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• Microsoft has some 'surprises' in the works for Live Tiles

  26-03-2016 22:15
  
  Love them or hate them, Live Tiles are an integral part of Windows these days, and they aren’t going anywhere any time soon. In fact, it looks as though they’re about to get some welcome improvements in the not-too-distant future. 
  As spotted by MSPoweruser, Microsoft will hold a session at next week’s Build Developer Conference entitled “What’s New for Tiles and Toast Notifications” that, as its name suggests, will get into fixes and additions coming to
  
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• 10 big announcements from Google’s Cloud Conference

  26-03-2016 18:28
  
  In San Francisco this week at Pier 48, overlooking the Giants’ AT&T Ballpark, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) executives are holding a user conference to introduce products and services they hope will help make the case for choosing Google in the cloud.
  Sam Charrington, a cloud and big data analyst and advisor, summed up Google executives’ pitch best this week on Twitter: “GCP exec team’s operating thesis: ‘Cloud’s not done. The industry’s just beginnin
  
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• Google may quietly be working on rival to Amazon Echo

  26-03-2016 18:27
  
  Wanting to get in on the positive buzz surrounding the Amazon Echo, Google is reportedly building its own smart home device.
  Google is quietly working on a competitor to the Amazon Echo, a wireless speaker controlled by voice command, according to a report in The Information.
  Google has not replied to a request for comment.
  The Echo, which has proven to be a popular and well-reviewed product for Amazon, plays music and podcasts, sets alarms and to-do lists, and offers weather and traffic report
  
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• Microsoft received more than 500 requests to take down revenge porn

  26-03-2016 02:11
  
  Last year, Microsoft said that it would help combat so-called revenge porn by allowing people to request that it take down naked photos of them that were posted without their permission. On Friday, it released the first numbers showing how many requests it has received.During the last six months of 2015, Microsoft received 537 requests to take down content through a submission form dedicated to revenge porn. The company granted 63 percent of those requests, de-listing content from its Bing searc
  
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