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Microsoft Corp. will slow hiring in its Windows and Office divisions as well as the Teams chat and conferencing software groups, the executive vice president who runs those products said in an email to employees Thursday. All new hires must be approved by executive vice president Rajesh Jha and his leadership team, Jha said in the email, according to a Microsoft spokesperson. Those groups have expanded recently and the company wants to make sure it’s making the right hires in the right places, the spokesperson said. The step is not companywide and overall the software maker will continue to hire. “As Microsoft gets ready for the new fiscal year, it is making sure the right resources are aligned to the right opportunity,” the company said in a statement. “Microsoft will continue to grow headcount in the year ahead and it will add additional focus to where those resources go.” The company’s new fiscal year starts July 1. Follow Gadgets Now on Facebook … [Read more...] about Microsoft hiring: Microsoft to slow hiring in Windows, Office, Teams Chat groups

Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system allows you to adjust your clock manually as well as automatically using a Settings option. We’ll show you how to do just that. Note: Changing your PC’s date and time may affect certain apps that rely on those options. If you experience any problems with those apps after changing the time, consider going back to the original date and time settings. Table of Contents Manually Change the Time on Windows 10 Set the Time to Update Automatically on Windows 10 RELATED: How to Change the Date and Time on Windows 11 Manually Change the Time on Windows 10 If you’d like to manually specify your PC’s time , use the built-in Settings option to do that. Start by launching Settings on your PC . Press the Windows+i keys and the app will open. On the Settings window, choose “Time & Language.” On the “Date & Time” page that opens, make sure both “Set Time Automatically” and “Set Time Zone Automatically” … [Read more...] about How to Change the Time on Windows 10

By default, only users with administrator rights in Windows 10 can change time and date settings. If you’re using Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise edition, however, you can use Group Policy to allow standard users to change the time and date. Here’s how to do it. If you’re using Windows Pro or Enterprise, though, you’re good to go. Be warned that Group Policy is a pretty powerful tool, so if you’ve never used it before, it’s worth taking some time to learn what it can do . Also, if you’re on a company network, do everyone a favor and check with your admin first. If your work computer is part of a domain, it’s also likely that it’s part of a domain group policy that will supersede the local group policy, anyway. First, sign in with an administrative account and open the Group Policy Editor by hitting Start, typing “gpedit.msc”, and then pressing Enter. In the Group Policy window, in the left-hand pane, drill down to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security … [Read more...] about How to Allow a Standard Windows 10 User to Change the Time and Date

Audio player loading… Connecting your Meta Quest 2 headset ( formerly Oculus Quest 2 ) to a Windows 11 PC just got a much-needed improvement via an Oculus PC app update. If you’ve tried playing a PC VR game with your Quest 2 headset recently, you probably noticed near-constant juddering if your PC uses Windows 11. This effect causes the screen to shake in a way that ranges from being a minor annoyance to incredibly nausea-inducing. Thankfully, Meta has now issued a fix to help alleviate the problems via the Oculus PC app’s Public Test Channel (spotted by UploadVR (opens in new tab) ) – though you may still notice a few issues even after downloading it. How to download the fix To sign up to the Public Test Channel and access the shuddering effect patch you’ll need to open up the Oculus PC app and head to the Settings; you can find it in the menu bar on the left-hand side of the screen. From here open the Beta tab and you should see the option to toggle … [Read more...] about You can now download a fix for the Oculus Quest 2’s Windows 11 compatibility issues

Audio player loading… Microsoft has announced it is working on a miniature Arm-powered PC that runs Windows 11 . Unveiled during CEO Satya Nadella's keynote at Microsoft Build 2022, Project Volterra (opens in new tab) is the company's first Windows on Arm devkit, and effectively its first true desktop device designed for developers. Although there is no news on exact hardware specifications just yet, Microsoft did reveal that Project Volterra will use an as-yet-unknown Snapdragon processor alongside a built-in neural processing unit (NPU) with "best-in-class AI computing capacity". Project Volterra: What we know The device wasn't shown in-person during Nadella's talk, but an accompanying video appeared to show that Project Volterra would be around the size of a typical mini PC such as the Mac Mini . Designed in a striking granite-black build made of recycled ocean plastic, the device is stackable, meaning developers could stack multiple … [Read more...] about Project Volterra is Microsoft’s new Snapdragon-powered Windows 11 mini PC

