Miscellaneous Tech News
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Google launches the next version of Android—Android Q—in beta
The beta is open to any Google Pixel phone.
On Wednesday, Google released a preview of the next version of Android, codenamed "Android Q." The final release should happen sometime toward the end of the year, but for now we get a work-in-progress build that will get several new versions throughout the year. The highlights for this release include new privacy and security controls, support for foldables, a share menu that actually works, faster app startup, and more.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google launches the next version of Android—Android Q—in beta
The beta is open to any Google Pixel phone.
On Wednesday, Google released a preview of the next version of Android, codenamed "Android Q." The final release should happen sometime toward the end of the year, but for now we get a work-in-progress build that will get several new versions throughout the year. The highlights for this release include new privacy and security controls, support for foldables, a share menu that actually works, faster app startup, and more.
Hm.... To Beta... or not to Beta, that is the question.
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Steam Link Anywhere lets you take your PC gaming with you
Move comes as Google, Sony expand game streaming options.
The only requirements for today's "early beta" release, according to the announcement, are that "your computer has good upload speed and your Steam Link device has a good network connection." Those are imprecise terms, of course, but Steam's in-home streaming has previously shown a pretty good ability to scale visual quality up and down based on network conditions.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Steam Link Anywhere lets you take your PC gaming with you
Move comes as Google, Sony expand game streaming options.
The only requirements for today's "early beta" release, according to the announcement, are that "your computer has good upload speed and your Steam Link device has a good network connection." Those are imprecise terms, of course, but Steam's in-home streaming has previously shown a pretty good ability to scale visual quality up and down based on network conditions.
This could be decently interesting.
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GNOME 3.32 released & coming to Fedora 30
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Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.
Malicious hackers wasted no time exploiting a nasty code-execution vulnerability recently disclosed in WinRAR, a Windows file-compression program with 500 million users worldwide. The in-the-wild attacks install malware that, at the time this post was going live, was undetected by the vast majority of antivirus product.
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Any Steam game can now use Valve’s low-latency, DoS-proofed networking
43 percent of gamers have enjoyed reduced latency from the network.
At 30 different locations around the world, Valve has established relaying servers that route networking traffic between clients and servers. These relay points provide DoS-resilience in several ways. They're equipped with an aggregate of several terabits of bandwidth, so they can handle a certain amount of flooding in any case. Games can also switch from one relay to another without necessarily interrupting their connection. This switching can be to another relay in the same location or even to another point-of-presence entirely.
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Hands-on: What’s new in Android Q
Lots of little changes in the first beta of Android Q.
A lot of things are half-implemented, inconsistent, or broken, but this is just a beta. Hopefully everything will get fixed in the future, but we'll still point out problems in this release. Compared to the leaked builds of Android Q that came out before this release, there are actually fewer features here in some cases. Google is holding out on us.
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Apple updates $499 iPad Air, $399 iPad mini ahead of services event next week
Apple wants all of the spotlight on its new services and subscriptions next week.
We're one week out from Apple's services-focused event in Cupertino, and the company just announced a pair of devices we've been expecting for quite some time. Apple debuted a new, $499 10.5-inch iPad Air and a new, $399 7.9-inch iPad mini today. Both have familiar designs but also have the company's new A12 Bionic chip.
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Apple Watch accurately spotted heart condition 34% of the time in study
The study doesn’t use the latest watch and is unpublished and not peer-reviewed.
In a large Apple-sponsored study assessing whether the pulse sensor on older versions of the Apple Watch (Series 1, 2, and 3) can pick up heart rhythm irregularities, researchers found that only 34 percent of participants who received an alert of an irregular pulse on their watch went on to have a confirmed case of atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heart rhythm.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple updates $499 iPad Air, $399 iPad mini ahead of services event next week
Apple wants all of the spotlight on its new services and subscriptions next week.
