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Windows 10 Patch Tuesday These updates will bump your builds up to 19041.1110, 19042.1110, or 19043.1110 depending on your current version. The main thing to look for here is security and quality improvements: Updates for verifying usernames and passwords.Updates to improve security when Windows performs basic operations.Updates an issue that might make printing to certain printers difficult. This issue affects various brands and models, but primarily receipt or label printers that connect using a USB port....

Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17634 Search in Windows 10 Calendar allows you to find future and past events by searching for the name, location, people, or other keywords of the event. Ones that match your query will be highlighted, while ones that do not will be greyed out. Microsoft adds, “Search will work for Outlook, Hotmail, Live and Office 365 accounts. We do not yet support searching Exchange Server, Gmail, Yahoo or other IMAP calendars....

The 32 GB Surface tablet costs the same as the 16GB iPad, but it also comes with twice the storage capacity—or at least that’s what everyone thought until Microsoft’s AMA on Reddit yesterday. Daring Fireball just linked to one of the Surface Team’s responses that regarded how much free space the tablet actually has available: So, the entry-level Surface delivers 20 GB of free space with Office and a few apps, eh?...

Microsoft has announced a slew of new features coming to its Office 365 suite of applications. Both the desktop and mobile versions of the applications have received updates, with Outlook for iOS adding Draft Sync, AI enhancements in Word for Mac, and more. Microsoft made the announcement in a blog post, first noting that Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word are gaining new Ink features. First off, Microsoft PowerPoint has added new Ink analysis features....

Aquaman got a lot of things right when it comes to comics. One of the best examples of that is the character of Mera. From her suit to her personality to even her shock-red hair, Mera was very true to her DC Comics counterpart. However, there were still a lot of cool things about Mera we didn’t get to see on the big screen. We decided to dig up some of the coolest of those things and rank them for your reading pleasure....

A Knight to Ogle There’s no getting around it – the Canvas Knight is drop-dead gorgeous. While we have seen Micromax up the design ante with the likes of the Canvas Turbo and Canvas Turbo Mini, the Knight takes matters to a different level. The company seems to have taken a page out of the Nexus 4 and Sony Xperia Z design books, placing a glass panel on the back of the device....

Windows 10 1803 Cumulative Update KB4462933 Addresses an issue that sometimes prevents documents from appearing in the Microsoft Edge DevTools debugger.Addresses an issue that sometimes prevents Microsoft Edge extension scripts from appearing in Microsoft Edge DevTools.Addresses the redenomination of local currency that the Central Bank of Venezuela implemented to enter the Bolivar Soberano into circulation.Addresses additional issues with updated time zone information.Addresses an issue that causes sysprep /generalize to fail in audit mode because of a race condition while deleting certain registry keys....

Two years after introducing the Surface Book, Microsoft has officially unveiled its sequel. Naturally, Microsoft is comparing the new Surface Book 2 laptop-tablet hybrid (not to be confused with the felt-covered Surface Laptop) to Apple’s MacBook Pro (since it can’t upset any OEM partners). If you can get around the whole using Windows thing, Surface Book 2 does have some impressive specs on paper… Surface Book 2 packs “the latest 8th Gen Intel Core processors and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 and 1060 discrete graphics options” which Microsoft says makes it up to five times faster than the original Surface Book and “twice as powerful as the latest MacBook Pro....

Screen Rant comes to you with sad news, as it has been confirmed that prolific film and television actor Miguel Ferrer, has died from cancer at age 61. Ostensibly born into show-business in 1955, Ferrer was the oldest child of famed singer Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer. Before becoming an actor, Ferrer worked with is mother, playing drums and touring with her and Bing Crosby. He also played drums for Keith Moon’s album Two Sides of the Moon....

No actor has enjoyed a career quite like Michael Keaton. In the ‘80s, he got his start in standup comedy alongside the likes of Larry David, before giving it up to focus on his true passion of acting. True to most ex-standups, Keaton’s earliest starring roles were in comedies, like Mr. Mom. But his career changed forever when Tim Burton cast him as Batman, and despite initial doubts, he turned out to be possibly the definitive on-screen Caped Crusader....

