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  1. Microsoft kills support for Cortana app on Android and iOS

    Ahem. Bixby.
    3 points
  2. Microsoft kills support for Cortana app on Android and iOS

    Only assistant worth using is Google assistant.
    3 points
  3. Microsoft kills support for Cortana app on Android and iOS

    lol cortana. useless tool
    3 points
  4. Facebook now lets you control who can comment on your posts

    This might work. I have to say it, good job FB.
    2 points
  5. It only supports apps using the MSIX packaging system right now. Yes, but important thing to note is that it doesn't mean you must distribute through the Store. A Windows 10 user can still double click on an MSIX to install it. Yeah, but I don't think I've ever seen anything using it. I have to wonder if I ever will. It sounds really nice. Some of the newer MS apps/tools I think come as MSIX packages now. Or I could be confusing MSIX with MSI, but I'm not sure what the exact difference between the two is? MSI is just a Windows Installer package that has been around for decades. Its purpose is solely installation and uninstallation. Apps can still leave behind garbage by not uninstalling properly. MSIX is a packaging technology that is responsible for not only one click installs/uninstalls but also virtualizing the registry for that packaged app. This way, each MSIX app gets its own copy of the registry (not a full registry, just the parts it uses), so it can work as expected without affecting the rest of the system. It has additional advantages like delta/partial updates and allowing Windows to optimize disk space by keeping one copy of shared files.
    2 points
  6. lol!! A MS service that tanked, what a shocker!!
    2 points
  7. Verizon is shutting down its 3G network at the end of next year

    Yes, verizon is the only network in the world as far as I know that does this, there are reasons for it (that they claim anyway)
    2 points
  8. Bang & Olufsen has a new $499 headset designed for Xbox

    Not really, the AirPods Max is $549. also too much money. 2 things being too much money doesn't mean neither of them are.
    2 points
  9. Microsoft recaps a ton of new Teams features for February and March

    eh, microsoft's signature, bloat! interesting to note that competition is never mentioned, even when the said competition, worldwide known for revolutionizing IDEs (java, web, c++) get totally boycotted by the media https://www.jetbrains.com/space/
    1 point
  10. Microsoft kills support for Cortana app on Android and iOS

    As someone from a country MS didn't bother to support Cortana in, even though our neighbour country that speaks the same language got it, I have to say: nothing of value was lost...
    1 point
  11. Microsoft kills support for Cortana app on Android and iOS

    A digital assistant is not needed if you don’t have a mobile platform or a consumer ecosystem like amazon. A good search box in Windows and Office is good enough. So bye bye Cortana.
    1 point
  12. Microsoft kills support for Cortana app on Android and iOS

    there was a Cortana app on Android and iOS?
    1 point
  13. Microsoft recaps a ton of new Teams features for February and March

    I personally wouldn't go that far, but it has revolutionised collaboration and teamwork at my company and has been embraced much faster than I would've anticipated. I'm assuming the pandemic helped with that
    1 point
  14. teams is the best work place app ever.
    1 point
  15. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Elon wasn't kidding that SN15 is coming fast...
    1 point
  16. It's World Backup Day: Are you protecting your data?

    Most of my stuff is on a network drive, which gets backed up nightly to another network drive and monthly gets backed up to an external hard (just a 3.5 inch HDD I put in a sata dock) drive and then gets swapped with an external drive I keep in my safety deposit box. Then once a week my most import directory as well as my thunderbird profile (first created in 2004) gets backed up to two (Usually disconnected) usb flash drives. Photos get backed up to google photos from my phone, but every once and a while i Plug my phone into my computer and copy the contents of the photos taken to two external hard drives. My QuickBooks gets backed up nightly to the network drive as well as being backed up to everything mentioned above well as nightly to a flash drive plugged into the QuickBooks machine. Versioning is set up to keep a good hand full of backed-up versions. It's also encrypted and backed up nightly to an online backup.
    1 point
  17. Save up to 65% on Samsung SSDs at Amazon UK with the Spring Sale

    Shipped from China? Good luck
    1 point
  18. Microsoft reportedly plans to close Discord acquisition by next month

    I guess every cloud has a silver lining. (And Microsoft is a cloud company.) Beam/Mixer trying to take on Twitch was always a huge uphill battle, look at youtube gaming and FB. To date they're not even close. Sure the content grew, but viewership didn't. We have to take into account human nature when it comes to some things. There has to be a very big, compelling, reason to get people to change their set ways. After years of using and viewing twitch, getting people to switch to one of the others is very hard. Just like it's hard to get video content creators to move from Youtube to one of the others, it just doesn't happen. WhatsApp for example, until the whole FB privacy BS, you never saw a large chunk of people leave it. That was a big enough reason to make them though. In the end while MS may have killed Mixer, because lets face it, it was limited to Xbox specifically, while Twitch draws in everything, the tech behind it, I'm 100% sure, is still alive and kicking in other projects. As far as software goes, they're not totally losing out when a app/service fails, as long as the tech/IP behind it is good and is used in a future successful project.
    1 point
  19. Excel - Increasing Date Help

