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“If you use assistive technologies, you can upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost as Microsoft continues our efforts to improve the Windows 10 experience for people who use these technologies. Please take advantage of this offer before it expires on January 16, 2018,” says the webpage. You can upgrade from versions of Windows 7 and 8.1, avoiding the regular $120. The only requirement is the use of some form of accessibility tech, but Microsoft doesn’t check....

Still Microsoft definitely wants consumers and organizations to choose Windows 10 over Linux. So, a decision made by the German state of Lower Saxony will be chalked up as a win for the company. The state says it will migrate its government PCs away from Linux and to Windows 10. This decision follows the same path taken by Munich, the Bavarian city abandoned Linux in 2017. Heise reports Lower Saxony currently uses OpenSuse in its 13,000 tax authority workstations....

With prompting from Windows Central, we tried the service on Edge with its user agent set to Chrome and ran into no issues. Edge Dev has not been updated in a week, so the evidence points to a change on Google’s end. At this point, it’s worth noting that the block may not be malicious. Google could have noticed bugs or strange behavior on Meet with Edge that the public isn’t aware of....

A new feature in development for Google Photos will allow users to take an image and order a print for next-day pickup. In the app, a section would be added for image prints to be ordered directly. If you use Google Photos you will know the ability to order prints is not a new tool. Indeed, users have been able to order photo books since 2017. However, 9to5Google reports Google is refining the service to allow next-day prints....

At Backstory’s announcement at RSA 2019, Chronicle talked about how Google’s infrastructure lets it deliver a strong service. After a company has securely uploaded their data, they can analyze it to detect threats, all presented in an intuitive way. The platform has built-in uppercase threat signals that it pulls from public and private sources. Further, Chronicle says it will learn from the logs users upload and get smarter at spotting signals over time....

While Google announced the ability this week, Apple and Mozilla have known about it for some time. Both rival browser companies have expressed concerns about the security of webpages. Google’s AMP webpages are served by the company itself. It hosts the website. If you were browsing an AMP version of WinBuzzer, the navigation bar would read Google.com and not WinBuzzer.com. This has been a barrier for Accelerated Mobile Pages, although customers seemed willing to accept the trade off because of the improved speed AMP offers....

Evelyn Kao, Product Manager at Google, explained the change in a blog post: “If you live in Australia, you’ll automatically receive the country service for Australia, but when you travel to New Zealand, your results will switch automatically to the country service for New Zealand. Upon return to Australia, you will seamlessly revert back to Australian country service.” When this news dropped, I was initially worried. I do quite a bit of travelling, but for the most part prefer to stick to the US or UK version of Google Search....

In a blog post, Google says the change is specific to subscribers of its G Suite productivity platform. Those users will be transitioned from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. The first step in the transition will begin on April 16, 2019 with the following changes: April 16, 2019 – Several changes that may require administrator action (see below for details). Between April and September 2019 – Features from classic Hangouts will come to Chat....

1 How to Add a Contact in Gmail from a Received Email and Edit Them2 How to Manually Create a Gmail Contact in Google Contacts3 How to Delete Contacts from Gmail4 Extra: How to Delete a Gmail Account5 Extra: How to Change Your Default Gmail Account We’re going to show you how to manually add a contact in Gmail as well as how to delete a contact from Gmail so you can remedy this....

1 How to Install PowerToys and Enable Image Resizer2 How to Bulk Resize Photos in File Explorer or Desktop3 How to Configure PowerToys Image Resizer Settings4 How to Edit SVG Files and Convert HEIC Files What is PowerToys Image Resizer? PowerToys is a tool with origins as far back as Windows 95. Published officially by Microsoft, it’s designed to help more advanced users get more out of their PC. In December 2019, Microsoft released a new version of the tool for Windows 10....

1 How to Change Download Location on Windows 11 / Windows 102 How to Change the Default Save Location in Windows 11 / Windows 103 How to Create a Virtual Hard Drive in Windows 4 How to OneDrive Folder Sync Any Directory on Your PC As well as freeing up space on your c: drive, changing save and download location in Windows 11 / Windows 10 can speed up your workflow allow you to better take backups....

