Bypassing the Firewall Microsoft has announced that a group going by the name of Platinum has made use of Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) to bypass Window’s firewall completely. The tool is available on machines running Intel’s vPro line of processors and chipsets. The group has its own file transfer tool which utilizes – for its communication services – Serial-over-LAN (SOL) channel from within the AMT. This channel has been designed to operate independently of the Operating System running on the machine and therefore, the tool is able to bypass Window’s firewall thus making it ” invisible to firewall and network monitoring applications running on the host device....

George Takei, Facebook’s resident sharer of stuff that makes us laugh, posted a video credited to the video feed Jukin Media in which an unnamed user is seen trying out an Oculus headset inside a Microsoft store. However, sometime later, while climbing up a virtual mountain, the man has an unexpected fall not only in-game but also in real life. The video has been viewed 8.5 million times. On checking the video, one can see that the man is playing a game in which he is climbing some virtual cliff or mountain....

Skeye has come up with a NANO drone of just the size which can easily fit into your pocket. With dimensions measuring less than 2-inches at 1.57″ x 1.57″ x 0.87″, the Skeye Nano Drone is the world’s smallest precision-controlled quadcopter which is perfect for airborne stunts like figure 8s, banking turns, flips, etc, both indoors and out. Skeye is listed on StackSocial and weighs just 11.9 grams and has responsive controls which give it good stability and maneuverability....

Sergey Brin, Page’s co-founder of Google, will become President of Alphabet and Eric Schmidt will be its Executive Chairman. Meanwhile, Sundar Pichai, Google’s former Senior Vice President of products will now become the CEO of Google under Alphabet. Even as it’s reorganized into Alphabet, Google will retain its core businesses like Search, Maps, Android, YouTube and Google’s cash cow, the ad business. Making way for the new corporation, Google will be reduced down slightly in areas mainly to do with new advancements that are recognizably different from the company’s internet-based offerings....

Szymon Waliczek is from the Ubuntu Touch Manager project, a graphical software that allowed users of Ubuntu Phone to take screenshots of the Ubuntu Touch’s Unity user interface, as well as send and receive files from their devices. The developer has posted a 20-second long video along with a few pictures of the comparison on his Google+ page to show the comparison between the Android and Ubuntu Touch-powered devices running the popular Fish Tank test in the default web browser software of each device....

According to the provisions of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, government authorities and law enforcement agencies like intelligence and security services, police and the armed forces would be free to hack into devices belonging to Britons and visitors to United Kingdom to obtain data, such as communications, when they have a warrant to do so. The draft bill has been pilloried by netizens on social network however, the government argues that the hacking provisions – part of the wider internet surveillance legislation – are needed so that law enforcement can intercept the communications of criminals even when they are encrypted....

For those unaware, the EdgeDeflector app parses the microsoft-edge:// links and redirects them to regular https:// links that it tells Windows to open in your default web browser. The user needs to simply to install the free EdgeDeflector app and choose it as the default for microsoft-edge:// links instead of Microsoft Edge. However, Microsoft has now made it difficult to hijack the protocol between Windows 11 Insider builds 22483 and 22494....

Recently, the software giant announced the release of Quantum Katas, an open source project on GitHub for those who wish to learn about quantum programming and how to program in the Q# language. Quantum Katas is a “series of self-paced tutorials aimed at teaching you elements of quantum computing and Q# programming at the same time.” It is a series of programming exercises that provide immediate feedback as you progress....

For those unaware, the messaging platform WhatsApp has updated its Privacy Policy wherein the service will now be sharing user data with other Facebook companies starting February 8th. WhatsApp has garnered sharp criticism over the change in its privacy policy, as the new policy is completely in contrast to what Facebook had initially promised at the time of acquisition in 2014. Back then, WhatsApp had assured that its goal is to know “as little as possible....

For those unaware, Project Natick is an initiative by Microsoft to test the feasibility of an energy-efficient, low-latency cloud computing facility on the ocean floor and to bring cloud computing infrastructure closer to big cities near large water bodies. Microsoft’s vision is to see self-contained data centers placed hundreds of feet below sea level removing the biggest cost of running these operations on land — Air Conditioning. In July 2014, Microsoft kicked off the first phase of Project Natick but it was formally unveiled to the public only in February 2016....

