This is a portable, powerful laptop with a battery life problem.
Windows 11 has a fantastic Live Captions feature that will provide captions for any audio or video content. The only drawback is that it’s limited to English right now, but a new Windows 11 test build includes support for Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish and other English dialects. Microsoft is also testing some new snap layouts improvements.
Beyond unplugging Internet Explorer and improving crash detection, updates for both Microsoft and Apple operating systems are fixing security flaws that they report have already been exploited by attackers.
A WebKit exploit on iOS applies no matter which browser you’re using, so you’ll want to update right away.
BleepingComputer has a rundown of the security fixes, which includes one for the Microsoft Store on Windows, so make sure you have updates turned on for that app specifically — it won’t get patched via Windows Update alone.
Maybe you agree, or maybe you disagree with my take on macOS multitasking (I‘m not a fan, and for my tastes, it relies too heavily on knowledge of arcane gestures or third-party add-ons to efficiently handle the work I do).
But if you’re a Windows-first user on a Mac, this AltTab add-on (via LifeHacker) might be worth trying out. With this, Option + Tab works the same way as your usual Windows shortcut.
[alt-tab-macos.netlify.app]
