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Google Street View Finally Captures Missing Austria

Google’s Street View cars on Thursday started taking images in Austria, the only EU country along with Germany to remain largely absent from the popular online service showing 360-degree pictures of places around the world. The project, launched in 2007, lets computer users view panoramic street scenes

Amazon Echo Is Finally Contextually Aware Like Google Home, Users Report

Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo smart home speakers have reportedly received the ability to have contextual conversations, with the latest update to the Alexa virtual assistant, seemingly on the lines of its rival Google Home speakers. Even though some users have said that the contextual conversation with Amazon’s voice-activated

Microsoft finally stops bothering you to upgrade to Windows 10

Remember the Get Windows 10 (GWX) app? The one that constantly prodded Windows 7/8.1 users to upgrade to the newest OS? Well, it’s finally been removed by Microsoft. And about time too, you might rightly think – after all, didn’t the free upgrade to Windows 10 offer

Google finally cutting off Chrome updates on Windows XP and Vista

\ Windows XP will be getting even less secure next year, when Google stops updating Chrome for users of Microsoft’s nearly geriatric operating system. The company announced today that PCs running XP and Vista will be able to keep using Chrome after April 2016, but Google will

Windows 10’s Edge browser finally gets add-ons

Microsoft yesterday updated its Windows 10 preview, adding support for extensions to the default Edge browser, finally fulfilling a promise it made last year that was itself a delay on a pledge to boost the browser’s functionality. As part of Windows 10 build 14291 — the latest

Windows 10’s Edge browser finally gets add-ons

Microsoft yesterday updated its Windows 10 preview, adding support for extensions to the default Edge browser, finally fulfilling a promise it made last year that was itself a delay on a pledge to boost the browser’s functionality. As part of Windows 10 build 14291 — the latest