• Samsung's Galaxy S10+ goes under the microscope.  (AnandTech)
  
  Executive summary: The US version is great.  The international version, which has Samsung's own Exynos chip rather than the Snapdragon 855, is...  Pretty okay.  The international version suffers not only from inconsistent performance but also worse photography due to the differences between the image processing hardware on the two chips.
  
  
• Sony also has a 10+.  (ZDNet)
  
  The Xperia 10+ has a 6.5" 21:9 2520x1080 display (LCD rather than OLED), 4GB RAM, 64GB flash, microSD slot, USB C, and a headphone jack.  The CPU is a mid-range Snapdragon 636 with four A73 and four A53 cores, putting it two generations behind the A76 found in 2019 flagship phones.
  
  On the other hand, it runs £349 compared to £899 for the cheapest Galaxy S10+.
  
  My Huawei tablet has an A72 CPU, which is equivalent in performance to the A73 but uses more power.  It's not slow, and I wouldn't hesitate to get this or another A73 powered device on that respect, unless you are running seriously heavy apps on your phone.
  
  Another possible upgrade for my ageing Xperia Z Ultra...
  
  
• Apple cancelled its AirPower wireless charging pad because it couldn't make it work.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Wireless charging is easy.  Fast, efficient wireless charging of multiple devices at once is hard, and what Apple found was that the AirPower could double as an electric wok.
  
  
• The SR-71 had its own R2 astromech droid - and it may be relevant again should we fuck things up sufficiently.  (The Drive)
  
  
• How not to create an open-source license, example 462.
  
  Another example.  Well-meaning idiots will get us all killed.
  
  
• How to become a 10x programmer.
  
  Two ways: One, spend a huge amount of time and effort in memory training programs of dubious merit and on memorising API calls that might disappear entirely in six months; or two, create a little personal wiki where you record things you might need to look up again.  A notepad file.  Anything.
  
  
• Oracle has sent out an advisory telling customers not to use Java for anything, ever.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  That's not what they intended, but that's what they did, saying that critical security patches to Java 8, which is still very widely used, would require a paid license after the upcoming patch release in April.

• What if we built a surveillance state and nobody came?  (TechDirt)
  
  Google and Facebook have built massive - and massively intrusive - surveillance systems to monitor everything their users do, for the single purpose of increasing the amount they can charge for ads.
  
  There's an increasing amount of data suggesting that all this, basically, doesn't work, that it's pointless and harmful and enormously expensive.
  

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