Posts by JDPower

SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon cleared to hoist real live American astronauts into space

Um, stating launch time at just "4:33pm" could theoretically put it anywhere in a 24hr window (and also wrong for the majority UK readers)! It's 4:33pm EDT, 9:33pm UK time.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Spacecraft with graphene sails powered by starlight and lasers

Ooh look...

...another "graphene is the solution" study.

Proof-of-concept open-source app can cut'n'paste from reality straight into Photoshop using a neural network

The transferring it over the air is clever, not knocking that at all. But it'll take more than what's shown in that video to impress with the cutting and pasting element. Show it extracting from a more cluttered, non neutral coloured, area and pasting into something other than a white/neutral image in the exact same lighting/environment. That is incredibly tricky and if it can't handle that it has very limited usage. Fair play on the innovation side regardless though.

It looks like you want a storage appliance for your data centre. Maybe you'd prefer a smart card reader?

Probably one of my favourites was on Amazon. Was looking for a new coat and at one point had suggestions of two other coats and a three pack of ladies knickers. Which was ridiculous as the coats were nothing like what I wanted!

India to build contact-tracing app for feature phones that still use 2G, don't have Bluetooth and can't run apps

Re: This is the problem

I don't think old people in homes do much travelling to actually trace

Outages batter UK's Virgin Media into wee hours as broadband failures spike 77% globally

ThousandEyes? Well that's not sinister sounding at all

Geoboffins reckon extreme rainfall might help some volcanoes pop off

Re: The magma's several km deep

Always amazes me when "bloke on Internet" professes to know better than people who have spent their whole life studying a subject and have all the data at hand.

Vivaldi browser to perform a symphony of ad and tracker blocking with version 3.0

Re: I'll have to give it a go on Android.

Um, installing an ad and tracker blocking browser, then changing default search to Startpage seems a slightly bizarre choice

This hurts a ton-80: British darts champ knocked out of home tourney by lousy internet connection

Re: Home tournament?

I think you'll find it's physically impossible to win a game of darts hitting only bullseyes

Apollo astronaut Al Worden – once named most isolated human being of all time – dies aged 88

Re: I suppose...

Lonely?

Finally – news that something is guaranteed to be healthy and well looked-after for the next six months. That something is Windows 10 1709

Hey Microsoft, it's having an impact on us windows 7 users too, don't suppose you fancy flinging some security updates our way? Hellooo??? Hey, stop ignoring me!

HMD Global pokes head out of quarantine to show off 3 new Nokia mobiles

You tell us it's not the priciest phone, but don't actually tell us the price!

HMD Global revamps infamous commuter-botherer, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic

Re: Eh... What's the point?

I was still using an N8 as my main phone till about a year ago! Possibly my all time favourite phone (and the only phone I ever owned that never broke, so strange to me that you call it fragile)

Official: Apple debugs MacBook Air of sucky Butterfly keyboard

Re: Upgrade?

If someone buys a flawed product, AND keeps it instead of returning it, it's hardly the fault of Apple.

(Disclaimer - NOT an Apple fanboy)

UK Carphone Warehouse shops set to sling their last phones, 2.9k redundancies hit high street, as Dixons closes all 531 'standalone' sites

Whenever I'm looking for a new phone I always go to CPW. Only to physically compare look and feel of phones though, then go home and order online, even if it's FROM CPW. They also don't help themselves with their 'attentive' staff making the shops a borderline hostile place TO even enter (admittedly an approach not unique to CPW)

Bloodhound gang handles the pan again to get back to Hakskeenpan

Re: Cars are the past

Yup, that's Manchester

If you're serious about browser privacy, you should probably pass on Edge or Yandex, claims Dublin professor

Re: Is this relevant though?

Startpage, now owned by an ad finger. Might wanna change that

Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday

Are we absolutely sure she didn't pretend to go to Bali, got rumbled, then pretended it was a "social experiment"

OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?

Re: IKEA is great

Given that Startpage is also now an ad company - no!

Microsoft brings the pane: You'll be looking at Xamarin and React Native to design apps for dual-screen gizmos

Re: Novel idea...

And Tenpole Tudor as the startup tune. (it's suddenly appealing to me lol)

Astroboffins may have raged at Elon's emissions staining the sky, but all those satellites will be more boon than bother

Re: "I can't see the satellites, therefore they're not a problem"

Unless the ISS has doubled it's speed, you can't see it twice in 45 minutes

Google says its latest chatbot is the most human-like ever – trained on our species' best works: 341GB of social media

Re: Hummm soo...

Do you know why? Cos they're outstanding in their field.

US government grounds drone fleet (no, not the military ones with Hellfire missiles) over Chinese espionage fears

Re: The risk is high

Needs way more up votes lmao

Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard

It would stifle innovation? And just how much have they innovated the lightning connection in the last ten years?