The diminutive Raspberry Pi is known for being one of the most popular platforms for hobbyist computing and DIY projects, thanks to its low price point and large user community. One thing it isn’t known for: running Windows. While it’s possible to deploy Windows 10 IoT Core to an RBP, the platform isn’t really intended to work with the Windows 10 ecosystem. As of now, that’s changed — at least unofficially. Programmer José Manuel Nieto has rolled up a Windows-on-ARM (WoA) installer. That’s according to via , which originally broke the story. Nieo also links to the core package downloads the WoA installation requires.
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Google announced the nebulous Android Things platform several years ago to power various smart devices as part of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT). Now, Google says it’s . The platform will focus exclusively on smart displays and speakers rather than small, low-power devices like sensors, lights, and cameras. Android Things was in development for years before any products reached the market — it was a rebrand of Google’s Project Brillo platform. Android Things hit v1.0 last year, just in time for Assistant smart displays to begin launching. Although, Google’s own Home Hub smart display doesn’t even use Android Things.
The photo-sharing site 500px has attracted millions of users by focusing on photographers, allowing them to display and even sell their work online. However, the site’s dedicated user base got a nasty surprise today. 500px reports that someone , making off with user data from millions of accounts. The first question you have to ask in a situation like this is, “Why are we only hearing about this now?” After all, 500px admits the breach happened in July of 2018. You can chalk this one up to ignorance rather than maliciousness. The site says that it didn’t know about the hack until February 8th.
A recent study on the Terms of Use policies used by Google, Facebook, and hundreds of other prominent online sites have concluded that the documents are written in a way that renders them functionally useless to most US adults, despite the fact that these documents are considered to be legally binding. Or, put differently, and without all the fancy language: People are being held accountable to contracts that they literally cannot understand, even if they want to. Two law professors 500 of the most popular websites in the United States and the sign-in wrap contracts that these sites use.
Ever since Nvidia launched its RTX GPUs, the company has been banging the drum on ray tracing as a major, must-have feature that will eventually transform the entire gaming industry. Unfortunately, the company’s efforts to promote ray tracing as a truly imminent Next Big Thing as opposed to a technology that’s perpetually 4-5 years from introduction has run into a problem: There aren’t very many games that can take advantage of the capability. There’s an inevitable lag period between the introduction of any new hardware capability and the appearance of software that can take meaningful advantage of said hardware, but in this case, there’s an added wrinkle.
Smartwatches were supposed to take off as smartphones did a decade ago, but it’s been more of a slow burn. Many of the companies that got into smartwatches early (like Pebble) couldn’t tough it out long enough, but the latest report from NPD Group suggests have finally turned the corner. Today, about US adults owns a smartwatch, and growth is expected to continue. NPD says that a 12-month period ending in November 2018 saw smartwatch sales increase by 61 percent. That puts smartwatch ownership in the US at 16 percent, or one in six. You probably won’t be shocked to learn that most of those smartwatch owners are age 34 or younger.
The long-term cord-cutting trend bit the various paid TV service companies hard in 2018, with customer losses across the board. In Q4, AT&T lost 658,000 paid TV subscribers, while the Dish network dropped 334K subscribers, falling below 10 million subscribers for the first time since 2004. According to Walter Piecyk with BTIG Research, the total decline in pay-TV subscribers was 2.5M for the year. 2018 PayTV net adds Verizon -168k Charter -296k Comcast -344k AT&T -750k DISH -950k Sub-total -2.5 million — Walter Piecyk (@WaltBTIG) To put that in perspective, there are currently 89.51M pay-TV subscribers in the United States, or at least that was the case in Q2 2018 when this data was published by Statista:
Price increases for cloud services are common. There’s inflation, rising management costs, and so on. It’s understandable, but you might be locked in with these companies without any good way to move your data. It’s almost like holding your files for ransom. Backblaze, one of the most popular computer backup services, has announced its first ever price hike. Put down your pitchforks — it’s only from $5 to $6 per month. Backblaze differs from cloud storage services like Google Drive and Dropbox. Those are like online hard drives where you can keep whatever files you want. Backblaze, however, is exclusively for backup.
