Category: Videos
Project Spartan Becomes Microsoft Edge, New Icon + Video
It’s official.
Yesterday, during its annual developers conference (Build 2015), Microsoft has revealed that (unfortunately) they won’t name Internet Explorer successor Spartan. Instead the team has decided to call the new browser under its rendering engine name: Microsoft Edge.
In addition to that, the new icon has been revealed and boy does it look familiar…
Lastly, a promo video has been posted so here it is:
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Watch Build 2015 Here (Live Stream)
And take a look at the list of Spartan related sessions.
If you are eager to find out what’s new in Project Spartan (as well as in other, Microsoft related products), then good news, the software giant will be streaming its Build 2015 conference live and you can watch it here!
When does it start? In 8 hours, and the timer is also available on the very same page so you will know the exact time in your country.
As far as specific, Spartan sessions go:
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Video: Project Spartan On Windows 10 Mobile
Guys at WPXap have got their hands on the latest available Windows Phone 10 (Build 12534), which also includes Project Spartan.
Starting from around the 1:57 mark, you can see it in action and so far it’s pretty slow and unimpressive, obviously, that’s a pre-release software with all kinds of tools running in the background to speed up the debugging process
See the video after the break.
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Project Spartan Has Finally Landed
And this time it’s official.
Great news for everyone who has been rocking the Windows 10 Preview as today’s Fast ring build 10049 finally includes the browser you’ve been waiting for: Project Spartan.
Due to previous leaks, there’s very little excitement as all features have been revealed already, such as: reading list, Cortana integration and new UI.
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Pwn2Own 2015 Contestant Gets The Biggest Payout In History
A total of $442,000 paid in bounties to all contestants.
Well, it seems like no one was safe in this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition as all 4 major web browsers have failed to protect the users.
The star of this contest however was Jung Hoon Lee (lokihardt) who has managed to reap $225,000 in rewards, breaking through Chrome’s security with a buffer overflow (which earned him $110,000) and then exploiting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer ($65,000 in rewards), followed by Apple’s Safari ($50,000 in rewards).
That should be enough to improve his life for good.
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Video: An Early Demo Of WebGL 2.0
No full backwards compatibility for you.
As Mozilla Foundation announced the availability of original WebGL (which was based on OpenGL ES 2.0) back in 2011 and then a 1.0.2 update two years later, the development has shifted to WebGL 2 (2013) and now it looks like all companies involved are ready to share some of the progress they have made in the last year or so.
So what exactly does the WebGL 2 have to offer? According to the recently revealed preview, the new graphics library is now based on the OpenGL ES 3.0 API and aims to raise many restrictions that were present in WebGL 1 (such as ability to use more render textures at the same time), developer controlled access to antialiasing, multiple render targets and other goodies.
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Video: Spartan On Windows 10! Coming This Month
Now this is cool.
Despite not being available for public yet, it looks like we (finally) got a video of Spartan running on Windows 10 Preview and it does look promising.
If you don’t feel like watching a video, it covers Cortana integration and this is what It can do:
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Video: Internet Explorer, A Break From The Past
In a newly published post, the IE Team has revealed the steps they took to modernize its rendering engine (aka split it from the original Trident).
That‘s why Spartan is said to be more compatible than IE has ever been, especially due to a new web approach. Instead of analyzing the top 9000 sites that are responsible for around 88% of all web traffic (like Microsoft did in the past), they actually got to the root cause of compatibility issues and looked for patterns of trillions of urls instead.
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If You Bought A Lenovo, Be Worried
Greed 101.
If you have bought a Lenovo laptop this or last year and haven’t heard yet, one of the most successful PC makers has been caught installing adware on a number of machines with reports starting from mid-2014.
Basically, a software called Superfish is injecting third party ads on Google searches. Not only that, it also injects its own certificate, allowing to snoop on secure connections and decrypt them. Just take a look at this screenshot:
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Take A Look At This Higher End & Transparent Firefox OS Phone
Fx0 is its name.
If you always dreamed about the transparent phone and read all these fake iPhone X rumors that it’s finally coming just to be disappointed every single time, good news, you might have it if you live in Japan or know someone who does.
Thanks to the recently released video, it looks like someone got their hands on the LG Fx0 phone (which was designed by Tokujin Yoshioka) running Firefox OS 2.0 and unlike other phones with Mozilla’s operating system, this one has higher than average specs (price as well), these are:
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