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Have they finished catching up with the big promises for the initial release?

I don't have the game myself but it seems like the answer is mostly yes, from everything I read about that update...

I will probably go in with the VR update and see how I like it.

Didn't Verizon already say you can hit 1.45Gbps peak on their 4G LTE network?
Why is their new 5G slower?
https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

> Java licenses are free to developers, but companies incorporating the technology into their platforms are required to pay, Oracle said.

> But Google rejected a deal for the proper Oracle license because it didn't want to meet Oracle's demands for Java compatibility—it didn't want Android apps to run on other platforms, Oracle said in the brief.

> That strategy ultimately prevented Oracle from licensing and competing in the developing smartphone market.

But seriously, what was their phone strategy? They weren't developing their own mobile phone. Android was released in 2008. Oracle didn't buy Sun until 2010. I guess Sun had this one: https://www.engadget.com/2006/... They released over 2 years ahead of Google. Over a year ahead of Apple And then nothing.

Were they just planning on nickel and diming platforms for Java usage?

No, like I said, over 11,000 miles on average, nothing to do with a pre-set course.

https://www.ft.com/content/7c8...
https://www.engadget.com/2019/...

And that's not 11,000 until an accident, that's 11,000 miles until the car acted in a way the driver wasn't comfortable with, that doesn't mean the car would have had an accident but that the driver wasn't going to wait and find out.

There is not true data about how many crashes driverless cars have because they are never really driverless yet, they're not good enough, but they could get good enough in a few years.

The myth that Li-ion batteries die after only a few years has been proven false so many times that it gets tired now.

https://www.engadget.com/2015/...
https://www.greencarreports.co...

What you say makes sense, so why isn't Goode mentioned as supporting this change? Facts speak loudly.

They are. Google helped create the protocol and is part of the governance authority.
How much more support are you expecting?

Since the article linked from Slashdot is such shit for details, here is a better one from Engadget a couple days ago:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/20/att-comcast-test-verified-calls/

The title of that article actually includes the name of the verification protocol:
They believe they're the first to authenticate numbers across providers using the SHAKEN/STIR protocol.

So now you know that's the same subject matter, and you know the two protocol names.
Shaken is "Secure Handling of Asserted information using toKENs"
Stir is "Secure Telephony Identity Revisited"

There is a governance authority setup specifically for the overhead management of those protocols and certificates
https://www.atis.org/sti-ga/
Look at the "Leadership" link to see who runs the show:
https://www.atis.org/sti-ga/leadership/

The board of directors of STI consists of employees and officers of T-Mobile, Google, Wabash Communications, Microsoft, Comcast, Jackson Energy, Verizon, Bandwidth Inc, Western Telecommunications Alliance, and Nex-Tech Wireless ... In that order

The chair is held by AT&T and the vice chair is held by Charter Communications.

> The Norwegian browser maker,

Really? That seems a bit, errr, disingenuous. Maybe even misleading.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/...

After a $1.2 billion deal fell through, Opera has sold most of itself to a Chinese consortium for $600 million. The buyers, led by search and security firm Qihoo 360, are purchasing Opera's browser business, its privacy and performance apps, its tech licensing and, most importantly, its name. The Norwegian company will keep its consumer division, including Opera Apps & Games and Opera TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Opera Ltd. is publicly listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange [8], with majority ownership and control belonging to Chinese Businessman Yahui Zhou, creator of Beijing Kunlun Tech[9] which specialises in mobile games and cybersecurity specialist Qihoo 360.

If you want to send all your traffic through a Chinese VPN, go ahead, but at least be aware who ultimately controls Opera. The fact it's explicitly pitched as "Norwegian" seems suspicious. Could be a trap. :)

This sounds like the Intel chip with a Vega 20 onboard: https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

Good news - Amazon's one-click patent has expired. You may resume development of the single button. I feel safer already.

Don't buy that console, buy the slightly more expensive version that still has the disc.

This works only if the manufacturer continues to manufacture "the slightly more expensive version that still has the disc." When Microsoft's Xbox division first floated always-online DRM in the Xbox One prior to release, the head of Xbox suggested with a straight face that users stuck behind capped or no Internet can stick with the Xbox 360. (Source: "Xbox chief: we have a product for people who can't get online, it's called Xbox 360" by Daniel Cooper)

How about a source that doesn't abuse YouTube's copyright system to cover their incompetence? Here's one: https://www.engadget.com/2019/...

