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Medisafe, a popular medication management platform and iOS app, announced this week that it now supports Health Records on iPhone. This allows users to easily track their medication list without manual entry, all from the Medisafe application. Medisafe was announced as an early adopter of Apple’s new Health Records API back in June, and now the feature is rolling out to users publicly. Integration with Health Records means Medisafe can see a patient’s prescription and medicine history from participating hospitals and doctors, allowing it to track potentially deadly combinations of medications:...

Microsoft is making notable improvements to its storage offerings for its OneDrive cloud-based service. The company is announcing today that OneDrive storage at the free tier will be more than doubled, Office 365 storage will see a major increase, and that there will be storage price drops across the board. Here are the three main announcements in more detail: Currently, OneDrive’s free tier includes 7GB of storage. This storage is accessible via the OneDrive apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and on the web, and much like Dropbox and the upcoming iCloud Drive, it can store files of all kinds....

Microsoft is out with a nice update to its Office for iOS suite today, adding 3D Touch quick actions to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for iPhone 6s and 6s Plus users as well as promised Apple Pencil integration on the iPad Pro. The latest versions of the Office suite also changes how fonts are handled and improves document search on iOS. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel each now feature 3D Touch shortcuts from the app icon on the Home screen when deep pressing with the latest iPhones....

Microsoft has enabled Touch ID support to its email and calendar app Outlook today. This introduces a level of security not yet seen in any other major emailing application. Since its acquisition of Acompli a year back, Microsoft has slowly been revamping and adding new features to their purchase. Supporting multiple email account and cloud storage services, swipe options, Skype integration, and now Touch ID, Outlook is becoming quite a formidable email application....

“We’ve got to get people to download Edge,” says one large brain. “Nah, we’ve got to force them into it,” says another. “It’s the only way that works. It’s the traditional way.” And so Microsoft has tried so many stinky, annoying ways to get customers over (to) the Edge. Making it harder to use other browsers in Windows, for example. It’s clear this isn’t going to stop. I’m delighted, therefore, that the latest phase of Microsoft (no-)charm Edge offensive is so wonderfully, well, offensive....

Disney+ is bringing The Mighty Ducks back to life with a new 10-episode live-action series starring Lauren Graham. The new series will be based on the franchise created by Disney in the early 1990s. The Mighty Ducks spawned three theatrical movies, an animated series that aired on ABC, and even a real-life team that has been part of the NHL for nearly three decades. A live-action series has reportedly been in development since January 2018....

Netflix may give Martin Scorsese’s upcoming crime drama The Irishman a wide theatrical release later this year. The streaming giant is coming off a very successful awards season, as their expensive campaign for Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma netted 10 Oscar nominations at the 91st Academy Awards (tied for the most of any movie this year) and wins in Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film. The sheer number of accolades Roma picked up on the circuit indicated Netflix could be a serious player in the Oscar race moving forward....

Let’s face it - superhero costumes are cool, especially the highly realistic ones built from a Hollywood budget. The cosplays you see at Comic-con are a maybe and the cheap ones you see out during Halloween - not so much. But even cooler than the costumes are the powers, abilities, and enhancements that inspire the outfits, especially when the outfits themselves are inspired by some of the very creatures that walk our planet....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is inching closer and closer to its very own full-fledged version of the Fantastic Four. After the introduction of a parallel-earth version of Mister Fantastic in Multiverse of Madness played by John Krasinski, it won’t be long before the rest of the team shows up. Though the team is slated to receive its very own solo film in the MCU’s Phase 4, there are still several projects before its release wherein the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the Thing could make their first appearance....

Gamers are spoiled for choice in the modern age. Unfortunately for Microsoft, their Xbox One hasn’t quite managed to match up to the PlayStation 4 in either popularity or market share - not to mention PC gaming or what can be accomplished on a smart phone. Microsoft has needed to make a big move for a while now. One of the criticisms of the Xbox One is the lack of backward compatibility....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIEnN1KmxKk&feature=youtu.be Microsoft has just joined the ranks of companies looking to capitalize on the success of ephemeral messaging apps like Snapchat. Through its Skype division, the company has launched a new cross-platform app for iOS, Android, and (of course) Windows Phone called Skype Qik. The premise of the application, as can be seen in the video above and screenshots below, is simple: you can record a quick video, and then share it to either one person in your address book or multiple groups of people....

At Build 2020, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, the company announced a new service called Microsoft Lists. Today, the app has been made available to download from the App Store. Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app that allows users to track and organize information in smart lists. Designed with teams in mind, the service makes it easy to follow issues, assets, routines, contacts, inventory, and more while keeping everyone on the team synced....

I don’t have any inside information about what Microsoft plans to highlight at the April 5 event. But I have a few guesses. First, I would assume we could see a peek of some so-far-undisclosed features coming to the Windows 11 – both later this year and around October in the all-up Windows 11 22H2 feature update. Given Microsoft’s recent focus on tweaking search in Windows 11, perhaps we’ll see more on that front....

Fans now know a little more about who Disney is looking for to play Moon Knight in their upcoming Disney+ series, as it’s reported they’re looking for a Jewish-Israeli Zac Efron-type. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige announced Moon Knight last month at Disney’s D23 Expo. Before that, many thought the character might be introduced to the MCU on film rather than on TV. Some fans believed Keanu Reeves might be a good choice, with Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo saying it was “a good call....

Those of us who ditched landlines in favor of cellphones years ago might think it quaint that it’s taken this long, but we are now – for the first time – in the majority … A government survey of 20,000 U.S. households found that the percentage who had mobile only phone service reached 50.8%, up from 48.3% a year earlier. Fortune notes that the landmark was hit at the end of last year but only reported now....

Apple’s Magic Keyboard for iPad reviews are in after the company brought an official trackpad experience to the iPad Pro for the first time. Orders went live ahead of the expected May timeframe, and we got an early look thanks to some hands-on videos from a few people who got theirs early. We learned this morning that the combination of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard weighs more than a 13-inch MacBook Air – and we’re now seeing the first full reviews of the device …...

According to McAfee, threat actors are increasingly abusing push notifications to impersonate legitimate Windows alerts. Clicking on the alert redirects users to a fake Windows update website telling them their antivirus subscription has expired and that McAfee has detected various threats on their system. This message deceives the user into downloading the fake update, which can harvest system and user information. Fake Windows Defender update: Why it’s easy to fall for McAfee researchers stated that browser push notifications could closely resemble Windows system updates....

The Kingpin is losing his grip as warped-experiments from sadistic research, The Unwanted, have escaped confinement while dead faculty of the supervillain-rehab return from the grave in Ravencroft: Institute for the Criminally Insane. Facing investigations into staff-shakeups and blanket secrecy at the institute, Kingpin is confronted by Head of Security, John Jameson — aka the Man-Wolf, and former Ravencroft security chief —who threatens to go public on dubious consulting appointments at the infirmary....

The dismissal means the Office of Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) lawsuit against Facebook, now Meta, can finally be heard in court after being stuck in court purgatory for almost two years. The lawsuit had been held up as Meta attempted to have the case thrown out through submissions that it does not conduct business nor collect personal information in Australia, which are requirements for an entity to be sued under the country’s privacy laws....

Windows 10 21H1 Build 19043.1198 There are no new features to report but this build does include the following improvements to the OS: We fixed an issue that prevents users from tracking Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) activation failures.We fixed a threading issue that might cause the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service to stop working when it is under a high load.We fixed an issue that causes the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provider host process to stop working....