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With the next update to Windows 10 expected to roll out soon, it s time for a look at what s coming. Windows expert Preston Gralla breaks it down for you.Credit: Computerworld With Microsoft largely sticki hydrojug traveler ng to its twice-a-year Windows 10 update schedule new versio stanley de ns in the spring and fal , Windows 10 Spring Creators Update will be coming soon to a PC near you. Itrsqu hydrojug tumbler o expected to roll out in April. And while the updatedoes offer a few new features ndash; including some likely to be welcomed by enterprise users ndash; those changes users will see arenrsquo;t going to be dramatic.So says Computerworldlsquo Windows expert, Preston Gralla, whorsquo been testing out the upcoming version of Windows 10 and offered up his thoughts to Executive Editor Ken Mingis. Gralla hghlighted a trio of changes, including a new and highly useful Timeline feature, some tweaks to MIcrosoftrsquo Edge browser and a purported effort by Microsoft to allow users to see what telemetry it collects. That last one, Gralla said, is largely a bust.Although Microsoft made a big show of unveiling the Diagnostic Data Viewer in Windows 10, Gralla said it doesnrsquo;t offer granular control over what is shared with the developer ndash; and users will have a hard time deciphering what that data is anyway.The two also talked about Near Share, the new feature that allows users to share files between devices, and the future of Cortana, Microsoftr Leet IT: It s not just a job, it s a rollover accident
Check out these wild, futuristic robots at the Consumer Electronics Show No less a personage than billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has publicly stated in the January 2007 issue of Scientific American that robots are the next big thing, and that the current state of the robot industry resembles the PC industry 30 years ago. Judging from what can be seen at the Consumer Electronics Show CES currently under way in Las Vegas, he has a point about the 30-year parallel. As was the case with PCs in 1977, there are a handful of small vendors with real products mdash; enough for there to be a robotics pavilion mdash; plus unbounded plans, dreams and uncertainties.Of course polene espana , on hand was the most successful American robot maker, iRobot Corp., which had its own booth outside the robotics pavilion. It was showing its Roomba autonomous floor vacuum and Scooba autonomous floor scrubber. Both are thick disks twice the size of a dinner plate that navigate across a floor, cleaning as they go, until their batteries run low, and then they return to their charging station. The company claims sales of more stanley kubek than 2 million units. It also makes scout and bomb disposal robots for the military. At CES, iRobot announced iRobot Create, a version of the Roomba with added I/O ports and the v stanley polska acuum assembly removed, which a robot developer can use as a platform for a larger design. Pricing starts at $129.Senior researcher Bryan Adams was showing videos of Create robots that were assembled |
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