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What a mess your life would be, at home or in the workplace, without a digital calendar! The utility comes in handy in the management of your tasks, appointments, or assignments. Windows 10 Calendar is getting a search upgrade.Microsoft is also working on other Calendar improvements, including new themes.Our Windows 10 Calendar section covers news and updates to the handy appointments and schedule management tool. Be sure to check it out!...

Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 Fall Creators Update build, adding a few more new features to the table. Windows 10 build 16251 lets you link your phone and PC, get web search results in Cortana without opening your browser, and also brings a faster boot up experience. As expected, this build also brings a few issues of its own. In this article, we’re going to list the most common build 16251 bugs reported by Insiders....

Microsoft recently pushed out three Windows 10 updates, further improving the Windows experience. Windows 10 cumulative update KB3197954 brings a list of 12 fixes and improvements, KB3199986 improves the servicing stack, while KB3190507 still remains a mysterious update. The support page for KB3190507 is not available yet but it appears this update’s role is to fix KB3194496’s install issues. As a quick reminder, KB3194496 was rolled out on September 29 but was plagued by install issues....

Yes, Microsoft did it again. And before you go thinking about anything else, we are actually talking about the new Insider preview build that just got released for the Dev channel. The Redmond tech giant just launched a new Insider build for the Dev channel.Although users were expecting more from 22463.1000, it comes with few changes.When clicking identify displays, the pop-ups now have Windows 11’s rounded corners.Also, the taskbar icons won’t appear as misaligned anymore, after this patch’s fix....

Microsoft just revealed that it’s partnering with Bitdefender, Lookout, and Ziften to expand the reach of Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) even more. By teaming up with the of the most significant security firms, Microsoft wants to bring ATP to devices running on Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux. The three security companies mentioned above will all feed threat detection data into a single central resource, and security teams will then use the information....

Warning: This article contains profanity and depicts a crime that is sexual in nature. This is the story of reddit user Zedevile, who spoke to Comparitech on condition of anonymity. She is a victim of spear phishing. Despite the disturbing and private nature of her encounter, Zedevile–Zed, for short–wrote about her episode with the criminal who blackmailed her, and posted the story on reddit. She says her intention is to reach as many people as possible so that what happened to her doesn’t repeat itself....

At the recent Gamescom event, Microsoft unveiled that the Xbox Game Pass will come to more countries on September 1, 2017. Since the launch of its Xbox Game Pass service, when the service had 100 games available with support for 31 countries all over the world, Microsoft added more titles to the table. Subscribers can play more fun games now, and because of the expansion of the service their number will increase now....

mySafaricom app is Safaricom’s one-stop-shop for everything carrier related. It has since grown to include many of the carrier’s services, from purchasing SMS packages to carrying out M-PESA transactions and raising customer service issues and everything in between. For the M-PESA section of the mySafaricom app, users had to be redirected to the SIM Toolkit via a pop-up notification that would take a moment or two to pop up, asking for your M-PESA PIN to authenticate a transaction....

Long-term protection doesn’t have to be expensive! Right now, ZenMate is offering an 18-month plan for just $35.82 (usually $197.82), which works out at $1.99 per month. That’s a discount of over 80 percent! Plus, you’ll get three months extra coverage for free. What’s more, since this coupon is applied automatically, you don’t have to enter any code while checking out, making it as easy as possible to save money on ZenMate....

This July, from 24th-26th, the inaugural CCISC 2013 comes to Harare, Zimbabwe! The three-day convention, the very first of its kind, will be held at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC), at the Rainbow Towers Hotel. CCISC 2013 is an open and intellectual convention where issues to do with cloud computing, in its various forms and information security are going to be presented, analyzed and discussed by experts and industry thinkers alike....

The Microsoft Store is now allowing users to pre-order the digital remastered HDR, 4k supported version of the popular game, Zoo Tycoon. While the original game was initially released for the Xbox One, the remastered version is exclusive for Xbox One S and X. Xbox One S users will only have access to the HDR features of the game, while Xbox One X users will be able to play the game in both 4k and HDR....

The Infant Optics DXR-8 and DXR-8 Pro come from the same award-winning platform that has kept Infant Optics at the head of the baby monitoring development industry for nearly 10 years. The DXR-8 Pro comes packed with great features that make it one of the best choices on the market for you and your family. But what are some differences between these two products? Here is a table showing some differences between these two Infant Optics baby monitors:...

Social media groups are big when it comes to people connecting, exchanging information, and organizing events. However, with a reasonably large number of members allowed in – like for WhatsApp which accomodates up to 256, the environment can become rowdy and uncontrollable if some restrictions are not put in place. The latest development indicates that WhatsApp group administrators will now have greater control over who gets to post on a group chat....

At this year’s Facebook F8 Developer conference, Zuckerberg announced a bunch of new features coming to the various products owned by the giant social media platform. Among them is the ability to make ‘conference calls’ by both voice and video on WhatsApp. The feature has since been discovered in various leaks and in the apk teardown. Users on iOS have reported the feature going live on their WhatsApps and we all knew it was only a matter of time before the same shows up for Android users....

Even the smartest of smart-home tech needs proper setup to obtain the best results. The Ring Floodlight Cam is a great option for home security, with a floodlight that turns on when motion is detected to help capture the best video as well as ward off intruders. If you haven’t adjusted your settings properly, though, the floodlight may turn off and on too frequently. So how do you stop your Ring Floodlight from constantly turning on and off?...

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update is known to break settings: it restores settings to default, resets pen settings, and changes font size and font in menu. Recent reports have also revealed that the Anniversary Update also breaks the Asus Smart Gesture touchpad settings. Many users reported that after installing the Anniversary Update their customized touchpad driver features were disabled. It appears that all the settings are automatically disabled and even if users try to enable them, the OS simply disables them again....

It’s Friday and there’s a new build in town. Windows 10 build 18353 is now available for download for Fast Ring Insiders. As expected, this build release does not bring any new features to the table. The Redmond giant is now focusing on making the OS as stable as possible. In just a few weeks’ time, Microsoft will roll out Windows 10 19H01 — hence the focus on bug fixing....

Gamers, are you ready? Windows 10 Gaming Edition is going to be the future version of Windows 10. Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft declared PC gaming holds great importance in the consumer strategy of the company. But it seems like Windows 10 Standard Edition failed to grab the attention of PC gamers with its features such as a free game recording tool, Game Mode, and DirectX 12. Recently, the Windows 10 users used the platform of XBOX IDEAS to demand a Windows 10 Gaming Edition from Microsoft....

Microsoft has finally released its Xbox One Summer Update, which brought support for background music. In other words, music applications will be finally able to play music in the background! All you will need to do is start playing a song in an application that supports background music and you will be able to switch between games and other applications while listening to music. Well, since Microsoft has brought this feature to the Xbox One console, it was expected that the company will release a Groove UWP app for Xbox One....

Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 build fixes the issue resulting where users weren’t able to use their mouse in the Photos app to move photos while zoomed or adjust crop region. Editing photos is always easier when using a mouse. If you tried to use your mouse to move a picture when zoomed, or to adjust the crop region in Microsoft’s Photos app, you probably noticed that was impossible. The number of users dissatisfied with Microsoft’s Photos app and their feedback written on various forums pushed Microsoft to take a survey in order to see what needs to be improved:...