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Microsoft’s Family Safety app: How to get the preview and protect your kids online

A limited preview of the Microsoft Family Safety app is now available for iOS and Android. The app is meant to help parents find a digital balance, giving their kids digital independence while still setting boundaries, Microsoft said in a recent release.  The Family Safety app can help start conversations about internet safety and screen …

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8 quick ways to free up drive space in Windows 10

No matter how large a hard drive or solid-state drive you have in your PC or laptop, there will come a time when you run out of space. If you’re bumping up against your PC’s physical storage limit, here are some quick tricks you can use to reclaim a couple of gigabytes’ worth of storage space. These options will take …

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Microsoft Edge gets a new surfing game

Microsoft is challenging players to ride the waves with its new surfing game, launched Tuesday. The game originally debuted as part of a hidden Easter egg hunt in November with a series of cryptic hints and puzzles posted by Microsoft employees. It’s now a permanent offline game for Microsoft Edge. The game encourages surfers to ride across the ocean while …

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Android flagship phones getting two speed boosts in 2021 with new Arm chips

For years, Android phone chips have trailed Apple iPhone processors in speed tests. But Arm, a chip company whose technology is used by both mobile camps, has a chip design project called X1 that should give Android a significant speed boost beyond its usual annual upgrade. One boost will come with the new Cortex-A78 processor design that Arm unveiled in May. …

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AI reconstructs Pac

If you watched 50,000 games of Pac-Man, you’d probably be pretty good at drawing out what you saw. Nvidia’s GameGAN artificial intelligence model, however, was able to recreate the classic dot-chomping game for its 40th birthday from scratch without a traditional game engine in a matter of days.  Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are made up of two competing neural networks. …

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Here’s the best computer for seniors and elderly parents

What’s the best computer for an older person, someone in their 60s, 70s, 80s or beyond? That’s a tricky question, and it’s not meant to suggest that elderly users are somehow limited in their skills or capabilities. These generations simply didn’t have the benefit of growing up surrounded by screens, and they may have specific challenges associated with age. I’m …

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Google Meet: 4 steps to setting up Google’s video chat app, free

Google is making more moves into the video chatting space during the coronavirus pandemic, now providing its premium video conferencing service Google Meet free for consumers. Previously available only to organizations using G Suite, Meet is now open to everyone, in a move that puts Google in competition with rival video chat service Zoom.  Now playing: Watch this: 3 video …

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Microsoft HoloLens 2 adds 5G support and is getting easier to buy

Augmented reality and virtual reality have suddenly become more relevant in a world where people can’t meet in person as easily. Devices such as Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 would seem to be in prime position for a key role. Microsoft’s mixed-reality news at its now-virtual annual Build developer conference is, not surprisingly, HoloLens-focused. While the company continues to slowly build out …

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Microsoft Build: All the Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 updates you need to know

New updates to Microsoft Teams and Windows 10 and a new List app are coming to Microsoft 365 soon, company executives said at the annual Microsoft Build developer conference on Tuesday. Due to coronavirus lockdowns and quarantines, the conference is taking place online this week.  Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming changes, and how they will affect …

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Microsoft builds massive supercomputer for smarter AI

Microsoft has built an enormous supercomputer for artificial intelligence work, a new direction for its Azure cloud computing service. The machine has 285,000 processor cores boosted by 10,000 graphics chips for OpenAI, a company that wants to ensure AI technology helps humans. Microsoft announced the machine at its Build conference for developers on Tuesday. (For more details on the event, …

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