Miscellaneous Tech News
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Tech Tent: Do we want our cities to be smart?
These days it seems every city wants to be smart. That seems to mean putting sensors in everything and collecting vast amounts of data with the aim of making urban life more efficient and environmentally friendly.
On the Tech Tent podcast this week, we examine the smart city phenomenon.
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McAfee joins Sophos, Avira, Avast—the latest Windows update breaks them all
A range of fixes and workarounds have been published.
The most recent Windows patch, released April 9, seems to have done something (still to be determined) that's causing problems with anti-malware software. Over the last few days, Microsoft has been adding more and more antivirus scanners to its list of known issues. -
The future of high-speed computing may be larger CPUs with optics
Photonic crystals and good fabrication yields high speed optical transistor.
Contrary to current trends, the CPU may get bigger in the future. Yes, the size of CPUs are larger today than they were in the past, but they also pack in more transistors. -
A ransomware attack took The Weather Channel off the air
Down for more than an hour
The Weather Channel was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, briefly taking a live TV program off the air, according to a Wall Street Journal report. -
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Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL start at $399 through Google Fi
A 50 percent discount for new and existing US customers
In celebration of Google Fi’s birthday, Google is slashing the cost of its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones for new and existing users. -
Ars asks: What’s stopping your workplace from adopting newer technology?
We've got a survey and we want your gripes & success stories on the future of work.
One of the things I enjoy most about writing for Ars is the opportunity to interact with such an enormous pool of brilliant IT folks. -
A mystery agent is doxing Iran’s hackers and dumping their code
Iran seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets.
Nearly three years after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA's hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open Web, Iran's hackers are getting their own taste of that unnerving experience. -
Galaxy S10+ review: Too many compromises for the sky-high price
Shiny technology trumps end-user experience in the latest Samsung flagship.
Samsung's flagship Galaxy S smartphone line is back with the Galaxy S10 and S10+. Since the launch of the Galaxy S8 in 2017, Samsung has stuck with the same basic design for two years across four major devices: the S8, Note8, S9, and Note9. -
2 new apps for music tweakers on Fedora Workstation
Linux operating systems are great for making unique customizations and tweaks to make your computer work better for you.
For example, the i3 window manager encourages users to think about the different components and pieces that make up the modern Linux desktop. -
@mlnews oh, the joys of typing play/pause/stop etc into a command line! I'll keep my GUI driven media players and their buttons, thanks.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews oh, the joys of typing play/pause/stop etc into a command line! I'll keep my GUI driven media players and their buttons, thanks.
Hey if you have a music server sitting remotely playing music throughout the space it may be nice to just open a terminal and hit "pause"
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews oh, the joys of typing play/pause/stop etc into a command line! I'll keep my GUI driven media players and their buttons, thanks.
Hey if you have a music server sitting remotely playing music throughout the space it may be nice to just open a terminal and hit "pause"
Meh. Sounds like an application written by someone who is full tilt obsessed with only typing stuff into a command line. The scenario you described is easily handled by a remote. Music systems like that have remotes and other controls available to the users.
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@RojoLoco Very possible.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews oh, the joys of typing play/pause/stop etc into a command line! I'll keep my GUI driven media players and their buttons, thanks.
Buttons are lame!
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews oh, the joys of typing play/pause/stop etc into a command line! I'll keep my GUI driven media players and their buttons, thanks.
Hey if you have a music server sitting remotely playing music throughout the space it may be nice to just open a terminal and hit "pause"
Meh. Sounds like an application written by someone who is full tilt obsessed with only typing stuff into a command line. The scenario you described is easily handled by a remote. Music systems like that have remotes and other controls available to the users.
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Buttons are lame!
Pot, kettle.
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See NASA test a swarm of 100 US Navy Cicada drones
The tiny drones travel in packs to investigate the weather.
Hives and Cicadas. It might sound like NASA is getting into entomology, but it's actually taking a new set of drones for a test run. -
Charter avoids getting kicked out of New York, agrees to new merger conditions
Charter must expand its own network and pay $12 million to fund more broadband.
Charter Communications won't be kicked out of New York after all. -
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews oh, the joys of typing play/pause/stop etc into a command line! I'll keep my GUI driven media players and their buttons, thanks.
Hey if you have a music server sitting remotely playing music throughout the space it may be nice to just open a terminal and hit "pause"
Meh. Sounds like an application written by someone who is full tilt obsessed with only typing stuff into a command line. The scenario you described is easily handled by a remote. Music systems like that have remotes and other controls available to the users.
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Buttons are lame!
Pot, kettle.
I'm as bad as @scottalanmiller, but at least I realize it.