For context: https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

(I guess I don't know that Engadget hasn't ever misbehaved, but Vox and The Verge are pretty regularly obnoxious.)

It is about the US being paranoia and hypocritical, as well as FUDing the American people like they did before the Iraq War.

Is this the same rampaging jackass Paul Christoforo of the PAX twitter from 2012??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://www.engadget.com/2011/...

$150 million, which isn't a lot of money once we're dealing with companies as large as those two!

Also, the DB15 VGA connector - introduced in 1987. Dropped out of standard usage but still not uncommon yet.

People use it in spite of itself! In 2010 a whole host of manufacturers said they will drop it by 2015. While it might be a "lowest-common denominator" connector, I'm surprised how many people still use it. Existing concealed wiring to a 10 year old 1024x768 projector? Sure, VGA is fine. Trying to use a crappy old monitor, or crappy old computer, sure VGA is fine. Same with an old KVM switch.

But I'm boggled by how many people use a Displayport-VGA adapter, or HDMI-VGA adapter, so they can connect to a 1080p+ monitor... THAT HAS DIGITAL PORTS! They will go out of their way to find a VGA adapter to hook it up when we have loads of Displayport/DVI/HDMI cables and adapters.

I was impressed with how long Lenovo held on to VGA ports on their Thinkpad line. All the new Thinkpads have an HDMI port, with an HDMI-VGA adapter for projectors, THAT PEOPLE KEEP FUCKING USING FOR THEIR BRAND NEW MONITORS! I guess people like a really soft, fuzzy monitor image. Must be that analog "warmth" they like in their vinyl records.

They can't make your pings low enough for any sort of dexterity game.

You're wrong, and you clearly have never tried playing your games on a virtual system in the cloud.

The most popular games on GeForce Now are the FPS arena shooters that are so popular these days. People have been playing these games on virtual systems for over a year and having a great time.

Why are you so mad at the very idea of cloud gaming. I mean, you're just fuming about it.

Here's an Engadget review of the service from a year ago.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

And here's a thread of some people discussing the service on Reddit from a year ago. It's improved a great deal since then, too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidi...

Whether or not cloud gaming succeeds is dependent to a great extent on the pricing model they use. Right now, it's free for those of us who use it, and as the guy on Reddit said, "it's glorious".

If it can be rolled without breaking for 1000 times, it will last only little more than two years, maybe three when you can limit it to one view per day. I want to use devices for at least 10 years.

LG is claiming 50,000: https://www.engadget.com/2019/...

... the way the Chinese are taking the concept of an orwellian state further to unseen depths on a biweekly basis, is it not?

Don't kid yourself that this is only in China, although yes it is scary as fuck.

RFID tags in clothing has been a thing for roughly a decade now.
https://rfid4u.com/rfid-for-uniform-and-laundry-tracking/

The UK has done it
https://www.engadget.com/2007/10/21/uk-secondary-school-tests-rfid-embedded-uniforms/

Brazil has done it
https://www.zdnet.com/article/uniform-computer-chips-track-student-locations/

India has done it
http://www.childsafetyindia.com/

The US has schools that have done it too
https://www.wired.com/2012/09/rfid-chip-student-monitoring/

Those are just the ones I remember reading about. I have no doubt plenty of other places are doing it as well.

That's new. Until this month (December 2018), Apple Music worked on Android phones but was deliberately incompatible with Android tablets. (Source: Engadget)

You mean like the new system that is being developed and implemented? https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

The best web browser 2018: faster and more secure

Mozilla Firefox.

Google Chrome.

Opera.

Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Vivaldi.

Tor Browser.

Sep 24, 2018

The best web browser 2018: faster and more secure |

https://www.techradar.com/news...

Citation required

Easily done!

https://www.cultofmac.com/5711...

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05...

https://appleinsider.com/artic...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://www.imore.com/how-ios-...

ET FUCKING CETERA...

Any questions?

"As website blocking has had a positive impact in other countries without significant unintended consequences, the U.S. should reconsider adding this to its anti-piracy tool box," the RIAA and NMPA write."

https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

YouTube kills annotations to make way for mobile-friendly features

https://www.engadget.com/2017/...
Google is a mobile only company. If anything works on a desktop system, that is just a bonus.

Oh, they can authenticate caller identity. And the FCC is trying.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

Then again, if you're cynical, you might see this as "stop, or I'll say stop again". Seems unlikely major telcos will really move in earnest if merely asked to do so, without actual regulatory requirement to do so. Seems likely the FCC's desire to curb this problem will become actual rules under our current administration.

