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NewsFraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half Pin
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NewsGoogle open-sources Tsunami vulnerability scanner Pin
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NewsGoogle's Flutter: Now developers can use it to build apps for Ubuntu Linux machines Pin
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NewsIntel announces Thunderbolt 4 with support for longer cables, 8K displays, and more Pin
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One of my senior-guy hobbies is to maintain a list of different standards and formats I have been working with, all since my teenage years. It covers everything from document formats to dry cell batteries and silver film formats. The size of the list is shocking - every section of it! (and it has made me think of the term "standard" in a quite different way than I did before)

Some of the entries refer to flopping standards. There are a number of standards I considered so seriously that I have decided that they deserve to be mentioned as considered but rejected - I was very close to invest in them, and partially did. E.g. years ago, I bought external disks for long time archival with both USB and FireWire800 interface, just in case USB died out, and I got a FW800 card for my PC. But the disks were never plugged in to anything but the USB port.

For now, I am not even considering TB. I can manage very well with USB3 for disks, HDMI for the screen, while waiting to see if TB4 will be the same great worldwide success as TB1, 2 and 3 was Smile | :)
NewsA deep-dive into WinUI 3 in desktop apps Pin
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NewsWindows 10 2004 update block confusion: 'Your PC settings aren't supported' Pin
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NewsPopularity index: Classic Visual Basic hangs in there Pin
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NewsHow machine learning will impact the future of software development and testing Pin
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NewsIf you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free Pin
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NewsNASA Curiosity rover kicks off Mars ‘summer trip’ with new panorama Pin
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NewsHundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers Pin
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