NEW DELHI: Google is finally adding some useful shortcuts to Google Drive . The tech giant is updating the Drive on the web with user-friendly shortcuts which will enable them to manage their files easily. The company is now adding the ability to use the keyboard shortcuts cut, copy and paste in Google Drive. Now users will no longer have to use the right-click menu in order to cut, copy or paste a file. Now the popular shortcuts Crtl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V will work on Google Drive. You can now use Ctrl+X to cut, and Ctrl+V to paste files. The addition of shortcuts will make it easier for users to move files and they no longer have to drag and drop files. This will also save time as you can now copy one or more files and move them to new locations in the Drive. Additionally, a link to the file and its title will also be captured when copying a file, which allows you to easily paste them into a document or an email. Along with this, you can also files or folders in … [Read more...] about google: Google Drive adding new shortcuts for better file management

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) proposed legislation Friday that would block federal retirement plans from joining ESG ‘scam’ investing, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. Roy and other House Republicans introduced the No ESG at TSP Act, which would prevent federal workers who qualify for the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) retirement plan to invest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing products. ESG investing has served as leftists’ latest campaign to push investing towards the climate change industry and away from the fossil fuel industry. ESG investing pushes companies to invest based on criteria relating to racial, ethnic, gender identity, sexual orientation, union status, board members, or whether a company is involved in the firearms industry. It also considers a company’s political affiliation. Roy told Breitbart News TSP allowing ESG investing would enable the federal government to weaken America’s energy resilience and further woke policies. “ESG investing is … [Read more...] about Exclusive – Rep. Chip Roy Bill Would Block Federal Retirement Plans from Investing in ESG Climate Scam Funds

Mojang Studios is set to release the next update for Minecraft next month. The developers have announced that the Minecraft version 1.19 update also known as ‘The Wild Update ’ will be officially rolled out on June 7, 2022. Mojang Studios have worked with the Minecraft community to develop The Wild Update for one of the most successful survival games. This new update is expected to bring several new features and content to the game. Minecraft’s upcoming update has been under active development and testing for months and not the developers have finally decided to release the update to the public. The next update for the game is expected to cement Minecraft's place as one of the greatest games on Xbox and PC. Minecraft The Wild Update availability Minecraft 1.19 "The Wild Update" will be released on June 7, 2022, and is expected to arrive simultaneously on all the platforms the game is available in that includes -- Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, Linux, … [Read more...] about minecraft: Minecraft’s next update is confirmed to release in June: Here’s what to expect

It has been an extremely rough year for cryptocurrency projects, as crashing prices, daily revelations of scams , and the ongoing usability nightmare of blockchain-based computing has left venture capitalists’ next big bet looking more like a pipe dream than anything you could reasonably call “web3.” Crypto-based video games, which last year looked as if they might attract a big audience to begin collecting non-fungible tokens, have instead drawn collective outrage at perceived developer greed. Game giants have largely been fleeing the space as a result . And so, with that in mind, today let’s talk about a prominent company that’s going in the other direction. “I think it’s something that could have the biggest impact on this industry — but it’s also probably the most controversial thing that we could talk about,” John Hanke said. Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go developer Niantic, was closing out the keynote address Tuesday morning at his company’s first-ever developer summit. … [Read more...] about Why the company behind Pokémon Go is getting crypto-curious

Good news for Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 owners: the wait is over. Google Assistant is finally available for download starting today. Google Assistant for Wear OS 3 is available for download in the Google Play Store and can be launched from the Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic’s app menu. However, you can also use voice commands to open Google Assistant or reprogram the watches’ home button as a shortcut. This update has been a long time coming. When Google and Samsung first announced Wear OS 3, the companies promised that the unified platform would give Samsung smartwatch users more choice in apps. Previously, Samsung’s Tizen-based smartwatches could only offer Bixby as a digital assistant. The idea was that Wear OS 3 would let consumers choose between Bixby and Google Assistant. The same would be true for apps like Google Pay. Google Assistant has been notably absent from the Galaxy Watch 4 since its launch last year. Despite user frustrations, Google and Samsung continued to … [Read more...] about Google Assistant is finally available on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4