Windows 10 just achieved a huge milestone: 1 billion users. It didn't earn a blog post, but Microsoft's Panos Panay shared a video that celebrates the milestone and offers a glimpse at the future of the operating system.
Microsoft kicks off the video with its classic boot screens and Start buttons. Once the nostalgia settles in, the Redmond-based com...
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Apple closed its retail stores indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak, but it did alert customers to pick up their devices left for repair prior to the closures. Some customers just didn't appear to retrieve them, however, an Apple spokesperson told Business Insider. Now, they're left waiting until the Cupertino-based company reo...
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Sales of new phones have collapsed in the biggest fall since the invention of the smartphone.
Research firm Strategy Analytics said shipments in February fell by 38% year-on-year. The outbreak of the...
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Facebook will pay its third-party US content moderators to work from home.
On a call with reporters, Facebook's chief Mark Zuckerberg said the contract workers would still get their full salaries even if they were unable to do all their normal tasks. The company will also increase use of artificial intelligence to moderate content during the coronavirus crisis.
Mr Zuckerberg said its work-from-home policy would las...
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Major websites are turning to automatic systems to moderate content as they tell their staff to work from home.
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are all relying on artificial intelligence and automated tools to find problematic material on their platforms. The tech giants admit this may lead to some mistakes - but say they still need to remove harmful content. The coronavirus scare has led to a surge of m...
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Apple still hasn't announced the Powerbeats 4, but one Walmart store doesn't care to wait any longer and decided to start selling the earbuds before they're official.
9to5Mac reports that Twitter user @eddiezus spotted the product in Rochester, New York. He didn't purchase a unit, but...
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It's the first pandemic of the smartphone era - and that means governments have access to new ways of tracking the spread of Covid-19.
On this week's Tech Tent, we find out about the apps that are monitoring people with the virus and look at whether they pose a long-term threat to civil liberties.
In South Korea, the authorities have created an app that lets them know whether people w...
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Apple's annual showcase, the Worldwide Developers Conference, has been cancelled in favour of an online-only event.
"The current health situation has required that we create a new WWDC 2020 format," Apple said in a statement. The June conference is often used to announce ne...
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Google's parent company Alphabet has asked its North American staff to work from home to reduce the potential spread of the coronavirus.
Last week the tech giant sent a memo to staff recommending that employees in Washington state work from home. It has now expanded that request to all of its almost 100,000 workers across 11 office in the US and Canada. Alphabet is the latest company to mak...
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Microsoft has said it was part of a team that dismantled an international network of zombie bots.
The network call Necurs infected over nine million computers and one of the world's largest botnets. Necurs was responsible for multiple criminal scams including stealing personal inf...
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Amazon is offering its till-less technology to other High Street shops, just over two years after launching it via its own Go Grocery chain.
Go Grocery shoppers scan a smartphone app as they arrive, allowing them to pay via their main Amazon accounts. It has now adapted its Just Walk Out system for other retailers so shoppers register a payme...
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Calling AMD’s upcoming 7nm Ryzen laptop CPUs a “watershed” moment for the company, AMD VP of computing and graphics Rick Bergman hinted that at least one model of laptop c...
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You'll receive the latest features and security enhancements on Windows 10. Microsoft focuses on that version as it's the most recent, and yet there are people who still use Windows 7 despite its outdated, unsupported status. Now, there's data suggesting just how little interest these Windows 7 users have in upgrading to anything newer. Either users don't care ab...
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