November 11, 2022

Twitter Blue MIA

Elon Musk’s hope to getting Twitter back in the black (and potentially avoid bankruptcy) was to generate revenue with ‘new and improved’ Twitter Blue subscriptions (he admited ‘Twitter can not rely on advertisers’). The $7.99 USD a month service would offer the user a Blue Verified checkmark and a slew of other features (most of which are still ‘coming soon’). However, the new subscription option is only available to Twitter users who had created their Twitter account before November 9, 2022 AND sign- up within the Twitter App on iOS. This means Android and web users are unable to sign-up…

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Microsoft will make Surface 9 Pro Parts Available to Consumers in 2023

Late last month Microsoft Corporation 411,84 -2,74 -0,66% release the next generation of their tablet computer. The Surface Pro 9 release on October 25, 2022, has been re-designed to make it easier for consumers to repair (instead of having to replace) the device. Microsoft will also make more parts available for purchase by consumers and repairs shops during the first half of 2023. That improved stance is reflected in the company’s latest designs. Microsoft says repairability [sic] was a “major focus” in the Surface Pro 9’s construction, and iFixit has confirmed as much in its independently run teardown of the…

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Windows 11 To Get Task Manager Process Filtering

Sometime in the near future Windows 11 users will be able to Filter for processes within the Windows Task Manager. Currently this feature is being tested on the Windows 11 Insider builds and no word yet when it will roll out to all Windows 11 users. “This is a helpful feature if you want to single out a process or a group of processes and want to take action or just monitor the performance of the filtered processes.” While there is some lag to the input and the text field needs to be a bit bigger, from BleepingComputer’s tests, the…

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