The Daily Populous

Last week, Verizon apparently got a running start in being less transparent when it decided to begin throttling its wireless customers without telling anybody.

Users at Reddit began noticing that when they streamed Netflix content or accessed Netflix's Fast.com speedtest, their connections were magically limited to 10 Mbps.

But it was the fact that Verizon couldn't be bothered to tell anybody this was happening that's raising a few eyebrows. »

As many as 2,529 products have shrunk in size over the past five years, but are being sold for the same price, official figures show.

It said toilet rolls, coffee and fruit juice were also being sold in smaller packet sizes.

At the same time the ONS said 614 products had got larger between 2012 and 2017. »

But one long-standing stalwart of the Windows experience has been put on the chopping block: Microsoft Paint.

Starting life as a 1-bit monochrome licensed version of ZSoft’s PC Paintbrush, it wasn’t until Windows 98 that Paint could save in JPEG.

With the Windows 10 Creators Update, released in April, Microsoft introduced the new Paint 3D, which is installed alongside traditional Paint and features 3D image making tools as well as some basic 2D image editing. »

A leading French philosopher who wrote a book on risk-taking has died after attempting to rescue two children from drowning.

Anne Dufourmantelle entered the water at Pampelonne beach near St Tropez on 21 July after the children got into difficulty.

French culture minister Françoise Nyssen said in a statement that Dufourmantelle was "a great philosopher who helped us live.". »