Jeffrey Snover presented at the WinOps Conference in May. The session is now available to watch on YouTube. The topic discussed is 'The DevOpsification of Windows Server'. Jeffrey Snover, a technical fellow at Microsoft, is the chief architect of Windows Server 2016 so he has been able to shift a lot of functionality from the traditional operator model to work with the DevOps … [Read more...]
72 new emoji added with Unicode 9.0
Unicode 9.0 was released today and includes 72 new emojis with various expressions and objects. You can view them from Unicode's Emoji Recently Added page or watch the video below for a slideshow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b81S9lWIMnE&feature=youtu.be For a sneak preview of emojis to be released with Unicode 10.0 in June 2017, you can see the Emoji Candidates page … [Read more...]
Videos demo Google’s Tango-enabled phones
Google made a post to the Official Google Blog in order to announce that their Project Tango augmented reality phone feature has matured to just 'Tango' and is available in the first Tango-enabled phone, the Lenovo PHAB2 Pro. The Tango features allow you to use your phone to create digital objects that interact with the real world. This could be as simple as a digital Slinky … [Read more...]
Windows Holographic video shows off the work and collaboration potential of VR
From the Windows Experience blog, Microsoft opened up Windows Holographic to partners this week at Computex. Those partners include Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, HTC, Acer, ASUS, CyberPowerPC, Dell, Falcon Northwest, HP, iBuyPower, Lenovo, MSI and others. Today, we announced that Windows Holographic is coming to devices of all shapes and sizes from fully immersive virtual reality to … [Read more...]
Adobe helps ‘The Simpsons’ with live animation
This past Sunday's episode of 'The Simpsons' included a 3-minute segment at the end that was live animation. Back in 1997 in The Simpsons episode “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show”, Homer Simpson got an up-close look at the world of animation when he became the voice talent behind the animated dog Poochie. When Homer asked whether the episode was airing live, a … [Read more...]