Social media companies Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube have accelerated removals of online hate speech in the face of a potential European Union crackdown. The EU has gone as far as to threaten social media companies with new legislation unless they increase efforts to fight the proliferation of extremist content and hate speech on their…
Hidden deep within Building 88 on the Microsoft campus lies what’s officially certified to be the quietest room in the world. Really — the company recently won the Guinness World Record for it. While I was in town this week, I got to spend about five minutes in there with Gopal Gopal, principal engineer at…
Few Days ago, Microsoft began distributing 2016’s major Windows 10 upgrade to customers via the operating system’s update service. Labeled “Anniversary Update” in a nod to the July 29, 2015, release of the inaugural edition, it was officially tagged as version 1607 to denote year and month. Although the upgrade can be downloaded immediately by…
For a year after its launch, Microsoft allowed users of previous versions of its desktop OS to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. That offer ended last week on July 29. If you’ve missed the boat, you’ll be interested to learn that the company’s free upgrade offer is still available to those who use assistive…
