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Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit was first revealed at the Ignite conference in September. According to the company, the Q# programming language is a high-level programming language that includes a native type system for qubits, operators and abstractions. The local version, released as part of the preview, can simulate up to 32 quantum bits (qubits) using a typical laptop (some 32GB of RAM). Microsoft is also offering an Azure-based simulator that can scale up to 40 logical qubits of computing power....

Customers took the issue to Microsoft Community Forum and Reddit [1,2] and as per ZDNet this issue has been encountered only in Surface Laptop 3 devices with aluminium cases, not those covered with Alcantara fabric. Although the widespread of this issue was unclear, the higher number of reports caused concern and hence in February, 2020 Microsoft initiated investigation for the same and now the company has responded publicly explaining the possible cause of the problem....

While KB3035583 didn’t actually install Microsoft’s newest OS version, it did bother users who were not interested in Windows 10 when they found out heavy files, preparing their machines for a future Windows 10 update. However, it turns out that Microsoft has rolled out another update that enables KB3035583, which in its turn activates the “Get Windows 10” app and displays upgrade nags on Windows 7 and 8.1 computers. Targeted at both Windows 7 and 8....

For those unaware, Microsoft News is the company’s news content arm that operates MSN.com and other properties. The move has affected dozens of news contractors (about 50 in the U.S., 27 in the UK) who are not direct employees of Microsoft but work via staffing agencies, Aquent, IFG and MAQ Consulting. They have been notified “that their services would no longer be needed beyond June 30”. However, full-time news producers employed by Microsoft will continue to stay with the company....

According to Microsoft, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is one of the longest-running goals in AI (artificial intelligence), and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The SuperGLUE benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural language inference, co-reference resolution, word sense disambiguation, and others. The Redmond tech giant took the causal reasoning task as an example. Given the premise “the child became immune to the disease” and the question “what’s the cause for this?...

For those unaware, the Microsoft Messaging app in Windows 10 is based on Skype and was announced back in 2015. The Microsoft Messaging app in Windows 10 on PC keeps a record of messages sent from Windows 10 PCs with cellular connectivity and SMS messages sent via Skype SMS Relay service. However, the app cannot be used to actually send text messages on PC. Back in 2016, Microsoft had pulled Skype integration from the app....

Now, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed an AI-assisted image editing tool that automates many parts of the editing process for photos. This will make the job of editing photos easier. “Instead of needing an expert editor to spend several minutes tweaking an image frame-by-frame and pixel-by-pixel, we’d like to make the process simpler and faster so that image-editing can be more accessible to casual users,” says Yagiz Aksoy, a visiting researcher at MIT’s CSAIL....

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....

Dubbed as ‘RatMilad’, the spyware which is hiding itself as a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and phone number spoofing app can access and steal data, record private audio conversations, spy on victims, and modify application permissions on victims’ devices. The app’s function is supposedly to enable a user to verify a social media account through a phone, a common technique used by social media users in countries where access might be restricted, or that might want a second, verified account....

This new kind of “Zip bomb” or “compression bomb” is a malware variant in which a Zip file as small as a few kilobytes is so compressed that when decompressed from the archive file can completely fill up your hard drive. In other words, Fifield has “figured out how to ‘overlap’ files inside of a Zip archive, allowing for compression rates far beyond those of a traditional archive,” reports Motherboard....

Nintendo had first added SNES games to Switch Online membership in September 2018, which included famous titles such as Stunt Race FX, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and more. After its initial SNES rollout in 2018, the company released new titles only in December 2019, which featured six games, including Super Punch-Out, Star Fox 2, and Breath of Fire II....

Ever since, we had reported on the leaked press renders of the new Nokia smartphones, we have been inundated by messages, both here and our social media for further news about Nokia’s forthcoming Android smartphones. Well, there is a good news of sorts for all Nokia lovers. A benchmark that was recently spotted on GeekBench suggests that an Android-powered device dubbed the Nokia D1C is in the works. The Nokia smartphone spotted on Geekbench is not the expected Nokia flagship Android smartphone by any means....

For the uninitiated, Aarogya Setu is India’s COVID-19 contact tracing app whose purpose is to spread awareness of COVID-19 and notify people if they have come into contact with a coronavirus infected person. The app is available for Android as well as iOS mobile operating systems. It should be noted that the Centre government has made downloading of the contact tracing app mandatory only for those employed in the government and private sectors....

According to NSA, The hacked email domain which was used to spy was also used by Cabinet Members and contained essential information regarding country’s economic, diplomatic communication which provided insight to Government’s internal affairs to NSA.According to a report in media group spiegel.de, The operation which was named as ‘Flatliquid,’ which is leaked by NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden. The media group have got the opportunity to look and analyze the leaked docs....

According to the cybercrime cell of Agra police, which claims to have noticed the attack first, was caused by a virus from the Kilim malware family, which has in turn led to such incidents elsewhere across the globe. “It began with a message on social media which stated ‘watch urgent, because it is your video’,” said cybercrime cell in-charge Nitin Kasana. “Every time someone clicked on the link, their entire timeline and inbox was spammed with NSFW material....

OnePlus said in a blog post, OnePlus is also offering a limited one day 75 percent discounts on its flip covers and premium screen protectors to the US, Canada, the European Union, Hong Kong and Taiwan buyers. Besides the announcement on OnePlus One, the company also said that its flagship OnePlus Two will be made from hi-quality materials and would cost a little bit more than the One, the phone when launched, will follow the same invite only method as its predecessor OnePlus One went through....

We had reported last week about how Pubfilm.com was engaged in a battle with media companies over copyright infringement. It seems that the media companies have won this round against Pubfilm.com and PidTV.com. A United States court federal judge has granted studios’ request to shut down the operation of PubFilm and PidTV for trafficking in large-scale piracy of recent movie releases. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero granted studios a temporary restraining order on Feb....

According to The Korea Times (via GameInformer), the Korea-based PUBG Corp had filed a lawsuit way back in January with the Seoul Central District Court against the Korean unit of “Fortnite” developer Epic Games alleging that the latter copied “Fortnite” from “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG). “We filed the suit to protect our copyright in January,” a PUBG official informed the Korea Times to determine whether Fortnite has copied PUBG. The company last Friday requested an injunction at the Seoul Central District Court, hoping to stop the alleged infringement....

Dr. Samer Aldhaher, of the Imperial College London, seems to finally solved the drone’s power source problem by creating a lightweight battery-less drone hovering in place. This drone is powered only by the wireless power transmitter beneath it. Dr.Aldhaher’s demo solves the problem of having batteries aboard a drone and is another wonderful step towards ditching batteries altogether. The wireless power drone technology is still in its nascent stage so don’t expect this particular quadcopter to make a cross-country flight without batteries in tow....