    If you express the dates with a / delimiter, the autofill works as you'd expect. It's always handy to start with 2 values as well, select both and THEN drag down. Excel then knows the pattern to follow. Maybe you could use /, then replace it with . afterwards?
    1 point
  20. PayPal enables cryptocurrencies at checkout in the U.S.

    They make tons more money than the regular ~3% transaction fee. As you are basically selling them your bitcoin for cash payments. A currency that is growing 30% per month.
    1 point
  21. Bang & Olufsen has a new $499 headset designed for Xbox

    I completely agree (to state the obvious). even $100 or so is already really pushing it for headphones as I figure for the common person, around $50-ish tops is more realistic (but 'maybe' as much as $100 or so). but at $500 that's a massive inefficient use of $ in general. hell, I figure even with someone who's got plenty of $, even then I can't see more than $200-300 MAX. because after a certain point it's just flat out wasted $ because I am sure one can get quality headphones for a fraction of that $500 that are roughly just as good, or at least not enough of a difference to justify paying hundreds of $ more. but I suspect a lot of high $ audio equipment (like after a certain price point) comes back to people 'thinking' there is a difference more than them actually hearing a difference. even if there is a difference, it's probably so small, it's no where near enough of a difference to justify the major price differences.
    1 point
  22. Price is about right too. I was just looking at phones and not finding anything I actually cared about that made anything worth $600. It's very fast and takes great photos. The same CPU as in the iPhone 11 just under clocked a little.
    1 point
  23. Price is about right too. I was just looking at phones and not finding anything I actually cared about that made anything worth $600.
    1 point
  24. Apple is set to announce iOS 15 and more on June 7

    complain to developpers for using javascript or xamarin to write their iOS apps instead of going full native native iOS apps runs smooth, and 3rd-party devs that embrace native tooling also produce great apps, the ones that suck are the crossplatform ones, they use lowest common denominator at the cost of performance that is what happen when we let javascript devs or windows people who want to target iOS program for resource constrained devices in a non-native way look at windows, nothing native anymore, only electron everywhere, even microsoft products, full of garbage web tech (*cought* team, *cought* skype, *cought* mail) Stupid rant is stupid. He was talking about iOS, not apps. If someone notices slowdown when updating their OS, literally none of what you mentioned has a thing to do with it.
    1 point
  25. Arm announces the Armv9 architecture for the next 300 billion chips

    Apple creates the fragmentation, consumers don't care. Apple could market horsecrap wrapped in rose-gold aluminum and it would still sell like hotcakes. idk what world they're in man Wait, Apple's selling Horse crap wrapped in Rosegold Aluminum? When? I need to know so I can call off sick for that week so I can stand in line.
    1 point
  26. Here, I think an iPhone SE 2020 feels just right in the hand.
    1 point
  27. Save 16% off the Viatek Body Dryer

    Do they make your balls flap about? Now you mention it yes
    1 point
  28. Or they could obey the law.
    1 point
  29. 60 Hz refresh rate in a 2021 flagship ☹️
    1 point
  30. Verizon is shutting down its 3G network at the end of next year

    No one said it was unexpected but it news as we have the final date for 3G to be turned off from Verzion. Sure 3G hasn't been very relevant for smartphones for a while but IoT and embedded devices still use it.
    1 point
  31. Bang & Olufsen has a new $499 headset designed for Xbox

    too much money for headphones.
    1 point
  32. Starship SN11 explodes as SpaceX tries low-visibility landing

    Elon just keeps making the most expensive fireworks in the world. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
    1 point
  33. Eh, in part a different breed. I'm speaking to myself here, too, but I feel like those of us who spend our time sitting here reading tech blogs and arguing about petty crap in the comments section are hardly the same type of people who have an interest in actually doing this sort of thing.
    1 point
  34. Share your oldest screenshots

    I don't have anything before 2004. The oldest I have is a Windows XP desktop screenshot, and screenshots from Windows Longhorn 4074.
    1 point
  35. Apple is set to announce iOS 15 and more on June 7

