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TECHNOLOGY Saturday 13 May 2017

Windows 10 update aims to help identify best photos, videos

MICHAEL LIEDTKE that allows people to mix
AP Technology Writer the real world with three-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — dimensional projections of
An upcoming feature in life-like images.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 The fall Windows 10 up-
system will automatically date will include features
identify the best photos for playing games and
and videos to help people watching video in the
create highlights of their realm of “mixed reality,”
experiences. the melding of the artificial
The tool, called Story Re- with things that are actu-
mix, will be part of a “Fall ally happening around us.
Creators Update” to roll Microsoft also plans to in-
out later this year to 500 troduce a new mixed re-
million personal comput- ality headset and motion
ers, smartphones and tab- controller in time for the
lets powered by Windows holiday season. The equip-
10. Microsoft previewed ment, to be made by Acer,
the update Thursday at a will sell as a package for
conference in Seattle for $399.
applications developers. That is far less than the
Microsoft will also make Microsoft employee Dave Rogers pulls off a HoloLens device after trying it out in a Windows mixed $3,000 to $5,000 Microsoft
a Story Remix app for de- reality immersive experience at the Microsoft Build 2017 developers conference, Wednesday, has been charging for an-
vices running Apple’s iOS May 10, 2017, in Seattle. other mixed reality head-
and Google’s Android to Associated Press set called HoloLens.
help people share images Apple’s iTunes software
from their children’s soccer images and other content lowing you to easily jump take up storage space on is coming to its Windows
games and other events. on a laptop and paste it back to what you were do- a device. Store, a development that
Apple and Google already on a phone, as though the ing. A companion Pick Up Microsoft didn’t say when will help students using a
offer similar tools to man- two devices were one. It’s Where You Left Off feature Fall Creators Update will streamlined version of Win-
age images. Both those similar to what Apple al- will let you continue what come out. A preview for dows designed for class-
companies have helped ready offers with Universal you’re doing on another early testers was released rooms.
undercut the popularity of Clipboard in iPhones, iPads device, much like Apple’s Thursday. That version, Windows 10 S,
PCs running on Windows. and Mac computers. Handoff feature. As with other Windows 10 can only get apps through
Other features in the Fall — With Timeline, you’ll be — Changes to the One- updates, this will be free for the store, not directly
Creators Update will in- able to pick a time, say last Drive online storage service existing Windows 10 users. from third parties such
clude: Wednesday morning, and will make it easier to work The company is also ex- as Apple. Regular Win-
— A multi-device clip- see what files, apps and with files without having to panding its exploration of a dows 10 users can already
board to let you copy text, sites you had opened, al- download everything and new technological frontier get iTunes from Apple.q
Apple to invest $200 million in scratch-resistant glass

ADAM BEAM ago when former Apple and Apple owes you a big Williams was joined by U.S. 1,000 jobs in the United
Associated Press CEO Steve Jobs ordered thank you,” Apple Chief Senate Majority Leader States.
HARRODSBURG, Ky. (AP) — the plastic screen on the Operating Officer Jeff Wil- Mitch McConnell of Ken- It was the fourth major busi-
Apple says it will invest $200 company’s first iPhone to liams told workers at Corn- tucky and Corning CEO ness investment in Kentucky
million in a rural Kentucky be replaced with a scratch- ing’s Harrodsburg facility Wendell Weeks. this year. In January, Ama-
facility that it credits with resistant glass just a few on Friday. Officials from both compa- zon announced it would
rescuing the company’s months before the product Williams said the money nies did not say if the mon- spend $1.4 billion to build
signature smartphone from was to launch. is the first of $1 billion the ey would bring more jobs to a worldwide cargo hub in
a design flaw that would Since then, Corning says company plans to spend Kentucky, or if the state of- northern Kentucky.
have led to scratched it has made 552 million on US-based companies fered any tax incentives for Toyota has said it will spend
screens. square feet (51 million from its Advanced Manu- the investment. $1.3 billion in its George-
The California-based com- square meters) of its Gorilla facturing Fund. Corning officials said the town plant that produces
pany announced Friday it Glass product for iPhones “It’s only fitting that the money would be used “to its flagship Camry sedan.
would give the money to and iPads, or roughly first commitment from that sustain” the 400 employees And last month, Braidy
Corning Inc. to use at its enough glass to cover fund be for Corning and who work in Harrodsburg. Industries announced it
facility in Harrodsburg, Ken- 10,000 football fields. specifically for Harrods- Officials said the partner- would spend $1.3 billion to
tucky. Apple and Corning “All of that work happened burg, where so much of our ship between Apple and build an aluminum plant in
first teamed up 10 years right here in Harrodsburg, history is,” Williams said. Corning has produced eastern Kentucky.q