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His recent analysis states that Apple has the highest market value (of $621.32 billion as of December 27), followed by Alphabet ($557 billion), and Microsoft coming in at third position at $491.71 billion. “Since Microsoft has the highest free cash flow yield of the 10 companies in my digital universe, it’s the most undervalued. Microsoft clearly has the potential to outperform the market. Most importantly, the downside for its share price is limited since the current dividend yield is 2....

For those unaware, Calibri was released to the general public in 2007 with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad, and has since been the default font for Microsoft products. “A default font is often the first impression we make; it’s the visual identity we present to other people via our resumes, documents, or emails....

At the time, Zuckerberg declined the offer, Ballmer said. “I respect that.” He added, “You have to have a willing seller.” Zuckerberg’s clearly made the right choice by rejected the offer. At present, he has a net worth of $57 billion and Facebook’s market value of around $374 billion. Also, with a net worth of nearly $56 billion, Zuckerberg is the fourth richest person in the world, as of Friday, according to the Forbes....

“The Checked C research project is investigating how to extend the C programming language so that programmers can write more secure and reliable C programs,” Microsoft Research says on its Web site. “The project is developing an extension to C called Checked C that adds checking to C to detect or prevent common programming errors such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts. The extension is designed to be used for existing system software written in C....

Outlook email service allegedly hacked by Chinese authoritiesAlleged Chinese hand? GreatFire reports that Chinese users first noticed the outage when they attempted to access Outlook email using IMAP and SMTP protocols on desktop and mobile email clients on Jan 17. GreatFire notes that the MitM attack only affected the email clients and web interface of outlook.com and live.com were not affected. Noting that Outlook was under MiTM attack, GreatFire states that “This form of attack is especially devious because the warning messages users receive from their email clients are much less noticeable than the warning messages delivered to modern browsers....

Users can speak or type the word or phrase that has to be translated. The new app in response will display the translated text on the screen and then speak it aloud. Text can also be copied and pasted from and to other apps by the users for quick translation. Currently, the Microsoft Translator supports 50 different languages, including English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, Hebrew, and Russian. Microsoft via its Bing website has already been providing language translation along with apps for its Windows 10 desktop software and Windows Phone mobile operating system....

Microsoft rolled out a massive Threshold 2 earlier this week as the first major update for Windows 10 that comes with significant improvements for both the operating system itself and the pre-installed apps. However, as always, the Microsoft engineers seemed to have bungled on a number of things. The update, which is supposed to be error free, brings additional woes to the Windows 10 users. First and foremost, this massive 20GB update reinstalls the bloatware the Microsoft had shipped with Windows 10....

However, according to the recent security bulletins released by Microsoft shows that a major part of the found vulnerabilities are shared by Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer, that could be pointing at the vulnerability of the new browser just like its predecessor. At least, in some aspects. An analysis of the last five-months’ worth of monthly software updates shows that Edge had 25 vulnerabilities shared with versions of Internet Explorer, which had a total of 100 vulnerabilities....

Users will remember that Microsoft announced back in January it will stop providing support and security fixes for all PCs running Intel’s sixth generation Skylake processors. It had said at that time that these must upgrade to Windows 10, or risk not being supported. In fact, at that time Microsoft had given 18 months deadline for Skylake processor run Windows 7/8.1 PC/laptop owners to upgrade to Windows 10 or lose support and risk their PCs....

We are all aware by now that no Windows 10 Update has come without hiccups. This time too it’s no different, as the Windows 10 May 2020 update has come with a bunch of significant known issues. Microsoft has quietly acknowledged the problems and suspended the installation of the latest Windows 10 May 2020 update on problematic PCs including those with Intel Optane Memory until improvement. However, enthusiastic users can still install the new version of the Windows 10 update using the Media Creation Tool....

