According to Google, user feedback shows people are annoyed by seeing unoriginal and promotional content, especially if the content is irrelevant to their searches. As well as adding filters to remove such content, Google Search will also provide improved product reviews. Google says the search engine will focus more on “content made by, and for, people.” “This ranking update will help make sure that unoriginal, low quality content doesn’t rank highly in Search, and our testing has found it will especially improve results related to online education, as well as arts and entertainment, shopping and tech-related content....

The feature was unveiled at an AI event in San Francisco, although Google says it is currently in prototype. While Google has not confirmed, it seems the tool only works with live audio on Google Translate. In other words, you won’t be able to transcribe recorded audio or video files. Still, Google points out users can simply play the recorded content through a smartphone mic to activate real-time transcription. Interestingly, the feature can monitor whole sentences and point out incorrect punctuation and even fix accents....

Specifically, Google Drive, Gmail, and Hangouts Chat will be unified in the app. Furthermore, Google Calendar will also be included, although the app will open separately. It seems the company is targeting this tool as a rival to the likes of Teams and Slack and will make the app available as part of G Suite. G Suite is Google’s Office competitor that bundles productivity applications into a single offering. Cloud unit CEO Thomas Kurian told a salesperson earlier this month that the new messaging app will come to organizations soon....

Designer Jonathan Da Costa has developers a new mixed reality concept for HoloLens. He says he created an “inspirational” in collaboration with Microsoft and Qwant. The latter partner provides a private search engine. In the concept video (below), you can see how a HoloLens user will be able to online shop while interacting with a magazine. For example, while browsing through a fashion magazine while using HoloLens, a user can open holographic cards that link to a website....

1 How to Check if Your PC has TPM with the TPM Management Tool2 How to Check if Your PC has TPM Chip with Device Manager3 How to Check if Your PC has TPM Using Command Prompt4 How to Tell If Your PC Has TPM in BIOS/UEFI What is TPM? TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module, which may not mean much to you alone. Essentially, TPM is a security module typically soldered onto the motherboard in the form of a chip....

1 How to Create a Full Windows 10 backup with the System Image Tool2 How to Perform a Windows 10 Restore from Your System Backup As a result, it’s a good idea to backup your computer on a regular basis, and the most fool-proof way is to manually create a disk image in Windows 10 and save it to an external hard drive. The requirements for a full Windows 10 backup depend on how many items you have on your PC in the first place....

1 How to Delete Windows.old and $Windows.~BT Folders in Disk Cleanup2 How to Remove Windows.old and $Windows.~BT Folders via Storage Settings3 Removing Old Windows Versions via Elevated Command Prompt4 How to Delete Windows.old Folder via a Command Prompt at Boot5 How to Cleanup the WinSxS Folder and Enable CompactOS Can I delete Windows.old? Short answer, yes. But you may have gathered that by the fact that this tutorial exists. Removing the Windows....

This is a problem for a number of reasons. For starters, it requires more free hard drive space. However, it also adds in an unnecessary installer that slows down the process. Thankfully, it’s entirely possible to download a Windows 10 ISO without the Media Creation Tool. On non-Windows OSes, Microsoft will only offer a direct Windows 10 Pro or Home ISO file download. By tricking the webpage into thinking you’re on a different OS, you can grab the latest ISO from Microsoft on any operating system....

As well as testing, mic playback can be used to listen to a music player or other device connected to the microphone jack through your headphones or PC speakers. This can be useful if you have a device with poor speakers but an extensive music collection. Or you want to use your Windows notebook or tablet with connected speakers for karaoke or like a megaphone. This tutorial will know you how to hear yourself on mic and also how to get playback from a mic so that you can do either at your leisure....

1 How to Pause Windows Updates via Settings2 How to Defer or Delay Feature Updates for Semi-Annual Channel via Group Policy Editor3 How to Defer or Delay Windows 10 Quality Updates for the Semi-Annual Channel with Group Policy Editor4 How to Defer or Delay Updates in Windows 10 via the Registry Editor The difference between pausing and deferring Windows 10 updates Today we’re going to show you how to do that, but first, we should make the difference between the pause of a Windows update and a delay/defer clear....

