Secret Oops! wants us to believe that Charles is the world’s dumbest spy, and yes, he kind of looks the part. He sounds a lot like Overwatch’s Reinhardt (sans armor), and you can usually find him dizzy and confused at the start of each level, sometimes even face-down in liquids of questionable origin. But hear …
Enlarge / Huawei’s logo at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona in November 2019. Getty Images | SOPA Images Market research firms Canalys and Counterpoint Research have posted their 2019 global smartphone market share reports. Both reports say the biggest mover is Huawei, which, thanks to a whopping 16-17 percent annual growth, claimed …
Enlarge / No CBS All Access on Linux makes elderly Picard cry. Update, January 31: After this story went live earlier in the week, an Ars reader reached out to speculate that the problem was most likely due to enabling VMP (Verified Media Path) on CBSi’s Widevine server. Verified Media Path, similarly to UEFI Secure Boot, …
At least five LCD display factories at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak are suffering production slowdowns, which is turn is expected to have an effect on the supply and pricing of displays used in PCs and LCD TVs. Five LCD fabs reside in Wuhan, China, which has basically been shut down to prevent the …
Microsoft has begun chopping at the roots of the UWP apps that populate the Microsoft Store, as it quietly announced plans to stop monetizing them using its own ad platform. That’s opened the door for traditional Win32 apps to play a larger role within the Windows ecosystem. Developers, however, may simply move on to other …
Unknown cyber network exploitation (CNE) actors have successfully compromised numerous organizations that employed vulnerable Citrix devices through a critical vulnerability known as CVE-2019-19781.[1] Though mitigations were released on the same day Citrix announced CVE-2019-19781, organizations that did not appropriately apply the mitigations were likely to be targeted once exploit code began circulating on the internet …
When you tell someone that Apple made $90 billion in its most recent quarter, it might sound like the kind of ridiculous number that you throw out there to emphasize a huge, unthinkable quantity—but no, the company literally generated ninety billion dollars in revenue. It was a banner quarter for the iPhone, Wearables, and Services, …
The New PocketGo (or PocketGo 2) from BittBoy isn’t a replacement for the original PocketGo, it’s an older sibling who’s twice as big and more powerful in many ways. With it, BittBoy continues to iterate on the portable retro gaming emulator, evolving the hardware and allowing for smoother emulation past the 16-bit era. While the …
If you haven’t had a reason to open Apple Maps in the past day or so, you’re in for a treat. Apple has completely revamped Maps across the United States, with vivid detail, better coverage, and more precise addresses across the U.S. It’s a big leap and it shows just how far Apple Maps has …
iTunes is gone in macOS Catlina, and the new Music app that replaces it is fairly similar in broad strokes. However, some users are having trouble finding how to search their own music library, as opposed to the iTunes Store. When I tested this, typing any search into the Search field in the upper-left corner …