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mavendependencyon Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend

I distinctly remember reading article that they fixed this on later production runs with some sort of coating. Wasn't the white iPhone 4 delayed for this?

mavendependencyon BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence

Yep, don't go searching for elevator when what you really need is the lift.

mavendependencyon iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-repaired screens

If this is the case, wouldn't the "touch current" from capacitive leakage on the Y class capacitor tying the SMPS ground to mains neutral do this anyway?

Surely, if electromigration is an issue, wouldn't these issues be just as significant? Isn't gold practically immune to electromigration at these energy levels?

mavendependencyon America’s technological hegemony is under threat from China

Reverse engineering has never been illegal.

mavendependencyon Decentralized internet is planned for Dubai, courtesy of startup Moeco

LoRa is infinitely more reliable.

mavendependencyon Internet protocols are changing

Cloudflare enabled domains can tunnel ipv6-only hosts for ipv4 clients.

mavendependencyon Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages

You just needed to change to google DNS, which you would have to do anyway - AWS CloudFront doesn't resolve at all in some circles.

mavendependencyon Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones

Volume up button plus W A S D

mavendependencyon Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

Why not confine this number to banking, then.

mavendependencyon AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture

Too late, raven ridge with integrated vega taped out a long time ago. One desktop gaming card line-up operating in the wrong region of the efficiency curve doesn't instantly turn an entire architecture into house fire material.

mavendependencyon AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture

Slide deck mentions cryptocurrency specific instructions.

mavendependencyon AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture

They could salvage this if they can get tensorflow working.

mavendependencyon IPv6 Adoption

Mobile carriers here are bringing back NAT on ipv6 now. Wannacry fears? NAT for the sake of firewalling? Phones still seem to get individual addresses.

mavendependencyon Firefox marketshare revisited

The testpilot program from mozilla has a beta test for sidebar tabs. This is still not tree, but can be a decent alternative if you need tree style tabs to reclaim screen real-estate.

mavendependencyon Introducing Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive

Gmail would refuse to recieve mail until you either free up space or upgrade. They share the same storage space.

mavendependencyon GlobalFoundries Details 7 nm Plans: Three Generations, 700 mm², HVM in 2018

https://youtu.be/Pt9i2ABe_mE

http://ifdl.jp/make_lsi/

http://hackaday.com/2016/10/13/blinking-an-led-extreme-editi...

http://www.slideshare.net/junichiakita9/intorudction-to-make...

There some projects to realize low-cost, short turn-around-time LSI fabrication at slightly old process, such as 1um, in Japan, whose name is Minimal Fab. This will enable the (commercial) LSI fabrication service at a few hundred USD cost and 1-week TAT. I believe this a revolution similar to that happened in PCB world in ten years ago.

mavendependencyon A brief history of IPv4 address space exhaustion

This is the case for ipv6 on mobile data by default. Would using a usb modem result in getting affected by smb exploits or something of the sort?

mavendependencyon Treble: A modular base for Android

Talent and IP are in extremely limited supply. Your alternatives are mediatek and spreadtrum.

mavendependencyon Treble: A modular base for Android

Wasn't it Google's fault anyway. Without a stable ABI, updates will require SoC vendor involvement, which is a limited time affair.

mavendependencyon Developer Preview of Android O

High end samsung firmware has PIP support, can confirm that (samsung) PIP works perfectly with youtube. Apple might need to communicate better with the youtube folks.

mavendependencyon Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years

What's wrong with odin? Other than the moral aspects of using leaked software?