The data London cites is New York Citys 311 non emergency data stream, which takes as its input New York residents emails, phone calls, and text messages sent to communicate issues to city authorities. Each day, HereHere pulls 311 data for each neighborhood and identifies the most compelling, important 311 request types, and the system generates cartoons and text that represent a neighborhoods characterized reactions.Think of it as a meta status update for the day—a simplification of issues in...

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The ability to pin Modern apps to the desktop taskbar is an interesting piece of cross environment integration in .1 Update 1. But in experimenting with the RTM version of this update, I've noticed a few additional featured I'd not seen before. Here an interesting example. If you're familiar with how taskbar pins work in Windows 7 and 8.x, you know that these application buttons can provide jump lists and live previews that show what the underlying app looks like if running, so you...

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The faces at the top of Microsoft may have changed lately, but it still full steam ahead for the Xbox division. Both new CEO Satya Nadella and ex Nokia boss, now devices and studios head Stephen Elop are said to be extremely committed to the Xbox hardware and software divisions. That might seem obvious really, but previous reports suggested that Elop would consider selling the Xbox arm should he have taken over as chief executive officer instead of Nadella. He didnt, but the Xbox division and...

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Revenue from the ads helps us feed the over worked hampsters so we can keep bringing you the latest news! You can also donate to keep us going. In the Top Free and New+Rising section in the Windows Phone Store, Facebook Messenger is at the top with over 2200 ratings from users. In fact, the app is so popular that it already has a rating of 4.5 out of 5. The official Facebook app, which has been at the top of the list for months, is down to second place. Instagram Beta rounds out the top three....

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Microsoft made the mistake earlier this week of allowing anyone with Windows 8.1 to download the files for Update 1thanks to a simple change in their registry. While this hole has since been plugged, this allowed many people to get the near final version of the OS update. That included some of our Neowin forum members and they have been writing up their hands on impressions of the changes in Update 1 on our message boards. In a forum post called Your observations on Windows 8.1 update 1 a.k.a....

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CyberPowerPC Sinks Its Fang Gaming PC into a Battle Box CES 2014: Getting Better Acquainted with Razers Project Christine [Video] CyberPowerPC Sinks Its Fang Gaming PC into a Battle Box Microsoft will be delivering five security bulletins on this months Patch Tuesday. If youre a Windows XP holdout, what you should really be concerned about is the fact that all five security bulletins affect Windows XP. With Windows XP support scheduled to end on April 8, now is a good time to abandon the 13 year...

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On March 8, Microsoft will begin notifying Windows XP users via a pop up notification that April 8 will mark the end of Microsoft support for Windows XP. Windows XP users still running the Home or Professional versions of the product and who have been getting their updates to XP via Windows Update will get a notification on their desktop screen reminding them of the April 8 end of support date. Users can turn off the notifications via a check box. If they dont, they will be reminded on the 8th...

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I previously wrote about Windows 8.1 Bing in Free Windows? Maybe. In that article, I wondered aloud about the point of this release and offered up some fanciful ideas about what might be happening. As it turns out, it much simpler than that. According to internal documentation I've viewed, Windows 8.1 with Bing is a new Windows edition that helps PC makers add Windows to low cost devices while driving end user usage of Microsoft Services such as Bing and OneDrive. Windows 8.1 with Bing is...

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