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These days, more and more businesses are thinking about creating their own marketplace. This can be useful for many reasons, which we’ll talk about today. If you’re looking to create a vacation rental marketplace like Airbnb, there are a few things you need to consider. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the steps of how to create a website like Airbnb and provide some tips on what to keep in mind when building your own vacation rental platform....

Instagram is a popular photo-sharing app – So popular is the app that it’s the 4th most used social app after Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp. Besides, Instagram which is in its 12th year has more than a billion active monthly users. One of the reasons why this app has grown so much is because it has evolved to be more than just a photo-sharing app. For instance, businesses have realized that they can use Instagram with the help of an Instagram growth service to boost sales, increase brand awareness, and improve their audience engagement rates....

Those groups are exploiting vulnerabilities in outdated versions of VPN services provided by the companies. By exploiting the flaw, the APT’s can conduct attacks around the world. According to a National Security Agency (NSA) Cybersecurity Advisory, APT groups have already created weaponized exploits around three flaws: CVE-2019-11539, CVE-2019-11510 and CVE-2018-13379. With the exploit, bad actors can gain access to devices using the outdates VPNs. In the United Kingdom, the National Cyber Security Centre also issued a warning (separately from the NSA)....

Back in 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a massive $19 billion outlay. While the messaging service was already a massive success (450 million active users at the time), the price meant Facebook was taking a massive risk. However, the decision is starting to pay off as App Annie reports WhatsApp is now Facebook’s most popular service. Yes, even more popular than the company’s flagship social network on mobile platforms. The shift happened last September....

While services like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack battle over enterprise communication, WhatsApp continues to lead the way in terms of consumer-fronted tools. Still, like other communication services, it has struggled to prevent the spread of misinformation. That said, the Facebook-owned company has also done a decent job at avoiding the numerous controversies that have befallen its parent company. WhatsApp has often taken a more proactive approach to keeping users safe, keeping content private, and helping them avoid fake news....

In Apple’s case, a bug in MacOS High Sierra allowed the platform to ship without a root password. In theory, anybody with enough knowledge could log in to a locked Mac. Cupertino issued a rapid patch, which promptly broke file sharing features on the OS. The company returned with another patch, which was then undone by updates. The point here is Apple failed miserably to solve the issue, but did try....

This often means applications can run faster, using the disk write cache to ensure they don’t have to wait for data write requests to actually write to the disk before they can continue. Windows write caching is typically enabled for internal drives by default because of this, but external hard drives or USB drives often don’t use the feature, which can lead to a slow external hard drive. On the other hand, when you enable write caching you’re introducing a larger chance of data loss....

Looking at the UI, Windows 10 Calculator now has two dedicated buttons with functions and trigonometry. In terms of the latter, the trig dedicated button has functions such as cos, sin, cot, and tan. For functions, users can select between six options. HTNovo reports the new Calculator experience is now in testing on the Windows 10 19H2 preview branch. This is the second-half 2019 Windows 10 release that will arrive soon....

Microsoft’s reasoning for maintaining the Control Panel over those eight years was it needed the Settings app up to speed. In other words, the Windows 10 Settings app needed to be able to handle all user options. It seems the company may now be taking significant steps towards removing the Control Panel. Specifically, Microsoft is working on removing the “Systems” applet in the Windows 10 Control Panel. As the Settings app is now mature, the removal of this applet could signal a push away from the panel....

“We added the ability to install Hyper-V on [Windows 10 on ARM PCs] such as the Surface Pro X running the Enterprise or Pro editions of Windows 10,” a Windows Insider blog post explains. That’s a vague explanation, but it essentially means users need to be running an ARM machine running either the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 or 8cx processors. Microsoft says there is now a “[Windows 10 on ARM] [virtual hard drive] (VHDX) for Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19624, so that Insiders can run Windows 10 [on ARM] as a guest OS in Hyper-V....

The core addition to Photos is support for using a graphics chip (GPU) when encoding video. Users benefit from this as they should see performance of the app improve when encoding. Additionally, Microsoft has made the usual unnamed improvements and bug fixes. This means the Windows 10 Photos app should be a smoother user experience. Here is the official changelog for the update: Hardware Acceleration – There is a new entry in the Photo app settings that allows you to use video encoding with hardware acceleration....

This article was contributed by Elaine Foster who is an independent business and market strategies consultant working primarily with technology and start-up phase clients. Default privacy settings on Windows usually aren’t very private. Even the latest version is initially configured to collect information about you, like how and where you use your devices as well as what type of content and data you access. Although disabling some Windows 10 settings may hinder Windows functionality, judicious reduction of Microsoft’s overreach is a great way to keep Windows private without totally impeding its functionality....

Looking at the out-of-band patch, this is a rare example of Microsoft send out an update out of sequence. The company typically solves security bugs during its monthly Patch Tuesday roll outs. However, the printing issue is problematic enough the company decided a quicker response is necessary. Several printer brands are seeing blue screen of death (BSOD) issues when running their printer on Windows 10 versions 1803, 1809, 1909, 2004, and last year’s 20H1....

Specifically, current users can manage apps that run on startup through the Task Manager. With Redstone 4, that will change. While Microsoft is officially launching the Fall Creators Update tomorrow (Oct. 17), the company is already deep into development on its successor. For the first time, the company has allowed Insiders to test the follow up branch with a Skip Ahead feature. This means some previewers are already seeing what Redstone 4 will offer....

Windows 10 Xbox Game bar is not working There is a various reason that cause “Game bar is not working or opening” but the most common we hear from users on Microsoft forum, Reddit is missing “Media Feature Pack“. A number of users marked install “Media Feature Pack” as a helpful solution to fix Windows 10 Xbox Game bar is not working problem. 1 Windows 10 Xbox Game bar is not working1....

Windows 10 Your Phone App This is one of the biggest addition of the latest feature update where Microsoft tried to get closer to Android and ISO devices. Windows 10 October 2018 update Introduced Your Phone app, which is an update of the “your Phone” that let you link your Android, iOS handset to Windows 10. 1 Windows 10 Your Phone App2 Set up and use the Your Phone app on Windows 102....

Windows 7 users have taken to Reddit and Microsoft’s own TechNet forums to complain about the broken cumulative update. Specifically, that is build KB4480970, which seems to cause SMBv2 shares to be inaccessible. Furthermore, some users are reporting issues with Remote Desktop, such instances of crashes for system Administrators. There are a couple of solutions that could help ease this problem until Microsoft issues a patch. First and perhaps most wise is to simply uninstall the update....

In its statement, Microsoft said Julie Larson-Green is “leaving Microsoft to pursue new adventures in building great teams and customer-first products.” Over a quarter of a century, Larson-Green covered a lot of ground within Microsoft HQ. She joined the company as a program manager for Visual C++ and developed a passion for giving users the best experience possible. This started with the early days of Internet Explorer, where she worked on UI through IE 3....

According to Red Canary Intelligence, the malware has been visible since last fall and researchers with the company have been tracking it since then. From detections within a small subset of users, the issue has grown across more customers. If a corrupted USB drive is placed into a Windows machine, the worm can spread on the system by using a msiexec.exe to gain access to the users’ information: “This activity cluster relies on msiexec....

Looking specifically at Windows Terminal 1.7, this can be filed under “extensive update”. Microsoft says there are many improvements in this build, including UI settings, better windowing, and obligatory bug fixes. The most important of the changes in version 1.7 come in windowing. Windows Terminal now gives users the choice of where a pane launches. This is achieved through “windowingBehavior” global settings. Specifically, it is possible to open a new window instance within an existing terminal....