At its I/O developer conference earlier this year, Google showcased a Google Assistant feature called Pretty Please. This week, the company has launched the ability ahead of the Holiday Season. Pretty Please is designed to promote polite speech and can be used as a tool for children. When a child (or indeed anyone) interacts with Google Assistant using polit phrases such as “please” and “thank you”, the virtual assistant now offers rewards....

However, when running an extension from the Chrome Web Store on Edge, Google would warn users. The company placed a warning says, “Google recommends switching to Chrome to use extensions securely”. It was a crafty move on Google’s part that suggested there were inherent risks involved when running an extension on Edge. That was not the case according to most security researchers. Google has now responded and has changed its tactic....

However, though popular, the app doesn’t reach all of Android’s users. According to Android 9-to-5 Google, the company is testing the functionality for a wider audience in the Play Store. The Play Store already launches an uninstaller when a user doesn’t have enough storage for an app, but this approach is much more proactive. Under the ‘My apps & games’ tab, a card says ‘You’re running low on Storage’, and gives users a circular indicator....

Regardless of which industry your business belongs to, your company must have an HR sector. Whether you run a small family business or a large international enterprise, you must understand the importance of a good HR sector. Although the primary responsibility of HR experts is to onboard new hires, professionals in this field have numerous other duties as well. For instance, companies using HR analytics can streamline all processes and tasks related to the HR field....

1 How to Format a Range of Cells As a Table2 How to Edit Your Zebra Stripes’ Excel Style3 How to Convert a Table Back into a Range Even better, it’s quick and simple to achieve this effect. Once you have a table format, you can get Excel to auto color cells with handy table color schemes. The difficulty, then comes in knowing where to look and how to format cells as a table in the first place....

In the era of social media, countless applications allow users to share multimedia content with others. In recent years, TikTok has become one of the most popular applications. It allows users to create and share short videos with others creatively and engagingly. However, there is one downside to using TikTok: the watermark. While it doesn’t take away from the overall quality of the video, it can be annoying for some users....

1 How to Remove Widgets Button on Taskbar from the Windows 11 Taskbar2 How to Add or Remove the Widgets Button on the Taskbar via Settings3 How to Enable or Remove Widgets in Windows 11 via the Local Group Policy Editor4 How to Turn On or Turn Off Widgets via Registry Editor or Registry File5 Extra: How to Restore the Old Windows 10 Volume Mixer in Windows 106 Extra: How to Restore the Old File Explorer...

1 How to Factory Reset Windows 11 from Boot2 How to Reset a Windows 11 Computer or Laptop via Settings3 How to Factory Reset Windows 10 from Boot4 How to Reset a Windows 10 Computer or Laptop via Settings5 How to Reset and Repair Windows Apps 6 How to Clear and Reset the Microsoft Store Cache 7 How to Use DISM and SFC Scannow to Repair Windows 11 and Windows 10 8 How to Clean the WinSxS Folder in Windows 11 and Windows 109 How to Create a Custom, Updated Windows 10 / Windows 11 Recovery Partition...

Despite this, it’s always had one niche nailed down. Though Chromebooks act as a good alternative to affordable Windows laptops, they’ve been lacking in the 2-in-1 department. There have been affordable, but no convenient, fully-detachable experience. That’s set to change very soon. HP’s Chromebook x2 will be the first detachable device on Chrome OS, and it’s looking quite tempting. The x2 features a Quad HD 12.3″ tablet with a detachable keyboard, and weighs just 1....

Currently, Microsoft only sells silver versions of the Surface Book, and the promo device looks identical. It features the unique fulcrum hinge, keyboard eject button, and more. The natural assumption is that the device will get an 8th-gen upgrade, but it also raises some questions. 4K Display The Intel video promotes ‘Amazing 4K’, a feature notably absent in the Surface Book’s 13.5″ 3000×2000 display. Black would also be a very strange choice for Microsoft, given that the coloring hasn’t been used since the Surface Pro 2....

