Microsoft pushes two hotfixes for Outlook, Hyper-V bugs in Windows 10 build 10049
Microsoft has rolled out a couple of hotfixes for the Windows 10 Technical Preview build 10049 tonight. Between the two, the hotfixes address an issue preventing users from enabling Hyper-V after installing build 10049, as well as an issue with Outlook preventing the client from indexing new emails.
Conker’s Big Reunion for Project Spark will cost $4.99 for Xbox One and Windows 8.1
Microsoft will charge $4.99 for the previously announced Conker’s Big Reunion DLC pack for Project Spark, the free-to-play game creation tool for the Xbox One and Windows 8.1. The pack, which will still be released on April 23, can also be purchased with 500 in-game tokens.
Dell announces its latest Android tablet, the 10.5-inch Venue 10 7000
Dell has announced its latest Android tablet today, the Venue 10 7000, a business-focused bigger sibling to the Venue 8 7000 series.
Apart from the cylindrical battery at the bottom of the device, the Venue 10 7000 is essentially a blown up version of its smaller Venue 8 7000 series sibling, featuring specs that are largely the same aside from the bump up to a 10.5-inch screen.
Police turn to pepper-spraying drones in congested Indian city
Drones are popping up everywhere. They’ve been largely unfamiliar in India, but that’s changing. The police department in Lucknow, a populous city in the country, is the first to purchase five weaponized drones that can spray pepper on a rioting mob. The concept of aerial robots isn’t entirely new to the city, as they’ve been used for surveillance and imagery during religious festivities in the past. But this new substance-carrying variety is a novelty. Each one costs about $9,600 and can carry a load of 4.4 pounds.
On one hand, pepper-spraying drones seem like a good investment for the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, a state that has a complex history of communal clashes. But, there are concerns that it could get incredibly complicated for drone operators to get a sense of the situation on the ground. While an officer on foot can easily discern miscreants from bystanders, drones could potentially target throngs of people with complete indifference to innocence. Despite potential drawbacks, they do give the police quick and easy access to situations that threaten public safety in a congested city like Lucknow, that is as popular for its kebabs as it’s dreaded for its traffic jams. Whether or not these drones prove to be appropriate for riot-like situations, their existence could scatter a crowd when necessary.
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Filed under: Portable Audio/Video, Robots
Source: Yahoo News
YouTube informs content creators of paid offering that will eliminate ads
The amount of money generated from advertisements is massive and keeps many companies and services afloat. However, consumers are not the biggest fans of ads and, in many cases, will gladly pay to not see them. YouTube has been cashing in on ads for years but will soon allow viewers to eliminate them.
A letter sent to YouTube content creators informs them that a paid offering is on the way. The paid offering will allow subscribers to not see a single ad while also saving videos for offline viewing. Pricing reportedly sits around $10 per month. There is even a possibility that the $10 price is lowered when a consumer chooses a category-specific subscription. It would make sense for parents taking advantage of YouTube Kids to opt for a subscription that focuses on children’s programming.
Content creators are being told that they can place videos behind a paywall. Even if a content creator does not want to be involved in the paid offering, they must accept the change in terms through the Creator Studio Dashboard. YouTube will switch any resisting channels to private.
YouTube collects around 45% of the advertising revenue generated by a channel while subscriptions will be pooled. Partners receive 55% of the total and individuals receive a different amount based on how much activity the channel sees.
Source: Bloomberg
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How to delete, recover, and eradicate pictures and videos in Photos for OS X
Photos for OS X lets you quickly and easily delete pictures and videos from both your Mac and the cloud.
Whether you’re trying to free up storage, battling duplicates, eliminating personal photos no one else ever needs to see, or just cutting out the bad shots, Photos for OS X makes it easy to delete single or multiple pictures or videos. If you’re using iCloud Photo Library, anything you delete on your Mac will also be deleted on all your other iCloud Photo Library-enabled devices, including your iPhone and/or iPad. Deleted pictures and videos can be recovered for up to 30 days, however, or can be deleted immediately and forever. Here’s how!
- How to delete pictures or videos in Photos for OS X
- How to delete an entire “moment” in Photos for OS X
- How to recover deleted pictures or videos in Photos for OS X
- How to permanently delete pictures or videos in Photos for OS X
How to delete pictures or videos in Photos for OS X
You can select one picture or video by clicking on it, a range of pictures or videos by clicking on the first when, then shift-clicking on the last one, or a number of arbitrary pictures or videos by command-clicking on each of them in turn.
- Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
- Select on the pictures or videos you want to delete
- Go to the Image > Delete Photo menu item. (You can also right-click, hit the delete key, or command + delete to skip the confirmation dialog.)
- Click Delete to confirm, if needed.
How to delete an entire “moment” in Photos for OS X
You can also delete some or all of the pictures or videos intelligently grouped by Photos into a “moment”.
- Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
- Click on the Photos tab in the top navigation.
- Go to the moment view and find the moment you want to delete.
- Click on the first photo in the moment view you’d like to delete to select it.
- Hold down the Shift key on your Mac’s keyboard and click on the last photo.
- Go to the Image > Delete Photo menu item. (You can also right-click, hit the delete key, or command + delete to skip the confirmation dialog.)
- Click Delete to confirm, if needed.
How to recover deleted pictures or videos in Photos for OS X
If you delete a picture or video by accident, or later regret it, you have 30 days to reverse it.
- Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
- Go to the File > Show recently deleted menu item.
- Click on the pictures or videos you want to recover.
- Click on the Recover button at the top right.
How to permanently delete pictures or videos in Photos for OS X
If you want to make sure a deleted picture or video is eradicated immediately and can’t be recovered, you can do that as well.
- Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
- Go to the File > Show recently deleted menu item.
- Click on the pictures or videos you want to permanently delete.
- Click on the Delete button at the top right.
Cricket Wireless offering new phone payment plans in wake of the Galaxy S6
Cricket Wireless announced earlier today that it launched new phone payment plans. The plans are “designed to help customers get the latest, premium devices.” Devices include the new Galaxy S6 and it’s designed to do so without breaking the bank. The prepaid carrier boasts that it’s the first to offer three credit financing options without an annual contract.
Qualified buyers can walk into any Cricket location and walk out with the phone of their dreams for as little as $20 down plus fees and taxes. Here are the plans:
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- Tier I: Finance your device for 24 months with no interest for a $19.99 down payment.
- Tier II: The second tier has the same downpayment of $19.99 but has six months deferred interest and 29.99 percent APR for the next 18 months after. If you pay it off in six months, you accrue no interest. If it’s not paid off, you are charged the 29.99 percent interest from the point of sale. So interest on the full amount is applied to your bill.
- Tier III: The “rent-to-own” option is basically a 90-days same as cash plan. You pay $49.99 upfront then pay the value of the phone over the course of 90 days without interest charges.
For tier I and II options, you’ll be subject to approval through a standard credit check with the added caveat of adding taxes and accessory charges into the loan. Tier III doesn’t require a credit check but a third party just might be used to verify financial information.
These plans apply to phones valued at $199.99 or more like the S6 and ZTE Grand X Max+ devices. Cricket will allow up to five devices to be financed per account. You can add accessories to your plan at any time after the purchase of a qualifying device.
But what, there’s more! Cricket is giving customers a chance to switch from T-Mobile, Metro-PCS, Sprint and Boost, among others and enticing them to do so with a month of service free. The only catch is you must complete two months of service to do so.
So if that seems like something that tickles your fancy, visit a Cricket store near you to snag the new S6 at a finance plan you can stomach.
source: Cricket
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Youtube preparing to launch a subscription option that removes ads
Youtube fans are certainly accustomed at this point to the 5-10 second ads that pop up for the majority of videos on the network. While some users are just fine with dealing with the ads in order to see the content behind them, others probably wish there was a way to remove the video ads for good. If you fall into that second group, you might be happy to learn that YouTube is in fact planning a new monthly ad-free subscription service.
In the past we’ve heard whispers on the web about how Youtube might be planning such a service, but this time the word comes from a more official source — Youtube itself. Active channel operators, including Android Authority, have received emails about how Google is planning a subscription-based option and that it intends to share a portion of the revenue from this service with content providers.
Your fans want choices. Not only do they want to watch what they want, whenever they want, anywhere, and on any device they choose, they want YouTube features built specifically with their needs in mind. Over the past several months, we’ve taken bold new steps to bring these experiences to life. Since inviting hundreds of thousands of fans into our YouTube Music Key Beta, we’ve seen tremendous engagement. And we’ve seen an equally enthusiastic response for our new YouTube Kids app, designed to give families a simpler and safer video-viewing experience— it’s already crossed 2 million installations in less than one month.
