Month: October 2024

Consumers won’t be offered all three years of extended Windows 10 security updates

Home users can opt in for a single year of updates at $30 per PC—not 3 years.

Most Windows 10 PCs will stop getting new security updates in October 2025, less than a year from today. For businesses and schools, the company is offering up to three years of extended security updates, with prices that increase steadily year by year to incentivize switching to Windows 11.

But Microsoft announced today that end users would only be able to buy a single year of extended security updates for their Windows 10 PCs at the price of $30 per PC. The company confirmed to us that the second and third years of security updates would be exclusive to businesses and schools.

Microsoft says consumers will be able to enroll in the Windows 10 Extended Security Update (ESU) program "closer to the end of support in 2025."

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Smartphone: Xiaomi-15-Serie mit Snapdragon 8 Elite vorgestellt

Wie auf dem Snapdragon Summit 2024 angekündigt, hat Xiaomi nun seine ersten Smartphones mit dem Snapdragon 8 Elite präsentiert. Wert wird wieder auf die Kameras gelegt. (Xiaomi, Smartphone)

Wie auf dem Snapdragon Summit 2024 angekündigt, hat Xiaomi nun seine ersten Smartphones mit dem Snapdragon 8 Elite präsentiert. Wert wird wieder auf die Kameras gelegt. (Xiaomi, Smartphone)

VAIO launches a pair of 2.2 pound Intel Meteor Lake laptops with 14 inch displays

Japanese PC maker VAIO is launching its first laptops with Intel Core Ultra processors. Unfortunately the new VAIO SX14-R laptop for consumers and VAIO Pro PK-R business laptops are featuring Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors based on last year&#821…

Japanese PC maker VAIO is launching its first laptops with Intel Core Ultra processors. Unfortunately the new VAIO SX14-R laptop for consumers and VAIO Pro PK-R business laptops are featuring Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors based on last year’s Intel Meteor Lake architecture rather than the new Series 2 “Lunar Lake” chips. Still, these […]

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Will the new Nintendo Music app lead to more DMCA takedowns from Nintendo?

Subscription music app gives Nintendo new reason to crack down on third-party music uploads.

Last night, Nintendo pulled off a surprise launch of a new Nintendo Music smartphone app, offering many of the company's staple soundtrack songs as a perk to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. But the new subscription freebie could give Nintendo additional motivation to once again crack down on Internet users who have been collecting and posting Nintendo music online for years now.

The Nintendo Music app includes hundreds of songs from titles to download or stream, ranging from 1985's Super Mario Bros. to last year's Pikmin 4. The current music selection is far from comprehensive, but it at least touches on many of Nintendo's most popular series, including Zelda, Pokemon, Kirby, Fire Emblem, Metroid, and Animal Crossing (plus some popular background music from various Wii Channels). Nintendo promises that more tracks will be "added over time," mirroring the process Nintendo has used to add to its Nintendo Switch Online classic game downloads.

A new trailer introduces some of the features of the Nintendo Music app.

Nintendo Music users can build their own playlists, of course, or choose from a number of pre-arranged playlists to suit different moods or character themes. The app also syncs with your Nintendo account to highlight music from games you play and offers options to avoid "spoilers" from certain game music or extend songs in lengthy loops.

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Generative AI is coming to Google Maps, Google Earth, Waze

Conversational search and hazard reporting and more detailed maps, all thanks to AI.

Google revealed today how it plans to use generative AI to enhance its mapping activities. It's the latest application of Gemini, the company's in-house rival to GPT-4, which the company wants to use to improve the experience when searching for something. Google Maps, Google Earth, and Waze will all get feature upgrades thanks to Gemini, although in some cases only with Google's "trusted testers" at first.

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More than 2 billion people use Google Maps every month, according to the company, and in fact, AI is nothing new to Google Maps. "A lot of those features that we've introduced over the years have been thanks to AI," said Chris Phillips,VP and general manager of Geo at Google. "Think of features like Lens and maps. When you're on a street corner, you can lift up your phone and look, and through your camera view, you can actually see we laid places on top of your view. So you can see a business. Is it open? What are the ratings for it? Is it busy? You can even see businesses that are out of your line of sight," he explained.

At some point this week, if you use the Android or iOS Google Maps app here in the US, you should start seeing more detailed and contextual search results. Maps will now respond to conversational requests—during a demo, Google asked it what to do on a night out with friends in Boston, with the app returning a set of results curated by Gemini. These included categories of places—speakeasies, for example—with review summaries and answers from users.

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