim they found some typed strings sent in the unencrypted transmissions but until they are proven I said potentially yeah especially if you use tracking cookies and log onto a vpn they still know who you are and how you got where you are now following the crumbs left... heck if they didn't every time you went onto a vpn your youtube suggestions when you aren't logged in should be different. I haven't seen that in a very very long time
    1 point
  15. iPhone 12 Pro Max unboxing and first impressions

    I'm not really impressed by stainless steel edges / sides, though. Seems to be really kind of messy when handled with you know - fingers. 😂 Wife put hers into a case immediately which is a good thing, she is known to drop a phone occasionally. I put on latex gloves whenever I need to use the phone to avoid the fingerprints. I don't like the bulkiness of a case.
    1 point
  16. iPhone 12 Pro Max unboxing and first impressions

    iPhones do not need a headphone jack, I haven't used wired headphones in years. Wired headphones are very old fashioned now. If you want headphones with a wire and a headphone jack on your phone you can still get a few phones with a headphone jack and I'm sure one of those phones will be perfect for wired headphone jack lovers. If you find the right phone with a headphone jack you should maybe buy a few and store them away for future use because at some point no normal consumer-focused phone will support an old fashioned headphone jack. And yet, they still provide superior audio quality.
    1 point
  17. The UK begins research into space-based solar power

    You do have to insert the context that the Government is made up of many departments and agencies. The preformance of one area doesn't necessarily reflect on the preformance of other departments or agencies. Really whenever parliament gets involved with agencies, it usually turns to ######. Agencies like the MetOffice usually run well because parliament usually doesn't get involved with them. Unfortunately the UK Space Agency has caught the attention of #10 due to their decision to exit the Galileo program with no ######ing plan, and no intention of paying for a proper alternative. So that resulted in money wasted in GNSS and a dodgy investment in OneWeb, which doesn't even appear to be the solution?
    1 point
  18. The UK begins research into space-based solar power

    They had this in SimCity 2000. It's a good idea but sometimes the energy beam will miss and take out a few blocks of your city 😕
    1 point
  19. Apple spying on you?

    Right. There wasn't much to debate, you criticized the source on a subject I don't think you have as much knowledge in as you think you do. I mean off the top of my head, DNS leak from your VPN can help give away your location, not to mention logs kept on the VPN server most likely contain that information, etc.
    1 point
  20. Apple spying on you?

    I do hope you realize that even when using a VPN your location isnt necessarily hidden and you CAN indeed locate someone who is using a VPN. I stopped reading what you had to say once I read that part.
    1 point
  21. TrendForce: Apple to sell a record number of MacBooks in 2021

    Doing what? * Engineering works. * Hardware intensive business works. * Science works * Artist works. I know quite a few people in those fields who would disagree with you. Your opinion is well, just that.
    1 point
  22. The UK begins research into space-based solar power

    It's doable, it's just if it can be done cheaply enough to warrant doing with the energy it produces. Like the article said, if it can be done, solar in space and the loss of energy in beaming it back to the grid isn't too much, it would produce energy around the clock and with enough of them up there, quite a lot of energy. i'm interesting in leaning more about this "beaming it back to the grid" part! i can see collecting it in space, but how are they getting it back to earth?
    1 point
  23. iPhone 12 Pro Max unboxing and first impressions

    It was sarcasm and there is nothing wrong with headphone jacks, especially since they still provide superior audio quality.
    1 point
  24. iPhone 12 Pro Max unboxing and first impressions

