Windows 10 Technical Preview is a work in progress, and Microsoft began sending Build 9860 to enthusiasts and developers on Tuesday. The new code's estimated 7,000 changes include a much-anticipated notifications function, as part of a new Action Center. Users who've already downloaded the Windows 10 Technical Preview may check for new preview builds as part of the “Update and Recovery” option. The download totals between 2GB and 2.74GB, depending on CPU architecture and language, Microsoft said. After installing, your PC will reboot and begin the provisioning process again, asking you for your Microsoft account. In other words, don’t have anything stored on that PC or partition that you’re not prepared to lose.
We've had enough malware campaigns and data breaches to confirm the need for better data protection online. The Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) standard is a step in the right direction, and the U2F is an open authentication standard. It was initially developed by Google, but it's now managed by the
The sun rises, and a newspaper boy bikes past. You can tell this game came out twenty years ago because people still get newspapers. He tosses that rag, t As he speeds off, Gabriel Knight's I-don't-get-paid-enough-to-deal-with-you employee Grace shows up to unlock the bookstore for the day. It's a lovely little scene.
Are you sad because you wanted to become a mass-murdering space general in Well, not immediately. While PC users get to play
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s new chief technologist is high-profile digital privacy consultant Ashkan Soltani, a move that signals the agency’s growing interest in policing online tracking and other Internet privacy issues. FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez announced Tuesday she has appointed Soltani, a security researcher who shared the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for stories about the U.S. National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, as the agency’s chief technologist. Soltani will join the FTC in November and offer advice on technology and policy issues, including digital privacy, an area in which the agency has increasingly focused on bringing enforcement actions.
Complaints that Mac OS X Yosemite disrupts or entirely disables Wi-Fi have been flowing into social media sites and discussion forums since the release of the OS last Thursday, but Apple has yet to acknowledge there’s a problem. There are multiple active threads on the topic in the official Apple Support forum, as well as in In the Apple Support forum, a
Songza's human-crafted playlists are coming to your Google Play Music subscription. If you subscribe to the company's All Access streaming service, you're now greeted with recommended playlists for working out, boosting your energy, trying to get work done, or other activities based on the time of day. Google says on its
The future of wearable technology could involve strapping a few Big Macs to your body for convenient snacking. At least that's one possible conclusion from a new survey on wearables from PricewaterhouseCoopers. One of the survey questions asked the 1,000 respondents how excited they'd be about wearables from various brands. While Apple unsurprisingly came out on top, the bottom of the list is much more interesting. Apparently, 18 percent of respondents said they were somewhat or very interested in wearable technology from McDonald's—a surprisingly high number for something that seems beyond comprehension. The survey also found that 27 percent of respondents were interested in a Starbucks wearable, and 26 percent were interested in wearable tech from Coca-Cola.
Following Google’s new That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as Google has strong cloud services for managing your mail, photos, contacts, and music. Yet in contrast with Apple’s recently published
The company stands by its new feature, which doesn’t share your search results with third parties.
Mac mini fans recently rejoiced after Apple The teardown experts over at
One of Samsung’s most affordable consumer solid-state drives is experiencing read slowdowns with older data, a problem the company has now addressed with Samsung’s
It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft is officially phasing out the Nokia brand name. A post on
The easiest way to operate your PC is with your hands whether you're navigating a touch screen, or using a mouse and keyboard. But for some people that's just not possible, especially when it comes to typing. Maybe you broke your finger or you suffer from a repetitive strain injury that makes typing impossible. Or perhaps you simply want to get work done while running on a treadmill. But just because you can't type doesn't mean you can't create documents. All you need is a microphone for your PC and Microsoft Word to take the stress off your hands and start using your voice. Here's how. Get started with speech recognition via the Windows Control Panel.
