Miscellaneous Tech News
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Spooky action at a distance: The future magic of remote collaboration
In a world where you have to social distance, how do you scrum?
The global pandemic and the corporate office shutdowns resulting from it have wrought changes to how work works. While essential people in certain industries have continued their jobs in ways that are relatively familiar under layers upon layers of personal protective equipment, many companies have had to find ways to continue other work at a “social” distance. And in those situations, employees must find ways to continue collaborating as they did when they were packed into cubicles, open floor plans, and all the other various patterns of modern office spaces. -
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
SW is looking for money grams at this point
Don't keep up much do you?
They were bought last year by ZiffDavis.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
SW is looking for money grams at this point
Don't keep up much do you?
They were bought last year by ZiffDavis.
Does that imply they aren't still looking for money grams?
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Donald Trump joins TikTok rival Triller
Donald Trump has joined Triller, a New-York-based rival to China's TikTok.
After two days on the social-media app, the US president has 11,000 followers. TikTok was banned in India two months ago. Mr Trump wants to follow suit unless it sells the app's US version and has signed executive orders targeting both it and another Chinese social-media app, Tencent's WeChat. Both India and the US fear data collected by the TikTok could be given to the Chinese government. -
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Spotify goes down around the globe
Music-streaming service Spotify was offline for users around the world for more than an hour on Wednesday.
Users could play only songs already downloaded to their devices. And in many cases songs cut out after just a few seconds. The issues began at about 13:00 BST on Wednesday, affecting both free and paid users. The company has nearly 300 million users. Spotify has not said what caused the problem. Tweeting from its customer care account, the tech giant only said it was "aware of some issues right now". -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Spotify goes down around the globe
Ah that would explain it
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Microsoft Files Applications With Elk Grove Village For $123 Million Data Center In Tech Park
Microsoft filed applications this month for a $123 million data center in the Elk Grove Technology Park, according to records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act order for public documents.
Three permits were filed by Microsoft with Elk Grove Village: one filed in June for grading and site preparation, along with another two applications both filed Aug. 3, one for a data center and one for ancillary work including parking lots related to the data center. -
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Lyft suspends service in California over employment row
Ride-hailing firm Lyft says it is suspending operations in California after a judge ordered it to treat drivers as employees.
Both Lyft and Uber were told they must classify their drivers as employees and not contractors by Friday. Lyft has now said its services in California will stop at 23:59 local time on Thursday (06:59 GMT on Friday). Uber has warned it will have to do the same if a stay is not granted by an appeals court before the deadline. But Uber has yet to make any formal announcement. "This is not something we wanted to do, as we know millions of Californians depend on Lyft for daily, essential trips," Lyft said in a statement posted online. -
Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan
5G technically doesn't cost extra, but it's only in the pricier unlimited plans.
Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans this week, but some things aren't changing: Verizon still restricts 5G service to its most expensive unlimited-data plans. If you want to save money by getting a limited-data plan, you'll have to make do with 4G only—which, admittedly, is not a big problem for most people given how sparse Verizon's 5G network is. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan
5G technically doesn't cost extra, but it's only in the pricier unlimited plans.
Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans this week, but some things aren't changing: Verizon still restricts 5G service to its most expensive unlimited-data plans. If you want to save money by getting a limited-data plan, you'll have to make do with 4G only—which, admittedly, is not a big problem for most people given how sparse Verizon's 5G network is.Unlimited (Throttling) Plan
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan
5G technically doesn't cost extra, but it's only in the pricier unlimited plans.
Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans this week, but some things aren't changing: Verizon still restricts 5G service to its most expensive unlimited-data plans. If you want to save money by getting a limited-data plan, you'll have to make do with 4G only—which, admittedly, is not a big problem for most people given how sparse Verizon's 5G network is.Unlimited (Throttling) Plan
Neither truly unlimited, nor truly 5G!
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan
5G technically doesn't cost extra, but it's only in the pricier unlimited plans.
Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans this week, but some things aren't changing: Verizon still restricts 5G service to its most expensive unlimited-data plans. If you want to save money by getting a limited-data plan, you'll have to make do with 4G only—which, admittedly, is not a big problem for most people given how sparse Verizon's 5G network is.Unlimited (Throttling) Plan
Its like the Limited Lifetime Warranty on many products.
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Glad i invested in zoom and ring central in february. Zoom is up 295.19% and ring central is up 252.05% per share.
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Respawn point: The inevitable reincarnation of the corporate office
Forget the utopian visions—nothing ever happens neatly, or without struggle.
If you told any executive at a major corporation in mid-2019 that close to half of the US workforce would be working from home within the next year, they would have at least raised a skeptical eyebrow (and then probably called security to have you removed). Yet, here we are. Major technology companies, including Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, have closed their physical offices until well into 2021. Twitter has told many employees that they can work from home permanently. And now that we have nearly six months of involuntary widespread work-from-home behind us, many other organizations are also reconsidering the value of office space.
