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How to add a wake up weather forecast to your iPhone Lock Screen

Dec05
by on December 5, 2018 at 12:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Hidden deep in the recesses of the Settings menu is a feature Apple, presumably, wants you to use. Part of iOS 12, Apple included a fairly basic Lock Screen notification that gives you the day’s weather each morning shortly after you quit hitting the snooze button. The feature is part of Do Not Disturb at Bedtime mode, a setting that keeps pesky calls and texts from waking you during the solid four hours of sleep you manage to pull each night. The forecast will appear each morning, the first time you check your phone, so long as the following settings…

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How to add a wake up weather forecast to your iPhone Lock Screen

Dec05
by on December 5, 2018 at 12:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Hidden deep in the recesses of the Settings menu is a feature Apple, presumably, wants you to use. Part of iOS 12, Apple included a fairly basic Lock Screen notification that gives you the day’s weather each morning shortly after you quit hitting the snooze button. The feature is part of Do Not Disturb at Bedtime mode, a setting that keeps pesky calls and texts from waking you during the solid four hours of sleep you manage to pull each night. The forecast will appear each morning, the first time you check your phone, so long as the following settings…

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 processor brings ‘up to 3 times’ the AI power

Dec04
by on December 4, 2018 at 11:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


Qualcomm today unveiled its next flagship mobile processor, the Snapdragon 855. Get ready to see that number in nearly every high-end phone released next year. As with Apple’s A12 bionic and Huawei’s Kirin 980, the 855 moves Qualcomm down to a 7nm manufacturing process, which basically means more transistors per chip, and faster performance. The last time Qualcomm changed transistor sizes was when it jumped from the 14nm Snapdragon 821 to the 10nm 835 back in 2016. Naturally, this will equate to better performance and/or battery life, depending on how manufacturers choose to incorporate the chip. Qualcomm, for its part,…

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Leisure Suit Larry’s source code reaches over $10,000 in eBay bids

Dec04
by on December 4, 2018 at 8:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


The creator of Leisure Suit Larry has just unearthed the source codes of several games, including the first two games in the series. He’s put the code on eBay, and interested gamers have already driven the bids into five figures. I’ll wager it’s been a long time since most of us have heard the name “Leisure Suit Larry.” The adult-ish adventure game from the 80s and 90s hasn’t seen a major release in several years, though smaller, Kickstarter-backed remakes and new adventures have popped up from time to time. Series creator Al Lowe is now selling the remnants of his time…

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