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Microsoft revealed a bunch of new features coming in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update earlier this year at build, but it turns out that at least one of them won’t be ready in time for the September release. Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore revealed on Twitter that  Timeline , a feature which allows Windows, Android, and iOS users to pick up from where they left off on different devices and to resume an activity from an earlier snapshot, would only be included in preview builds after the company ships the Fall Creators Update. This means that insiders would get it when Microsoft starts work for the next Windows 10 update coming after Redstone 3 this fall. “Timeline won’t be ready in the Fall Creators Update. We’re planning for it to be in early insider builds shortly after FCU is out,” Joe Belfiore explained, before going on to explain that “we described [the] set of features that would come with FCU… and I thought we’d communicated uncertainty.” “Not a delay” Belfiore...

Rockstor, the Linux- and Btrfs-based open-source storage operating system that supports features like CIFS/SMB, snapshots, and Copy-on-Write, has been updated recently to version 3.9.1. Rockstor 3.9.1 is the latest and most advanced version of the operating system, shipping with many improvements, under-the-hood optimizations, and some exciting new features like the ability to encrypt disk installations using LUKS and support for scheduling power management, and support for jumbo frames. "Disk encryption with LUKS is the biggest feature we’ve added and something the community has been wanting for a while. We’ve also added support for scheduling power management and jumbo frames just to name a few," says Suman Chakravartula in the release announcement. Now powered by Linux kernel 4.10 Another interesting feature implemented in the Rockstor 3.9.1 release is a kernel from the Linux 4.10 series, which was added from the ELRepo repository. However, users sho...

A new smartphone has caught fire, this time with severe injuries suffered by the owner who was holding the phone in hand at the time of the  incident . Nidhi Kapoor explains in a  Facebook  post that her HTC 10 exploded all of a sudden without even being plugged in to a charger, causing burns to her fingers and an eye infection, most likely because of smoke or parts of the phone or battery that were thrown out following the blow. The phone was purchased in January, the owner says, and it showed no signs of physical damage, which seems to indicate that the device indeed suffered from overheating in the battery compartment and which eventually caused it to explode. “My HTC 10 exploded which burned my fingers and gave an infection in the eye. I purchased on 17th january 2017. It has been a week and since then HTC have given me no response. All they ask is my email id and imei number which i have given so many times,” the woman posted. “It was not even charging whe...

A large number of websites belonging to the United States government  have been hacked during the weekend, with evidence of new hacks also published on late Monday and early Tuesday Websites in Ohio and Maryland were taken down after hacking group Team System DZ compromised the index page with pro-ISIS and anti-Donald Trump messages. The websites of Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Howard County, Maryland, were the first two that got compromised on Sunday, but further attacks also targeted the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, the Ohio Governor, the Ohio First Lady, the Office of Workforce Transformation, Office of Health Transformation and Medicaid. Additionally, Team System DZ also targeted the Washington State Department of Health website, as well as a number of pages belonging to international organizations. FBI already investigating The defaced websites included a black wallpaper and an Arabic symbol, with an Islamic call to prayer running in the b...

KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a very good track on predictions and leaks regarding unreleased Apple products,  says  the 2017 iPhone lineup will indeed include 3 different models, one of which would come with an OLED display. First and foremost, the OLED iPhone is likely the iPhone 8 that we’ve seen in so many leaks and which is expected to come with a sensor bar at the top of the screen. Ming-Chi Kuo says this particular model will come with what he calls “a full-screen design,” and it will have the highest screen-to-body ratio of any smartphone currently on the market. What’s more unexpected, however, is that this iPhone model will come with a virtual home button integrated into the screen, but without fingerprint recognition. This means that the fingerprint sensor would not be embedded into the display, so Apple is either planning to move it elsewhere or to give up on its completely. The iPhone 8 is expected to come with fewer color options as comp...

Windows 10 Redstone 3 is projected to be finalized in September, as per Microsoft’s strategy to ship two major Windows updates every year, and now we have the first confirmation that this is indeed the plan, with the RTM build to be compiled as version 1709. Microsoft is giving version numbers to final Windows 10 builds that represent the compiling year and month, with Windows 10 Anniversary Update, for example, launching as version 1607 – the first two digits represent the year, while the other two the month, so the Anniversary Update was compiled in July 2016. Official Microsoft  documents  spotted by  WZor , who has a good track on information regarding unreleased Windows versions, include references to Windows 10 version 1709, which according to the aforementioned naming approach, is like ly to be the RTM build of Redstone 3 launching in September 2017. The Fall Creators Update project Windows 10 Redstone 3 will be officially called Fall Creators Update...

Fitbit’s eagerly-anticipated debut in the smartwatch market is likely to take place in the fall, after several delays that were caused by certain technologies not being ready for launch. But Fitbit claims all these reports are false and the smartwatch is actually on track, emphasizing that the device would undoubtedly succeed. Development of the smartwatch and third-party apps “are on track,” the company was quoted as saying , and “claims that the developer program is struggling are false.” And yet, people familiar with the matter seem to be claiming otherwise. Company employees said that the smartwatch is indeed late to the market, with Fitbit’s board originally planning to launch it as a rival to Apple Watch 2 “This thing is designed to compete with the Apple Watch 2,” a company insider said. “But by the time it comes out, there will be the Apple Watch 3.” So why is it taking so long for Fitbit to launch a smartwatch? While previous reports indicated that Fitbit migh...