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Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor’s vacation goes horribly wrong in the new trailer for Ari Aster’s Midsommar. The followup to Aster’s critically acclaimed feature debut, Hereditary, Midsommar follows a couple (Pugh and Reynor) as they travel to Sweden for a rare version of a local village’s annual mid-summer festival. Of course, this being a horror movie, thing don’t go as expected and the pair soon uncover the terrible truth behind the villagers and their cult-like rituals....

McDonald’s is getting some attention today for using an iPhone 8 mockup to display screenshots of the company’s mobile app in a new promo email being sent to customers in Australia. The ad is using an unofficial rendering based on leaks and comes ahead of an official unveiling of the device by Apple expected next month. The promo email, as shared by users on Twitter, is attempting to promote the McDonald’s app’s mobile ordering features with a 25% offer....

Back in 2014, Microsoft announced that it was acquiring the popular multi-platform beta app distribution and testing solution HockeyApp. After previously sharing it would integrate HockeyApp’s features and functionality into the Visual Studio App Center, Microsoft has shared HockeyApp will officially be deprecated. HockeyApp became a popular app development tool with support for iOS, Android, and Windows. It offered an all-in-one multi-platform solution for beta distribution, crash reporting, analytics, user feedback, and more....

In a blog post, Microsoft president Brad Smith said it was coordinating its efforts to protect users in Ukraine with the Ukrainian government, the European Union, European nations, the US government, NATO, and the United Nations. “Several hours before the launch of missiles or movement of tanks on February 24, Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) detected a new round of offensive and destructive cyberattacks directed against Ukraine’s digital infrastructure. We immediately advised the Ukrainian government about the situation, including our identification of the use of a new malware package (which we denominated FoxBlade), and provided technical advice on steps to prevent the malware’s success,” Smith said....

Outlook.com for Android Download the Outlook.com app from Google Play. After it’s installed, your prompted to enter in your @outlook, @live or @hotmail email address and password. Then you can enter in a nickname for the account and set how much email you want to see on the device. Then choose your Sync settings for Contacts and Calendar. Of course you can set up multiple Outlook.com email addresses – including @hotmail and @live....

Microsoft has launched the latest stable version of its Edge browser to the public and it’s now available as a specific build for Apple Silicon M1 Macs. Microsoft started testing an M1 build of its Edge browser a couple of weeks ago with the Mac app’s beta. Now when downloading the browser from Microsoft’s website, all users are presented with the option to pick Edge for “Mac with Apple Chip.” That means Edge runs natively and doesn’t have to be translated through Rosetta 2 on Apple’s M1 Macs....

Today, Microsoft has released a new iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch application for IT administrators to manage their firm’s Office 365 servers. The application features Microsoft’s new flatter design language with large text. It allows administrators to manage the health and features of their Office 365 implementations. The application is free, and users obviously need to have Office 365 administrator rights and be apart of a firm with a subscription....

Microsoft brought its Edge browser to iOS back in November after testing in October, but without optimization for the iPad. That’s all set to change, according to Microsoft’s program manager for the product … Sean Lyndersay tweeted that the iPad version will be arriving in beta form this month. Thurrott suggests that the UI will emulate the Windows 10 look. It looks like the browser will be available for the iPad ahead of a version for Android tablets....

In my early days at Sprout, I was taking part in a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) leadership meeting when that statement stopped me in my tracks. As we were having a discussion about conducting business with companies whose values don’t always align with our own, I said something about preserving freedom of speech. My colleague looked directly at me and checked my privilege right then and there. She wasn’t shy about challenging me and sharing her knowledge with the group....

“If I had to encapsulate what I hear Satya Nadella say and others support at Envision it is that Microsoft is not going to be a software company per se any longer but a company that is devoted to being a critical part of the infrastructure of business via Azure and businesses via thoroughly contemporary versions of Office and various Dynamics applications - and that Dynamics would become a business solutions platform and Office a unified communications platform - all with the express purpose of providing those highly personalized outcomes that lead to major gains in productivity....

Microsoft is at the point now where the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, set to be released October 17th, is in the stabilization phase. Insiders can expect builds to be released at a rapid pace. All of the builds released for the next few weeks will include mostly bug fixes and no notable new features. Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16299 Here is a list of the improvements and fixes you can expect in this most recent build according to Dona Sarkar’s announcement:...

The important thing to note is that all existing users of SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro won’t have to worry about changing anything, or see any service disruptions. The name and logo will just change. While it make take a bit of getting used to, the name OneDrive actually makes sense with Microsoft’s new focus on merging Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office 365 and its other services together. Microsoft’s Ryan Galvin wrote about the name: If you’re heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosystem, this is how you’re already using SkyDrive OneDrive anyway....

I turned on my Xbox 360 console at 8PM CST and received the following message that an update is available. Select Yes. The update will be downloaded and installed. Your console will restart a couple of times while it’s installed. Make sure to not turn off your console while the upgrade takes place. When the update is complete you’ll see the following new dashboard interface. This is a view of the home screen....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is easily the most popular movie franchise at the multiplex right now, with all of its 23 movies making a huge splash at the box office, but the Avengers movies are the glue holding it all together. There are a number of factors that have contributed to these movies clicking with such a wide audience – they’re escapist cinema, they’re pure spectacle, they’re full of payoffs – but arguably the biggest reason for their success is the complex relationships developed between the characters over time....

For the attacking machine, I will be using Kali 2017.1. Once booted, this is what the victim machine will look like: We start the attack by finding the IP of the victim machine by using the netdiscover command: $ netdiscover Now that we know our target IP, let’s start by scanning the ports and try to get more information about it: The scan shows us that the following ports are open:...

Bought a Samsung Galaxy device and facing issue with the battery? Then, here in this guide, we will try to fix the Samsung Galaxy Battery draining Problems. Samsung is one of the leading smartphone manufacturers across the globe. It is one amongst the most active smartphone launcher with its Galaxy series line-up. The company’s smartphones are much user-friendly and with each new phone added to the series, they definitely incorporate the latest technology available, for the fellow customers....

Microsoft over time released a couple of apps for the iOS platform, such as Windows Live Messenger and Bing for iPad. While its Office for iOS remains vapourware, the Windows maker last week released Xbox Live client for iPhone and today saw the arrival of Microsoft’s very first iOS game called Kinectimals. Available as a universal binary on both the iPhone and iPad for three bucks , Kinectimals invites you to “use your phone to visit the island of Lemuria and play with, care for and fall in love with your very own cub”....

Windows 10 Build 20251 Here is the list of fixes contained in today’s new release: We fixed an issue resulting in the background of some dialogs to unexpectedly appear grey instead of white in the last couple flights.We fixed an issue resulting in the taskbar occluding the Power button in the Start menu for some Insiders recently.We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders seeing a SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED bug check....

We’ve shown you how to set time or location-based reminders with Cortana, and the feature has been available for some time now. However, it’s about to get more sophisticated. Cortana Suggested Email Reminders The scenario that we’ve all experienced is telling your boss during the day you’ll have the TPS report for him at the end of the day. Or, if you promise your wife via email you’ll pick up milk on the way home....

This diagram from the Building Windows 8 blog shows what will be needed to in order to get Windows Media Center on your Windows 8 System. So, if you get the “vanilla” version of Windows 8, you’ll need to purchase and install both the Windows 8 Pro Pack and Windows 8 Media Center Pack. No, these are not going to be free upgrades either. At the time of this writing Microsoft hasn’t revealed what each will cost....