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Apple Watch Series 7 said to feature blood pressure monitoring, will arrive later than expected WWW.TECHSPOT.COM The upcoming Apple Watch seems to have hit some production issues due to the device sporting a "complicated design." According to separate reports from Nikkei Asia and... Initially I thought smart watches were dumb, but the heath features they provide are actually pretty impressive.

I think the questions is; does TPM protect enough to be useful.

'Second major collision in space' confirmed by the US WWW.MSN.COM ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker says the “second major collision from two objects in space” has been confirmed after pieces of a Chinese satellite which lost communication were found. A Chinese and Russian satellite collided and it went unreported because the two nations are not known for their great international communication practices and also one of them was a spy satellite. One of the main worries with Kessler Syndrome is not just how many objects are in orbit, but having no coordinating amount competing nations to prevent stuff like this from happening. It's entirely possible that within our life times low earth orbit becomes essentially no longer doable. One SpaceX satellite array is maybe manageable, but get 2 or 3 more nations that want to compete with their own version and things will become really messy.

China bans kids from playing online video games during the week WWW.MSN.COM China has barred online gamers under the age of 18 from playing on weekdays and limited their play to... Damn man, that some serious government overreach. What a crazy rule. I bet tencent's stock value is tanking.

Sure but since windows 11 doesn't have any new features worth mentioning, I don't see that as an issue because no one who is using older hardware is going to need anything from windows 11, 10 will still work just as well.

PayPal is mulling over a stock trading platform for customers in the US WWW.TECHSPOT.COM PayPal is reportedly considering an expansion into stock trading less than a year after launching the ability to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies on its platform. Wonder if this would also boost their stock value.

With ray tracing I wonder if in a few years PC hardware will be so far ahead that the comparison between PC and console is much different than it is now. Hopefully that's not the case, but ray tracing is still in it's very early stages.

The United States Air Force Would Like You To Hack Into Their Satellite | Hackaday HACKADAY.COM The Air Force is again holding its annual “Space Security Challenge” where they invite you to hack into a satellite to test their cybersecurity measures. There are actually two events. … This is something I learned a little about recently. Apparently satellite security is generally pretty weak since they are already so expensive; security isn't seen as a priority and since they're in space, I guess people have assumed that makes them hard to hack.. but it's not really the case. So recently the military started hosting annual satellite hacking contests to try to identify weakness and hopefully improve them.

I guess I'm the odd man out, but I actually agree with Microsoft's choice to put raise the floor on hardware security. After all the spectre stuff and other security issues over the last 5 years or so, I think it makes sense. I am far from a security expert but in my laymen's understanding, I think the world is still kinda recovering from the stuxnet leak and added hardware security might be part of that. That said though, I get that it's a little awkward for a software company to impose new hardware limits, but it happens. I bet if Microsoft made a requirement that windows 11 will only install to an SSD and not an HDD (could still have secondary HDDs), not many tekkies would complain, a lot might praise the idea haha. The fact that windows 11 doesn't have any new features that matter also makes it less of an issue to me. Usually there's a new version of DirectX or something, but this time it just runs better on mobile hardware.

Updated the OP, laid out a little ground rule, if anyone wants me to add anything let me know. Anyway, I'll go over some of my own experiences investing. A couple years ago my Uncle took me to dinner and basically told me to start investing, so I did. I only put a couple hundred in at first and just watched it for a while, tried to learn about the process and such. I'd say I'm just now at the point where I feel comfortable with it, having watched it go up and down enough times to sort of trust that it always comes back up in the end... so far haha. So over time I've move more and more of my saving into my stock account so that it can grow. Initially I was more involved, mostly because I was nervous about it but over time I've gone from trying to be really hands on to mostly letting proven tech companies and a few more traditional companies keep me on a modest but steady rise. I've learned mostly through trial and error. The biggest mistakes I think I've made were selling a few stocks too early, like AMD and Turtle Beach. AMD I sold most of my shares in maybe 6 months ago because I wasn't sure they'd maintain growth with chip shortages and Intel starting to take their jobs seriously again now that they have real competition, but AMD has continued to grow since and I haven't bought back in yet. Turtle beach I think I regret the most. They make headphones and maybe controllers and other accessories for gaming. With the last console launch cycle their stock had a huge surge, and thinking this would happen again so I bought in early around $11. Again with chip shortages and the way console sales have been slowed down I thought Turtle Beach wouldn't be able to hit another surge and I sold it around $22, so I made money, but now it's up more and it's just continued to go up steadily. I was looking for a surge but instead it's been a steady rise which really is even better. Here is what my portfolio looks like right now, and the last 3 months of history. Before that I moved some stuff around, sold some stuff that I had sort of forgotten why I bought in the first place.. and consolidated my account so the last 3 months is more relevant to my way of thinking about stocks now. For a while I was reading up on stocks a lot and investing in a lot of things that sounded good but I ended up picking too many things to keep track of so I had to narrow it down a bit for my own sake. My plan going forward is to try to get more responsible with routinely setting new stop limits. I figure I can miss a lot of the down days if I set limits often, so hopefully that will work out. As a tech enthusiast I feel like there are some insights I get that help with investing. There are some companies I feel like I can understand better than a less techie type of person would and that definitely helps me gain confidence in certain companies. For example, I feel like I know about as well as any investor could that Microsoft is going to keep going up. While that wouldn't have been true maybe under Ballmer, the new CEO is killing it and they seem to have a real thick momentum at this point. Similar arguments can probably also be made for other huge tech companies like Apple, Amazon, etc. Google is the only outlier in my mind as far as major tech companies, partly because of the anti-trust suite.