And at least from what Iâ(TM)ve read, "conservatives" arenât being deplatformed. Offensive speech is.

Must be that unbiased and trustworthy media you read. Funny how "offensive" speech on the right is censored much more than the left:

"In the spirit of accountability and transparency: recently we failed our intended impartiality. Our algorithms were unfairly filtering 600,000 accounts, including some members of Congress, from our search auto-complete and latest results. We fixed it. But how did it happen?"

That was Dorsey's statement before he was set to testify before Congress. Funny timing, that. What he doesn't mention is that the members of Congress that were shadowbanned were all Republicans.

And as a reminder, these are privately owned sites.

It's an oligarchy in charge of what passes for the online public square. The FCC can regulate it.

They can't reliably determine your age, sex, religious orientation, or party.

Snort. It's trivially easy to put people into buckets based on what they post and their profiles.

It's the internet. Just like the other sites, start your own competing service.

Right, start your own Twatter, and have your mobile app banned from the duopoly of Apple iPhone and Google Android. So make your own cell phone. And have your DNS yanked, so make your own DNS. And have your ISP yanked, so make your own ISP. And have your hosting service yanked, so make your own hosting service. And have your payment processor yanked, so make one of those too.

So much freedom!

Well, you can, but it is a) one shot (it becomes worthless when discovered)

This is just a special case of the problem, how do you ever act on intelligence obtained covertly without giving away that you know it and how you know it. For example, the breaking of Enigma was, according to many, a "one shot" deal. How do you explain being in the exact spot where a naval attack was going to be without giving away we were reading their coded messages? Well, the allies found numerous inventive ways of doing just that.

This is literally the one thing that intelligence agencies have the most experience with.

b) causes extreme problems for the CPU manufacturer when discovered

Tell that to Cisco. They are still around and very much in business.

If you think that Cisco is the only one to ever have this done, you are hopelessly naive. On every side. Huawei has got themselves into trouble for it. Remember the digital photo-frame virus distribution of over a decade ago? That was just a proof-of-concept. Compromised chips are rampant.

The render on Engadget shows a camera bump protruding beyond the case! Did they seriously prevent iPads from sitting flat against a desk? *Wobble Wobble*

I wish laptop manufacturers would have another go at this

Ya, it's called the 2018 Windows 10 October Update :-)

Go buy some Motorolas. That's probably the manufacturer of my next phone: https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

The new handsets are the first to take NM Card, a Huawei-made design that offers the capacity and performance of microSD in a card the size of a Nano SIM.

The problem, you might have surmised, is that you're buying what's currently a vendor-exclusive technology. You can't just run to any store and pick up an NM Card when your built-in storage fills up. It's unclear how Huawei will price these cards, for that matter. And however reasonable the price might be, you're likely locking yourself into using Huawei phones if you want to use that extra storage with any future phones.

Surveillance and collaborating with Chinese authorities to identify "undesirable" people is the problem. Google is being allowed to trade ratting out people in exchange for money.

That's a pretty strong claim. Got anything to support it?

From an article in The Intercept quoting Jack Poulson who probably knows a few things about Dragonfly:

"In his resignation letter, Poulson told his bosses: “Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents.”

“I view our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exchange for access to the Chinese market as a forfeiture of our values and governmental negotiating position across the globe,” he wrote, adding: “There is an all-too-real possibility that other nations will attempt to leverage our actions in China in order to demand our compliance with their security demands.”

As an example of Dragonfly support for surveillance, many news outlets, such as Engadget, have claimed that Google will be forced to connect search queries with phone numbers, which will further the Chinese goal of having Google abet their surveillance. In China, phone numbers are linked to real names to avoid anonymity. Google is also likely to be required to both host their data on Chinese soil and to partner with a local Chinese firm, with both requirements intending to ensure Google compliance with Chinese demands.

I imagine the next system will be another iteration on the PS4, Microsoft is already going the same route: https://www.engadget.com/2016/...

You forgot Audi.

In the next few years, expect EVs to come down in price significantly. The Chevy Bolt is doing quite well, BTW and that isn't priced like a luxury car. The Nissan Leaf is also doing well and Nissan's new battery plants are up to speed.

2019 will be interesting and 2020 will be the year of the EV.

Tesla will probably be in receivership by then.

