Members of the app’s subreddit deny they’ve broken Plex’s terms of service, which forbids sharing with anyone but immediate family or charging for access. Not everyone believed them.
When we asked Plex, which recently started renting movies, for comment, Plex PR rep Carm Lyman told The Verge via email that most ban reversal requests are from those violating Plex’s terms, but anyone who abides by them “will not be banned.”
It’s about codecs and resolution. 4K-and-up videos only use either YouTube’s VP9 codec or the royalty-free AV1. Christian Selig, developer of the Juno YouTube app, writes that 360 video of the former can’t work because it requires Apple’s blessing. And the Vision Pro’s M2 chip has no AV1 hardware decoder, so that’s out, too.
Why not 1080p, he asks? Because it looks like doo-doo.
[christianselig.com]
Yesterday, it responded after a roughly two-week lunar night — something that was possible, but not expected. Japan’s space agency cut off contact to protect it from mid-day lunar temperatures but did get pictures.
Japan’s SLIM lander already regained power once after landing upside-down on the Moon last month. Guess it takes more than a lunar night to get rid of the MOON SNIPER!
That’s thanks to integrated ultra wideband, according to the company’s MWC 2024 announcement. It’s also about half the size and, Qualcomm says, uses 40 percent less power than its previous Wi-Fi chip.
That makes it easier for device makers to add the precision-finding tech that makes AirTags so good or lets cars like some Teslas know you’re close and what side of the car you’re on.
Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg today that Apple has started to work with its suppliers about a possible future version of its smart speaker that has a display.
Gurman thinks 2025 is the earliest possible launch for the product — Apple reportedly hasn’t “made enough headway to consider them imminent.”
Android expert Mishaal Rahman writes that the change gives quicker access to OpenAI’s chatbot’s conversation and query modes. To try it out, tap and hold a blank spot on your Android phone’s home screen to bring up the widget menu.
It may be a beta feature, as the version of the app I just downloaded from the Google Play store has a lower version number.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is South Korea-bound this week to discuss shipping a headset that incorporates webOS in 2025, Korean Economic Daily is reporting.
It’s not the first rumor that the companies might tag team the Vision Pro, and last month, LG confirmed that it was working on a new headset
I remember trying to play Nintendo DS games on my HTC One M8 years ago. It was terrible. This is better.
SteamDeckHQ spotted this Reddit user who’d cleverly converted their Steam Deck into a Nintendo DS using folding magnetic mounts and a smartphone-sized portable display. A Nintendo SD, if you’ll allow.