    Well, that kindof makes sense. New software will always be heavier. But there's a very fine line between planned obsolescence and actual software just getting more complex... Based on Apple's track record, it seems likely they are doing a little of both. I used an iPhone 7 up until a few months ago. I will say that its performance was very different than when it was new. I can't say for sure it was caused by iOS updates, but by the end, I would have situations where the phone would take up to 1 second to open the message app after pressing on a notification. May not sound like much, but when it is all day long it is very noticeable. Could be the size of your message database, try purging some older messages (I have this bad habbit of keeping all my old texts)
    1 point
  36. 15/month just for iPad ? GTFO Adobe!! I would just buy Affinity Designer/ Affinity Photo and Procreate with one time purchase and be done with it, that's what i currently use and never needed a thing more.
    1 point
  37. Apple is set to announce iOS 15 and more on June 7

    Strange. I still use an old iPhone X from years ago and never have any problems with any upgrade. Also my iPad Pro 12 inch works like a charm but that one isn't very old yet so hard to compare.
    1 point
  38. I really don't understand the need of self-destructing messages. Even when it was announced, I saw how it was going to cause more problems than solutions.
    1 point
  39. The future is digital, they said. Physical media is dead, they said.
    1 point
  40. Apple is launching its independent repair program worldwide

    > In order to qualify, they must also agree to allow an Apple-certified technician to do the repairs. So absolutely nothing will change. People like Louis Rossmann will still not be able to just buy the parts they need Sure, you can become an IRRP, but as long as the AASP fixes the thing itself.
    1 point
  41. UK politicians face legal challenge over self-destructing messages

    It's a shame we don't have self-destructing politicians!
    1 point
  42. See it first before believing , CDPR list all that fixes because it's what has been reported ,not because they were really aware or ready to revise all those bugs. I bet the game it's still crappy as hell , mainly because the biggest problem now is that no matter how good they try to make it , it will never go against the expectations they created for it. Sincerely IMHO it's a good game , but not that brilliant. Good story etc but lacks much more compelling narrative to it in order to allow to continue this. As an example GTA V Wich I totally understand the comparisons out there is much better in almost all aspects , withe exceptions to graphics , but we are talking of a dev difference in years.
    1 point
  43. They have only improved GitHub, Skype, LinkedIn They improved Skype in such a way that none of my friends are using it anymore because it just doesn't work. And let's not mention the abomination Skype for Business that my company ditched in favor of good old emails. Here's a fun to try out: type in Google "why is Skype" or "why is ms teams" and let it autocomplete
    1 point
  44. Microsoft reportedly plans to close Discord acquisition by next month

    The problem is Microsoft had the dominant IM platform (MSN Messenger) certainly in the UK and a lot of Europe anyway, then purchases Skype which I believe did voice / video better at the time. Microsoft has no idea what to do with either of them after that. Meanwhile iOS / Android have come along and smartphones are now mainstream, WhatsApp becomes the MSN Messenger of the mobile world, Facebook adapts well to mobile with a good app. Both WhatsApp and Facebook gain VOIP and Video calling. Meanwhile Microsoft kills off MSN Messenger, loosing most of its userbase who grew up with MSN to Facebook and WhatsApp. In addition Microsoft still can't figure out how to make a good Skype app, either on the desktop or mobile. In some ways the hard work is done with Discord, all Microsoft need to do is not mess it up, which can be done (Github for example). Discord is massively popular for chat in online communities, works great on the desktop, web and mobile. In addition lots of communities are using Discord bots to enhance the community or game that server is focused on.
    1 point
  45. That might be true but at this point it gives them a solid cross platform chat service ready to go with a strong presence in the gaming community. Now that they're going to open up party chat and take it out behind live gold, it's cheaper to buy a service that does what you want on multiple gaming platforms than to build your own.
    1 point
  46. Looks to be this one... https://wallpaperhub.app/wallpapers/1416
    1 point
  47. Samsung builds industry's first 512GB DDR5 memory module

    *7200. also what? I mean why "only"? because the speed of ddr4 goes up from 12000 Mbps. So having 7200 is to low.
    1 point
  48. Samsung builds industry's first 512GB DDR5 memory module

    The original news release by Samsung: "Delivering more than twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 megabits per second (Mbps), the new DDR5 will be capable of..." I think that's not correctly worded. It should be mega-transfers per second (MT/s), as in Samsung claims that they will have chips at speed ratings up to DDR5-7200. 1 transfer being 64 bits, that gives 57,600 MB/s per module, which in JEDEC terms would be PC5-57600. Too bad Neowin, Engadget and possibly others didn't bother correcting/clarifying.
    1 point
  49. It's worth noting that this only applies for games that were free. For example Halo The Master Chief Collection won't fall into this, but CoD Modern Warzone does.
    1 point
  50. Fantastic news for all .
    1 point