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Windows 11 is getting a new Media Player app you can test today

The Verge

Windows 11’s new media player. Microsoft has created a new Media Player app for Windows 11, and it’s beginning to test the app with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel today. The redesigned Media Player app will support both audio and video, and it includes a design that better matches Windows 11’s UI improvements. “At

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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream

The Verge

As Build moved on from Nadella’s opening remarks to Scott Hanselman, a partner program manager at Microsoft, the Easter eggs ramped up. Hanselman’s Windows theme changed the color of the lights in his room, even switching to red when he set his Microsoft Teams status to busy. We had scripts and storyboards.

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Does ‘Kimi’ deliver the goods? Thriller aims to capitalize on Alexa, Siri … and Seattle’s tech cachet

GeekWire

Oscar-winning film director Steven Soderbergh’s tech-noir thriller, “Kimi,” echoes movies like “Rear Window” and “The Conversation” in a tale that also reflects the mind-wrenching isolation forced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the concerns raised by smart devices that are capable of tracking our every move.

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Bringing books into the TikTok era: Amazon’s Kindle Vella and the rise of the new ‘story platforms’

GeekWire

Her experience is a window into the tech giant’s latest effort to rethink how people publish, buy, and read stories. ” Wattpad’s Paid Stories program lets authors sell their stories directly on its platform. The company helps authors leverage their stories for television, film and book publishing deals.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

Hiltunen is known for co-inventing the TrendWiki tool for crowdsourcing organizational futures, as well as creating the “ Futures Window ” and “ Strategic Serendipity ” tools. Her research interests include critical dystopian film, transhumanism, and brain interfaces that promise us dramatically divergent futures.

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