Microsoft has officially released Visual Studio for Mac following an extended preview period for developers. The release corresponds with the kick off of Microsoft’s Build 2017 developer conference this week. Microsoft says developers can use Visual Studio for Mac to create “Android, macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, web, and cloud” apps. Microsoft released the initial preview version of Visual Studio for macOS last November. Microsoft also supports Visual Studio Code for Mac as well....

Windows 10 19H1 Preview Build 18298 File Explorer improvements include an updated icon and updated default download folder sorting. There are new start menu improvements that continue to improve upon those with build 18290. You can now utilize the “Quick unpin for groups and folders” which lets you quickly start fresh and reorganize you Start menu layout. Today’s build also includes improvements to the Touch Keyboard for faster response. Console updates which include a new Terminal tab in the Properties page....

Windows 10 Preview Build 20170 Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc writes: “We are excited to announce the rollout of Microsoft Launcher v6 (download here!) to the general public. This launcher is built on a new codebase allowing us to bring multiple new features to you – such as Personalized News, Landscape mode, Customizable App Icons, Bing-Supported Wallpaper, Dark Theme, and numerous performance improvements like speed to load, low memory utilization, battery optimization, and fluent animations....

Season 3 of Netflix’s thriller series Mindhunter is on hold due to director and actor issues. Based on the books by real-life FBI profiler John Douglas, Mindhunter debuted on Netflix in 2017 and immediately garnered acclaim for its meticulous storytelling and unsettling tone. Focused on the activities of fictionalized FBI agent Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and his team, season 1 presented unnervingly convincing portrayals of famous killers like Ed Kemper and Richard Speck, while teasing a future story about BTK Killer Dennis Rader....

When I reviewed the FŪZDock Apple Watch nightstand almost a year ago, I described it as ‘a neat, affordable solution which will work well with Nightstand mode.’ It’s done the job well enough that I hadn’t bothered looking for an alternative, but I’d describe the design as unobtrusive rather than positively attractive. So when a Danish company realized my weakness for wood, and sent me the Enveo Chestnut Dock, I switched out the FŪZDock to give it a try …...

The institution said the group of engineers have built the world’s longest flexible fiber battery, measuring 140 meters in length. The aim of the project is to show that the material can be made to any length desired and used in 3D-printing projects, for example, as a powered casing for electronic devices. SEE: Innovation is hard. Here are five ways to make it easier The group’s work focuses on “fibers as fundamental building blocks of fabrics and 3D-printed objects”, which could allow for the creation of “pervasive multidimensional power systems”....

After looking at how to quickly move timeline-based projects over to a Live Loops setup and some nice price drops previously, today we are talking about mapping Remix FX to Launchpad. Apple’s GarageBand multi-FX unit gone pro made its debut inside Logic Pro for the first time as part of the flagship app’s major overhaul last year. A particularly useful and creative tool, especially in concert with Live Loops, Remix FX houses a number of multi-touch ready FX units from filters and repeaters to down samplers and interesting tape stops to add some serious flavor to your compositions....

Steve Rogers’ best friend Bucky Barnes made his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: The First Avenger, and came back in full super soldier mode in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which established him as a dangerous threat but also a powerful potential ally. However, his following appearances in the MCU didn’t carry on with this, and Marvel seems to have forgotten that Bucky is capable of doing as much as his best friend....

You don’t have to look hard to find giant universe-spanning Marvel crossovers. The various Avengers titles alone bring together heroes from all over the galaxy on a regular basis. However, writer Kurt Busiek and artist Yildiray Cinar are collaborating on a new series that promises to go beyond what readers have seen before. The Marvels is a new series and a spiritual follow-up of sorts to Marvels (a limited series first published in 1994) and it’s spin-offs and sequels such as Marvels X and Marvels: Epilogue....

Matt Damon turned down Avatar – and it cost him millions. Throughout the star’s career, Damon has had numerous notable success stories - particularly his Oscar for Good Will Hunting’s screenplay, which he shared with Ben Affleck in 1997. From that point onward, it seemed that Damon’s name became synonymous with box office hits and critical acclaim. The mid to late 1990s were a particularly important time for the famed Boston native, whose turns in the aforementioned Good Will Hunting, as well as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rainmaker, Saving Private Ryan and The Talented Mr....