Millions of low-priced wireless keyboards are susceptible to a vulnerability that can let hackers take over your keyboard and secretly record what you type. In other words, the problem is that the keyboards communicated to their linked PCs without encryption, and it’s just a matter of reverse engineering the signals to find out how to read what keys are being hit. “Quite simply, it was a shock to find that unencrypted wireless keyboards are still being sold in 2016”, Bastille Research Team Member Marc Newlin told SCMagazine....

Prominent people like Russell Simmons, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff changed their profiles. Over the past three days, 26 million people have super imposed rainbows over their Facebook profile pictures using the free tool provided by the company. The rainbow filter that was launched on Friday continued to gain steam attracting more than half a billion likes and comments all over the world....

The other smartphones which are also now available cheaper are Moto E (2nd Gen) 3G and 4G version. The Moto E (2nd Gen) 3G is now available for Rs.6999.00 while the 4G version now retails at Rs.7999.00. Earlier Motorola has slashed the prices of its Moto G (2nd Gen) 3G from Rs.12,999.00 to Rs.10,999.00. The dual-SIM Moto E (1st Gen) comes with a 4.3-inch HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protective covering....

You can now link your Hello account to Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn with Firefox Hello sharing. Those who click on the link will be able to begin a chat with you in Firefox Hello. Additionally, Project Silk brings better animation and scrolling to OS X, and Safe Browsing malware detection can now be downloaded for OS X and Linux. To use the new sharing option, you’ll first have to add your social networks by visiting Services for Firefox, clicking on each service you want to add, and then hitting the Activate Now button....

A new SUMO search experiment launched by Mozilla on September 6th, 2021 is testing 1% of the Desktop user base with Bing as the default search engine. The study is expected to probably run until the end of January 2022. “From Sept 6, 2021 1% of the Desktop user base will be experimenting with Bing as the default search engine. The study will last into early 2022, likely wrapping up by the end of January,” reads the SUMO study description for September 2021....

This software focuses on military-grade voice recognition and authentication. The other product that the company is working is called KnuPath, which is basically a processor that is designed to offer a new architecture for neural computing. Goldin stated in an interview about how he came to founding the startup: KnuEdge’s starting principle was being focused on speech recognition in the presence of noise. It essentially authenticates a person’s voice for computers, web and mobile apps, and IoT devices with only a few words spoken into a microphone in any language and in real-world noisy conditions, and potential industries that could take advantage of such a thing is the health-care, banking and entertainment industry....

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft takes close-ups of Ceres’s strange white spots but can’t explain themNASA’s Dawn has taken close-ups of the strange and intriguing white patches seen in the middle of the huge Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn’s first orbiting revealed that Ceres showed more evidence of geological activity on its surface such as landslides. The first footage from Dawn spacecraft also revealed some strange and intriguing white patches in the middle of a huge and dark crater....

Ubuntu Snappy Core 15.04 has received internal modifications in order to work perfectly with Linux kernel 4.2, and it uses the linux-raspi2 package that was shipped by the Ubuntu Kernel team recently on the official Ubuntu software repositories. The all new Ubuntu Snappy Core 15.04 boasts of several new features including a port that now has a fully supported Linux kernel package. Among the most important ones, are the new I2C and SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) communication protocols, as well as the enablement of general-purpose input/output (GPIO) access by default....

More and more smartphones are expected to be upgraded to Android 6.0 in the forthcoming months. It seems that the team now wants to reduce the time between the release of Android 6.0 Marshmallow and what would then be CyanogenMod 13, and so the team has made an early start. CyanogenMod 13, which is based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, is already in the works, as the team working on CyanogenMod has started updating the relevant code on their public Gerrit repository....

Leaked specifications reveal that the Nexus 6 successor will feature a 5.7-inch 2K OLED display manufactured by Samsung with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels. It will be powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor on the inside. The reports suggests that rumors of Samsung supplying the screen for Huawei’s Mate 8 phablet are likely to be true. The two devices are also likely to use identical displays. The decision to go with a 2K display comes as a surprise given that Huawei has been critical of giving consumers this level of resolution on smaller screens, expressing concerns over battery life and whether it can be viewed with the naked eye....