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Amazon and Google settle feud, bring YouTube back to Fire TV devices
The Prime Video app will add support for Chromecast and Android TV, too.
Feuding tech giants Amazon and Google have come to an agreement on their streaming services.Too late for Amazon, they already lost their Fire momentum and the product has been left in the dust. Even those of us that had believed in it and invested and unhooked them and replaced them with better devices at this point.
I'm still a fan of Fire TV devices. The entire ChromeCast concept annoys me. Give me a remote so I don't have to use my phone as one.
What did you replace yours with?
I ditched a Fire Tv for a Roku. Superior device in every respect, much snappier response than any Amazon device, plus more apps since they're not actively at odds with this or that company.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon and Google settle feud, bring YouTube back to Fire TV devices
The Prime Video app will add support for Chromecast and Android TV, too.
Feuding tech giants Amazon and Google have come to an agreement on their streaming services.Too late for Amazon, they already lost their Fire momentum and the product has been left in the dust. Even those of us that had believed in it and invested and unhooked them and replaced them with better devices at this point.
I'm still a fan of Fire TV devices. The entire ChromeCast concept annoys me. Give me a remote so I don't have to use my phone as one.
What did you replace yours with?
I ditched a Fire Tv for a Roku. Superior device in every respect, much snappier response than any Amazon device, plus more apps since they're not actively at odds with this or that company.
Same here. Roku is way better.
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@black3dynamite updating now!
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Student Fried $58,000-Worth of College Computers Using 'USB Killer' Device
Title says student, but the article is clear that it was a former student who got an MBA there two years previous: "Akuthota, an Indian citizen in the country on a student visa, graduated from the College of Saint Rose with an MBA in 2017. The incident took place almost two years later, he was subsequently arrested in North Carolina eight days after the computer raid. When he is sentenced in August, he faces a fine of $250,000 and up to ten years in prison."
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Truman high school freaks out because senior mentioned that the school would have students graduating. I think the fear in US schools has officially reached completely unreasonable levels. Old story, but not one we've discussed before.
https://gizmodo.com/student-punished-for-implied-threat-after-putting-high-1826289639
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Unexpected protection added to Microsoft Edge subverts IE security
Permissions that Edge added to downloaded files break important security feature.
A researcher has uncovered strange and unexpected behavior in Windows 10 that allows remote attackers to steal data stored on hard drives when a user opens a malicious file downloaded with the Edge browser. -
Microsoft buys Express Logic, adds a third operating system to its IoT range
ThreadX joins Azure Sphere, Windows 10 for IoT.
Not content with having a Windows-based Internet of Things platform (Windows 10 IoT) and a Linux-based Internet of Things platform (Azure Sphere), Microsoft has added a third option. -
HP’s first 15-inch Chromebook features a full-size keyboard and IPS touchscreen for $449
Pretty solid specs for the price
Chromebooks continue to impress in the price-for-quality department, and the HP Chromebook 15 is no exception. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
HP’s first 15-inch Chromebook features a full-size keyboard and IPS touchscreen for $449
Pretty solid specs for the price
Chromebooks continue to impress in the price-for-quality department, and the HP Chromebook 15 is no exception.That looks awesome, totally want that one! i5, whoa.
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I have the Return to Zork in an .iso somewhere.
Anyone remember Boo? <I think>
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AzCopy Preview Adds AWS S3 Data Transfer Improvements
Microsoft announced this week that it has improved the preview version of its AzCopy tool to better handle Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 data.
AzCopy is a command-line tool that's typically used with the Azure File service or the Azure Blob service for copying data. -
4 cool new projects to try in COPR for April 2019
COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora.
Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
4 cool new projects to try in COPR for April 2019
COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora.
Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages.COPR is more than that, and not someplace I want to install anything production from.
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Apple reportedly bringing Screen Time, Siri Shortcuts, and other iOS features to the Mac
The macOS 10.15 update will feel very familiar to iPhone and iPad users
As we near Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, where the company will unveil its next major versions of iOS, macOS, and other software updates, 9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo is getting the jump on some of those announcements. -
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.
