Xbox One Preview users who've been the most vocal in providing feedback will be first in line for the New Xbox One Experience—in other words, Windows 10 for the Xbox One. Microsoft said Thursday it will invite a small, active group of users to help The new experience will introduce Xbox 360 backward-compatibility, a feature that Xbox gamers have wanted for some time. Microsoft has also promised a more social experience with a new Community section, as well as a revamped OneGuide that focuses on apps as much as live TV—a theme that Apple also sounded in its announcement of its
Or can you? You probably aren’t compiling all your software from source—you’re getting There’s typically been no way to actually check that a binary was compiled from some source code. Even compiling that application a second time and comparing the two binaries wouldn’t work, as you’d need to reproduce the exact build environment and ensure the source code didn’t pull in changing information, such as current date and time. But
Microsoft's updated NFL app The new release brings a number of improvements, chief among them the addition of "Next Gen Stats" from games including information about player speed, distance traveled and acceleration. Those stats get integrated into new features including replays that show the paths of each player on the field, for people who want a detailed breakdown of what happened. Here's a video of Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb showing off the new functionality in the app with Jeff Tran, Microsoft's director of sports marketing:
Engineers at Xerox PARC have developed a chip that will self-destruct upon command, providing a potentially revolutionary tool for high-security applications. The chip, developed as part of DARPA’s vanishing programmable resources project, could be used to store data such as encryption keys and, on command, shatter into thousands of pieces so small, reconstruction is impossible. It was demonstrated at DARPA’s Wait, What? event in St. Louis on Thursday. “The applications we are interested in are data security and things like that,” said Gregory Whiting, a senior scientist at PARC in Palo Alto, California. “We really wanted to come up with a system that was very rapid and compatible with commercial electronics.”
Microsoft-owned Mojang just added a fun new feature to To start, one of the players has to enter a new world or one of their existing worlds. Then everyone else can join in. On Android and iOS, once someone on the same network is in a world, others can click
Microsoft has confirmed a September 22 release date for Office 2016, alongside plans for monthly feature updates through Office 365. The release date had previously appeared in a White’s post also mentions monthly feature and security updates for Office 365 subscribers, starting in October. Just as Windows 10 will offer
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Apple’s extra-large tablet may have double the RAM of the iPad Air 2, and would quadruple the iPhone 6.
After years of hemming and hawing and will they/won’t they and “If Nintendo wanted to print money, they’d...” it’s finally happened: Nintendo is putting a game out on phones. And they’re starting with the big moneymaker, The game, announced at a press conference Thursday, is titled
The Udacity nanodegree is a tough, but excellent, start if you want to become an Android developer.
The battle of Word vs. Google Docs is usually over before it begins, with the spoils awarded to Microsoft’s venerable word processor and its huge feature set. But the size of the toolbox isn't always the best measure of a program’s usefulness, so we put the two to a more practical test. Assuming
Although Amazon Prime is one of the most popular streaming video services, today you can’t easily access it on one of the most popular streaming video devices. That’s because Amazon doesn’t support
Which is more surprising–that on Wednesday Apple introduced the $169 Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro, or that it took until 2015 for Apple to make its own iPad keyboard-cover combo in the style of Microsoft’s With the exception of the brief, unsuccessful life of the
Apple took a major step in the evolution of its iPad lineup Wednesday when it announced the iPad Pro, a new tablet with a 12.9-inch display that packs a serious punch when it comes to processing power. The Right off the bat, the biggest difference between the two tablets has to do with their respective operating systems. The Surface Pro 3 runs the full version of Windows 10, which means users can interact with apps built for a Windows desktop environment, even when the tablet doesn't have its Type Cover accessory attached.