Miscellaneous Tech News
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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.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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.Damn it!
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Millimeter-wave 5G will never scale beyond dense urban areas, T-Mobile says
T-Mobile CTO says 5G's high-frequency spectrum won't cover rural America.
85G mobile networks have started arriving but only in very limited areas and amidst misleading claims by wireless carriers. -
Razer adds 4K OLED and 240Hz screen options to its Blade 15 laptops
The base Blade 15 also gets a faster screen, and the Blade Pro sees a complete overhaul
Razer has announced that, starting on April 24th, there will be two new display choices available for the Blade 15 Advanced gaming laptop: a 4K OLED panel and a 240Hz high-refresh LCD option. -
Windows 10’s new app tabs feature has disappeared and might not return
The future of Sets doesn’t look great
Microsoft had been planning to introduce a tabbed apps feature in Windows 10, dubbed Sets. -
Nvidia’s new GTX 1660 Ti and 1650 could power your next budget gaming laptop
Bang-for-the-buck Turing comes to laptops
Gaming laptops have never been so thin and yet so powerful as they are with Nvidia’s RTX graphics chips, and we believe the RTX 2060 is the sweet spot for price and performance. -
Intel’s new laptop processors hit the 5GHz mark
Plus, new 9th Gen chips for desktops
Intel has announced a new suite of processors for high-end laptops that offer faster speeds and better connectivity options than prior chips. -
Microsoft Bringing Files Restore Capability to SharePoint Online and Teams
Microsoft on Monday announced that it's delivering its Files Restore feature for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams to Office 365 tenancies as early as this month.
The Files Restore feature is currently arriving for some Office 365 subscribers that have elected to receive "targeted" product updates. -
Azure Cost Management Now Commercially Available for Some Tenancies
Microsoft on Monday announced that its Azure Cost Management feature had reached the "general availability" release stage for both Azure "pay-as-you-go" customers and Azure Government tenancies.
Azure Cost Management provides dashboard views of costs per month, along with some analysis tools, which can be accessed from within the Azure Portal.
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The company behind the $16,000 AI-powered laundry-folding robot has filed for bankruptcy
RIP Laundroid, sorry I broke you that one time I tried to use you
Seven Dreamers, the Japanese company behind the AI-powered laundry-folding robot Laundroid, has filed for bankruptcy. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The company behind the $16,000 AI-powered laundry-folding robot has filed for bankruptcy
RIP Laundroid, sorry I broke you that one time I tried to use you
Seven Dreamers, the Japanese company behind the AI-powered laundry-folding robot Laundroid, has filed for bankruptcy.As they probably should.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The company behind the $16,000 AI-powered laundry-folding robot has filed for bankruptcy
RIP Laundroid, sorry I broke you that one time I tried to use you
Seven Dreamers, the Japanese company behind the AI-powered laundry-folding robot Laundroid, has filed for bankruptcy.Based on the last few lines in the article and on the amount of debt they took on to make a robot that'll fold and put laundry away for you, they should've closed shop a long time ago.
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Verizon will directly sell YouTube TV to its mobile and Fios customers
Get YouTube TV for cheaper if you bundle Verizon’s other services
In lieu of building out its own full-blown streaming TV subscription service, Verizon is instead putting its weight behind YouTube TV. -
Alphabet’s Wing drones get FAA approval to make deliveries in the US
A commercial service will launch in Virginia in the coming months
Wing, the Alphabet-owned startup, has become the first drone delivery company to gain the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval to make commercial deliveries in the US. -
https://www.wired.com/story/supply-chain-hackers-videogames-asus-ccleaner/
Just weeks after revealing the Asus incident—in which hackers hijacked the computer company's software update process to silently infect customers with malicious code—Kaspersky researchers have connected it to another set of breaches. The same hackers appear to have corrupted versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio development tool, which three different videogame companies then used in their own development.
