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TECHNOLOGY Saturday 1 april 2017
Windows update will bring 3-D, game tools and doodling

ANICK JESDANUN for all the capabilities. Ex-
AP Technology Writer pect lots of trial and error
NEW YORK (AP) — A major — and frequent use of the
update to Microsoft’s Win- “undo” button.
dows 10 system will start 3-D images created
reaching consumers and through paint will be com-
businesses on April 11, of- patible with 3-D printers
fering 3-D drawing tools, and printing services.
game-broadcasting ca- GAMERS, REJOICE
pabilities and better ways A game mode optimizes
to manage your web the computer for gaming.
browsing. Other tasks can still run in
This “Creators Update” also the background but won’t
aims to make future up- consume as much of the
dates less disruptive. system resources. Game
Microsoft said Wednes- mode is on by default; you
day that it will roll out the can turn it off through a
Creators Update to some new central location for
400 million Windows 10 system-wide game settings
devices worldwide over (individual games might still
time. Though there’s no have their own settings).
set schedule, devices that Windows 10 also gets
came with Windows 10 in- a broadcasting service
stalled will likely get the up- In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, file photo, Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s executive vice president called Beam, which Micro-
date first. That will make it of the Windows and Devices Group, discusses a Windows 10 update at a Microsoft media event soft bought last year. Be-
easier for Microsoft to work in New York. fore, to share live stream-
out kinks for older devices, Associated Press ing of game play, gamers
which are potentially more had to install and activate
problematic. DIGITAL DOODLES specific spot in a park for says Ink is disabled on e- Beam or a competing ser-
Once you get it, here are Last year’s “Anniversary friends to meet. Techni- books because of publisher vice separately.
five things to check out. Update” introduced Win- cally, you can already do restrictions. LESS-ANNOYING UPDATES
WEBSITE CLUTTER dows Ink, the ability to high- that with web versions of IN 3-D Although Creators Update
Throughout the day, you’re light, mark and otherwise Google, Bing and other Paint, a graphics app Mi- is only the second major
likely using your web brows- doodle on documents with maps, so long as you’re us- crosoft first shipped with update since Windows 10’s
er for a variety of tasks — a finger or stylus, provided ing the Edge browser and Windows 1.0 in 1985, is get- release in 2015, Microsoft
researching a trip, check- you have a touch-screen its doodling function. Mi- ting a major refresh. You has issued many smaller
ing the news and, gasp, computer. crosoft’s Maps app offers can now create images in ones along the way. They
doing actual work. Having Updated Windows apps extras. 3-D . often require a restart and
all those websites open at for Microsoft’s Maps and For instance, you can have Start by pressing the cube can come at inopportune
once could prove cumber- Photos will let you do more. the app calculate the dis- icon at the top. You can times — such as the start
some. Though the apps are avail- tance of the bike route create 3-D images from of an important meeting.
Windows 10’s Edge brows- able separately, getting you’re tracing; be sure to scratch or choose an ob- Users with the Home edi-
er now has a small icon on the Creators Update en- first hit the “measure dis- ject, such as a cylinder, a tion of Windows 10 had no
the upper left corner for sures you have them. tance” icon (the one with fish or a person. You can options for postponing up-
setting aside a group of In Photos, you can draw on the red diagonal). get additional models dates.
websites. Say, your dead- photos and videos with vir- Ink would have been great from a 3-D online com- Microsoft says it has lis-
line on a work project is tual markers and share your for a new e-book feature munity called Remix and tened and will give all us-
rapidly approaching. Just creations with friends. For coming to Windows. Micro- even share your creations ers the ability to schedule
hit the button to clear out example, you can circle soft is now selling e-books there. You can add stick- a time or defer updates
website tabs for your Ca- that guy in the background through its online store, ers, such as eyes, by tap- for three days. This doesn’t
ribbean getaway. When and call attention to how and books open as a tab ping the icon to the right of mean you can avoid up-
you’re ready to return to goofy he looks. in Edge, with no separate the cube. dates forever, but it gives
trip planning, hit an adja- For maps, you can mark a app needed. But Microsoft Play around to get a feel you more say over when.q
cent icon to restore those
tabs you’ve set aside. Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
You can set aside multiple
groups; the most recent NEW YORK (AP) — Palmer jury awarded $500 million
ones appear on top. When Luckey, the co-founder of in damages, including $50
things get rough, you can Facebook’s Oculus virtual- million from Luckey. Luckey
scroll down to check the reality business, is leaving was also criticized for a
set of job search sites you the company. Facebook donation of $10,000 to a
set aside weeks ago. didn’t give a reason for pro-Donald Trump group
Though browsers let you Luckey’s departure. His called Nimble America,
bookmark sites, you prob- last day is Friday. Luckey, which created offensive
ably don’t want perma- who is 24, is leaving Face- memes online during the
nence for trips and short- book in the heels of con- 2016 election season.q
term projects. Once you troversies. Earlier this year, In this June 11, 2015 file photo,
restore tabs using the new a federal jury found that Oculus Founder Palmer Luck-
feature, you’ll need to set Oculus, Luckey and co- ey holds up the new Oculus
them aside again when founder Brendan Iribe vio- Touch input device for the Rift
virtual reality headset during a
you’re done for future ac- lating the intellectual prop- news conference in San Fran-
cess. And tabs won’t sync erty rights of video-game cisco.
across devices. maker ZeniMax Media. The Associated Press