1 How to Activate Windows 10 Compatibility Mode: Manually Change Settings via App Properties2 How To Change Compatibility Settings Automatically via the Windows 10 Compatibility Troubleshooter What is compatibility mode Windows 10? When you run XP programs on Windows 10, you may find that they don’t work, have poor performance, or exhibit other issues. The same might even apply to applications which were originally designed for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or even Windows 95 or Windows 98....

Windows update stuck downloading Before getting started check and Confirm the Update Is Truly Stuck? Because sometimes due to a slow internet connection downloading windows update files from Microsoft server may take some time. That’s why we suggest to wait a few more minutes and let the updates download. 1 Windows update stuck downloading1.1 Run Windows Update Troubleshooter1.2 Reset Windows Update components1.3 Install Windows Update manually Also, check and make sure you have a working internet connection, Temporarily disable Antivirus protection, and also disconnect from VPN (if configured on your PC) Next Start windows into clean boot state And check for windows updates....

1 How to Disable your old Bluetooth Adapter2 How to Install a Bluetooth Adapter for your PC3 How to Install a Bluetooth Adapter Driver for Windows 10 Manually Less fortunately, Bluetooth adapters are far from infallible. Not all of them are created equal and can cause frequent disconnects, while others may stop working entirely. If this is the case, you may have bit the bullet and purchased an external USB Bluetooth adapter or even a PCI-E network adapter....

Google finally included a native screen recorder for Chromebooks in 2020, and the feature has been on the stable channel for over two years. Not to mention, Google has recently created a new Screencast software on Chrome OS, bringing enhanced screen recording with annotation, camera view, transcription, and other features to Chromebooks. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate various methods for recording a screen on a Chromebook and assist you in resolving some frequent issues that individuals encounter when attempting to record their displays....

Share Files and Printers on Windows 10 Well with the latest Windows 10 Microsoft discontinued the Homegroup feature, Instead, the company wants you to start using new sharing features like Share, Nearby sharing, OneDrive, and the more advanced file and printer sharing options, which offer virtually the same experience, but using a different set of instructions. 1 Share Files and Printers on Windows 101.1 Share Files in Windows 102 Transfer Files Via the Cloud2....

By leveraging DALL∙E 2 in Azure OpenAI Service, developers get cloud infrastructure that combines the innovative text-to-image capabilities of the AI with the compliance, security, and certifications of Microsoft’s cloud products. Notably, Microsoft is also extending the integration to its consumer apps through the new Microsoft Designer app. Yes, the mysterious app that has shown up several times through the year is the new consumer portal to access DALL∙E 2 features in Windows 11....

Though it’s amusing that even the most intelligent employees walk into doors, there were far more lucrative details. The report contains several incidents of injury when parties were testing Apple products. A Prototype at Cupertino A report from February 21st at the De Anza office in Cupertino reads: “After BT4 user study, user advised study lead, that she experienced discomfort in her eye and said she was able to see the laser flash at several points during the study....

InVID’s take, however, is different. The open-beta plugin is aimed at journalists and makes it easier to fact-check and debunk videos. It lets users cross-check metadata and image frames across various platforms, highlighting image manipulation and inconsistencies. “The provided tools allow you to quickly get contextual information on Facebook and Youtube videos, to perform reverse image search on Google, Baidu or Yandex search engines, to fragment videos from various platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Daily Motion) into keyframes, to enhance and explore keyframes and images through a magnifying lens, to query Twitter more efficiently through time intervals and many other filters, to read video and image metadata, and to apply forensic filters on still images,” reads the official description....

Apple’s iPhone X has been sent out to reviewers, and the big focus has been on tricking its system. So far, they’ve tried realistic masks and images with no success, but identical twins and triplets seem to be a mixed bag. A Mashable test used two sets of identical twins, registering the phone to one’s face and trying to unlock it with the other’s. In both cases, it opened, completely fooling Apple’s Face ID technology....