In the futuristic Star Trek-like world, people don’t spend so much time tapping their phones or typing on keyboards. They have conversations with their computers. That future, in which people effortlessly ask for something from their always-everywhere computer and can ask further requests based on the response, isn’t several centuries away. Apparently, it’s possible today. …
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Want to sync notifications from your Android-based phone to your Windows 10 system? The feature is well and truly on its way. Notification syncing is already rolling out to Windows Insiders — that’s the prerelease testing program — which means it will be available to the rest of us relatively soon. Vishnu Nath, Director of Program Management for Microsoft Mobile …
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Google’s Calendar offers crazy powerful search, letting you find names, locations and events you’ve added to your calendar events. Now, in the Calendar app on Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon), you can now perform similar searches and hunt for events, names, locations and more. You can search through old and upcoming events by name, location and words that are part …
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If you have that rarity in the PC market, a laptop powered by a Qualcomm processor and not the more common Intel chip, you can now use the Firefox web browser on it. Mozilla on Thursday released a beta version of Firefox for computers based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips for laptops. The nonprofit hopes its browser will graduate from beta …
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Microsoft said late last year it planned to swap out the rendering engine used in Edge and swap in one based on Chromium, the open-source foundation used in Google’s Chrome browser as well as in Brave, Opera and other popular browsers. If you’ve been waiting to see what Microsoft is up to with Edge, you can now download an early …
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The global market for personal computers continued its years-long downward spiral in the first quarter, according to preliminary numbers released Wednesday by market analysts. Worldwide shipments of PCs, including desktops, notebooks and workstations, declined 3% during the first three months of 2019, compared with the same period last year, market researcher IDC reported Wednesday. Market researcher Gartner tallied the same …
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if you’ve upgraded to Windows 10’s October 2018 release (and are current on updates), you can now remove USB storage devices without ejecting them first. If you ever bothered to do it in the first place. In the past, you needed to eject writable removable USB storage because Windows defaulted to “Better performance,” which delayed writes to improve speed, rather …
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Microsoft, having given up on its own core browser technology, has released test versions of its Edge browser built instead on the same foundations as Google’s Chrome. “In these first builds we are very much focused on the fundamentals and have not yet included a wide range of feature and language support that will come later,” said Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s …
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The Windows 10 Game bar is about to get a whole lot more useful. The Game bar overlay, launched by pressing the Windows key plus G (Win+G), lets you do things like control volume, take screenshots, record gameplay and broadcast your gaming. Earlier in the year, Microsoft asked users for ways to improve the bar and now it’s starting to …
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Microsoft announced today that its upcoming OS update, known as the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, will allow users to decide for themselves when to initiate the update. This is a change from previous practice, when users were not allowed to defer major software updates. The May 2019 Update will be available next week for users in the Windows Insider …
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