What is hiberfil.sys? Unsurprisingly, the hiberfil.sys file is linked to the Windows 10 hibernation feature. The OS saves your system state when you turn off your PC using hibernate, storing your open apps and program states onto your hard disk. In this way, it differs from the classic ‘sleep mode’. By saving your open apps and documents to the system drive, it’s able to shut down entirely. This means that unlike sleep mode, it shuts off entirely, which means a slightly slower startup....

1 Permanently remove ads from the Start Menu2 Remove ads from the Cortana search box3 Remove ads from the Lock Screen4 Remove Windows 10 apps ads5 Remove ads from app Live Tiles6 Remove ads from the Windows Ink experience7 Remove ads from Action Center & Notifications8 How to disable the Windows 10 targeted ads9 Windows 10 ads: A nagging but safe way to advertise However, some of these ads may affect the user experience of those that work with Windows 10 on a daily basis....

Impressively, the 3.6Gbps was recorded on Sunrise’s live commercial network, which means it was achieved in the wild. Also impressive is the fact Huawei got this performance without leveraging millimeter wave technology. European and Asian companies have largely avoided short distance millimeter wave technology, which is more prominent in the United States. Instead, companies like Huawei have been developing 5G on “sub 6GHz” frequencies that may lower performance speeds. Judging the company’s latest milestone, those limitations are clearly not a problem....

The company has expanded its cloud service available to 18 new regions. New zones have been added in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. IBM Cloud are in Dallas and Washington DC, Tokyo, Sydney, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It is clear the company is expanding its footprint to reach more customers. However, IBM is also aiming to increase capacity and help to eliminate problems with service. The new availability zones are added to the 60 regions IBM Cloud already supported....

Let’s start with Visual Studio Online, which is a blend of Visual Studio, a web-based editor, and cloud-hosted developer tools. You may remember Microsoft first introduced VS Online back at Build 2019. It is a web-based editor based on Visual Studio Code that has been in private preview in recent months. VS Online is now moving into public preview. Developers can leverage the service to edit and manage code through a web browser....

However, that doesn’t appear to be the case for Windows. News about Microsoft’s platform was notably absent from Apple’s keynote, but the iPhone maker confirmed to press later that it will remain functional. According to ArsTechnica, iTunes won’t be broken up and will instead work just as it does today. However, while Apple is promising the same experience, there’s no word on continued support. It’s not clear if we can expect new features for iTunes on Windows, or if it will stagnate....

Specifically, Microsoft said it would entirely replace Kaizala with Microsoft Teams by the end of 2020. “Based on this vision, and on feedback from customers, we will be bringing Kaizala capabilities into Microsoft Teams as an integrated offering. We expect the integration to happen in phases over the next 12-18 months. We will provide more details about the Kaizala and Teams integration roadmap later this quarter.” However, the company says the transition is now on hold because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic....

While MondoXboX is a trustworthy site, it’s far from an official source, and there was no way to confirm the photo’s authenticity. Nobody else managed to take a picture, and it would be relatively easy to photoshop. Now, another user has come forward on Reddit, making it seem much more likely that the rumors are true. Posting on the Xbox One subreddit, user GhostlyCrowd revealed an official screenshot from the Microsoft ExpertZone Portal....

While the company is the go to place to find a job or network with business, it is not a place where you would drop a status update or an image about your latest meal. People head to services like Facebook and Twitter to meet those needs. LinkedIn thinks it can compete with more established social networks. The company has been adding new features to come closer to social aspects....

LinkedIn says it wants to create a more “intelligent hiring experience”: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It’s an ancient idea that we’re putting to use with our products: we’re moving LinkedIn’s three core talent tools — Jobs, Recruiter, and Pipeline Builder — onto a single platform, the new intelligent hiring experience, which will make life for recruiters easier, more efficient, and even more aligned with how you want to get things done....