Digital Gift Cards for Xbox and Windows Stores This new app app lets you send personalized digital gift cards to friends and family that they can use in the Xbox and Windows Stores. This is just in time if you’re looking for something to give the Microsoft geek who seems to have everything already. Here’s a look at the app’s features from the Windows Phone Store: Features: • Select a gift by occasion and interests....

Arthur C Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology was indistinguishable from magic, and Microsoft’s Seeing AI app gets pretty close to qualifying. It’s an app designed to ‘narrate the world’ to people who are blind or visually impaired, and the video demo (below) shows off some incredibly impressive capabilities. It can, for example, recognize friends, guess the emotions of people from their facial expressions, read text, identify bank notes, identify products from their bar-codes, and even recognize images in apps like Twitter …...

As we near the April 24th launch for the Apple Watch, a pair of notable apps have received support for the device this evening. First off, Microsoft’s OneNote app has been updated to version 2.11.7 with support for the Apple Watch. A variety of features will be available from the Watch, including the ability to dictate new notes. Microsoft says that OneNote on Apple Watch will allow users to access their recently created notes, as well as create new ones via dictation....

The latest Edge beta introduces a new browsing mode in Edge “where the security of your browser takes priority”. For admins who fear web-based attacks on desktop systems via the browser, this feature gives them the option to “mitigate unforeseen active zero days”. Enabling this mode can be configured, so that important sites and line-of-business applications “continue to work as expected,” according to Microsoft’s release notes. The security-focused Edge mode, spotted by Bleeping Computer, brings several Windows exploit mitigation technologies into play, including Hardware-enforced Stack Protection, Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG), and Control Flow Guard (CFG)....

All of the main players in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, such as Captain America, Iron Man and Thor possess super powers of some kind. Cap and Thor are both incredibly strong and can lift up big hammers. While Tony doesn’t actually possess any powers organically, the fact that he was able to design himself a super suit places him on equal footing with the others. However, the MCU also features many characters who only need to rely on their fighting abilities and intelligence when facing off against alien armies or insane robots, and so it’s high time they’re recognized for their brilliance....

Earlier this week, retailers CVS and Rite Aid blocked NFC payments at their stores following the launch of Apple Pay because of their existing commitment to MCX’s CurrentC platform. Nevertheless, MCX CEO Dekkers Davidson assures that merchants accepting both CurrentC and Apple Pay “could be entirely possible” in the future. The blockade has ignited somewhat of a controversy between Apple Pay and MCX, only worsened by the fact that it was confirmed that CurrentC suffered a security breach earlier this morning....

If you’re not sure how to get your data over from your XP machine to Windows 7, I recommend taking Microsoft up on its offer. The program will also work with Windows 8.1, but if this is your main PC running XP, and you haven’t learned the nuances of the Modern Interface, you should definitely go with Windows 7. It will be much easier to grasp and not a jarring experience....

Microsoft today released a new app for Apple’s iMessage platform, giving users tools to plan events with friends via the messaging app. Called “Who’s In,” the new iMessage app lets users suggest activities and meeting times to friends, including points of interest recommendations for things like restaurants, attractions, movies and more, all powered by Bing. You can also use the app for scheduling and planning your own events and voting functionality allows users you invite to pick the best times and locations:...

KB5004745 for Windows 11 Insiders The main change to note here are the Start menu has a search field at the top. Here is a look at the old Start menu without the Search field: And here is what the new Start menu looks like: Also, notable features include the taskbar now displays across multiple monitors, right-click once again to get the Refresh option and Snap Layouts supports three apps on top of each other in portrait mode....

The genre of multi-modality, as these neural networks are called, is seeing a flurry of activity in which different data, such as image, text, and speech audio, are passed through the same algorithm to produce a score on different tests such as image recognition, natural language understanding, or speech detection. And these ambidextrous networks are racking up scores on benchmark tests of AI. The latest achievement is what’s called “data2vec,” developed by researchers at the AI division of Meta (parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp)....