Today, Microsoft announced at the Build developer event that Apple is bringing its iTunes app to the Windows Store, and it will finally be available on the Windows Store by the end of this year.
Although iTunes is an app developed by Apple, it has already been available on the Windows based computer, but currently Read more…
On Tuesday, Panos Panay, corporate vice president for Surface Computing at Microsoft Corp, unveiled a new Surface laptop, with a a new updated version of Windows 10 – Windows 10 S.
This new Surface laptop gets 13.5-inch and 14.5 hours of battery life, the weigh is 2.76 pounds and also features a fabric keyboard. And there are four colors available for this new device which including cobalt blue, burgundy. The new laptop will be on sale on June 15 with a starting price of $999 (£770). Read more…
Last money, Google released an update for its Google Photos, which was to improve image backups on 2G connections on both iOS and Android devices. And now, it rolls out a newer update of the application, at this time, it adds a video stabilization feature on this app.
This new update is now available for downloading and installing for the user, and people can choose to get this update for free. To see the new feature on the app, one can try to hit the edit icon on the Google Photos, Read more…
Search engine giant Google in recently continues to update its service on the potable device, and releases tappable shortcuts that enable users to quickly access to the information they care about.
Tappable shortcuts were introduced by Google last week, through these shortcuts right on the home screen, users can get instant news and explore deeper of the topic they specifically set before, and moreover, they are also able to get what they want quickly through a single tap. Read more…
Are you a professional or just a general user of Twitter? The Twitter Inc just said in recently they would consider to make decision about whether to build a premium version of its popular Tweetdeck interface, which is for the professionals.
As one of the social media all around the world, Twitter has attracted more than 319 million users worldwide, even though, they still behind the Facebook, which gets more users than Twitter. Read more…
Are you often annoyed by the force and automated update on Windows system? Many people have complained about this update problem on the computer for a long time, and now, you will be able to avoid it on your computer.
Microsoft has been announced that a new “snooze” update will be released, which enables the Windows 10 users to prevent force installation for those security updates and software updates, and will allow them to schedule an update within three days. Read more…
Facebook has started to take actions to prevent suicides via its artificial intelligence (AI) among their users.
According to the Facebook‘s announcement, they have developed algorithms that detecting the content related to suicides from the posts, comments, live-streaming feature and Messenger service, once the suspicious content are found, they will spot warning signs on the screen, what’s more Read more…
By default, the Mozilla Firefox sets Yahoo as its default search engine, and people can choose to change it via changing the associated configuration of the browser. However, once the Firefox updates itself, the default search engine will be changed back to Yahoo, and the user have to switch it again. To resolve the issue, you should go to set the Firefox retain your preferred search engine all the time. Read more…
Microsoft outlined a new Windows 10-like interface typical for corporate users of Office 365, the software-by-subscription program.
This new look will be sent over to the employees of firms that have registered an official account of Office 365 First Release track later this month. Other users also will get this updates in October as Microsoft rolls it out on stages.
“We’re announcing a new version of the Office 365 App Launcher, which will provide improved discoverability to new and recently-used apps, additional customization options and search across all the services and applications you use in the Microsoft Cloud,” Microsoft claimed in a post to a company blog Wednesday.
As the implication lies in its name, the Office 365 App Launcher allows users to fire up various Office 365 applications and services. Currently, the launcher – which is unveiled with a click on a symbol at the upper left of each user’s Office 365 web page – is a square grid of identically-sized icons.
The new UI will be similar to the Windows 10 Start menu, in that the app or service icons — Microsoft dubs them “tiles” — can be moved, resized and pinned in place. Furthermore, the company-specific services embedded by IT will no longer sequested to a secondary screen; their tiles will be set to stay front and center if required.
Microsoft intends to establish access recently-retrieved files to the App Launcher in the future.
Only customers with Exchange as a part of their Office 365 plan will be allowed to get the new UI, Microsoft claimed. At launch, the company administrators will not be capable to specify a firm-wide structure for the Start-style launcher, but Microsoft claimed that it was “working to enable greater control for Office 365 administrators.”
Google launched Art Project in 2011 and cooperated with international museums to help the public access hign resolution images of great artworks. In the past five years, Google Cultural Institute scanned and perserved 200 works of art in high resolution gigapixel images. Now it has archived another 1000 using the ultra-high-resolution “Art Camera” during the past few months.
How did the sudden expansion happen?
Google Cultural Institute introuduced that they have developed the Art Camera system to perserve the subtle details of artworks down to every brushstroke. Art Camera is a robotic camera designed to create gigapixel images. The whole thing works like this. A operator sets up the camera in front of a wall where a paiting is hung, and points the camera at the four edges of painting. Once set up, the robotic system will automatically steer the camera to scan the paiting inch by inch and to take high-resolution close-ups. Art Camera is equipped with a sonar and a laser to make sure the focus is right on each brush stroke. As soon as all the details are captured, thousands of close-up shots will be sent to Google’s servers and then stitched into one single super high resolution gigapixel image at just a few hours later.
Thanks to the new custom-bulit camera, museums and institutions can capture and digitize art and documents much easier and faster. The capture time has been reduced largely. As Marzia Niccolai, the technical program manager at the Cultural Institute, said, it used to take almost a day to capture an image, but now it would take 30 minutes to capture a one meter by one meter painting. Meanwhile, previously institutes and organizations may need to pay money for bringing in third party image-scanning equipment. Now Google brought Art Camera and encouraged organizations to take advantage of it for free. The proces of perserving valuable artworks becomes much cheaper and streamlined. Google Cultural Institute express their willings to lend it out around the world to make museums’ artwork more accessible. With the help of Art Camera, museums can share their valuable but fragile collections with the global public, and art lovers can browser museum’ library of art online and fully appreciate a master piece by zooming in and viewing individual brush strokes.
Yet, Art Camera has itslimitataions. It can be used to capture and archive 2-D things, like flat paitings, but it is not capable to handle 3-D objects or things particularly large. For that, Google will still have to bring in other technology to achieve this task.
Google Cultrual Institute posted 1000 ultra-high resolution images artworks from masters like Pissarro, Signac, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Monet and other well-know artists. They are now available at the Institute’s website. It hopes to help preserve priceless works digitally and to share cultural heritage to anyone around the world.
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