We're one week out from Apple's services-focused event in Cupertino, and the company just announced a pair of devices we've been expecting for quite some time. Apple debuted a new, $499 10.5-inch iPad Air and a new, $399 7.9-inch iPad mini today. Both have familiar designs but also have the company's new A12 Bionic chip.
hmmmm i might consider the mini....
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https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3072745/76-of-brits-have-no-idea-of-impending-porn-block
Another useless idea going to be implemented by our government. I believe all this is a one way direction of internet control by our government. They must know this can once again be bypassed by vpn. All home ISPs in the uk already have family filter enabled by default when you sign up, the same with mobile company's.
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@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3072745/76-of-brits-have-no-idea-of-impending-porn-block
Another useless idea going to be implemented by our government. I believe all this is a one way direction of internet control by our government. They must know this can once again be bypassed by vpn. All home ISPs in the uk already have family filter enabled by default when you sign up, the same with mobile company's.
lol
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Google, Microsoft work together for a year to figure out new type of Windows flaw
Researcher finds building blocks for privilege escalation: Can they be assembled to create a flaw?
One of the more notable features of Google Project Zero's (GPZ) security research has been its 90-day disclosure policy. In general, vendors are given 90 days to address issues found by GPZ, after which the flaws will be publicly disclosed. But sometimes understanding a flaw and developing fixes for it takes longer than 90 days—sometimes, much longer, such as when a new class of vulnerability is found. That's what happened last year with the Spectre and Meltdown processor issues, and it has happened again with a new Windows issue.
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LG’s latest, greatest OLED TVs will start shipping in April
We're still waiting to hear on the low-end B9 and the 8K and rollable variants.
The 55- and 65-inch C-series will ship in April for $2,500 and $3,500, respectively. A 77-inch variant will come a month later in May for $7,000. The E-series will see a staggered launch: the $4,300, 65-inch model will ship in April, but the $3,300, 55-inch will curiously ship a month later in May. Finally, there's the high-end W-series. Those TVs will ship in June, for either $7,000 for a 65-inch model or a whopping $13,000 for 77 inches.
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Apple finally updates the iMac with significantly more powerful CPU and GPU options
The design hasn't changed much, but six CPU cores are now standard at 27 inches.
The 21.5-inch iMac now has a 6-core, eighth-generation Intel CPU option—up from a maximum of four cores before. The 27-inch now has six cores as the standard configuration, with an optional upgrade to a 3.6GHz, 9th-gen, 8-core Intel Core i9 CPU that Apple claims will double performance over the previous 27-inch iMac. The base 27-inch model has a 3GHz 6-core Intel Core i5 CPU, with intermediate configurations at 3.1GHz and 3.7GHz (both Core i5).
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Corporations, not consumers, drive demand for HP’s new VR headset
HP's second gen headsets have more resolution, more comfort, and wipe-down face cushions.
HP was one of the many companies that built a virtual reality headset for the Windows Mixed Reality platform which launched back in 2017. Microsoft provided a SteamVR-compatible software platform, controller design, and inside-out, six-axis, positional-tracking technology; hardware companies like HP provided the rest, greatly reducing the price of PC-attached virtual reality.
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Google jumps into gaming with Google Stadia streaming service, coming “in 2019”
Google CEO: "We're building a game platform for everyone."
Google Stadia will run a selection of existing PC games on Google's centralized servers, taking in controller inputs and sending back video and audio using Google's network of low latency data centers. The company revealed a new Google-produced controller, which includes a "play now" button. Press this, and gameplay will begin "in as quick as five seconds" in a web browser "with no download, no patch, no update, and no install."
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@mlnews what a terrible idea. It'll be killed off in eight years and no one will remember it.
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E-scooters on UK roads? Not any time soon
Last year Bird, an American company valued at a couple of billion dollars, brought its electric scooter service to the UK, with a pilot scheme on London's Olympic Park.
It seemed a strange move because e-scooters are illegal on UK roads, which is why the private paths of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park were chosen for the pilot scheme.