We’re excited to build on this momentum by taking another big step in favor of choice: offering fans an ads-free version of YouTube for a monthly fee. By creating a new paid offering, we’ll generate a new source of revenue that will supplement your fast growing advertising revenue.
Here’s the portion of the email that describes how subscription revenue will be divided exactly, for those interested:
Subscription Revenues. YouTube will pay you 55% of the total net revenues recognized by YouTube from subscription fees that are attributable to the monthly views or watchtime of your Content as a percentage of the monthly views or watchtime of all or a subset of participating content in the relevant subscription offering (as determined by YouTube). If your Content is included in and viewed by a user in multiple subscription offerings, YouTube will pay you based on the subscription offering with the highest amount of net revenues recognized by YouTube, as calculated by YouTube.
Bottom-line, the Youtube ad-free option wouldn’t get in the way of revenue generation for your favorite channels, so you could sign up to remove ads while still knowing that you are supporting content creators. Aside from the removal of ads, what else can we expect from this subscription option? It’s hard to say for sure. The wording of the email that Youtube sent suggests that this is a separate option from Music Key, but it’s possible this could still be bundled into that service.
The email makes it pretty clear this ad-free subscription option is rolling out sooner rather than later, so it shouldn’t be too long before more details hit. Would you be willing to pay a subscription fee to ditch the ads on Youtube? If so, how much would you pay?
Apple Acquired Keyboard Startup ‘Dryft’ in 2014
Over the last few weeks, several previously unknown Apple acquisitions have surfaced. In March, Bloomberg shared news of the company’s purchase of data analytics firm Acunu, and earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Apple had acquired search technology startup Ottocat in 2013.
TechCrunch has now shared news of another acquisition that happened in 2014 — the purchase of Dryft, a startup that specialized in creating keyboard apps. Dryft chief technology officer Randy Marsden, who also co-founded Swype, is listed as an “iOS Keyboard Manager” that joined Apple in September of 2014, suggesting the acquisition may have occurred around that date.
Dryft’s technology was a keyboard that appeared only on the screen when a user placed a finger on the display, and as described by TechCrunch, it’s “essentially a keyboard for tablets that tracks your fingers’ movements,” meaning it appears wherever your fingers are placed on the screen.
It is not clear if Apple plans to incorporate this specific technology into iOS or if it made the purchase of Dryft to acquire the company’s employees to work on other keyboard features. As of iOS 8, Apple’s operating system supports keyboards created by third-party developers, but the company has continued work on its own keyboard. iOS 8 brought keyboard improvements like QuickType, which offers word predictions to speed up typing.
Apple confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch with its standard purchase statement: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.”
iOS 8.3 Enables WiFi Calling for Sprint, EE Subscribers [iOS Blog]
Today’s iOS 8.3 update expands iOS 8’s WiFi calling feature to two new carriers: Sprint in the United States and EE in the United Kingdom.
WiFi calling is a feature that was first introduced in iOS 8, letting users make phone calls using WiFi instead of a cellular network when connected to a WiFi network. T-Mobile has thus far been one of the only carriers to support Wi-Fi calling in the United States, until today.
Following the iOS 8.3 update, Sprint users can toggle on Wi-Fi calling in the “Phone” section of the Settings app, which will let them make calls over Wi-Fi when a Wi-Fi network is available. Wi-Fi calling can be useful when cellular signal is low, and calls also have improved sound over Wi-Fi.
According to Sprint’s website, users will need to install the iOS 8.3 update and download Carrier Version 19.1. Sprint says the carrier update can be triggered by going to Settings –> General –> About after installing iOS 8.3, but the company’s announcement suggests it may take a few days to roll out to everyone.
Enabling Wi-Fi calling is a similar process for EE subscribers in the United Kingdom. According to Engadget, EE users will need to update to iOS 8.3 and then enable WiFi calling in the Settings app, after which the feature will be activated in a few hours. EE’s limiting the number of iPhones able to register for WiFi calling to 100,000 per day, so there may be a waiting period for some users.
WiFi calling is available for iPhone 5c, 5s, 6, and 6 Plus users with Sprint and EE service.
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