Beam – the streaming service Microsoft acquired earlier this year and plans to integrate deeply into Windows 10 and Xbox, has announced their December Update. The streaming service is going through a massive transformation – as the company explains in the announcement, it no longer is a “scrappy startup;” with …
Read More »Cortana comes to Raspberry Pi with the latest Windows IoT Insider Update
Microsoft recently announced that there would be no more updates for Windows Insiders until 2017; it seems, though, Windows IoT Core is an exception. Today, the Windows team released Build 14993 for Windows IoT Core Insiders, and it brings a very recently announced feature for the DIY-er inside us. Cortana …
Read More »Microsoft Flow now supports six new services including Google Contacts
Microsoft Flow showed up out of nowhere in the early days of 2016; Microsoft’s attempt at making something resembling the IFTTT service has been somewhat successful, though there is nowhere near the same level of 3rd party support available. Flow – for now, at least – is mostly about connecting …
Read More »Microsoft to make Precision Touchpads mandatory for Windows 10
For the longest of time, Microsoft and its OEM partners were pretty poor at making touchpads work seamlessly; better touchpad support has been a selling point for Macs. This was until Microsoft made the ‘Precision Touchpad’ technology – a standard that helped OEMs make better touchpads. Microsoft uses Precision Touchpads …
Read More »Minecraft is now available for Apple TV
A couple of months ago, Tim Cook of Apple made a few announcements at an event – the same event where he killed the function keys; Cook announced that Minecraft would be coming to Apple TV before the end of this year – 11 days left for The End, and …
Read More »NVidia unveils the ‘Gaming Revival Kit’ to restore aging PCs
The folks at NVidia are always coming up with some strange gimmicks to compensate for their bad drivers and poorly aging cards – a $10/mo subscription, is a great example. The ‘Gaming Revival Kit’ however, perhaps isn’t too bad – just make sure you check prices for the individual components …
Read More »Windows 10 themes show up on the Windows Store
The upcoming Creators Update for Windows 10 is a massive one; in the loudness of the big features, however, smaller features go unnoticed. The Creators Update will introduce themes on the Windows Store – where users will be able to download themes and apply them to Windows. Themes have been …
Read More »NVidia’s job posting reveals a premium subscription and GTX 1080Ti
NVidia is apparently a GTX 1080Ti along with a premium subscription program named “Club GeForce Elite.” These tiny revelations have been leaked because NVidia made a silly mistake on LinkedIn. A month ago, NVidia put up a job posting on LinkedIn for “Senior Marketing Manager – GeForce, Gamer Loyalty & …
Read More »Microsoft’s HoloJS lets developers create Windows Holographic apps using JavaScript
Microsoft might not be the perfect company – it’s products are far from perfect – but it is a corporation that spares no expenses in pleasing the developers. Microsoft has opened up a new project on GitHub, called HoloJS. It appears to be a framework that will allow developers to …
Read More »OneDrive for iOS receives major update: view Office documents and scan images
Microsoft has started rolling out an update for the OneDrive app on iOS; the update adds quite a lot of general improvements to the app, along with a few major features. The OneDrive app can be a lot more than just something to access your files on the cloud – …
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