ROUND 2 #ALSIceBucketChallenge: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella along with vice president of Windows and devices Terry Myerson just took the 2015 #ALSIceBucketChallenge after being nominated by ALS patient and advocate Steve Gleason! In turn, Mr. Nadella nominated 6 MILLION Windows users worldwide!
The Ice Bucket Challenge is back. A year after the social sensation took the Internet by storm, the ALS Association has introduced the hashtag #EveryAugustUntilACure, encouraging people to once again take the icy plunge, and keep it going every August till there's a cure for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Actress Renée Zellweger joined the challenge on Tuesday, standing in a trough so that her horse could drink the water afterwards. The association is suggesting a number of ways to complete the challenge in a drought-conscious way, such as using an existing body of water or using an alternative substance.
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All NFL Players Are Getting RFID Chips This Season
Using real-time RFID tracking of NFL players, the Next Gen Stats portion of the NFL app for Xbox One and Windows 10 shows a play in detail. Image: Microsoft
In terms of size, speed, and strength, NFL football players have always been superhuman. This season, they’re all about to become cyborgs, too.
Last year, the NFL tested out Zebra Technologies MotionWorks RFID system in 18 stadiums to track vector data: A player’s speed, distance, and direction traveled during each game in real-time. This season, that wireless tracking technology will be embedded in every NFL player’s shoulder pads, and viewers at home can see all that data come to life in the redesigned NFL 2015 app for Xbox One and Windows 10.
Within the app, there’s a feature called Next Gen Stats that turns each player into an digital avatar for a “Next Gen Replay.” In coordination with a highlight clip posted shortly after it occurs live on the field, Next Gen Replay displays every player’s speed at each moment of a play, lets you toggle between players, and keeps track of the actual yardage a running back has run in a play or in a game.
“We will tie Next Gen Stats into every replay that comes into the Xbox,” says Todd Stevens, Executive Producer at Microsoft. “Replays like a one-yard touchdown run, you don’t really need Next Gen Stats. But some of these plays, like a long pass play, are truly spectacular. We wanted to give them a bit of special sauce.”
To do so, the Next Gen Stats section will also include features that highlight players rather than plays. At launch, which will be in late August, there will be a special section called Afterburner that highlights the speediest players in the NFL over time. More of those player-highlight collections are planned for the future in a section called Top Playmakers.
Tying speed, position, and distance data to 22 separate football players, animating them on a virtual field, and aggregating all their data over time might seem like a process that would take a while to add to each highlight clip. But according to Stevens, as soon as a highlight clip is posted to NFL.com, the Xbox NFL app will have all that stuff ready to go for each video.
“The only thing that keeps us from having it instantaneous is the human element to cutting the highlight,” Stevens says. “If somebody in Culver City for the NFL has to edit the highlight, as soon as it hits NFL.com we get it, and we can tie in the data instantaneously. We have all the data as the game is being played. You could see the little position graphics live. There are complications to showing that, but it’s something I think we’ll end up trying to do in the future.”
Along with the video-game-like presentation of real-world plays, there’s an actual gaming aspect to the Next Gen Replay feature. In a mini-game called “NGS Pick’em,” you choose eight to 10 players you think will run the fastest or travel the farthest in a game.
While Next Gen Stats is innovative, a few more features within the new NFL app for Xbox may be even more compelling for big-time fans. You can basically roll your own sports ticker: You select pop-up notifications for specific games, your favorite teams, and two fantasy teams from NFL.com, CBS, ESPN, and Yahoo. A little alert will pop up from the bottom of the screen to let you know if something notable has happened in tracked games, if someone in your fantasy matchup has scored, or if a new highlight clip from a game is ready. Using the Xbox One’s “Snap” feature, you can then view that clip in a sidebar without interrupting the main game you’re watching on the big screen.
“Our focus was to make this the best gameday experience,” says Stevens. “It’s super-simple to customize and slide in and out of things without missing any of the game. You hit one button and you go into that snap view, another button and I’m back in full screen.”
The new app will be available in late August, just in time for week three of the preseason. The NFL app and the Next Gen Stats features are free to everyone.
How to add, remove and modify fonts in Windows 10 by Rick Broida
Want to install new fonts or remove unwanted ones? Here's how, along with the quickest way to change font settings.
People often tell me I'm a font of wisdom, so allow me to share some wisdom about fonts. (Needless to say, I'm not a font of humor.)
In Windows 10, not much has changed about the way typefaces are installed, deleted and otherwise modified, but if you're not familiar with the processes, well, it's all new to you. Here's everything you need to know.
First up, you'll need to access the font control panel. Easiest way by far: Click in Windows 10's new Search field (located just to the right of the Start button), type "fonts," then click the item that appears at the top of the results: Fonts - Control panel.
As you can see, there's no clearly identified option to add new fonts, but the process is easy: just drag any TrueType font file to the main window containing all your other installed fonts. (See screenshot at top.) When you drop it, you'll see a brief "installing font" message, and then, presto, you're done.
Removing a font is even easier: Click one, then click Delete. Just be careful not to remove any important system fonts like Calibre, Microsoft Sans Serif and Tahoma.
Finally, if you want to make systemwide changes to your font settings, you can do so here by looking to the toolbar on the left side of the Font control panel. For example, to increase or decrease the font size for, say, menus and icons, click Change Font Size. Choose the item you want to change, then select a size. (You also have the option of ticking the Bold box, which is actually kind of a nice tweak for things like title bars.)
After making your selection, click Apply, noting that it'll take a few seconds for the change to go into effect.
And that's it! Now you know the basics of Windows 10 font management.
Managed Solution is hosting Roadshow events to demo the new features in Windows 10 and show customers the latest products that connect your people, processes, devices, and data securely across your company enabling you to stay ahead in today’s mobile world.
At the forefront of these business profitability products is Windows 10, organizations will use the end-user-enhancements in Windows 10 across Office 365 & Skype for Business to drive revenue.
If you plan to share your PC with other people, you can add accounts for them and share it. Because it’s always nice to share and your friends will have some personal space—including separate files, browser favorites, and a desktop they can call their own. This is one of the key differentiators for Windows 10 compared to Android or iOS.
How to create a new account in Windows 10?
Follow the below steps to add an account.
1.Go to Start Image of Start button, then select Settings > Accounts > Your account.
2.Select Family & other users (or Other users, if you’re using Windows 10 Enterprise).
3.Under Other users, select Add someone else to this PC.
4.If the person you’re adding has a Microsoft account, enter their email address, select Next, and then select Finish. After they sign in, their online email, photos, files, and settings will be waiting for them.
If the person you’re adding doesn’t have a Microsoft account, select Sign in without a Microsoft account (it’s OK that it says “not recommended”), and then select Local account. Set their user name, temporary password, and password hint, and then select Next > Finish.
Source: Microsoft
Last week, Microsoft announced that they have more than 14 million devices running Windows 10 within 24 hours of the launch. Over the weekend, Microsoft has added additional 4.5 million PCs. Windows 10 has been installed now on 18.5 million machines, the new number comes from Neowin's source inside Microsoft. At its peak, Windows 10 was being installed at a rate of 1500 machines per second.
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