Miscellaneous Tech News
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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.
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Guidemaster: The best Qi wireless charging pads for your smartphone
Wireless charging can be tricky to understand—these devices make it a no-brainer.
Wireless charging has a long way to go before it replaces wired charging, but the technology has advanced dramatically in the past few years. -
Crap artists rejoice! MS Paint is getting a last-minute reprieve
Microsoft abandons plan to take Paint out of Windows and put it in the Store.
Long, long ago, Microsoft quietly announced that it was going to remove the venerable mspaint.exe from Windows 10. -
Intel puts 8 cores, 16 threads, and a 5GHz turbo option in a laptop processor
Intel announces new 45W mobile parts and a full range of desktop chips.
The first processors to include Intel's ninth-generation Core branding came out last year with a limited line-up: just a handful of high-end desktop processors in the Coffee Lake family. -
Azure Monitor Now Displays Azure Active Directory Activity Logs Info
The Activity Logs feature of Azure Active Directory is now integrated with Azure Monitor, according to a Microsoft announcement on Tuesday.
The ability to access those logs in Azure Monitor is now at the "general availability" stage, meaning that it's deemed ready for commercial use by Microsoft. -
Windows 10 May 2019 update blocked for anyone using USB or SD storage
If you really want to install the update now, you'll have to unplug your drives.
While it's not officially out yet, the Windows 10 May 2019 update is available to Windows Insiders on the Release Preview distribution channel (and also to MSDN subscribers). -
'Exhilarating' implant turns thoughts to speech
Scientists have developed a brain implant that can read people's minds and turn their thoughts to speech.
The team at the University of California, San Francisco says the technology is "exhilarating". -
How To Create a Windows Deployment Image, Part 1
Although there are various methods for creating custom Windows deployment images, the process has gained a reputation for being somewhat tedious and convoluted.
That being the case, I wanted to take the opportunity to show you the method that I use
