Miscellaneous Tech News
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Dragon was destroyed just before the firing of its SuperDraco thrusters
"There was an anomaly and the vehicle was destroyed."
ring a news conference Thursday in advance of a SpaceX supply mission to the International Space Station, the company's vice president of mission assurance, Hans Koenigsmann, provided some additional details about a failure with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft 12 days ago. -
Life-saving kidney delivered by drone
A donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.
Many see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Andrew likes smart displays. Megan doesn't. Let's have a fight
Andrew is right!
We have an echo DOT in the bathroom (with the camera covered). I really like the display aspect because it shows me a weather forecast for the next week, besides just telling me. Absorbing that data visually is better for me.
Though Amazon recently changed the default display behavior, and I'm less liking it now. Before when you asked what the weather was, it verbally told you today's forecast, and showed you the next 7 days. now it shows you an hour by hour for the same day.
If you ask for the next 7 days forecast - it reads it all to you and displays it.. I'd like to kill the voice portion of that.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Charter data use “rising rapidly” as cord cutters average 400GB a month
And median data usage exceeds 200GB for all residential customers.
Charter cable Internet customers who don't subscribe to Charter's TV service are using an average of more than 400GB of data a month, the company said yesterday.So? That's still well below the 1 TB cap they put on most people (unless Charter's cap is lower than one TB).
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Putin reportedly approves creation of an independent internet
He decides to take his internet ball and go home.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly signed a law to create an independent internet for security reasons.He's sounding more and more like Kim Jong-un.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
We have an echo DOT in the bathroom (with the camera covered). I really like the display
That is not an Echo Dot.
I assume Echo Show?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Charter data use “rising rapidly” as cord cutters average 400GB a month
And median data usage exceeds 200GB for all residential customers.
Charter cable Internet customers who don't subscribe to Charter's TV service are using an average of more than 400GB of data a month, the company said yesterday.So? That's still well below the 1 TB cap they put on most people (unless Charter's cap is lower than one TB).
400GB seems tiny to me.
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Google unveils auto-delete for location, Web activity, and app usage data
New option coming soon auto-deletes usage data but doesn't cover all activity.
Google will soon let users automatically delete location history and other private data in rolling intervals of either three months or 18 months. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Charter data use “rising rapidly” as cord cutters average 400GB a month
And median data usage exceeds 200GB for all residential customers.
Charter cable Internet customers who don't subscribe to Charter's TV service are using an average of more than 400GB of data a month, the company said yesterday.It's @JaredBusch fault.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Charter data use “rising rapidly” as cord cutters average 400GB a month
And median data usage exceeds 200GB for all residential customers.
Charter cable Internet customers who don't subscribe to Charter's TV service are using an average of more than 400GB of data a month, the company said yesterday.It's @JaredBusch fault.
hahah! Not for years. I left their territory.
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Ex-YouTube engineer reveals how video site worked to kill off Internet Explorer 6
Banner said that Internet Explorer 6 would soon be dropped.
The year is 2009. YouTube, four years old, has become the Web's leading video site. Though Internet Explorer 6 was far from current—it had been superseded by versions 7 and 8—it nonetheless made up some 18 percent of YouTube's traffic. -
Adobe tests doubling the price of its Lightroom and Photoshop plan
The Photography plan jumped from $10 to $20 a month
Adobe is testing raising the price for its Creative Cloud Photography plan, taking it from $10 / month to $20 / month, as spotted by PetaPixel. -
Verizon is looking to sell Tumblr after squandering its potential
Like Yahoo before it, Verizon never really put much into Tumblr
Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr, the blogging platform it acquired along with other Yahoo assets in 2017. -
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
We have an echo DOT in the bathroom (with the camera covered). I really like the display
That is not an Echo Dot.
I assume Echo Show?
yep.. I'm batting a 1000 today - in failures.. I should just go the fuck home!
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Charter data use “rising rapidly” as cord cutters average 400GB a month
And median data usage exceeds 200GB for all residential customers.
Charter cable Internet customers who don't subscribe to Charter's TV service are using an average of more than 400GB of data a month, the company said yesterday.So? That's still well below the 1 TB cap they put on most people (unless Charter's cap is lower than one TB).
400GB seems tiny to me.
Well it might be for you... I normally run around 600 - unless I'm catching up on a lot of torrents of TV shows.. but just normal streaming, I very typically stay below 700GB
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ex-YouTube engineer reveals how video site worked to kill off Internet Explorer 6
Banner said that Internet Explorer 6 would soon be dropped.
The year is 2009. YouTube, four years old, has become the Web's leading video site. Though Internet Explorer 6 was far from current—it had been superseded by versions 7 and 8—it nonetheless made up some 18 percent of YouTube's traffic.Buy that man a beer!
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Buy that man a beer!
Any time you want to buy me a beer you know how to get a hold of me.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Buy that man a beer!
Any time you want to buy me a beer you know how to get a hold of me.
Kill off an old version of IE and I'll buy you a 6 pack.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Buy that man a beer!
Any time you want to buy me a beer you know how to get a hold of me.
Kill off an old version of IE and I'll buy you a 6 pack.
Does disabling IE on Windows count as killing it off?
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