Hello everyone! The team of Netspark’s blog wishes
you a merry christmas and some quiet days. Enjoy
the days at home with your beloved ones and a lot
of presents for everyone of you!

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We all know it from our childhood: Christmas was
often the time where we looked forward to fool
around in the snow. But with ongoing time the
temperatures were no longer allowing snow.

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A new level in the fight between Qualcomm and Apple
has been reached. Qualcomm is seeking for a sale ban
of certain iPhone models. Affected are iPhone 7,8 and
the X. The XS, XS Max and XR are not affected.

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Logitech’s Options Software is the key component to
customize the behavior of your input devices from them.
However an exploit has been discovered by the Google
Project Zero team. All users should update immediately!

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This can be a real hassle. New version of WordPress gets
rolled out and again our cronjobs to release scheduled posts
are simply gone! We wonder what ditches our cronjobs and
thus hinders WP to publish posts that are scheduled.

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When Australia has passed the anti-encryption law, things couldn’t
be more worse for tech companies that sell products that warrant
one’s privacy. Apple and other technology companies have already
signalled opposition to the doubtful law. What will come next?

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Hard times for Apple. The once-trillion-worth company has lost
over 26% of it’s value since it’s peak-value in October 2018.
The shares of Apple are even less worth than last year which
means that Apple even missed it’s 52wk goal.

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If you ever thought, there’s a maximum age for playing
Pokemon Go, you’ll be surprised about the following
man. Not only has he found an innovative way to hunt
down pokemons, he also is very creative.

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Samsung wants to take the crown back for the best
smartphone. The S10+ seems to be the perfect tool
to do so. While Dual-Cameras are state of the art for
now, Samsung features at least 6 cameras in the S10+!

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WordPress is releasing a new form of editor to create posts.
Called Gutenberg, the concept of WYSIWYG is brought to a
new Level. Instead of editing your text and insert media the
classic way by using office-like toolbars, you use blocks now.

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Hey fellow readers. Maintenance has completed and we’re
back online on monday again. We could find the culprit of
our repeated downtime and disabled the plugins in
question. Actually we’re investigating with the developers.

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If you ever thought, running a blog is a breeze and never
lets you run into problems, think again. Same here. We
experienced issues with the DB and some rogue plugins
flooding the DB with senseless stuff thus increasing size.

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Every fourth friday of November it is the same:
Shops paint their windows with stickers and sheets
presenting large percent denominations of rebates
on most or all products they offer.

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If you ever wondered what it looks like inside an airplane cockpit and
how it can become stressful when sight for the pilots becomes worse
(especially on starting or landing) then these two videos might give
you a nice insight. Amazing how much tech keeps flying so safe now!

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Who remembers Steve Jobs when he presented the first iPhone
in 2007? I guess not many have seen the keynote when Steve Jobs
presented the first iPhone to the public. Here’s the keynote that
changed the smartphone market in no time and made Nokia fade!

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Hard days for the cryptocurrencies when you watch the markets.
With Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies reaching all-new lows,
the question is: Is it still wise to invest in cryptocurrencies?
The reasons why the cryptocurrencies are falling are many.

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So although xmas is around the corner lurking for people
to buy presents for their beloved ones, it seems as there’s
nothing special on the computer market which makes you
voluntarily open your purse. Apple has new gadgets, yes…

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Again NVidia has a dropback to digest. Their flagship graphics
card GTX 2080Ti Founders’ Edition seems to have severe issues
with the PCB and/or components that are used to build the
whole thing. Several users have complained about broken cards.

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Well… it’s time to announce the next Darwin Award
winner. This man thought, a selfie on a high crane
might be a good idea. And to make it even more
special, head to the tip of the crane.

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Diablo is a well-known brand of Blizzard’s action game
RPG series. Diablo II is the actual title which is played by
a lot people for now. Blizzard however aims for the mobile
market and thus announced to release a new title.

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This little bear tries to get to his mommy bear but the
slope seems too steep and to snowy for it’s little paws
to finde adequate hold. What looks dramatic, however
has a happy ending. And we all love happy endings!

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Living outside the protecting sphere of our planet is
unthinkable. The space is too cold, too air-less and
possibly other things that eradicates a man’s life fast.
But there are planets with similar life conditions.

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Ubisoft is shortly releasing Rainbow Six Siege for the
Chinese market. However it will not contain the same
game experience than the usual version for EMEA.
Especially graphic design elements had to be removed.

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Tennis can be an emotional sport. Especially the Williams
sisters can be enraged if something isn’t working as
intended. In the US Open Finals in New York,
Serena Williams accused the umpire being a liar and a thief.

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When you think of waves, sea and sand, you might
picture out a nice sunny beach with warm sun on
your skin beathing the salty yet clean air the sea
provides while the waves roar in.

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You all know these signs for certain: At the entrance
of the bus you’ll often spot the “Do not talk to driver
while vehicle is in motion”-sign. These signs do make
sense as the following CCTV video shows…

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GrayKey, a little box used by law enforcement facilities to
reveal information and data from locked iPhones has been
rendered useless with the release of iOS 12. Although the
box may still retrieve unencrypted files and metadata…

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A week ago I have written about temperature records in
Switzerland. Now this article is about a big rectangular
ice shelf that broke loose from the Larson C ice shelf.
Now calving if ice isn’t that seldom but the form is!

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There you have it… new iPad Pros, a new Mac Mini and
macBook Air refresh. Quite some new devices Apple has
presented yesterday on it’s Event in New York. Available
from November 7th, 2018, you’ll be able to preorder now!

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On October 24th a new temperature record in
Locarno, Ticino (Switzerland) has been recorded
While the thermometer was still reading 23.1 °C
at 5:30am, the temperature rose to 30.1 °C later!

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…or what can we achieve with a given size limit for the
binary? Today’s entry deals with two extreme demos
that have been shown on the demozoo competition in
2013. One demo is 64KB and the other just 4 KB!

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In 2013 Winamp was stuck on it’s last version 5.666 and
hasn’t been developed on since then. But on last friday
the developers have reported that Winamp 5.8 has hit
the light and is released now. And that’s just the start…

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