They've trained an AI to navigate the balloons by making them follow the weather patterns to stay in position.

It's actually quite impressive!

https://plus.google.com/+Proje...

https://www.engadget.com/2016/...

https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Huawei's Watch 2 can last for weeks without its smarts

all of my Apple devices just keep working.

Yeah, almost unbearably slow, but working. There's nothing quite like Apple's planed obsolescence. Good brand choice indeed.

Hey, COWARD:

I am SURE you didn't watch this year's WWDC Keynote; but one of the first topics (if not THE first) was how they had SPECIFICALLY focused on PERFORMANCE of iOS 12 ON OLDER DEVICES.

In fact, they used an iPhone 6 (which I happen to have), and the performance gains were QUITE impressive.

And I guess that real-world tests with the Beta releases of iOS 12 seem to bear out these claims:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

Speaking of which, I just recently Upgraded my iPhone 6 (actually a 6 Plus) from iOS 10.3.3 to iOS 11.4.1. I'm here to tell you that it is NOTICABLY FASTER.

So, kindly Stick It In Your Ass, COWARD!

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

What's more it's going to be a long long time for old content to be upgraded.

The Mid-Range Android phones have been innovative with real improvements,

Oh, you mean like multiple notches?

Have you ever tried to make a game and sell it? Only the other day on here I was reading an article about "review copies " that were basically scammed out of games-makers. Something that DRM could stop.

Did you actually read that story? It wasn't about asking for copies of the game itself, it was about asking for keys to games, that are then redeemed on Steam, which *gasp* has DRM! Not real sure how you can conclude that DRM could stop it when it quite clearly is not stopping it.

There are numerous instances of games-makers tracking pirated downloads, and releasing games without DRM to see how they fare.

And when they release both a DRM-ladden copy and a DRM-free copy, it is the cracked DRM-ladden copy that shows up on pirate sites. Kinda puts a damper on your entire point, doesn't it?

"Lot's" in my parent comment should have been "Lots".

The linked story says, "As nebulous as the rating system is ..." Worse than nebulous, which is "unclear, vague, or ill-defined". Probably foolish.

Washington Post story: Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1. Quote from that story: "... Facebook has given people more options, some users began falsely reporting items as untrue, a new twist on information warfare..."

Another quote: "But how these new credibility systems work is highly opaque..."

First of all, this housing thing has been going on for quite a while now:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

Secondly, there are quite a few examples, such as:
https://consequenceofsound.net...

All this is just the stuff on the surface, where advertisers are abusing Facebook's targeting system. One abstraction layer further you get the Cambridge Analytica stuff. Databrokers taking your Facebook data, and then selling all kinds of derived scores to employers, insurers politicians.

Women don't see high paying job adds:
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Getting red-lighted at job interviews:
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

Easier to get a loan if you have 'good' friends:
https://trustingsocial.com/

IRS looking at social media posts to determine who gets an audit:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

Health insurers figuring out who they want to insure:
https://www.propublica.org/art...

As Cathy o Neill pointed out in her book "Weapons of Math Destruction", all this tech doesn't remove discrimination, it just hides it behind the facade of 'neutral math'.

What Musk did over Twitter is first and foremost unbecoming of a CEO and is outright manipulation of the stock price.

In your opinion.

That's the problem with all the Tesla news nowadays - there's actually very little going on, what we see in the media is opinion dressed up as news. And if it's bad, the shorts will run with it.

.) The Saudis had approached Musk multiple times about taking Tesla private over the past two years .) During that time, Musk has been telling shorts to get out .) The Tesla board was informed about Musk's intent before the infamous tweet, and discussed the merits .) The board decided the next step was to contact and discuss with the largest shareholders .) Musk decided that he couldn't legally contact *only* the largest stockholders, so he publicly announced on twitter .) Stock goes up .) Stock goes down

(source)

Really, there's nothing in the news anyone can trust about Tesla nowadays. After the NYT interview I saw these competing headlines:

"Musk says Tesla had an excruciating year, and the worst is yet to come" (one source, among many)

"Musk says Tesla had an excruciating year, and the worst is over" (one source, among many)

Which of these is an accurate portrayal of Tesla's future?

