A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- Integrating desktop code into UWP apps with an AppService
- Judge blocks Seattle’s new income tax on the rich
- Short-term rental startup Stay Alfred does biggest deal yet, leasing 10 floors in Nashville high-rise
- Amazon's AWS updates its Rekognition service to detect and recognize text within images, perform real-time face searches, and more (Blair Hanley FrankVentureBeat)
- The PC BIOS will be killed off by 2020 as Intel plans move to pure UEFI
- DirectX Shader Compiler in the Windows SDK
- Microsoft Tech Summit Sydney Nov 16-17 2017 – Recap with Adam Fowler and friends!
- Cloud Computing + Modern DevOps == Productivity Gains
- The November 22nd Weekly Roundup is Posted!
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Scaling Storage Size
- YouTube details steps it's taking in ongoing effort to clamp down on videos that exploit children, will ramp up removal of offensive material, halt monetization (Charlie WarzelBuzzFeed)
- Intel Didn't Heed Security Experts Warnings About ME
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Introduces Message Filtering
- Best Gaming Laptops Holiday 2017
- How to Forward Ports on Your Eero Wi-Fi System
- How this museum makes moldy machines work again, saving historic computers for the future
- Why Apple's HomePod Is Three Years Behind Amazon's Echo
- Microsoft to showcase latest industrial IoT innovations at SPS 2017
- PC vendors scramble to issue patches after Intel announced firmware flaws allowing remote code execution affecting a wide range of chips and millions of devices (Sean GallagherArs Technica)
- ADATA Announces XPG Storm A Cooler for M.2 SSDs with a 16500 RPM Fan
- By year’s end, you’ll know if you liked a Kremlin-created Facebook page
- Digital Transformation Success Comes to Organizations with Daring Leaders
- Uber Hack `Raises Huge Concerns' With U.K. Data Regulator
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Region Expansion
- Thanksgiving on the space station Just another day at the office, but with turkey
- Intel to Remove Legacy BIOS Support from UEFI by 2020
- AWS Certificate Manager Easier Certificate Validation Using DNS
- The UWP Community Toolkit v2.1
- This Week on Windows Black Friday deals, Minecraft 1.2.5 Update and more
- Report Amazon Web Services to launch big health care push next week with Cerner
- Review Coco delivers Pixar’s best technical and emotional magic
- Xbox Live Games With Gold For December 2017
- Let’s talk turkey Thanksgiving food trends
- Washington governor is ‘bullish’ on Seattle-Vancouver high-speed rail thanks to a Microsoft-backed study
- Safely and quickly distribute private enterprise apps with Google Play
- Judge EFF’s “Stupid Patent of the Month” clearly protected by Constitution
- Microsoft program helps UK teachers ramp up their digital skills
- Azure IoT is helping to clean the polluted Ganges, India’s holy river
- Facebook updates Messenger to allow for higher quality images