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Windows 10 Redstone 5 Preview Build 17682 The Sets UI experience has been updated to make it more obvious that you can launch apps. In today’s post, Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc note: “When you click the plus button in a Sets window, you will now see apps included in your frequent destinations list. You’ll also find that we’ve integrated the all apps list into this page so you can browse your apps, rather than just using the search box apps that support Sets will launch into a tab when clicked....

This build is mainly focused on a plethora of bug fixes, changes, and improvements under the hood. There are a few new features in this build to note, though. Windows 10 Creators Update Insider Build 15042 New Cortana animation in Out of Box Experience (OOBE). Dona Sarkar writes: “We know how much you love animations, so we wanted to share our updated Cortana persona that you’ll see when you land on the Cortana page in OOBE....

Microsoft will likely continue to release new incremental, as well as major, features for Teams every week as it has done for the past few years. The company has been focusing heavily on the telephony features in Teams and will likely continue to do so. It also will likely continue to integrate Teams with even more products and services in the Microsoft stack as the platform moves forward. One of the more major features on the Teams roadmap, on track to debut this month in preview form (according to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap), is the delayed Teams Connect collaboration capability....

Office 2016 Preview Update Today Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the Office Client Applications Services Team, Kirk Koenigsbauer, wrote that the company would be adding features regularly for customers to test, and that “About a month ago, we invited anyone to participate in Office 2016 on Windows Preview. We now have over one million customers using the Office Preview across both Windows and Mac platforms.” Here is a look at the highlights Microsoft is touting for this month’s update: Microsoft is rolling out these features over the next couple of days, so if you don’t see them yet, hang tight if you have an Office 365 subscription....

Asynchronous Spacework works by intervening every frame in order to time wrap the last submitted eye buffers and this works even if the application is taking long to render the next frame. The low frame rate of 45fps is compensated by adding artificial frames and achieving the 90fps required for VR experience. Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW) is a frame-rate smoothing technique that halves the CPU/GPU time as we explained earlier. The ASW has enabled automatically and doesn’t require the developers to make any changes to accommodate the same....

On Tuesday, Moment added to its MagSafe accessory lineup with three new mounts, one of which adds a MagSafe-like magnetic disk to the back of any phone, making it possible to use MagSafe mounts (not chargers) with any phone. The new Moment Mobile Filmmaker Cage is a video cage that holds your iPhone in place, giving you a place to hold the frame of the cage instead of your iPhone, and it has two cold shoe attachment points, giving you a place to connect an external mic, lights, or anything else you’d normally use when shooting video on your phone....

Microsoft’s adaptive controller has been a massive success with disabled fans. The controller was designed for disabled people who have a difficult time operating standard video game controllers. It was specifically designed for those who have problems with fine motor controls, but still enjoy playing video games. The standard Xbox adaptive controller was designed with a slim rectangular frame with two large domed buttons that can be mapped to any function in-game....

For many users, upgrading to Windows 10 meant that future revisions of the operating system would be smooth sailing. Over the past few releases, we have seen the opposite in a lot of cases. It’s becoming common for a new release of Windows 10 to break hardware drivers or applications. Some users are also experiencing issues where the Windows 10 Creators Update is unstable or malfunctions after an upgrade. It turns out, although Microsoft would like all us of to upgrade to each revision, the reality is, we don’t live in a perfect world....

It is a way to test new features for Insiders testing Windows 11 version 22H2. Of the two groups, One will get built-in 22622.x range with new features enabled by default. The other insider’s group will stay in build 22621.x with enablement packages off by default. According to Microsoft, the aim is to test the rollout updates with features off by default. Also, the company wants to analyze the impact of the new features with this method....

I was recently faced with that decision over my help desk software. I had about five years of customer cases tied up inside a product called Awesome Support. This WordPress plugin provides help desk capability right inside the WordPress dashboard. Awesome Support was originally awesome and was still awesome when it worked, but it was starting to fail. Getting support for problems with Awesome Support was anything but awesome. It was nonexistent....

