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As AR devices get smaller and battery life improves, Microsoft will seek to increase capabilities. A patent shows the company’s Object Tracking idea, which tracks objects in a mixed reality environment and relays data information to the user. Never lose keys or wallets again.

Microsoft Defender for IoT – EIoT Device License has been delayed until next month as Microsoft cites "unexpected system challenges".

Minecraft Version 1.20 features are landing with the latest Minecraft Preview (build 1.19.60.20) available this week.

Microsoft says when inter-team connection is more like in remote work scenarios, while cross-group collaboration is decreasing.

The first death from Coronavirus in the United States happened in the Seattle area, putting Microsoft’s Build 2020 under threat.

Spotify’s relationship with Windows Phone has gone through a turbulent weekend, but the music streaming company has today issued an update for its Windows applications.

Google Lens is now available straight from your browser, greatly increasing ease of use and allowing users with older Android versions to participate. It will come to more countries soon.

AdBlock has been updated in the Windows Store for the Edge browser. Version 0.9.9 fixes an issue where the service would forget whitelisted websites upon restarting Edge.

Windows Insiders are now getting the latest preview update for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) on all channels.

Meta's Audiobox lets you clone voices and create sound effects with text prompts, using self-supervised learning on vast unlabeled audio data.

DevTest Labs users can now load ARM templates directly from their source control repository, allowing for simple environment creation via the Azure portal.

Cortana was worse than Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, failing to answer 48% of questions correctly, while Apple, Google, and Amazon all performed well.

Microsoft and Walmart's cashier-less solution is likely to give companies more information than even about user's purchases, interests, and more.

Meta Description: Microsoft may be moving away from UWP, as new DLL and EXE files in the System32 folder suggest a shift to Win32+XAML Hosting.

Paul Stubbs, Director of Product Marketing AI & Bots at Microsoft, shares his insight into creating Microsoft-based bots with the currently available tools and services from the company.

The most recent smartphone market share survey by Kantar reveals the expected decline of Windows Phone. In contrary to the trend UK shows strong growth and also China is seeing some improvement.

Users of the Surface Hub can now download the Microsoft Teams application 18 months after the workplace chat service was launched.

The faulty Meltdown and Spectre patch has caused rebooting problems, but was believed to be limited to legacy Intel chips. However, the company admits Skylake and Kaby Lake chips are also affected.

December 2020 Patch Tuesday is small compared to other months but has fixes for 22 remote code execution vulnerabilities.

A new patent shows Microsoft’s plans for mixed reality input methods for HoloLens. The wand-like device is similar to a stylus like the Surface Pen for an augmented environment.