Unbeknownst to us there is lot of churning happening in the browser market. Yesteryear king, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the new baby, Edge are slowly and steadily losing ground in the desktop browser space. According to a new study for the month April, 2016 by web analytics company StatCounter, this is the first time Mozilla Firefox has more usage share than the two other browsers combined. The king, Google Chrome continues to reign supreme....

The Math Solver tool driven by the Bing search engine is a boon for students and professionals who are looking for quick solutions to solve complicated mathematical formulas on their browser in a matter of seconds. A new toggle called the “Show Math Solver button” was discovered by a Reddit user, Leopeva64-2 over at r/Edge, and can be found in the Settings > Appearance section for Edge Canary. When enabled, the browser will add a dedicated button on the toolbar....

Spotted first by Twitter user Rafael Rivera on Twitter, the website lists the advantages of developing apps with WinUI, including native performance and future-proofing apps. WinUI allows developers to access and use Fluent Design for Windows and native WinUI controls in Win32 apps. It can also be used in any Windows 10 UWP XAML app via NuGet packages, or in a Xamarin or Uno Platform. Recently, Microsoft had expanded the reach of WinUI by releasing WinUI 3....

It looks like with the July, 29 date for free Windows 10 update for Windows 7/8.1 users approaching fast and Microsoft is not finding any new takers for its latest OS iteration. Therefore the head honchos at Redmond have decided to launch one last aggressive push aimed at getting as many folks to update to Windows 10 as it possibly can, before the expiration of its free upgrade offer. The ‘force update’ news was first reported by Computerworld, which found out that Microsoft has switched the offered Windows 10 download to a “Recommended” upgrade that will automatically install itself unless the user intervenes....

Veteran Microsoft developer Craig Wittenberg, who had copied the code in 2007 from Windows NT 4, has been maintaining it privately under the MIT license before open sourcing it recently. The source code Microsoft has released can be compiled and even run on Windows 10. Here’s a portion of the project’s README.md file: “The Windows File Manager lives again and runs on all currently supported version of Windows, including Windows 10....

Also Read- 20 Best Windows 10 Themes/Skins To Improve Your Windows Look Best RainMeter Skins For Windows 10, 8, 7 Previously, if elements like the Taskbar, Start menu, Action Center, touch keyboard, etc., would be left out if one selected the Light theme. However, this changes with the new build. “Ever since we introduced the ability to choose between light and dark in Windows 10, we’ve heard feedback asking for a truer separation between the two options,” Microsoft said in a blog post....

While data science experts will find that SandDance is a powerful tool, its effortlessness of use can help people who aren’t experts in data science or programming the ability to examine information – and present it – in a way that is accessible to a wider audience. Steven Drucker, a researcher focused on information visualization stated: “We had this notion that a lot of visualization summarized data, and that summary is great, but sometimes you need the individual elements of your data set too....

“Microsoft is a developer-first company, and by joining forces with GitHub we strengthen our commitment to developer freedom, openness and innovation,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a blog post. “We recognize the community responsibility we take on with this agreement and will do our best work to empower every developer to build, innovate and solve the world’s most pressing challenges.” Nat Friedman, founder of Xamarin and current Corporate Vice President at Microsoft will lead as the CEO of GitHub, who takes over from GitHub’s current CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath....

However, the inventor of the cell phone believes that the future is not far till the point when our bodies are covered with different connected devices ranging from watches, glasses and clothing, even though you will still need to charge them. However, the best part is that you will not have to remove them to charge them as he again tells CNN the following: There are many companies that are attempting to do just that; keep your wireless gadgets charged all the time and every one of them has a different kind of solution....

Researchers said that bug repellents and lighting citronella candles may keep the mosquitoes at bay for a moment, but no solution is perfect because the pests have evolved to use a triple threat of visual, olfactory, and thermal cues to home in on their human targets. When an adult female mosquito needs a blood meal to feed her young, she searches for a host — often a human. Many insects, mosquitoes included, are attracted by the odour of the carbon dioxide (CO2) gas that humans and other animals naturally exhale....