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...
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A team of researchers from Department of Public Health, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Unit of Daffodil International University (DIU) and Cardio-Care General and Specialized Hospital has developed a new diagnostic modality to detect COVID – 19; where the researchers are using AI soft...
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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,...
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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 coronavirus in China had a huge impact, report author Linda Sui said. "Some Asian factories were unable to manufacture smartphones, while many consumers were unable or unwilling to visit retail stores and buy new devices,&q...
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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 coronavir...
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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 art...
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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 the shared photograph (seen...
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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...
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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 new products and software features. Only open to Apple software developers,...
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Bangladeshi Startup ‘shomadhan.com’ has achieved the recognition of World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF). WBAF selected 95 startups from 43 countries around the world for WBAF World Congress-2020 held in Turkey during February 16-22 where ‘shomadhan.com’ was only one startup from Bangladesh among those selected startups.Various venture capital companies from USA,...
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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,...
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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 information and sending fake pharmaceutical emails. Cyber-criminals use botnets to remotely take...
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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...
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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 o...
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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 int...
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