Yea a brokerage account is a standard stock account and that's what you want.

Gonna put that fan controller in this one? Once you get this all set, we should try to get a game of F.E.A.R. combat going! I'd get way into that retro vibe. Looking forward to seeing the finale.

Just too elaborate a little here, I gave E a summary of what I make over a 6 month period as a percentage of my investment in certain tech stocks (about 13%), and I think this is the kind of info we could all potentially benefit from. A shared interest in the tech side of the investing world. More than happy to share this info, and I'll start if off in a few days when it's clear what we all want this thread to look like.

Seems like the responses are positive. As was pointed out, I do think there should be some rules/guidelines to ensure no one sees this as a place to seek financial advise, and I am interested to know how you guys think those rules should be structured. At that point I think we could start a more official thread with a list of rules to ensure its all on the up and up, and go from there.

I use Charles Schwab and there are no fees unless the stock your buying is foreign or something. For normal stuff definitely no fees.

Yea, no one should be looking for specific financial advise from anyone on here but people could have questions on how to get started, what certain terms mean, etc. More sharing knowledge than giving advise.

Welcome to the Stocks/Crypto/Investing thread! This will serve as a place for people to ask questions, share ideas and experience and talk about what's going on in the investing world. Since this is a tech site, naturally there will likely be more focus on tech related markets. Crypto is definitely included in that, but note that this thread isn't about mining but rather crypto investing, though discussions about profit gain and the financial side of mining are welcome. A little common sense rule: Do not come here for specific advise on investing and likewise avoid giving specific advise on investing to anyone. Do say: I think Microsoft is a good company to invest in Don't say: You should buy shares in Microsoft Do say: What are some good strategies for investing in the tech market? Don't say: What stocks should I buy? Screenshots should be fine just make sure you edit them to remove any personal info. Helpful Links: Infographic: 40 Stock Market Terms That Every Beginner Should Know (visualcapitalist.com) Stock Quotes, Business News and Data from Stock Markets | MSN Money Today's Market | InvestorPlace OP: I was thinking maybe we should have a thread to talk about stocks, crypto, other types of investing. With crypto blowing up, investing is becoming of all kinds has gained more attention it seems. You guys have any interest in a thread for talking about this stuff? Sharing idea, strategies, or just bragging about gains haha. Thoughts?

I agree with avacado

Sure I mean it just sounds more like the company itself became redundant, not you. I'm not expert on stocks like I'm not making any magic awesome moves with it or anything. I just put most of my stock money on safe bets with large tech companies that seem like they only move in one direction like Microsoft and Apple. If you go into stocks just wanting to move your saving over into safe slow investments like that, there is very little risk.

That's definitely lame af. Maybe a good time to get into stocks haha. What do you mean by being made redundant tho?

South Korea to end its controversial gaming curfew WWW.MSN.COM Gamers under 16 in South Korea have a reason to celebrate today: The country plans to end its shutdown law (AKA the Cinderella Law), which prevented underage players from gaming between midnight and 6AM... I didn't know this was a thing. I guess it's not totally unreasonable for kids under 16 but still, seems like a very strange thing to try to enforce on a governmental level.

It was just some teenager, but he was way too confident when he told me nvme is sata. It was funny and frustrating at the same time, mostly because I figured he didn't want to hear me explain it to him even though he was way off. Normally I wouldn't go to best buy for an SSD but I had a customer that didn't want to wait the day or two it takes to get them shipped from amazon. I did take the personality test by the way, but I score pretty much in the middle for most things except being more introverted than extroverted. I think my dad is a type A, and my whole life he's seemed like he stresses about work too much and isn't all that happy because of it. I think that influenced me to go the opposite route. I tend to just want to work enough to get by modestly while being comfortable... which is why I have come to really like the idea of investing in stocks. My dream is to be able to kick back and live off a modest stock account. Then maybe I'd get a part time job doing something I actually wanted to do, or just join a ceramics class or something haha. One can dream. This is off topic but actually the pandemic has sort of what allowed me to get way more into stocks. I was working as an independent contractor but got laid off due to covid and I figured I'd have to just live off savings or something, I didn't think I would be eligible for any unemployment benefits so I didn't apply until eventually a friend said they were covering contractors and convinced me to apply, so I did. To my surprise I was approved and they actually back paid me from the time I had been laid off, which had been like 6 months or so, so I ended up getting a good chunk of money all at once, for my modest means anyway; so I pretty much put it in stocks and that allowed me to get comfortable enough with it to start moving more and more of my savings into my stock account. I have more now than I did before covid.

Yea it was just a bit odd to me because it found all the folders right away except the user folder I was actually looking for, but that popped up an hour or so into the scan.

NVM, I figured it out. I was trying easeUS data recovery and it wasn't finding the user folder with all her docs and everything in it, but I guess I just didn't give it enough time. Eventually it did find that folder so it looks like everything is all good.

I have a customer who had a failing hard drive. I've replaced the hard drive but the data on the old drive is really important to the customer. The drive is still accessible but when it started giving her trouble she did a "system recovery" which is basically reformatting/reinstalling windows from the recovery partition. I know I can run data recovery and just scan for any document files on the drive to get a massively unorganized mess of files, but is there anything better? I am not familiar enough with data recovery to know the best way to go about this. I've tried a few different programs but they all have different ways of recovery data, some just look for deleted stuff wher as others look for whatever files types you tell it to. Is there one made for recovering files after a reformat that works well enough that the files won't be a total mess after?