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These features will help the hard of hearing, but they also point to the company’s inclusive design principles. These additions will also help situations with a quiet speaker or fast speaker, or in noisy environments. Interestingly, the live captions and subtitles also support real-time translation. Speakers can have their speech output in a total of 12 spoken languages, and over 60 on-screen. They can also adjust size, color, and other options....

The latest issue facing the platform has seen thousands of private recordings become available online and available to anyone. According to The Washington Post, security researcher Patrick Jackson found 15,000 recordings when scanning unsecure cloud storage. There’s a chance this was caused by users mistakenly uploading private recordings to public servers. However, there’s clearly some design element that pushes this mistake if so many are making it. Jackson agrees with this, telling The Post that Zoom should be cautioning about the potential for error....

“From a privacy perspective Microsoft Edge and Yandex are qualitatively different from the other browsers studied. Both send persistent identifiers than can be used to link requests (and associated IP address/location) to back end servers. Edge also sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft and Yandex similarly transmits a hashed hardware identifier to back end servers.“ These persistent identifiers could be used to discover a user’s real identity....

Microsoft and Samsung worked together to design an impressive 2-in-1 tablet. The Galaxy Book will come in 10.6- and 12-inch versions, featuring a pen and a keyboard, and is powered by Windows 10. According to Microsoft’s blog post about the Galaxy Book announcement, Samsung’s new tablets will provide “easy access to the full desktop Microsoft Office experience.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdmFS3taYWI Galaxy Book specs Samsung’s Galaxy Book is already in the spotlight thanks to its impressive specifications and capabilities....

Known Leakster “Ice Universe” has published details about the Exynos 2200 SoC. It seems the mRDNA GPU will feature six of AMD’s RDNA 2 Compute Units. This will provide the chipset with 384 stream processors. Samsung will construct the SoC on its soon to launch 4LPP FinFET process. Ice Universe has been on a role this week because before the latest leak, he also revealed the codename for the Samsung chip....

According to reports in South Korea, Samsung is hedging against predictions the economic downturn will affect chip sales. While many of the company’s rivals are heeding the warning, Samsung obviously believes will remain. It is worth noting we are still leaving a major two-year shortage of processors, so demand could still be there for new semiconductors. Reuters suggests Samsung is taking this decision in an effort to increase its market share in the processor industry while others are slowing down....

Birsan points out he was able to exploit a security vulnerability and run code on servers run by over 30 companies, including Microsoft, Apple, and PayPal. As Microsoft noted yesterday, the exploit is very simple and will lead to a way major companies handle in-house app development. Many corporations develop their own applications to be used in-house amongst employees or sent out externally. Developers within organizations use package managers for handling libraries that are then put together to assemble an app....

RiskSense’s Sean Dillion has gone just that with EternalSynergy, Romance, and Champion. A Metasploit module has been made available to penetration testers that works with all Windows versions above 2000. “This module is highly reliable and preferred over EternalBlue where a Named Pipe is accessible for anonymous logins (generally, everything pre-Vista, and relatively common for domain computers in the wild),” said Dillion. “Instead of going for shellcode execution, it overwrites the SMB connection session structures to gain Admin/SYSTEM session....

Well, today the wait is over as Microsoft is now rolling out the Skype update to all Windows 10 users. Split View provides more efficient chats with multiple people. Microsoft says user feedback through Skype preview resulted in the implementation of Split View. As the name suggests, Split View gives users the ability to split their chat window on Skype for Windows 10. Users access Spit View through the three-dot menu, which will show recent combinations when enabled....

Arguably the most important addition is Split View mode, which provides more efficient chats with multiple people. Microsoft says user feedback through Skype preview resulted in the implementation of Split View. The feature gives users the ability to split their chat windows for each individual and hold multiple conversations. Microsoft has been trying to bring Skype for Windows 10 closer to the Skype classic experience. Split Mode is available through the three dot menu and show recent combinations when enabled....

