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Many netbooks and low-profile laptops are ditching the optical drive in favor of portability, which means that installing Windows 8 via a burned DVD is inconvenient at best. Luckily you can easily do it with an 8GB or larger USB stick. More »
Twitter has begun delivering advertising “tweets” to some users even if they don’t follow the company that bought the ad.
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You’ve already seen our in-depth hands-on with Samsung’s Series 7 Slate, boasting an Intel processor and running Windows 8, and now it’s time to give the other guys a little love. We got a chance to sit down with the folks at AMD, masters of the Fusion APU, before the Expo doors opened here at Build, and it would be an understatement to say that they’re excited about getting their x86 chipsets running on Windows 8 machines. As with Samsung’s Slate, AMD was showing off a pair of slates we’ve seen before, specifically the Acer Iconia Tab W500, running on the company’s C-50 APU, and MSI’s WinPad 110W, sporting the Z-01 APU. This is the first the company’s seen of the Metro UI running on its chipsets, and like them, we’re impressed with its performance. You’ll get the same speedy boot-up here, as well as fast and fluid touch navigation. Unfortunately, they aren’t giving up details on future devices, but we should see Brazos powering Windows 8 tablets, desktops , and notebooks in due time. For a look at AMD powering Windows 8, check out our video after break.
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As with any version of Windows, the Metro-slathered Win 8 has one of those oh so familiar Blue Screen of Death thingies. But, this time around, there’s a change. Gone are the confusing and uninformative error codes, and in its place you get an equally uninformative sad emoticon. OK, there’s also some text informing you that your PC is about to reboot, but it still doesn’t get you any closer to tracking down the root of the problem. Well, at least it’s little less cutesy than the Sad Mac (though, no less infuriating).
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Thankfully RBC, one of Canada’s major banks, recognizes the growth in Android and have announced they will release their free mobile banking app sometime this Fall. The features are the same as what iPhone and BlackBerry users have, basically giving them the ability to pay bills, transfer funds, check you account balance and locate the nearest branch and ATMs.
You can sign up for updates on when this will be available here.
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One of the politicians instrumental in creating the TSA, Rep. John Mica, who wrote the legislation that established the TSA, has apparently decided that the whole thing has been a failure and should be dismantled. He notes that “the whole program has been hijacked by bureaucrats.”
“It mushroomed into an army,” Mica said. “It’s gone from a couple-billion-dollar enterprise to close to $9 billion.”As for keeping the American public safe, Mica says, “They’ve failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years.”
“Everything they have done has been reactive. They take shoes off because of [shoe-bomber] Richard Reid, passengers are patted down because of the diaper bomber, and you can’t pack liquids because the British uncovered a plot using liquids,” Mica said.
“It’s an agency that is always one step out of step,” Mica said.
It cost $1 billion just to train workers, which now number more than 62,000, and “they actually trained more workers than they have on the job,” Mica said.
“The whole thing is a complete fiasco,” Mica said.
There’s a lot more at that link. Now, one could (and perhaps should) note that when Mica wrote the legislation, his particular political party was in power, and now it’s not. So the cynical voice might say that his words are somewhat politically motivated. And one can (and probably should) ask how it was that Mica didn’t expect this kind of result. This is what the government does. It creates agencies that are then “hijacked by bureaucrats.” While it’s nice to see him realizing this now, it’s too bad he didn’t see it back then.
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Attention celebrities, I have some shocking news: People really want to see you naked. So if you take a photograph of yourself in the buff, someone’s gonna find it. So put down that cameraphone. Or don’t! More »
NASA got a new deep space exploration system, the Space Launch System. A new heavy rocket designed to take astronauts well beyond planet Earth’s orbit. It’s beautiful. It’s like the Saturn all over again, but better. More »
Get ready for a sequel full of lens flares! J.J. Abrams, who directed 2009’s Star Trek relaunch, will be returning to direct the second film. More »
Air Canada flight attendants voted Tuesday in favour of going on strike as early as Sept. 21.
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Windows Server 8 is available for MSDN subscribers right now. Read on for screenshots and what we’ve found in Windows Server 8, the server version of Windows 8. Read more…
– Whether a man winds up with a nest egg, or a goose egg, depends a lot on the kind of chick he marries.
– Trouble in marriage often starts when a man gets so busy earnin’ his salt, that he forgets his sugar.
– Too many couples marry for better, or for worse, but not for good.
– When a man marries a woman, they become one; but the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
– If a man has enough horse sense to treat his wife like a thoroughbred, she will never turn into an old nag.
– On anniversaries, the wise husband always forgets the past – but never the present.
– A foolish husband says to his wife, “Honey, you stick to the washin’, ironin’, cookin’, and scrubbin’. No wife of mine is gonna work.”
– The bonds of matrimony are a good investment, only when the interest is kept up.
– Many girls like to marry a military man – he can cook, sew, and make beds, and is in good health, and he’s already used to taking orders.
– Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age, and start bragging about it.
– The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
– Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
– How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
– When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, remember about Algebra.
– I don’t know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
– One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.
– Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
– Old age is when former classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald, they don’t recognize you.
– If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you are old.
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We are confirming that we will be bringing Xbox LIVE to the PC with Xbox LIVE on Windows. We are very excited about Xbox LIVE coming to Windows 8. Xbox LIVE brings your games, music, movies, and TV shows to your favorite Microsoft and Windows devices. Bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows 8 is part of our vision to bring you all the entertainment you want, shared with the people you care about, made easy. At BUILD we are showing that it is easy for developers to create games for Windows 8 that take advantage of the power of Xbox LIVE. We have much more detail to share about the capabilities of Xbox LIVE on Windows and look forward to the opportunity to do so in the near future.
If you want to learn more about Windows 8, you can watch the Keynote from earlier today.
Update: Here is a screenshot that shows Xbox LIVE on Windows 8
The CRTC is demanding broadcasters turn down the volume on ads after Canadians complained that TV commercials are just too loud.
Today, Windows Division prexy Steven Sinofsky treated Build 2011 attendees to a walkthrough of the various tweaks, subtle or otherwise, Microsoft’s made to Windows 8. Staying true to its roots, the new OS implements the familiar keyboard commands users have become accustomed to over the years — you know, like CMD and Ctrl+F. And as for its update to Internet Explorer, MS has imbued its tenth iteration with the ability to switch between the much-hyped Metro-style UI and plain old desktop view — all according to your whimsy. Of course, Redmond’s instituted other sweeping changes across the platform, and you can check some of the highlights after the break.
Gallery: Windows 8 details roundup
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Windows 8 details: new features, UI enhancements and everything in between originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Windows has countless drive cloning programs available, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. It’s almost impossible to pick the perfect one, but if you have a drive to clone, we recommend starting your search with DriveImage XML. More »