Cannon-Brookes took to Twitter to announce that the Brookfield-led consortium, which includes Grok Ventures, Cannon-Brookes’ private investment company, is “putting our pens down”, after the Australian energy giant rejected a second takeover bid. “Our path was the world’s biggest decarbonisation project. From Aus [sic],” Cannon-Brookes said. Under the second takeover bid, the consortium was offering AGL AU$8.25 per share, a 10% increase on the initial offering of AU$7.50 that was also rejected....

Above illustration: Peach iDollars theme for iPhone by Studio Peach I recently opined that our Android friends are less willing to pay for quality content, namely apps. It’s nice to see this notion shared by professionals that have experience with both platforms. In a chat with Peter Kafka over at The Wall Street Journal’s MediaMemo blog, Major League Baseball Advanced Media’s boss Bob Bowman said this: And Bob should know. He previously urged for a greater quality control in Android Market and his company, owned by all of pro baseball’s teams, has 1....

NCC Group researchers have so far seen five instances in their client base of active exploitation of Log4Shell in MobileIron, noting that the “global scale of the exposure appears significant.” In a blog post updated on Wednesday, the company shared a screenshot of a Shodan search showing 4,642 instances around the world. NCC Group Global CTO Ollie Whitehouse told ZDNet that Shodan isn’t real-time but that there has been a small drop in total systems since yesterday....

As we noted in February, “MLB.com At Bat 2012” launched to bring baseball fanatics scores, news, and analysis for free. The app also includes an in-app subscription of $14.99 (or $2.99 a month) that provides in-game audio. However, if you are a huge fan, you can pay the $120 a year subscription for in-game video. MLB’s Advanced Media office announced today (via GigaOm) that the app reached 3 million downloads just a week into the MLB’s 2012 season....

The latest information, coming from a job posting launched by the Redmond technology, point again in that direction, showing that the tech giant Microsoft is already working on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. Windows 10 on the ARM is still in full development but there are already manufacturers interested in producing and marketing products with this new version of Windows 10 from the tech giant Microsoft. They will be devices that promise acceptable performances to perform a good part of the necessary tasks and with an autonomy well above the one that we experienced in the current devices....

At its Build developer conference this year, Microsoft revealed a new “Your Phone” application that it hopes will make iOS and Android devices work better with Windows 10 PCs. The app bring things such as photos, texts, and more directly from your smartphone to your Windows PC. One key missing feature, however, is iMessage support – but Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to change that… In a thorough interview with The Verge, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore and Shilpa Ranganathan explain that some things are harder to bring to the new Your Phone application than others....

Microsoft always says it takes its security seriously, and now the company has confidently stated they will begin paying players to hack their Xbox One systems. Bug bounties, as they are often called, are a popular way for companies to easily find flaws in their software and hardware, with actual users doing all the hard work for them. This allows companies to save money on researching issues while still getting the job done with the help of people who use the products on a regular basis....

An annual Brand Intimacy survey – designed to determine which brands generate the strongest emotional bonds with consumers – has once again given top billing to Apple … The findings are based on a survey of 6,000 consumers across the USA, Mexico and United Arab Emirates. Apple topped out the list last year too, but this time brand agency MBLM provided a separate ranking for younger consumers, and tells us that Apple took the #1 slot in both....

Mobile phone billing – also known as carrier billing – for Apple ID purchases is now available in a further seven countries in the world. This allows people to pay through their mobile phone bill for App Store, iTunes Store, and Apple Books purchases – as well as Apple Music subscriptions … Apple has gradually been rolling out the the facility since 2015, with previous waves including Germany, Austria, Italy, Singapore and Russia....

Almost three out of four of us (71%) check our phones within 10 minutes of waking up. If we are on our expensive phones most of the day, do we really get anything in return? Well, Mode Mobile has released an app for Android phones that enables users to do just that. The Mode Earn app, is a rewards-based app that gives phones users the opportunity to earn supplemental income, up to $600 per year or more, for doing everyday activities such as listening to music, or playing games on a mobile device....