What To Expect From Computex 2016
Computex will be taking place May 31–June 4 this year. Expect Broadwell-E X99 motherboards, AMD Polaris updates, and AIB versions of the GTX 1080.
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A Future Without Windows Is A Dystopian Nightmare
This guy hates the idea of systems like Chrome OS and thinks they will lead us into an age of locked-down computing. Is he right?
Imagine a future where the world is divided between builders and users. Builders create the applications and content that users consume. Today, we live in a world where most people are users, even if they have Windows or Mac OS. But at least with those desktop platforms, there's the opportunity to take the reins and start coding an app, building your own website from scratch or installing software that's not been endlessly sandboxed and prescreened for you. With Chrome OS, you're a passive player who cannot take full control of your device or your experience.
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Court: Google Doesn't Have First Amendment Right To Drop Site From Search Results
Can a spammy company sue Google for dropping its sites by accusing them of being anti-competitive? A court in Florida may be entertaining the idea, although the case is young and the author's points may be greatly exaggerated.
Google's web spam team decided that e-ventures was spamming as well, and removed its website. The company sued under a variety of theories, but mainly claims that it did nothing that violated any of Google's stated rules -- and furthermore that Google was misleading in some of its public statements about what it will and won't remove from the web, as well as how it alerts people to those removals. Google hit back with two responses in a motion to dismiss. First, it said that it's protected under CDA 230 for removing content and second that the choices it makes on how the search results are ranked are protected by the First Amendment. Somewhat surprisingly, the district court has rejected both of these arguments.
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Gran Turismo Sport Gameplay Trailer
It's not Gran Turismo 7, but GT Sport will serve as the franchise's debut on PS4. Apparently, a lot of people are disappointed with the graphics.
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Nvidia GTX 1080 Pre-Orders Sell Out In Minutes
If you managed to snag a GTX 1080 pre-order—congratulations, I guess. You can hit the link in the article for stock information.
Retail availability is set to occur on May 27th this coming Friday but several e-tailers started their first round of pre-orders today. Despite only popping up for a few minutes, Amazon, Newegg and Best Buy all sold out of their pre-orders within minutes. This went for all brands like MSI, ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, Zotac and PNY. I guess when they are all reference model Founders Edition, it doesn't matter too much which card you buy.
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Overwatch Animated Short "Hero"
Blizzard has released their final Overwatch animated short, which stars Soldier: 76.
Soldier: 76 is pure chaotic-goodness, the gold-hearted, grizzled vet who will never abandon his mission. His origin trailer debuted in July (it's below) and positions him as a pivotal figure in the Overwatch story: commander of the good guys, distrusted or taken for granted by the citizens, doomed in a raid on Overwatch HQ and now believed dead. Soldier: 76's gravelly nihilism may be an action-movie trope, but there's still enough optimism to keep him in the business of saving children and blowing the bullies away. Verdict: Good dude and a sweet trailer.
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Oculus Kills App That Let Vive Owners Play Rift Exclusives
A recently released update prevents exclusives from running on non-Oculus hardware. Previously, a "compatibility layer," Revive, allowed the HTC Vive to run Oculus software.
Those who purchased software via the Oculus store who now own software they can no longer use are frustrated. Many comments in the Reddit thread on the subject point out how taking steps to ensure Oculus games don't run on non-Oculus software flies in the face of a statement Oculus founder Palmer Luckey made back in December: "If customers buy a game from us, I don't care if they mod it to run on whatever they want."
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Windows 7 Updating Is Still Broken
This guy put Microsoft's new Convenience Rollup (CR) for a spin and found that things didn't go as well as he'd hoped. The CR was recently released for Windows 7 users as a more practical way of updating the OS.
Based on the feedback I received on Twitter yesterday, this issue–where Windows Update just sits there saying "Checking for updates…" but not actually doing anything—is common in Windows 7. Naturally, I've been largely unaware of this since I long since moved in turn to Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10. But for the subset of those several hundred million people who do in fact use Windows 7 every single day and need to reinstall the OS from time to time, this is obviously a problem. For those who need to update the OS on multiple machines, it's a freaking nightmare.
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iPhone 7 Plus Leak Shows Dual-Camera Module, 256GB Storage Option
I suppose it is amusing how Apple insists on selling 16GB versions of devices that can do things like shoot 4K video.
In addition to showing the dual-camera module, the Weibo images claim to show a 256GB memory chip, suggesting that Apple for the first time will introduce a higher storage variant with the iPhone 7 lineup. What's notable, though, is that the images show 16GB, 64GB, and 256GB chips, perhaps implying that the 128GB model will be replaced all together with the new 256GB model. Judging by this leak, however, the 16GB model is here to stay.
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Destroying An Indestructible USB Cable
Now I know for a fact that some of the editors at The Verge have too much time on their hands. Did anyone really think a USB cable would last against cutting tools?
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1996 Sega Test Department Training Video
In today's episode of "Gosh, I'm Starting to Feel Kind of Old," we revisit Sega's past and what it might have been like to be a game tester in the '90s.
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Microsoft Purging Terrorist Content From Its Services
I thought this kind of thing was standard practice, but apparently Microsoft is only making it official now. Here's a form you can use to report extremist content from services such as Xbox Live—no, someone insulting your mom on CoD doesn't count.
Microsoft is officially prohibiting users from posting anything that incites terrorist acts on its services, including Xbox Live, Outlook consumer version and document-sharing website Docs. In a blog post, the tech giant explained that it's taking these steps, because it has "a responsibility to run [its] various internet services so that they are a tool to empower people, not to contribute, however indirectly, to terrible acts." For Bing, however, the company will only remove links to websites if the authorities demand it. Search engines don't host content, after all, and Microsoft has to respect people's "right to access information."
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