This week the company announced that it is rolling out enhancements to its Bing Smart Search. This is what you use in Windows 8.1 to find files and locations on your computer, as well as search the web. The biggest improvement to Smart Search is you can use more more of a natural and get results faster. Microsoft gave the following as a scenario on its Search Blog: Microsoft has also improved Bing to better handle common spelling mistakes, and showcase more apps that might be relevant for your search query....

This is a more strategic move on Microsoft’s part than some may realize. Microsoft continues to expand its offerings under the software firm’s Office 365 platform. So far, Microsoft has introduced an array of web services and apps such as Power BI, Planner, Outlook Desktop Groups and Delve to help usher in a new generation of knowledge worker experiences. Many of these apps and services are not targeting just the traditional enterprise and SMB user, but start-ups who want to work just as efficiently....

For 11 seasons of Modern Family, we’ve seen the ins and outs of the Dunphy household. From family dinners at the dining room table to quick breakfasts at the kitchen island to going up and down those steps multiple times a day. The Dunphy residence is worn and weathered. Those walls have seen Haley, Alex, and Luke grow up. Those gutters have seen Phil’s “git r done!” destroy those leaves (and bird eggs)....

With Monster Hunter World’s latest expansion on the horizon and ready to be delivered to consoles everywhere on 6 September, it’s about time fans of the series got their hands on more footage. This year’s Gamescom 2019 Opening Night show gave us a Monster Hunter World Iceborne trailer packed with the latest Elder Dragon to make it into the game: Velkhana. Velkhana is the frosty foe that Iceborne is going to focus on, alongside its assortment of other fearsome enemies....

The Wall Street Journal has revealed key details of the failed deal between Apple and sapphire supplier GT Advanced Technologies that show why the agreement collapsed and how GT managed to run itself into bankruptcy while trying to meet Apple’s standards. A previous report from the Journal revealed that GTAT had been unable to provide the iPhone 6 displays it had promised Apple, but now we have even more information on why that demand was so hard to meet....

Perhaps not the first of its kind, but certainly the experience that fueled a trend and introduced the public to the concept of ‘made-for-instagram.’ Opened in New York in 2016, it was an instant hit. (Insta-hit?…. I’m so sorry.) It took no time at all for perfectly curated photos and videos to inundate our social feeds—pepto-bismol pink rooms, ice cream cones hanging like pendant lights and videos of people swimming through pools of rainbow sprinkles captivated us....

Here, ptr is a pointer of cast_type. The malloc function returns a pointer to the allocated memory of byte_size. When this statement is successfully executed, a memory space of 50 bytes is reserved. The address of the first byte of reserved space is assigned to the pointer ptr of type int. Consider another example of malloc implementation: Output: Notice that sizeof(*ptr) was used instead of sizeof(int) in order to make the code more robust when *ptr declaration is typecasted to a different data type later....

It looks as though Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is pivoting away from the horror genre - and that’s a bad mistake on Marvel’s part. Director Scott Derrickson is stepping down from Doctor Strange 2. Derrickson is remaining as an executive producer on the film, and he and Marvel seem to be on amicable terms; the only explanation they’re giving is that this was due to “creative differences.”...

The Matrix concept artists Geofrey Darrow and Steve Skroce are returning for Matrix 4, with John Toll serving as cinematographer. For the past two years, there’ve been rumors about Warner Bros. continuing The Matrix franchise in some fashion, whether it be with an “expansion” written by Zak Penn (Ready Player One) or a reboot starring Michael B. Jordan. More recently, John Wick trilogy director (and Matrix trilogy stunt coordinator) Chad Stahelski revealed The Matrix creators Lana and Lilly Wachowski were working on a new movie, before walking back his claim....

Before Infosec IQ, MSD Wayne experienced an onslaught of four ransomware attacks, one of them crippling an applications database. For Pete Just, MSD Wayne’s CTO, this was the warning and opportunity to strengthen his district’s security strategy. He enrolled all faculty and staff in Infosec IQ awareness training to strengthen their social engineering defenses. Since then, the district has been ransom-free for 18 months. The success of MSD Wayne’s program draws on Just’s former years as an instructor....