Modern Setup Host high CPU usage If this is the first time you have noticed modern setup host high CPU usage, then restart your PC probably help if a temporary glitch causing the issue. 1 Modern Setup Host high CPU usage1.1 Run Windows Update Troubleshooter1.2 Clear SoftwareDistribution folder1.3 Disable Windows Update Service Perform a full system scan with the latest antivirus software to make sure virus malware infection not causing the issue....

This problem mostly causes if the print spooler stops responding, the Installed Printer driver corrupted, and more. Here some solutions you may apply to fix the printer only print one copy on Windows 10, 8.1 and 7. 1 Printer only prints one page then stops1.1 Run Printer Troubleshooter1.2 Check Print Spooler Service1.3 Clear Print Spooler1.4 Disable Mopier Mode1.5 Reinstall Printer driver Run Printer Troubleshooter Windows itself offers built-in printer Troubleshooter, that checks and fixes problems that prevent completing the printing task....

keyboard & mouse stops working after a certain period There may be several reasons which may cause your keyboard & mouse to not work, such as corrupted system files, Driver incompatibility, third-party app causing issues and more. If your mouse is not working after Windows 10 Upgrade, Here are several things you could try to fix this problem. Using Logitech keyboard& mouse combo on my PC as its working fine previously....

In a bid to see where exactly the average users falls on that spectrum, developer Ben Fox sent out a survey to over 500 users across the world. Ford is behind popular Windows Store apps like Spirality and the Disko file cleaning suite. The survey asked how likely would be for the user to recommend it to a friend. Windows Store NPS Score This data lets marketers know how likely users are to either promote or detract from the service, giving what’s known as an NPS score....

Unfortunately, the hardware of the device is still a mystery, but trains are often used by network engineers to test the cellular capabilities of a device. Still, it’s an indication that this is a real device we’ll be able to hold this year. In fact, Windows Central’s Zac Bowden says he’s hearing rumblings that the device may launch earlier than expected. Either way, it looks like this version of the Surface Duo has a flash on its right-hand screen....

When the company announced Windows 11 last year, one of the new features over Windows 10 was Dynamic Refresh Rate. Essentially, the feature allows Windows to automatically switch display refresh rate from 60Hz to 120Hz. Doing normal tasks like writing an email will see DDR run the screen at 60Hz, and pick up to 120Hz for tasks like scrolling and animations. It only works on applications that have support for the feature built-in....

Either way, its strong enterprise offerings and lack of data breaches are likely to have had an impact here, as well as work securing the data of the US Defense Department. In recent times, Microsoft has also taken pains to drum up consumer goodwill by extending privacy tools for GDPR and CCPA to all of its users and focusing less on advertising. Finally, 72% of users agreed that Facebook has too much power, yet 66% thought it was okay that it owned Instagram and WhatsApp....

The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.0 is now generally available, open-source. It brings hundreds of new features to production and enterprise-grade deep learning and presents it in a more usable way. Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.0 Features Though version 2 of the toolkit has been in beta since October, the full release builds on previous functionality. Part of that is support for Keras, an open-source neural network library that’s popular for its usability....

Referencing some books, Satya Nadella said they encapsulate how a company can find a positive purpose. Speaking about Prosperity by Colin Mayer, Nadella says the book points corporations towards becoming profitable by solving problems facing people. While books on capitalism are common, he says “Prosperity” best summed up what the goal of a company should be. “The key word is ‘profitable,’ because we do know that capitalism does have the ability to allocate resources in the most efficient way....

According to Microsoft blog installing cumulative update KB4464330, Bumps OS to Windows 10 Build 17763.55. That includes security improvements that Microsoft has included in the Patch Tuesday rollout. The Windows kernel, Windows Peripherals component and the Microsoft Graphics Component are all getting improvements. And The cumulative update KB4464330 “Addresses an issue affecting group policy expiration where an incorrect timing calculation may prematurely remove profiles on devices subject to the “Delete user profiles older than a specified number of day,’”...