3.5mm audio jacks are in big trouble now as one cable to rule them all standard signed off The USB implementers forum has loosed “USB Audio Device Class 3.0” onto the breathlessly-waiting world.…
Lees meerThought-to-be-lifeless hell-ball actually has a rich inner life NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) craft has found evidence that Sol's innermost planet is tectonically active.…
Lees meerLizard also set to char Windows XP and Vista by ending support The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox development team has decided enough is enough and will stop supporting Windows XP and Vista in March 2017 and also bin Firefox OS.…
Lees meerSELECT * from users where too_stupid_to_live=”YES” Two years after it first arrives for Linux and OS X, Facebook's "osquery" developer kit is now available for Windows.…
Lees meerTo date, Earth has been the only planet in the Solar System known to demonstrate tectonic activity. Other planets are geologically active, but not much more than that. However, it now looks like our homeworld isn't alone. Smithsonian res…
Lees meerGo almost anywhere these days and they’re out there, lurking. At our festivals . By our pools . Even in our prisons . Drones have now infiltrated just about every area of human society, as a member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony learned recently when a …
Lees meerFutjitsu issued another update for ScanSnap customers and macOS 10.12 Sierra. The company narrowed down the circumstances and features of ScanSnap that cause a problem in Sierra to three (below). More importantly, Fujitsu said, “A fix for the above …
Lees meerStandalone product to stay, but if you want it in Office 365, change your subscription Microsoft's rationalisation of enterprise messaging continues, with Redmond putting its Yammer Enterprise offering on the end-of-life list.…
Lees meeriMessage has completely changed the way we talk to each other and iMessage emoji apps have changed iMessage. We all remember the flip phone and the minutes that it took to send a message. Now, with iMessage we’re a lot faster and with emojis we’re i…
Lees meerIn iOS 10, you can now Print to PDF, just as we’ve been doing with OS X/macOS. But there’s also another nice trick in the Sharing option. “Save PDF to iBooks.” It’s simple and fast. John likes this feature a lot.
Lees meerApple wants HealthKit to grow from a basic health and fitness tracker to a platform for monitoring even more about us, and to use that information to help diagnose medical issues. Considering Apple’s commitment to improving our health, there’s no re…
Lees meerYou can export multiple albums in one fell swoop in Photos in macOS Sierra (this may work in previous versions). Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun explained how in Mac Geek Gab 623, and this is what you do.
Lees meerMicrosoft might lose a whole city of customers in Russia. According to Bloomberg, Moscow will begin replacing Redmond's products with homegrown software as a result of Vladimir Putin's urging to stop depending on foreign tech. Artem Yermola…
Lees meerIt's been 53 years since the first measles vaccine was released in 1963, though most people alive today have gotten it bundled into the combined MMR prevention shot that first appeared in 1971. After a half-century of immunization, the Worl…
Lees meerGoogle has updated its app for iOS with Incognito Mode, YouTube integration, iOS 10 support, and more.The best of Google in one app. Say “Ok Google” and find everything from nearby restaurants to the calories in cheesecake. Google also shows you the…
Lees meerRed Planet to become Elon-gated community SpaceX founder Elon Musk has laid out an audacious multibillion-dollar plan to send colonists to Mars.…
Lees meerApple has been big on strong encryption lately, but it's not immune to making missteps. Security researchers at Elcomsoft have discovered that iOS 10's local encrypted backups (that is, the ones you create in iTunes) use an older password …
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