In the Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released on the second Tuesday of each month in what is known as Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed problems in software including Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, privilege escalation security flaws, spoofing bugs, and denial-of-service issues. Products impacted by Microsoft’s December security update include Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerShell, the Chromium-based Edge browser, the Windows Kernel, Print Spooler, and Remote Desktop Client....

Windows 10 20H1 Build 18963 Users have been asking for it and finally, Microsoft is delivering a GPU temperature section to Task Manager. This allows you to keep tabs on the temp of your dedicated GPU card under the Performance tab. Note that this is only available if you have a dedicated GPU installed and not integrated graphics. If you use the Virtual Desktops feature in Windows 10, you can now rename your sessions versus seeing just “Desktop 1, Desktop 2, etc....

Previously we have seen that Microsoft made many of its popular projects open source including Microsoft web browser Edge, Calculator, vscode, terminal and many more. For the complete list, you can visit opensource.microsoft.com. Now the company that powers most of the Desktop computers has released the public preview of its Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Thread Protection) for multiple Linux distributions. What is Windows Defender ATP? Windows Defender ATP is unified endpoint protection for scanning the server for any post-breach, run automated investigations on system issues and respond to it automatically....

A new report states that Microsoft may be preparing to bundle Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass into a single subscription service. Microsoft has been taking some major moves with its gaming side in recent months, with helping bring games like Cuphead to Nintendo Switch being the latest example of this. As Microsoft prepares to spread the Xbox brand across to multiple pieces of hardware through its xCloud service, there have been plenty of rumors that flesh out some grandiose plans for the company....

Microsoft and Dropbox announced a new partnership between the two companies today and a commitment to bring integration between Dropbox and Office apps on iOS and Android. Currently Office users rely on local storage for saving files or Microsoft’s own OneDrive service for saving and syncing files, but the newly announced partnership will allow Office users to use the popular Dropbox service as an additional storage and syncing option and introduce new features between the productivity apps and syncing service....

The Microsoft Surface Duo is due to hit store shelves later in the year and it is already shaping up to be an interesting device. Here’s what you need to know about the Microsoft phone that could genuinely be a real game-changer. Microsoft’s phone ambitions have not really panned out over the last few years and even the Nokia name was unable to help Windows Phone combat the rise of Android and iPhone....

Microsoft Lumia 640 and 640 XL First, the Lumia 640 is an nice upgrade from the 635. It includes a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon process and 1 GB of RAM — the 635 only includes 512 MB. It’s got 8GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB with a micro-SD card. The screen is a 5-inch HD with 1280×720, 16:9 IPS 294 PPI display. The rear camera is 8-megapixel, and the front facing one is just 1-megapixel....

The Mission: Impossible franchise just keeps rolling and rolling. It all began in 1996 with the legendary Brian De Palma in the director’s chair, and over the years the series has continued making money while going through multiple writers, directors and cast members. The one constant has been Tom Cruise who, after briefly seemingly ready to leave the franchise, is now committed to delivering a sixth Mission: Impossible. Besides boosting Cruise’s career as an action star, the Mission: Impossible series has always been a great boon to the lead actresses chosen to star with him....

The Monkees member Peter Tork has passed away at the age of 77. The multi-instrumentalist played both bass and keyboards in the band, as well as providing vocals. Although the fictional group was created for TV, they had a string of very real hits throughout the late ‘60s, including “I’m a Believer," “Last Train to Clarksville,” and “Daydream Believer”. Peter Halsten Thorkelson was born in Washington D.C. in 1942. He began playing music at a very young age, but it was a strange twist of fate that landed him a role in The Monkees....

A few days back, it was the hottest conversation on the possibilities of the Moto G7 Play priced at €149 ($169) and €209 ($238) for the Moto G7 Power. And, these figures definitely point towards money counts. Even though Moto G7 and Moto G7 Plus price was not declared, nevertheless, expectations were they would be the same as their predecessors Moto G6 at €249 ($283) and Moto G6 Plus at €299 ($340), but this time around things look different....