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Tuesday December 11, 2018. 12:17 PM
We all know that Windows 10 logs data about what you do on your PC. What you may not be aware of is that it still sends that information to Microsoft even if you have told it not to. Sneaky, huh? People on Reddit have been discussing the issue and finding that even if the...
Although the Windows 10 October 2018 Update is still only trickling out to users (AdDupex says as of the end of November under 3 percent of users have it installed), Microsoft is hard at work on the follow up due out next spring. The latest Windows 10 19H1 Insider preview...
Monday December 10, 2018. 07:43 PM
Google Maps is probably the best navigation and maps application available today -- it is chock full of useful features. While Apple Maps is actually pretty great these days, the search giant's offering still reigns supreme. It isn't hard to see why Google's app is so good...
We already knew that Google+ is closing down, but following the discovery of a second data leak, Google has announced that it is bringing the closure forward. The company has revealed that a bug in the Google+ API exposed the data of 52.5 million users, and as a result it is ...
The news that Microsoft is going to create a Chromium-based version of its Edge browser has been met with a mixed reaction, but there is some good news for users. The company has confirmed that the adoption of Chromium means that Edge will support Chrome extensions....
Speak to most app developers and they’ll tell you it’s much harder, more complicated and less interesting to produce an Android app, compared to iOS. Indeed, ask for a quote and both will be priced separately as both require separate development time and teams. This...
DevOps teams are under constant pressure to release faster, improve quality and keep costs under control. This means testing increasingly becomes a priority to ensure accelerated releases and many companies are turning to cloud-based testing tools. However, as with any move...
It’s time to embrace block-based editing. WordPress 5.0 has been unveiled, debuting a brand-new block-based editor designed to simplify the construction of web pages. The new release also unveils a new default theme, Twenty Nineteen. The new editor is basically the sole...
There are some firms you look at with a kind of wary admiration primarily because they were a marketing pioneer of their time. Or that’s what we thought. Uniblue is one of these companies and, you should believe this is no understatement, it used to be major software...
Saturday December 8, 2018. 01:10 PM
It's been damn-near a year and a half since the last major release of Mageia -- version 6. With that said, Mageia 6.1 was released in October of this year, however. This can feel like an eternity for Linux users, when some distributions see major updates once or twice a...
Friday December 7, 2018. 05:11 PM
Facial recognition is becoming more widely used in both general computing and in the wider world. Smartphones and computers can be unlocked with your face, but the technology is also used for security and policing purposes. While most uses are legitimate and helpful, there...
After the rumors, confirmation came from Microsoft that it plans to move its Edge browser from the EdgeHTML engine to Chromium. Reaction from users has been largely positive, but it's not the same story across the technology industry as a whole. While Google is...
Businesses are starting to recognize that it may be impossible to keep attackers completely out of their networks, so they are starting to look for ways of fighting them more efficiently. One of the ways of doing this is to use decoys to lure attackers and allow the threat...
Three-hundred-and-twelve in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on the Windows Store in the past seven days. Microsoft seems to be working on Windows Lite to better compete with Google Chromebooks in...
Thursday December 6, 2018. 07:54 PM
Gender and sex are two different things -- the latter is biological, while the former is a social construction. For much of humanity, the two have been linked, but in recent years, some of our minds have evolved to think outside this box. Sure, there are still ignorant...
Just a couple of days ago, news crept out about Microsoft's project Anaheim -- a Chromium-based web browser said to be a replacement for Microsoft Edge. This understandably generated a great deal of interest... So much, in fact, that Microsoft has been compelled to speak out ...
There has been a great deal of speculation recently about what Google's plans are for dealing with its plethora of messaging tools. There had been suggestions that Hangouts could be for the chop, but now Google has spoken out to say that this is not -- quite -- the case, and ...
According to a new report, 96 percent of all employees face some sort of difficulty when looking for the most recent version of a document or file. The study from information management company M-Files also reveals that 83 percent of staff worldwide are forced to recreate...
Windows 10 is getting worse every day. I used to call it a dumpster fire, but now I think it has devolved into an overturned 'Porta-Potty' following all-day tailgating at an NFL stadium. Just recently, we learned that Microsoft is causing blue screens of death on its own...
For many people wearing a watch is as much about how it looks as how it works. In these days of smart devices that often requires a trade off between style and function. Do you leave your good-looking watch at home while you wear your smart watch, or do you look a bit needy...
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