Category: Software

Microsoft improves Windows 11 Start menu, with no new ads in sight – and there’s a bonus for the lock screen in latest preview

Windows 11 has a new preview build, and it comes with a few notable changes to the interface – for the better, thankfully, with no new adverts or promos anywhere to be seen. Microsoft just introduced Windows 11 build 22635 (KB5041876) in the Beta channel, and the most interesting change…

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Instagram users are begging ChatGPT to roast their photos – and the results are brutal

Getting ‘roasted’ online is a time-honored trend that sees your photos or social media profiles scorched by a clever put-down or three. It’s often self-inflicted by requests from thick-skinned fans who ask particularly talented roasters to target them. Now, there’s a new roaster on the scene, flambeing hundreds of thousands…

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Make your videos a global phenomenon with AI translation of your own voice

Want to share your video with the world but don’t speak several dozen languages? AI video maker D-ID can help you out with that, thanks to its new translation feature. The new AI model will translate videos into 30 different languages, but it’s not just dubbing you with a generic…

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Turns out the ‘death’ of the Control Panel in Windows 11 has been greatly exaggerated, as Microsoft issues a clarification

Windows 11 and Windows 10 aren’t on the brink of seeing the Control Panel shuffling off into the sunset, Microsoft has clarified. As Ars Technica reports, this follows a string of articles last week that popped up around the Control Panel – which is nearly 40-years-old and plays host to…

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Windows 11 could get updates that install without a reboot, as a Microsoft blunder hints these are coming with version 24H2

We’ve heard before that Windows 11 could be getting a ‘hot-patching’ feature with version 24H2, arriving later this year, whereby (some) future cumulative updates won’t require a reboot – and we’ve just been treated to another clue that this might come to fruition. Windows Latest reports that PhantomOfEarth on X…

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Windows 10 looks to be getting one of the worst features recently added to Windows 11’s Start menu

Windows 10 might get an unpopular change to the Start menu which Microsoft recently implemented in Windows 11, going by a new leak. This is the addition of an account manager section, and that piece of extra clutter in the Start menu could well be coming to Windows 10, as…

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