    Where's the headphone jack? That device is huge, should be enough room to put a headphone jack in.
    1 point
  25. "Thunderbolt 4" As Rich alludes, this is basically TB3 implemented fully. Which is just one reason I have railed about TB and reviews clamoring about devices when they don't offer TB3, even though the devices that often do have TB3 have lower data rates available to the user. (Surface for example.) Older Dell XPS generations with TB3 were essentially TB2 speeds; however, this wasn't so much a 'Dell' choice, as an Intel choice and difference in the Intel mobile chipsets or allocation of the Mainboard resources. With a fixed number of PCI lanes, if a Notebook has an integrated GPU, and NVMe slots for storage, and USB 3, the allocation of the lanes and data rates require compromises. TB gets even crazier/elusive when considering devices with multiple TB3 ports, with data rate sharing or data rate limitations to each port. There are notebooks that tout X number of TB3 ports, while each of them is slower than a similar notebook with one TB3 port. There are also other ways to allocate the PCI lanes for devices and not use TB3 whatsoever, and provide more port bandwidth to the consumer. Surface for example with the Surface Dock on most devices provides more data transfer for storage and network and displays than a similar device with TB3. Another false 'future proof' reason given to consumer for TB3 was eGPU, and this was a bad solution or excuse to buy one device over another. Compatibility is still an issue, and bandwidth is an issue with faster/newer GPU technologies, especially DX12/Vulkan. It is still cheaper and faster with access to a second computer to buy a second desktop PC than use an eGPU case, both being the same size. And this doesn't even go back to the false TB3 variance of data rates. If you are a 3D designer, a eGPU bank over TB3 is a solution, but again, so is a second desktop PC with a GPU bank, that your send the project to for rendering. Gaming is just not as good with eGPU over TB3, especially on devices with CPUs and Chipsets that have trouble transferring that much data, on top of trying to do the work the game needs for the CPU. (Anyone notice even goofy Apple is running away from eGPU and TB for non-data centric devices?) So, with the new TB4 devices. They should in theory have more data lanes and 'closer' to the 40Gbps - although they are probably only around 32Gbps - which still is allowed under TB4. If you are hooking up a 10Gbps network adapter or your device to a RAID storage solution you might have a use. However, 99.999% of users, just like before, will only need USB 3.x. I hope that reviewers on sites are less nuts with reviews that complain about a lack of Thunderbolt 3 or 4. Of all things, it SHOULD NOT be a 'need' or a technical feature to live or die if the device doesn't have it. Especially on reviews cheering TB3 on a device, that had less than 16Gbps data rates, while dismissing or lower the review about a device with 64Gbps in port bandwidth available, but didn't use TB3. (Which sadly, we have seen here on Neowin as well, but I hoping that idiocy is dead here.)
    1 point
  26. Microsoft says the Series X|S was the most successful Xbox launch ever

    Well, what do you expect. The Xbox Series X/S and PS5 are just PC's with restrictions these days. Microsoft kinda has a TON of experience in file system optimization, I/O optimization, and so on and so forth on the PC platform. I mean Microsoft has kinda been making filesystems for decades - for laptops, desktops, servers, etc for decades, SQL databases for decades, and have decades of experience in file system and I/O optimization on both software and hardware layers... Sony kinda doesn't. Sony only invented rootkits on PC's, that's the only thing they are famous for creating in regards to filesystems... And Sony is famous for that because the rootkits failed miserably for them, lol. Err, what? Both companies have a vast amount of prior research and patents, e.g. sony developed blu ray and everything to do with that, your comment is one sided and pretty stupid. Both companies have expertese in both areas Blu-Ray is not a filesystem. NTFS, ExFAT, FAT32, FAT16, etc. is. Seems like you're the one not knowing what you're talking about. How many operating systems and hardware abstraction layers has Sony made versus Microsoft? Considering the amount of computers out there in the world running a Microsoft based operating system.
    1 point
  27. NASA Commercial Crew (CCtCap) test milestones