Matthew McConaughey has one of the more versatile careers of a Hollywood leading actor. Though he can sometimes get boxed into a certain genre or become typecast as a certain type of character, he has proven that he has a wide range. Looking at his filmography, there is a collection of films ranging from silly comedies to hard-hitting dramas. While some fans might prefer a certain type of McConaughey role, he has been excellent in both comedies and dramas....

Action movies are loved for their explosions, charismatic characters, endless action scenes, and so much more. Of course, they often have stupid dialogue, but that can be ignored if you are a fan of action movies. Likewise, one of the greatest things such movies bring is the abundance of great characters. From John Wick and Ethan Hunt to Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley, there is no shortage of action movie heroes....

For those who don’t know, the Myers-Briggs® Type Indicator categorizes people based on their personalities. While, of course, people are unique individuals who can’t be fit into perfect little boxes, we have found that these types can be pretty accurate; everyone should identify with one type over the others - and even characters from television shows like The Good Place can be categorized by this indicator! The Good Place is a comedy series with a unique plot, and it stars some big names as some truly memorable characters....

A game like MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is already setting its laser-sights on a specific target demographic: the intersection between consumers who love strategy titles and those who just love giant, destructive robots. The fact that it’s the first MechWarrior single-player game since 2002 should demonstrate just how niche that audience really is, as 2013’s MechWarrior Online sought to bring the series to a purely online setting in the larger BattleTech universe with the hopes of reaching more people who are interested in online shooters....

Windows 10 Build 17763.107 Today’s update – KB4464455 – is being released to Insiders in the Slow and Release Preview rings and addresses a couple more bugs. We fixed the issue where dragging (extracting) files from a .zip file in File Explorer to a write-protected location you don’t get a “Do you want to replace these files” prompt and the copy action fails silently.We fixed an issue causing roaming profiles to not work correctly....

It’s the new physical manifestation of the philosophical battle between Microsoft’s strategy of managing through necessity and Apple’s “whole widget’ M.O. Naturally it all represents part of the (expensive) marketing hype surrounding the release of Windows 7, itself preceded by the Apples camouflaged cat, Snow Leopard. This second opening has the significance that the new MSFT shop is in the same mall as Apple’s, though in an interesting manouver, Apple’s shop is currently “closed for renovation”....

Microsoft has today launched Send, an experimental iPhone app that offers a kind of cross between email and instant messaging. Microsoft says that it is designed for “brief, snappy communications” where you want an instant response but also want to retain a record of what was said within Outlook. The app was previously leaked as Flow by Outlook. Tellingly, Microsoft is launching first for iPhone – ahead of not just Android, but also its own Windows Phone platform … While tools like text messaging and IM are great for short messages, you often don’t have your co-worker’s cell phone number or an IM app on your work phone....

Today it puts its Windows Mobile line in question by acquiring Danger. Danger built the Sidekick device platform that is very popular with the consumer smartfphone public, but has faltered recently because of the superior Symbian and iPhone operating systems and the Sidekick’s tier 2 hardware made by Sharp and Motorola. The Sideckick OS has very little in the way of multimedia to offer consumers. One thing that sticks out like a really sore thumb is that the Sidekick platform has absolutley nothing to do with Windows Mobile....

Microsoft Teams is a collaborative project tool, where employees and project managers can work together to accomplish many tasks. In the new era of work from home, many companies have switched to Microsoft teams for doing collaborative works. But in some scenarios, projects managers or other ten members are now able to add guest users to the portal. The problem shows an error message, cannot add a guest account, and users do not know how to fix or address the issue....

But because sometime in a future existence we may be called up on to justify the things we did in this life, here are some of the facts that make possible the video you’re about to see. The snake is the creation of the Titanoba project, which is attempting to recreate the project’s namesake, a 50-foot, 1-ton beast that slithered on earth 60 million years ago. Then the world was 6 to 8 degrees warmer than today, and it was only in that sheltering climate that the cold-blooded beast could reach such a monstrous size....