Microsoft continues to revamp Windows 10, even as more and more users shift over to the operating system in its official form. The latest build 10532, released Thursday to Insiders, makes one visual change and widens the potential audience for new suggestions. Oh, and it also breaks the 64-bit version of Chrome, as well as Windows Hello. As updates go, build 10532 is relatively minor. The most significant revision is “improved context menus” that aim for consistency within the light and dark themes of Windows 10. Users will also be invited to try out new features using the Insider Hub. Under the hood, though, Microsoft has made its Windows Feedback more pervasive. Before, any suggestions were made and communicated directly to Microsoft, with the ability for other users to see and to vote on them. Now, with the new Feedback app, you can also share your suggestion to any app that supports sharing: Twitter, Facebook, et cetera. Upcoming mobile builds will also have the same capability, Microsoft said.
Missing from the ranks of businesses that accept Apple Pay are small retailers like food trucks and local coffee shops that may lack the capital to invest in sales terminals for accepting mobile payments. But a partnership between Apple and credit card processing company Starting in September,
Facebook is improving its technology to better identify videos uploaded to its site without the permission of copyright holders. The move comes amid an explosion in the amount of video viewed on Facebook, posted by regular users, publishers and advertisers alike. Alongside the uptick in video content, copyright holders have complained about videos posted without their permission. A recent
More statistics are available for individual players and teams, just in time for the start of the NFL season and MLB playoffs.
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Google has finally responded to antitrust charges brought against it by the European Commission over how it presents search results, and its pugnacious reply potentially sets up a lengthy legal battle between the company and the regulator. In the spring, the EU
BitTorrent fixed a vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to hijack BitTorrent applications used by hundreds of millions of users in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The vulnerability was located in libuTP, a reference implementation of the Micro Transport Protocol (uTP) that's used by many popular BitTorrent clients including uTorrent, Vuze, Transmission and the BitTorrent mainline client. The flaw
Apple just sent out press invitations to its annual iPhone event, to no one’s surprise. The date: Sept. 9. Time: 10 a.m. Pacific. Location: The spacious Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Cupertino continues its tradition of teasing what’s to come in its event invites, this time with the tagline, “Hey Siri, give us a hint.” As usual, the phrasing is coy and vague, but based on Apple events of yore, we know a few things: There will be
A company founded by ex-Apple CEO John Sculley has launched a set of low-cost yet stylish smartphones aimed for emerging wireless markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The phones use a customized interface, called Obi Lifespeed, which runs on the Android operating system, version Lollipop. With these phones, Obi wants to reach the billion or so users who market analyst firm Creative Strategies predicts will upgrade in the next three years from low-end smartphones to ones with greater functionality.
Fitbit retained its title as the world's top wearables vendor for the second quarter of 2015, but Apple is quickly gaining ground. During its debut quarter in the wearables market, Apple shipped 3.6 million Apple Watches compared to Fitbit's 4.4 million fitness trackers, IDC said Thursday. Overall, 18.1 million wearables shipped during the quarter, versus 5.6 million units in the year-ago quarter. Apple began selling its smartwatch in April, but hasn't released sales figures, claiming that disclosing this information would give competitors an advantage. The company has been vague in describing how consumers have reacted to the Apple Watch. During a call with analysts to discuss Apple's third quarter results, CEO Tim Cook said
Telecom carrier CenturyLink will roll out broadband to 1.2 million U.S. homes and businesses in rural areas, using US $506 million from the Federal Communications Commission. The six-year project, expected to start early next year, covers rural areas in 33 states, including large parts of the Midwest, West and Southeast, in addition to other areas. States included in the deployment include Illinois, Indiana, Oregon, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas. Funding comes from the FCC's Connect America Fund (CAF), supported by a monthly charge on U.S. telephone bills. CAF targets rural areas broadband providers have traditionally avoided because of the high cost of providing service.
Amazon’s Amazon’s putting its ongoing phone plans on the backburner and even laying off dozens of engineers from Lab126, its hardware division,
If taking screenshots is part of your job, Microsoft is aiming to make it easier with a new tool called Snip. Available Microsoft is considering the Snap to be part of Office Mix, which before now has served as a
Here's what you can do with Google's saved location information, why it's worth holding onto, or how to get rid of it for good.
A pair of leaked images are offering a complete look at Microsoft’s first flagship Windows 10 Mobile phones, codenamed Cityman and Talkman. As
Alienware’s refreshed laptops announced today at Pax Prime will feature better screens, Thunderbolt 3 and even a new AMD GPU but oddly won’t feature Intel’s latest CPU. The company announced three refreshed laptops: Alienware 13, Alienware 15, and Alienware 17, with the numeral referring to the size of the screen. Just last week the company announced the return of its monstrous Alienware 18 gaming laptop with The Alienware 13 gets the option of an IGZO-based IPS panel with a resolution of up to 3200x1800 and a searing 400 nits of brightness. Its top GPU is a GeForce GTX 960m, and for compute power, it’ll offer the option of dual-core “5th” gen Intel Broadwell CPUs. Units with the Core i7 will have the option of a higher density battery as well.
Alienware is largely credited for kicking off the micro-tower revolution three years ago with the original X51. The concept was simple: Take the typical business small-form-factor box, pull the PSU out of it and make enough room—just enough room—to shove an off-the-shelf graphics card inside. The result was a truly compact tower system that could sit on a desk or next to a television, yet still play games with reasonable performance. The X51 was a success. Soon, most other PC makers were copying Alienware's micro-tower concept—and surpassing it in capability and performance, too. Well, Alienware is back with its third-generation model, putting more pep into the X51’s stride. The most obvious update to the R3 version is Intel’s