One of the key selling points of Apple’s new iPhone X is Face ID, the facial recognition system for logging users in. Apple claims it’s fast, easy and secure, and on paper, it sounds like a step up from similar facial recognition tools on other phones — but Face ID still has to prove itself in …
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In Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon), settings and controls are divided between the Settings menu and the traditional Control Panel. Some settings — including touchscreen-specific settings and Windows Update — are found only in the Settings menu, while others, such as the Device Manager, are still mostly accessed through the Control Panel. It is, to be sure, a needlessly confusing …
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Microsoft pulled support for Windows phones earlier this summer, but you know the one-time iPhone and Android competitor is truly dead when Microsoft’s founder admits on TV that he’s now using Android. “The phone that I have, recently, I actually did switch to an Android phone with a lot of Microsoft software,” Bill Gates told Fox News Sunday host Chris …
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The speed boost and new features coming to the next version of Firefox are dramatic enough that Mozilla has given it a brand-new name: Firefox Quantum. The idea, of course, is that the upcoming version 57 is a quantum leap over predecessors — or, in the words of Mozilla CEO Chris Beard, a “big bang.” Company executives acknowledged they let Firefox …
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With the flood of iPhone publicity this last month — this last decade, actually — you might think personal computers have become ho-hum. But Ron Coughlin doesn’t. The leader of HP‘s PC division thinks his industry has snatched the initiative for technological improvements back from phones. “The innovation is happening in PCs,” Coughlin said in an interview with CNET. His …
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When Siri can’t give you an answer, it’ll now be Google filling in the gaps in Apple’s knowledge instead of Microsoft’s Bing search service. The Siri voice assistant built into iPhones, Macs and soon Apple’s HomePod smart speaker can handle plenty of requests, like reporting a stock price or defining a word you don’t know. When it can’t, it searches …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. An iPhone? Don’t be silly. Yana Paskova / Getty Images They were rivals. They were friends. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did much to define what the tech industry is today. Does that mean, though, that the Microsoft co-founder has softened a touch and started …
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Microsoft Ignite, the company’s big conference dedicated to IT, kicked off earlier today in Orlando, Florida. And that means a boatload of news about Windows, Office, Azure, Skype — and everything else in Microsoft’s arsenal that the company is targeting to business and enterprise customers. Mixed reality — what most others call augmented reality — took center stage during CEO …
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella showed off upcoming mixed reality hardware and software as part of his keynote at the Microsoft Ignite conference, saying the business will enhance both security and collaboration. Ignite is an IT-focused event held in Orlando, and during his keynote, Nadella spoke of Microsoft’s mission to use “technology to empower people,” and AI to transform tools and …
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Intel made waves last August with Project Alloy, a truly wireless VR headset with no cords, controllers or need for a separate PC. You’d just walk around a room naturally, and reach out with your hands to interact. But it seems like those waves didn’t travel very far, because Intel has decided to cancel the project. Originally, the company was …
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