Don't believe any of it. Given the timeline above, it's really hard to see how Musk could be charged with a crime - SEC is civil, not criminal, the FBI would have to get involved for that. It's also hard to see how the SEC could impose a fine. There *might* be an issue with the exact definition of "secured", but it's a) moot, b) can be argued either way, and c) it took the SEC 5 years to bring down [Theranos CEO] Elisabeth Holmes for much more severe problems, they aren't likely to move any faster with Tesla. Five years from now we can worry whether this has made any difference to Tesla.

It's clear that Tesla only has to weather the next 4 months or so, and then be clear of all this nonsense.

Until then, just ignore the rabble - it's only noise anyway.

Musk is a narcissist.

This buyout was just him bullshitting. It IS a LIE!!!

  This lame excuse of "Ambien" and lack of sleep is total horseshit. His LAME-ASS excuse.

I KNEW it. ALL of you fanboys are idiots.

And YOU Okian are full of shit!

YOU are a complete liar.

What Musk did over Twitter is first and foremost unbecoming of a CEO and is outright manipulation of the stock price.

In your opinion.

That's the problem with all the Tesla news nowadays - there's actually very little going on, what we see in the media is opinion dressed up as news. And if it's bad, the shorts will run with it.

.) The Saudis had approached Musk multiple times about taking Tesla private over the past two years
.) During that time, Musk has been telling shorts to get out
.) The Tesla board was informed about Musk's intent before the infamous tweet, and discussed the merits
.) The board decided the next step was to contact and discuss with the largest shareholders
.) Musk decided that he couldn't legally contact *only* the largest stockholders, so he publicly announced on twitter
.) Stock goes up
.) Stock goes down

(source)

Really, there's nothing in the news anyone can trust about Tesla nowadays. After the NYT interview I saw these competing headlines:

"Musk says Tesla had an excruciating year, and the worst is yet to come" (one source, among many)

"Musk says Tesla had an excruciating year, and the worst is over" (one source, among many)

Which of these is an accurate portrayal of Tesla's future?

Don't believe any of it. Given the timeline above, it's really hard to see how Musk could be charged with a crime - SEC is civil, not criminal, the FBI would have to get involved for that. It's also hard to see how the SEC could impose a fine. There *might* be an issue with the exact definition of "secured", but it's a) moot, b) can be argued either way, and c) it took the SEC 5 years to bring down [Theranos CEO] Elisabeth Holmes for much more severe problems, they aren't likely to move any faster with Tesla. Five years from now we can worry whether this has made any difference to Tesla.

It's clear that Tesla only has to weather the next 4 months or so, and then be clear of all this nonsense.

Until then, just ignore the rabble - it's only noise anyway.

Curious, except for the opening in the front, how are these any different than Fortwo?

So innovative, even Steve Jobs couldn't think of it!!! https://www.engadget.com/2010/...

...you should also remember they were sued, successfully, by the patent troll that claimed to own the protocol...

Which would make them not patent trolls. They defended their patents against the most well-funded legal team in existence, and showed that the protocol used their invention. They most certainly did not claim to own the protocol.

They were/are Patent Trolls. First it was FaceTime, then it was iMessage. I didn't call them Patent Trolls, the entire Tech-Press did:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

https://gizmodo.com/apple-orde...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/02...

http://fortune.com/2016/02/03/...

https://www.cultofmac.com/4302...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Oh, and this Discussion Thread EXACTLY addresses the original question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...

etc. etc...

VirnetX patented something fairly obvious that they had no intention of ever bringing to market, which, after all, is the entire reason behind the Patent system, and simply lay-in-wait for someone with deep pockets to accidentally trip-into their patent-trap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Significantly helped along by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I mean, the obvious corruption got so bad that the Supremes had to put a stop to it!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

So, don't paint Apple as the bad guy here.

AFAIK Apple removed the headphone jack with the excuse that it was too thick for their increasingly thin phones. Well that would have been as simple as replacing the 3.5mm plug with a 2.5mm plug.

Honestly I have better things to do than carry lithium ion batteries on my hears:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

I think the next steps forward will come with flexible displays and improved printed circuit technologies or better circuit integration.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Touchstream yet.

They developed this keyboard:
https://www.engadget.com/2010/...

Maybe 8 or 10 years ago?

If you don't see it at first glance: It doesn't have keys. The whole thing is a big multi-touch surface, long before multi-touch appeared on smartphones. So you can type and the next second use it as a touchpad. It was pretty nifty.

FingerWorks, the company that made it, was acquired by Apple. Then the iPhone appeared, with multi-touch. Ever since, I've been waiting for an all-touch Apple keyboard to appear.