Leading the pack is the Xeon 8180M, which sports 28 cores and 56 threads. It also gets a turbo clock capable of running at 3.8GHz and a power draw of 250W. For this high-spec’d performance, customers will need to spend $13,000. Once you’ve stopped wincing, it is worth noting that the Xeon line has always been expensive and does represent the very top of the market. Of course, that’s because they are made for enterprise use and not for normal consumers, even those who chase the most beastly hardware....

However, the social network hasn’t faced significant consequences, a fact highlighted by an April advert. In it, Facebook acknowledges its history of spam, fake news, and data misuse, but promises change while highlighting its glory days. It may be too little, too late, but Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver has released a scathing parody of the network’s marketing, its morals, and its lack of major changes. He calls out historic examples of the firm’s exploitation, such as its use of the disaster in Puerto Rico to promote its VR....

This was a Surface-specific AMD chipset with a 15W TDP and 11 Vega graphics units. At the time, AMD promised the first “Surface Edition” APU “Extreme Edition” (Accelerated Processing Unit) signaled the start of a long collaboration between it and Microsoft. According to Windows Latest, the two companies could already be working on the next generation of APU process. Of course, that would make sense as chipmakers usually update their CPUs on a yearly basis....

However, new reports suggest that the company has another device up its sleeve: the Miix 320. The device will act as the next iteration of the Miix 310 that Lenovo launched a year ago. German publication WinFuture noticed a temporary product page on the company’s website, accessible here. Lenovo Miix 320 Specs The Mix 320 will allegedly start at $229 for the low spec model, rising considerably as hardware power increases....

However, LinkedIn believes Flashback improves on some of the limitations of Betamax. The company says it allows for more seamless testing and adds more capabilities. It’s probably safe to say that some may not even know what internet mocking is. Web app developers typically need to test their creations on active third-party websites LinkedIn says it needs to do this for its apps, and some of the frustrations led to the creation of Flashback....

HiQ Labs is a startup company that scrapes LinkedIn data to use for its own software. With the data, the company can predict whether an employee is likely to quit. HiQ scrapes its data from the limited amount of profiles that are publicly viewable. With an algorithm built from the data, the startup sells its software to companies to allow them to predict if employees will leave. LinkedIn believes companies like hiQ should not be able to use its data for free....

If you are unfamiliar with LiquidSky, it is a cloud-based platform that is described as first of its kind. It provides a platform for gamers to connect with their games in the cloud. It boasts titles from leading developers and platforms, such as Steam, Blizzard, and Origin. Windows 10 PC users may already know the game considering it has been available in beta on the platform. “LiquidSky is a first of its kind Gaming-as-a-Service (GaaS) platform that uniquely solves the biggest hurdles previous cloud-gaming platforms faced: high latency, high cost, limited scalability and a finite catalog of supported games....

1 Moving Away from Passwords2 Password Breach Methods This is not just Microsoft talking up its own account protection. In fact, the company says the 99.9% blocking ability will work on any website or service where multi-factor authentication is supported. So, the message from Microsoft is clear: If MFA is available, use it. This could be advanced biometrics like eye or fingerprint sensors, added security questions, SMS-based one-time code passwords, and more....

When installing and running the KB5018410 update, users might see OneDrive randomly close for no reason. If this happens, the file-sharing/cloud storage app will surface an error if the user attempts one of the following: Sign out or unlink your account in the Microsoft OneDrive sync app. Unlink sites or folders from syncing to your device from Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Teams sites. Uninstalling the OneDrive sync app might fail....

With this change, user-level information stored on the following APIs will become pseudonyms: Microsoft 365 Reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center Microsoft 365 usage reports in Microsoft Graph Microsoft Teams analytics and reporting in the Microsoft Teams admin center The reportRoot: getSharePointSiteUsageDetail API (1.0 and beta) for SharePoint site detail However, Microsoft says despite this becoming the default, global admins can still choose to see data in personally identifiable information (PII) on Microsoft 365....