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Most of the attention devoted to Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 update has focused on the Start button. But if you get past that controversial addition, there’s plenty more to see. New and improved apps, Internet Explorer 11, tweaks to the onscreen keyboard, and a surprising change to File Explorer are all there too.
Loyal Listener Len Michael’s shares his story of a questionable PayPal message and how he kept from becoming another victim of scams.
Internet Advisor, Gary Baker, received a surprise notice from Amazon about $1,000+ TV he had bought….only he hadn’t bought it! Gary tells how to get this kind of this sorted out.
Microsoft has published a list of suggestions to help you stop being victimized by con artists and still use the Internet safely. Our advisors will discuss the points.
A recent poll conducted on Microsoft’s Safer Online Facebook page revealed a few interesting findings concerning mobile behavior and what you can do to protect yourself on your mobile devices. Microsoft offers the following tips to help you and your important business-related data stay safe using your mobile device:
Readers can visit the Microsoft Safer Online Facebook poll to find more information about both the poll results and mobile phone safety on www.microsoft.com/security. …
While it may not be a full-fledged HDTV, the Apple TV set-top box continues to expand its portfolio. According to a story first reported by Deadline, the CW is bringing its video content to the Apple TV via a dedicated app.
The CW offering would mimic what the network already has on Microsoft’s Xbox; the network confirmed to MacRumors that the app will feature ad-supported full episodes available for streaming the day after they air. And, in a bonus for cord cutters, the app will not require an existing cable subscription to view content. A specific release date for the app has not yet been announced, though it should be sooner rather than later.
Brittany Wenger isn’t your average high-school senior: She taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia.
The 18-year-old student from Sarasota, Fla. built a custom, cloud-based “artificial neural network” to find patterns in genetic expression profiles to diagnose patients with an aggressive form of cancer called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL). Simply put, this means Wenger taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia by creating a diagnostic tool for doctors to use.
When self-driving cars reach the masses, thanks may be due to a 19-year-old high-school student from Romania who developed an artificial intelligence that slashes the cost of the technology. He took top prize — a $75,000 scholarship — Friday at an international science and engineering fair.
Self-driving cars are nothing new. Tech giant Google, for example, has been working on one since 2010. But Google’s uses technology that was developed without thinking about cost, prize winner Ionut Budisteanu explained.
“The most expensive thing from the Google self-driving car is the high resolution 3-D radar, so I was thinking how I could remove it,” he told NBC News.
Eesha Khare, 18, has created a new device that charges cell phone batteries and other batteries within 20-30 seconds
The small device can withstand up to 100,000 charges, which is 100 times what current chargers offer. Theoretically, it could also be used someday to charge car batteries.
Charlotte Decker, CTO, AAA Michigan
Michigan Council of Women in Technology, VP of Program Development and Scholarships
Sophie Li, Laptop Award
International Academy-East in Troy. Sophia won 1st Place in MCWT’s Web Design Contest for HS Girls this year. She is headed to prestigious Olin College of Engineering. She is fluent in multiple verbal languages as well as several programming languages. She is a singer, an artist, and a member of the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Weekly feature with Mike Brennan, editor and publisher of MiTechNews.com, highlighting technology headlines from Michigan and around the world that impact of our state’s growing high tech sector.
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“As many expected and hoped, Microsoft is going to make the coming Windows Blue update to Windows 8 free for existing Windows 8 and Windows RT users.
Microsoft’s Windows Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller, during an appearance at the May 14 JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, shared the pricing news.
Reller also acknowledged what those who’ve downloaded leaked builds of Blue have known for a while: Windows Blue is Windows 8.1.
Windows 8 is currently available via a handful of SKUs — Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Enterprise and Windows RT (not exactly Windows 8, but part of the family). She didn’t provide more information about plans for the coming Blue SKUs.”
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This past week digital behemoth Google held the public spotlight as they laid out their vision of the future.