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Edge Browser Enhancements Leaked For Windows 10 Build 10551   While some Windows insiders expected to have Windows 10 build 10551 drop at the end of last week, it sadly didn’t come to pass. At the time of writing it also looks somewhat unlikely the next build is going to come this week either. Microsoft have been busy though. Leaked images from China seem to show that the Redmond based company has been carrying out extensive testing of new features and improvements for the Edge browser. Leaked Images of Windows 10 build 10551 The new enhancements to Edge have been expected and highly anticipated from Windows Insiders. From what I can tell from the leaked screenshots, there appear to be several new features for Edge in the pipeline. For Windows 10 build 10551 there seem to be 2 main features that will be included. The first new feature for Edge that will ship with the new release seems to be that it will be possible to open new windows by simply using a mid...

Crystal iOS Ad-Blocker Now Paid To Show Ads.   Popular iOS Ad-blocker, Crystal, is to allow companies to show you ads and has come in for some serious criticism for doing so. Crystal developer, Dean Murphy, has made an agreement with a company called Eyeo GmbH that will allow some ads to be allowed past Crystal’s ad filter. Murphy is to receive a flat monthly fee from Eyeo in exchange for allowing certain ads to be shown via Crystal. This fee will be on top of whatever money he makes from the sale of the actual app itself. Peace out, Crystal in Ad blocker Crystal has become one of the top selling apps on the Apple Store since the previous must-have ad blocker, Peace , was removed without warning by developer Marco Arment after barely being on sale a week. A Wall Street Journal article  from last week stated that the Crystal app had been downloaded over one hundred thousand times since its September 16th debut, and that Murphy has made an estimated...

Microsoft Sets Record Straight Over Privacy Fears.   Microsoft have released a blog post that responds directly to Windows 10 privacy concerns. In the blog post, released Monday, 28 th September, Microsoft insists that users’ privacy is very important to them, stating that ‘trust,’ is the veritable core pillar of their vision for modern, personal computing. Indeed, the blog post even opens and ends with the word ‘trust.’ But can you ‘trust’ what they say? In the two months since Windows 10 was launched, Microsoft has experienced a barrage of criticism over its redesigned privacy policies. Most, if not all of the criticism has come from one particular passage in one policy. The upshot of which is that any personal information gathered by Microsoft will be “safe and secure”, except when Microsoft decides that that information isn’t safe and secure. Critics were quick to accuse Windows 10 of invasive spying on customers, and of trying to collect huge amounts...

Apple Removes Metadata+ Drone Strike Map App from App Store   In a sudden, and unexpected move, Apple unilaterally decided to ban the Metadata+ iOS app that maps US drone strikes from the Apple Store. The app’s main purpose was to send push notifications to users iOS devices when drone strikes were reported. Metadata+ was originally created to work in tandem with @dronestream Twitter account. The Twitter feed was created by Josh Begley to report US drone strikes, and the number of people killed by them. image from Gawker.com Apple removed the app last weekend for the rather bewildering reason of displaying “excessively rude or objectionable content.”  The reasoning behind the removal seems somewhat nefarious. Metadata+ was a text and basic map based app. As Begley remarked himself in an interview with Mashable.com back in 2012, there was already an app that allowed people to play as a missile launching drone pilot carrying out strikes. The app however w...

Second iOS 9 Update Is More Bug Fixes, Huge File Size   iOS 9 came out in mid-September and Apple has already released two separate bug fix updates for it. The first of those probably helped smooth the transition for people who’d downloaded the update and found themselves at a loss, although iOS 9 didn’t have any major visual differences over the previous version that should have thrown users for a loop. But with the second update, which really only addresses a handful of issues, users have to decide between fixing some minor functionality points and sacrificing a ton of memory. According to Andy Boxall for Digital Trends, the device you’re running could actually sacrifice upwards of 66MB to install this single bug fix update. That’s a hefty price to pay in terms of memory, but at the same time, other bugs may be too be to ignore by not installing. One of the chief problems is in how the device will disconnect certain apps from cellular access, meaning you...