    CRS-21: Cargo Dragon 2 maiden flight, December 2, 2020 SpaceX's Benji Reed at the November 10, 2020 Crew-1 presser, Meanwhile, Boeing's Starliner is still in the woodshed. Their CFT rerun (CFT-2) mission listed for January 4, 2021 is now listed as Q1, and that may slip to later in the year. Key to getting Boeing's software mess in order (Starliner CFT, SLS, 737 MAX, and other projects) is the hiring of former SpaceXer & Tesla software engineer Jinnah Hosein on board as Vice President of Software Engineering. https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2020/11/06/boeing-hires-former-spacex-engineer-for-new-software-executive-job/
    1 point
  28. Good question. Super thin phones are weird and uncomfortable to hold IMO Easy solution - put a case on it. Nope ... Not everyone likes a bulky case
    1 point
  29. Good question. Super thin phones are weird and uncomfortable to hold IMO Easy solution - put a case on it.
    1 point
  30. Good question. Super thin phones are weird and uncomfortable to hold IMO
    1 point
  31. If preventing repair even further is innovating, then they are inovating.
    1 point
  32. Ya ever skip the newspapers and right wing crap, and go to the source of the information. U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General - have a signed affidavit from the postal worker saying the claims were not true. Is Trumps' USPS Inspector General's office also part of the Post conspiracy too? FFS And yet he also signed an affidavit that there was fraud... And in any case, why would anyone not want a recount?
    1 point
  33. Why not keep the same battery capacity? That will also improve the screen time drastically
    1 point
  34. a viable alternative to Li-ion is really what we need to properly advance battery tech. there's a few out there now but none of them are truly cost effective enough to be a viable alternative yet.
    1 point
  35. Advances in battery technology is long overdue in my opinion. We've been getting bigger phones and just bigger batteries to make up for it.
    1 point
  36. He did walk it back, lol. Then walked that back. Probably once he found out he could be brought up on charges. Figured he's stick it out and wait for Republicans to save him down the road. He did not walk it back.
    1 point
  37. "Misleading information" = "things we don't like". AKA censorship.
    1 point
  38. Twitter is not my big brother. Anyways, Twitter is full of lies. Some companies used the quarantine to move their support to Twitter (why?). They don't answer phone calls or emails anymore. So, they could use bots to answers with the generic "we are looking at it" but it is a lie. And what if I complain? nothing, Twitter doesn't care because it says it is a private matter. So, Twitter is acting as an editor but usually, it doesn't.
    1 point
  39. Since when they are the source of truth?, especially CNN that thanks to the "mass destruction weapons", it was used to destroy an entire country and put a sh***ty fanatical regime.
    1 point
  40. Left wing liars!! I have never seen them flag Biden no matter what he said!!
    1 point
  41. Twitter is flagging the post that says the postal worker DID NOT walk back his fraud statement. We have a video where he literally says "I did not say that". He stands behind the fraud claim, yet Twitter refuses to accept this
    1 point
  42. YouTube cancels its annual 'Rewind' celebration for 2020

    Can't imagine they'd be too many white supremacists and anti-vaxers featured in their rewind video. Real white supremacists and anti-vaxers or people who are called white supremacists by the left?
    1 point
  43. What if I dispute one of Obama’s tweet, will it be labeled as “disputed”? Ok, I’m kidding, of course it won’t be. The question is: WHO EXACTLY has to dispute the tweet for it to be labeled as “disputed”?
    1 point
  44. They need a LOT of work to improve the Photos app.
    1 point
  45. YouTube cancels its annual 'Rewind' celebration for 2020

    And nothing of value was lost.
    1 point
  46. YouTube cancels its annual 'Rewind' celebration for 2020

    Great! They are usually terrible anyway.
    1 point
  47. YouTube cancels its annual 'Rewind' celebration for 2020

    Oh no! Now what will I make fun of?
    1 point
  48. Microsoft details the features added to OneDrive in October

    If Miceosoft built a good photo and video viewer and editor for Android with OneDrive support and improved the Windows Photos, they could probably get quite a few Office/Microsoft365 users after Google Photos backups move to paid subscription model.
    1 point
  49. Lenovo Yoga 9i 15 unboxing and first impressions

    So close to being really awesome. That damn GTX 1650 - Argh. One irony of the RTX 2000 series failure to push its technologies as the new baseline, is that NVidia has made a fortune from people not caring about RTX specific GPUs. They are pricing and selling the 1650 and 1660 in amazing numbers in notebooks, while charging closer to what the entry level RTX GPUs were to cost originally. The 'Super' mobile revamp is when NVidia was able to reframe the pricing for their benefit, but at the detriment of consumers that were now only getting GTX pricing options in devices. (There is a bit of performance/cooling/power difference, but it is smaller than I think most people would assume.) So instead of everyone getting faster GPUs with more features in the low end, they are getting last generation crap, and now as AI features are proving to have value in and out of gaming, these devices are going to be left behind and a cliff of usability will separate them in a few years. -A cliff similar to the DX8 GPUs not capable of using WDDM and the Windows composer. Rich, thanks for the review. PS People reading through, I am not the average user when it comes to RTX features, so don't jump based on my reaction. (Never do actually - always fact check anything I say and find the context to see if you even would care.) A device like this will do really well for a lot of people and give you several years, as AI and RTX hardware features are still 'new' and not required. Even for myself, I could live with this device, and take the performance hit on engineering and design software, and send more complex work to a server - which is stuff 99.99% of people will never do or have the need to do.
    1 point