Miscellaneous Tech News
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Apple just confirmed once and for all that AirPower will never come out
Apple reportedly never managed to solve a thermal problem.
AirPower was introduced alongside the iPhone X and Apple Watch Series 3 in the company's first event at the Steve Jobs Theater, in September of 2017. Apple said it would be a wireless charging mat that could simultaneously charge your iPhone, your Apple Watch, and your AirPods, regardless of where you placed them on the mat. At the time, AirPods could not be wirelessly charged, but Apple just released a version of the AirPods' charging case that supports the feature.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@LilAng said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple cancels the Airpower Mat:
https://twitter.com/i/moments/1111714777821270016?lang=en&lang=enNever even heard about it. LOL
Can't miss it if you never heard about it.
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Google shuts down Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL sales
Google still isn't keeping its older phones around at a discount for very long.
Google has discontinued the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, the company's flagship smartphones from last year. As first spotted by Android Police, the Pixel 2 has been scrubbed from the Google Store page, and the old Pixel 2 URL now redirects to the Pixel 3 page.
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Surface Book 2 lineup refreshed with new mid-range option
Bottom spec dual-core drops in price to make room for the new version.
At launch, the Surface Book 2 could be equipped with either a 7th generation dual-core i7-7300U processor with two cores and four threads or an 8th generation i7-8650U with four cores and eight threads, with prices starting at $1,499 for the 7th generation part. That dual-core system now starts at $1,149 (with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage), with the $1,499 slot taken by a new i5-8350U model. This too is a four core/eight thread chip, with clock speeds of 1.7-3.6GHz and 6MB cache, in contrast to the 1.9-4.2GHz and 8MB cache of the top-end i7.
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https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of Neumob in November 2017.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of Neumob in November 2017.
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@JaredBusch Wish they wouldn't do the waitlist so much, while understanding why they'd want to control the ramp up process.
I'm #204939
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of Neumob in November 2017.
Can someone explain warp in a tl;dr fashion?
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of Neumob in November 2017.
Can someone explain warp in a tl;dr fashion?
VPN done right for mobile.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of Neumob in November 2017.
Can someone explain warp in a tl;dr fashion?
VPN done right for mobile.
At a brief glance, it looks like iOS only. Boo.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of Neumob in November 2017.
Can someone explain warp in a tl;dr fashion?
VPN done right for mobile.
At a brief glance, it looks like iOS only. Boo.
hardly done right, then
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of Neumob in November 2017.
Can someone explain warp in a tl;dr fashion?
VPN done right for mobile.
At a brief glance, it looks like iOS only. Boo.
I just signed up for the waiting list on Android...
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of Neumob in November 2017.
Can someone explain warp in a tl;dr fashion?
VPN done right for mobile.
At a brief glance, it looks like iOS only. Boo.
I just signed up for the waiting list on Android...
I just found that... and the google play store link is busted. On my phone and in my desktop browser. I guess they are busy.
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Worked fine for me on both of my android phones
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/03/lvfs-linux-firmware-service-success
https://www.fwupd.org/If you either read really fast, or go look at the boot log, one of the first things you'll see is "Applying firmware updates". I guess getting the word out is good, but it's not really news. Maybe this is the new UEFI mode?
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/03/lvfs-linux-firmware-service-success
https://www.fwupd.org/If you either read really fast, or go look at the boot log, one of the first things you'll see is "Applying firmware updates". I guess getting the word out is good, but it's not really news. Maybe this is the new UEFI mode?
UEFI mode looks a look different on my OptiPlex 3050 after installing Fedora compared to my older machines that is also in UEFI mode.
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Google and Walmart team up to let users buy groceries with voice commands
Amazon's Alexa has a new competitor in the voice-controlled shopping space.
In its latest attempts to battle Amazon, Walmart teamed up with another tech giant to introduce a new way for its customers to buy groceries. According to a blog post by Walmart's senior vice president of digital operations Tom Ward, Walmart will now let those with Google Assistant devices buy groceries just by using their voices. Dubbed Walmart Voice Order, the feature will roll out over the next few weeks to those with Google Home devices along with other Google Assistant-enabled devices including Android smartphones and iPhones.
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Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing
Microsoft's venerable IDE receives its biannual update.
A new version of Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) goes live today with the release of Visual Studio 2019 and its cousin Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.
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Xen Orchestra forum to merge into XCP-ng forums
As suggested by @DustinB3403 a while back, this makes perfect sense, they just didn't seem to have enough activity over at the XO forum to justify separating the communities. Separate logins, people somehow confused about where to post... This is a good move IMO