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• Microsoft releases its Windows 10 November 2021 update

  16-11-2021 22:48
  
  Microsoft today announced the general availability of Windows 10 November 2021, also known as version 21H2, which includes new security, management, and virtualization features.Microsoft reiterated that Windows 10 will continue to receive support until October 2025 and said the Windows 10 release cadence will join Windows 11 in returning to just one feature update a year from here on out.The company also posted an online comparison of the features between the latest version of Windows
  
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• With latest Safari preview release, Apple tweaks ProMotion scrolling issue

  16-11-2021 19:26
  
  Apple this week released a Safari Technology Preview update that among changes appears to address a problem that surfaced with its new MacBook Pro laptops and ProMotion adaptive refresh display software.The problem came to light when owners of the laptops — which were just unveiled last month — began using Firefox, Chrome, and even Apple’s own Safari browser on the MacBook Pro. They found scrolling was anything but smooth, despite the higher refresh rates offered by the new ha
  
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• With latest Safari preview release, Apple tweaks Pro Motion scrolling issue

  16-11-2021 19:26
  
  Apple this week released a Safari Technology Preview update that among changes appears to address a problem that surfaced with its new MacBook Pro laptops and ProMotion adaptive refresh display software.The problem came to light when owners of the laptops — which were just unveiled last month — began using Firefox, Chrome, and even Apple’s own Safari browser on the MacBook Pro. They found scrolling was anything but smooth, despite the higher refresh rates offered by the new ha
  
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• Slack moves to extend in-app workflow automation

  16-11-2021 18:12
  
  Slack may best be known simply as a tool for team messaging, but for many users the ability to connect apps and automate actions is central to its appeal.With that in mind, the company today announced a redesign of its workflow engine designed to make automations more accessible to a wider range of users. The changes were unveiled at Slack's Frontiers event.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• What next for HomeKit — into the office or factory floor?

  16-11-2021 16:55
  
  Apple is looking for a new leader for its HomeKit teams following the departure of current chief Sam Jadallah. What’s gone well in the last few years, and where should Apple be going now? I think there’s real opportunity in widening the remit of HomeKit to deliver more substantial benefits to product developers and home users, of course, but also to handle more sophisticated needs in offices, factories, transportation and elsewhere.To read this article in full, please clic
  
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• Stop looking over my shoulder!

  16-11-2021 13:00
  
  Prospect, a 150,000-member U.K. trade union for technology professionals, recently reported that nearly one in three U.K. workers is now being monitored by their employer both at the job site and in their own homes. This is not acceptable. And it never has been.As Prospect General Secretary Mike Clancy said, “We are used to the idea of employers checking up on workers, but when people are working in their own homes, this assumes a whole new dimension. New technology allows employers to ha
  
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• Recent Windows 11 Insider build looks to thwart Edge browser workarounds

  16-11-2021 12:00
  
  A recent Windows 11's Insider Preview build appears to foil workarounds that let users set rival browsers as defaults, forcing them to rely on Microsoft's Edge to handle web links.Typically, a system uses whatever browser is set as the default in order to bring up https:// links. The latest Windows 11 build (22494), however, appears to push a user to set Edge as their browser by bringing up links as microsoft-edge:https://.In other words, Microsoft updated the Windows 11 Preview to block any at
  
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• Latest Windows 11 build looks to force Edge use by thwarting browser workarounds

  16-11-2021 12:00
  
  Windows 11's most recent Insider Preview build appears to foil workarounds that let users set rival browsers as defaults, forcing them to rely on Microsoft's Edge to handle Web links.On Friday, Microsoft published a number of updates to the Insider, Beta and Release Preview Channels for Windows 11. In a company blog, Microsoft said: "We fixed an issue where OS functionality could be improperly redirected when microsoft-edge: links are invoked."In other words, Microsoft updated the Windows
  
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• Q&A: Phil Libin on the future of work — and why an office return is a bad idea

  16-11-2021 07:00
  
  Before the COVID-19 pandemic, only around 5% of US workers toiled away at home full time. By the spring of 2020, that figure had risen to about 60%.While some parts of the world have seen widespread vaccine rollouts allow for the reopening of offices, the majority of office-based workers aren’t planning on returning to their pre-pandemic working ways. In the UK, a survey carried out by YouGov on behalf of the BBC found that 79% of business leaders (and 70% of the general public) think it&
  
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