Miscellaneous Tech News
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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.
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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.
