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Microsoft’s big Windows 10 devices event is about to start: Here’s what to expect and how to watch
Microsoft is only a few hours away from the opening of their event in New York where some long anticipated devices, including the Surface Pro 4, the new Lumia flagship phones and the Microsoft Band 2, are expected to be unveiled. You can watch the event live via a stream on Microsoft’s website. It will ...
The reality of Minority Report: A slow but surer gesture recognition revolution
As Fox’s new series Minority Report enters its third week – we weren’t overly complimentary of the opening episode – the gestural interface technology we see in the series is arguably less spectacular now as it was to viewers in 2002 when Tom Cruise was skillfully swiping the air and pinching screens into oblivion in ...
Microsoft’s impressive Skype real-time translator has finally landed
Good news for anyone wanting to make friends in foreign countries or doing business in languages they can’t quite grasp, Skype’s real-time translator is now being integrated as a built-in feature for desktop users running Windows 10, Windows 7 and Windows 8. In the beginning though it won’t quite break all language barriers and will only ...
About time too: Microsoft’s Outlook gets all Facebooky with new Likes and @mention feature
Microsoft is taking a leaf out of Facebook’s, er, book, and is now adding a Like and @mention feature to its Outlook on the Web. The Like function, says Microsoft, can be triggered in the reading pane by clicking on the ‘thumbs up’ symbol and thereby endorsing or showing your support for a particular email ...
12-Person Party Chat comes to Xbox One, as well as a slew of new features for the New Xbox One Experience Preview
Due to popular demand Microsoft has just rolled out 12-person Party Chat feature for Xbox One, also available for Xbox App on Windows 10. It was previously limited to eight people. This may have caused problems for people playing games such as FIFA, where it’s necessary to field eleven players. Users of the New Xbox ...
Microsoft comes back at critics saying Windows 10 does not infringe on privacy or spy on its users
For the most part Windows 10 has been a raging success, gathering positive reviews from the whole gamut of tech media right from the start. Only when it seemed to come to light that a FREE version of the software allegedly meant that pretty much your entire personal information was going to be collected and ...
Limitless series one episode one: Limited, but has potential (Spoilers)
The CBS series adaptation of Neil Burger’s 2011 film Limitless is the second in a slew of new sci-fi series coming out this Fall. It follows last week’s desperately disappointing Minority Report premier, that probably should have been made into a cartoon rather than a drama series. In November we’ll get to see the second installment ...
Microsoft’s new app should take some of the pain out of organizing meetings
The latest experiment coming out of Microsoft’s Garage – what Microsoft calls its “after-hours idea factory” – is Invite, a simple app that makes organizing meetings and setting up events on the go easy. Currently available only for iOS in the U.S. and Canada, it will be coming to Android and Windows Phone soon. Using ...
Minority Report TV show review: A heinous crime against science fiction
If there’s anything positive to say about the first episode of Fox’s new series Minority Report, it’s that it’s over in less than an hour and takes only a few minutes to realize you’re watching something utterly dreadful. In a kind of pre-act denouement, you immediately find out that the pre-cogs (pre-cognitives – can see into the ...
Microsoft’s new Lumia flagships leaked price: similar cost to an iPhone 6S
It shouldn’t be long now until we see a handful of Microsoft’s newest and most exciting devices. On October 6th it’s expected that Redmond will unveil its Surface Pro 4 laptop; Microsoft Band 2 – which we think we saw for the time recently – and also the long awaited Lumia flagship phones. The phones, ...