Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple Watch may finally gain sleep-tracking abilities in 2020
And that may mean big gains in battery life to support the feature.
Apple is reportedly working on bringing a feature to the Apple Watch that has been noticeably absent since the wearable's inception: sleep tracking. According to a report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, "people familiar with the work" claim the iPhone maker has been testing a native sleep-tracking feature for its smartwatch over the past several months. Apple reportedly plans to introduce the feature by 2020, likely in a new model of the Apple Watch.
They are going all Microsoft on us, getting stuff years and years behind.
Apple is usually not first to market. They let 3rd party stuff go first and potentially fail. and then roll out their version.
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Energizer’s brick of a smartphone uses “world’s most powerful” phone battery
18mm-thick smartphone goes just a bit overboard in the quest for more battery.
Mobile World Congress has been home to some truly unique smartphone designs this year, and one of the strangest has to be the Energizer PowerMax P18K Pop, an attention-grabbing brick of a smartphone with an 18,000mAh battery.
I know what you're going to ask: "Wait, Energizer makes phones?" Yes, this is something like the 45th announced Energizer phone. Energizer Holdings licenses its brand to Avenir Telecom for mobile phones, and this French company has been using the brand to pump out generic-looking feature phones and smartphones since 2016.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Slick-Boot-Ready
Oh yeah, Fedora 30 is coming up soon. Hard to believe. Where does the time go?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Eyeing-DNF-Best
I like that.
Aren't you worried about dependency breakages especially when using dnf automatic?
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Or would this be more of an issue with 3rd party repos?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Eyeing-DNF-Best
I like that.
Aren't you worried about dependency breakages especially when using dnf automatic?
I can always turn it off, but I like it as a default.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Firefox-Wayland-Tent
This new change is for those GNOME 3 users who are running on the GNOME Shell Wayland session.
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Google turbo-charging the back button with Chrome’s new “back/forward cache”
Company claims that 19% of pages on mobile Chrome come from hitting back.
Chrome already caches the files that make up a page, so revisiting a page in most circumstances shouldn't force the browser to retrieve the images, JavaScripts, and CSS that are used to build the page. But currently, the browser has to re-parse the HTML and re-build the page's programmatic representation, uncompress the images, re-execute all the JavaScript, reapply all the stylesheets, and so on. It's just the networking step that gets skipped.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Eyeing-DNF-Best
I like that.
Aren't you worried about dependency breakages especially when using dnf automatic?
I can always turn it off, but I like it as a default.
Does it not fail if the dependencies are not there?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Eyeing-DNF-Best
I like that.
Aren't you worried about dependency breakages especially when using dnf automatic?
That's whta the DNF --best option is supposed to avoid. It will install the latest version of the package that it can meet all of the dependencies for.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Eyeing-DNF-Best
I like that.
Aren't you worried about dependency breakages especially when using dnf automatic?
That's whta the DNF --best option is supposed to avoid. It will install the latest version of the package that it can meet all of the dependencies for.
Right, it clearly states that in the article.. It simply tells you that there is a newer one that cannot be installed.
By enabling the DNF best mode by default, the user will be alerted to the fact a newer package version is available but it can't satisfy the dependencies. DNF best will "fail early and fail fast" should problems occur so the user can know. Fedora developers are seeking to make this default change in case a package upgrade for a security fix can't be made due to dependency problems, under the current premise it could be silently ignored and the user wouldn't be aware. Additionally, using the DNF best mode will alert developers quickly to problems in upgrade paths.
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Microsoft’s latest security service uses human intelligence, not artificial
Computers are good at processing vast amounts of data, but humans still have their uses.
Microsoft has announced two new cloud services to help administrators detect and manage threats to their systems. The first, Azure Sentinel, is very much in line with other cloud services: it's dependent on machine learning to sift through vast amounts of data to find a signal among all the noise. The second, Microsoft Threat Experts, is a little different: it's powered by humans, not machines.
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USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse
People already get the names wrong, so the USB group has doubled down on bad naming.
USB 3.2, which doubles the maximum speed of a USB connection to 20Gb/s, is likely to materialize in systems later this year. In preparation for this, the USB-IF—the industry group that together develops the various USB specifications—has announced the branding and naming that the new revision is going to use, and... it's awful.
