The content below is taken from the original (How to Tweak Windows 10 and Fix Its Minor Annoyances), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.

Windows 10 resolves a lot of the annoyances left over from Windows 8, but it also comes with a few of its own—little as most of them may be. Here’s how to tweak a few of the OS’s new features and fix its little quirks.

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Chipmaker adds Israeli company’s bolt-on protection to its bulging armoured sack

Chipmaker ARM has sealed a deal to buy Israeli Internet of Things (IoT) security specialist Sansa Security. Financial terms of the deal, announced Thursday, were not officially disclosed. However, the WSJ previously reported that around $75m-$85m was on the table.…

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 Virtual containers are among the hottest technologies in the software development world today. Containerization is an approach to virtualization in which apps and all their components are packaged up and compartmentalized but share a common operating system environment.
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Cycling is becoming bigger then ever with more and more cities around the world reshaping their streets to accommodate growing numbers of cyclists. With that, comes a surge in technology.

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It is 30 years since the first version of Windows was shipped — with Microsoft shipping the first version of Windows – Windows 1.0 – on 20 November, 1985.

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If you want to give the impression that you’ve been using Windows 10 for years, learning a few keyboard shortcuts is the best way to go about it—you can navigate around the interface, get apps in position, trigger events, change settings and more with a couple of taps on your keyboard. Here are the shortcuts we’ve been finding most useful.

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 Google is working on many things, and that includes balloons that fly high in the sky to bring internet infrastructure to locations that can’t be wired for it easily. Today, Sri Lanka announced that it’s the first country to ever get universal internet access from Google’s Project Loon. Thanks to a partnership with Google, the country promises “affordable high-speed… Read More

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 Alibaba Group announced today that it will invest a further $1 billion into Aliyun, its cloud computing unit. The capital will be used to expand Aliyun, which currently has data centers in China, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley, into other international markets. Read More

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Attempting to overcome some of the limits of wind turbines, a team of researchers have developed a beam that can potentially harvest kinetic wind energy and power internet of things (IoT) devices.

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Sydney is now using the world’s first outdoor e-ink traffic signs to guide motorists during special events. The city’s Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) agency was apparently fed up with the constant chore of changing signs, and developed the tech wi…

The content below is taken from the original (French IoT Startup Smiirl Raises Seed Round, Launches Twitter And Instagram Counters), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.

 French hardware and IoT startup Smiirl hit pretty early on the idea of a mechanical Internet of Things-styled ‘Like’ counter for Facebook that bridges the digital and physical worlds, enabling businesses to proudly display their ‘social proof’. Read More

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Those "do not eat" desiccate packets of silica gel that keep shoe boxes dry could soon help keep data centers cool. IBM has launched the THRIVE project with aims to do just that by creating a heat pump that runs on waste heat….

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As data travels around the internet, it’s routinely switched from electrical signals to light in order to travel through the network’s fiber optic backbone. To do this, the signal travels through devices called electro-optic modulators. However, thes…

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Have a question for one of the smartest men on the planet? Mark your calendar: on Monday July 27th at 8am ET, Stephen Hawking will be taking questions from the public in his first ever Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). If you can’t make it Monday, don’t …

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Commodore successor won over gamers, graphic artists alike

On July 23, 1985, Commodore kicked off a new era in its history with the launch of the Amiga 1000.…

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Nearline service goes live, creates nightmare for tape vendors

Google has flicked the switch to take its “Nearline” archival cloud storage service live, and tossed in an offer of 100 petabytes of free storage to set the snowball rolling.…

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The speed at which a wearable device goes through its battery could be about to change thanks to a new Wi-Fi reflector chip that doesn’t need to power a signal sent back to another device, making it much more efficient.

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The price of making sure that the feds aren’t reading your emails is download speeds that can be measured in weeks rather than seconds. A group of academics are hoping to change that, however, by taking the basic idea of the Tor anonymity network and…

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You’ve probably hear that The X-Files is coming back to TV this January with the old crew including Mulder and Scully. However, the revived series will include some unexpected returning characters too. Bumbling […]

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Taking Blue Screen of Death to another level

Surgery on humans using robots has been touted by some as a safer way to get your innards repaired – and now the figures are in for you to judge.…

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Most companies seek out the latest displays for high-tech billboards, but Forever 21 has decided to take a different route for this particular Instagram project. For the past year-and-a-half, the folks at connected hardware maker Breakfast New York h…