Microsoft yesterday a ounced the general availability of Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database. Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers (e.g. U.S. social security numbers), stored in Azure SQL Database or SQL S...

Earlier this year, HP unveiled the Elite x3 at Mobile World Congress. Back then, the company only revealed the specs of the device, along with some videos — however, the company didn’t reveal the release date, or the price of the device just yet. Now, according to a report from Italian site Plaffo, ...

Microsoft has released a really nice update to Visual Studio Code on Windows, macOS and Linux. The company has finally added Tabs with the latest update to Visual Studio Code, this has been a feature a lot of developers asked for, and it’s finally here with version 1.3. You can move around the tabs ...

Facebook has released a new update to its Windows 10 app. The update is very minor, and it introduces only one noticeable improvement. With the latest update, Microsoft has moved the Messenger button to the sidebar, just under the News Feed icon which opens the Messenger app for Windows 10. Other th...

Looking for an actual mid range Windows 10 handset that doesn’t come from Microsoft? Moly’s X1 might just be the one for you. in celebration of Moly’s 1 year a iversary, the firm is offering a discount off its Moly X1 handset on Amazon.co.uk, the pricing is now down to £179 as opposed to its former ...

The Microsoft Store is currently selling the limited edition Halo 5: Guardians game for only $35.99, a massive discount from its usual $99.99 price. Halo 5: Guardians delivers the most dramatic Halo story yet comes to Xbox One in this 4-player cooperative epic spa ing three worlds. Peace is shattere...

Back in May, Microsoft released App Installer for Windows 10 PCs to make sideloading process easier. Developers need to just double-click the app package to install it instead of ru ing PowerShell scripts. App Installer presents the package info like app name, publisher, version, display logo, and t...

[embedded content] Wall Ball is a Kinect for Windows game available in Windows Store. You need Kinect for Windows sensor or Kinect for Xbox One sensor and a Kinect Adapter for Windows to play this game on your PC. It is built using Kinect Unity package in the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0. About the ga...

Microsoft today a ounced a limited preview of Azure Container Service for Windows Server containers. Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. It combines Azure’s infrastructure with a choice of open source container orc...

The official Formula 1 app is now available for download from Windows Store for Windows 10 devices. This new F1 app offers the best way to follow your favourite teams and drivers with news, video and live race features from 2016 Formula 1 season. It includes the following features for free, Live Rac...

AllTube Player (ATP) Uni is one of the most comprehensive music and video app on Windows 10. It allows you to search for and play media easily from the four of the most popular audio and video websites using its global search engine. Most of our users have asked for background download and audio pla...

[embedded content] Back in April, we reported that Microsoft has agreed to purchase ten million long oligonucleotides (DNA) from Twist Bioscience to encode digital data. Microsoft and University of Washington researchers are collaborating to use DNA as a high density, durable and easy-to-manipulate ...

Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Tu er is leaving the company. He will be joining Citadel Securities as the CEO. Kevin Tu er worked at Microsoft for 11 years, handling the sales and marketing efforts of Office 365, and much more. Tu er led a team of more than 51,000 Microsoft employees in ...

Line today released a minor update for its Windows 10 app. The company today released version 5.2.1 for its app, which possibly brings some bug fixes and performance improvements for the previous update which added several new features. With the previous update (version 5.2.0), Line added inline emo...

Microsoft today a ounced changes to its senior leadership. Microsoft COO Kevin Tu er is leaving the company for Citadel Securities to become CEO. Microsoft is also assigning some additional responsibilties for Chris Capossela, Kurt DelBene and Amy Hood. Read Satya’s mail below in which he explains t...

Microsoft has updated Windows Device Recovery Tool with support for new devices today. The company today added support for the NuAns Neo, and the Vaio Phone Biz devices to the Windows Recovery Tool. In addition to the NuAns Neo and Vaio Phone Biz, the update also brings support for Unistrong T536, a...

With the retirement of the Here Maps app for Windows Phone Microsoft’s own Windows Maps app has become more important. The app has just been updated to version 5.1607.1831. This minor update does not appear add any new features and comes without a new changelog. App Features: Search for addresses, b...

Microsoft has released the first UWP app for the Xbox One to Xbox One Preview members. The company released the updated Blu-Ray Player as a Universal Windows App, which is now available on the Xbox Universal Store. If you are one of the top 20,000 Preview members, you will be able to download the ne...

Acer today unveiled its new TaravelMate X3 series for Windows 10. The first device from the series, the TravelMate X349 comes with an all-aluminium chassis, which weighs just around 1.53kg (3.3 pounds), and has a thickness of only 18mm. The device comes with a fingerprint sca er, which will allow us...

Samsung today a ounced the world’s first removable memory cards based on the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension Standard. These new cards comes in a wide range of storage capacities including 256, 128, 64 and 32 gigabyte (GB). Samsung’s new 256GB UFS removable memory card provide...