Music companies appeal, demanding payment for each song instead of each album.

May's incredible displays may have been among the strongest in 500 years. Now, the responsible sunspot region is rotating back toward us.

Heavy equipment working near dry brush sparked a destructive wildfire near Riverside, Calif., in September 2024.

Despite a sliver of good news in the latest monthly climate analyses, global heating continues — and the world is far from taming it.

Parents may worry about connecting with a child who is hard to comfort.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with U.S. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf about the agency's process for regulating artificial intelligence in healthcare.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Brian Murray, of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, about President-elect Trump's promise to increase fossil fuel production.

1840: More Excavations at Kalah Sherghat

1840: Removal of More Artifacts from Nineveh

More restaurants are struggling from the pandemic than expected and say money from the government has become increasingly important, according to a new survey issued by the National Restaurant Association.

(The Center Square) – Data from the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday showed New York has lost a greater percentage of its population over the last two years than any other state.

UK independent parcel carrier, Yodel, has opened a brand-new 162,000 sq. ft. depot in Huyton, Liverpool.

 Starship Technologies and Bolt have announced the launch of a new food delivery service.

Quadient has partnered with Co-op in the United Kingdom, to deliver further parcel locker growth and added convenience to its communities.

Every query on Chat GPT or another artificial intelligence app requires extraordinary amounts of electricity and water. Users have no way of knowing.

Three more California dairy herds have been infected with H5N1 bird flu. A new case of human infection has also been reported in Missouri.

Unless officials take action to develop new medications, drug-resistant infections could kill nearly 2 million people a year in 2050.

Uncontrolled wildfires can be powerful enough to generate their own weather.

Although California dairy farmers anticipated a bird flu mortality rate of less than 2%, some say between 10% and 15% of infected cattle are dying.

The deaths of people such as Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and Jim Morrison fuel the myth that musicians face an increased risk of death at age 27.

NBC and the NBC Sports Network have taken over Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore for extensive coverage of the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel of the Triple Crown. There will be no shortage of coverage of the Kentucky Derby winner Orb, who many think is a legitimate Triple Crown threat.

Taiwan, which makes one-fifth of the world's semiconductors, is facing a severe shortage of workers.

In the deeply Democratic Silicon Valley, there are some defectors. They're setting their sights — and their money — on Trump in the 2024 election.

A survey shows that most Americans have seen a deepfake in recent months, and most worry about AI-generated misinformation influencing elections.

Dozens of beloved Washington restaurants closed this year, more than in 2022, according to the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington.

More than a dozen people sustained injuries in an incident involving a Greyhound bus in Georgia, which local authorities said flipped on its side when one of the vehicle's tires blew out.

I was excited to see Microsoft bring the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) back from the dead this past year: At Build 2024 back in May, it announced that it would continue investing in this 20-year-old technology, starting with support for Windows 11 theming that would arrive as part of .NET 9. In fact, I was so excited about this that I brought my .NETpad project back from the dead as well, and I spent much of the summer modernizing my Notepad clone with the new features. I wrote 24 articles documenting this work, but I was stymied by the half-assed nature of the improvements.

Microsoft released exactly one WPF update during the several months of .NET 9 development, and it never added any of the features I discovered were missing. And so as we headed into today's release of .NET 9, my excitement was somewhat diminished. My assumption was that we wouldn't see those missing features implemented until .NET 10, if ever.

Well, Microsoft just released .NET 9. As part of that release, it published updated documentation for WPF (and all the other .NET technologies). And to my surprise, there are some updates to WPF that address at least one of those missing features.

So let's take a look.

To add support for Windows 11 theming to a WPF project, you need to add a reference to the new Fluent theme resource dictionary in its App.xml file. It looks like so:

<Application.Resources>
    <ResourceDictionary>
      <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/PresentationFramework.Fluent;component/Themes/Fluent.xaml" />
      </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
    </ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>

But with the shipping version of .NET 9, there's a second, more elegant way to add Windows 11 theming support. Now, you can access a new Application.ThemeMode property of a new styling API to toggle the app's theme mode between Light, Dark, System, and None. And that's fantastic, because it addresses one of those missing features: To date, .NETpad has adapted itself to the system theme (Light or Dark), but there was no way to let the user pick a theme mode. (For example, if the system was set to Dark and the user wanted the app to use Light mode.) With this change, I can implement that feature.

Fortunately, .NETpad is ready for this change, too: If you followed along with my work this past summer, you may remember that I implemented the user interface for switching the app theme into its settings interface, but left the UI hidden because it didn't do anything. But I always felt that Microsoft would need to implement this features, so I left the code in there. Granted, I didn't think it would happen this quickly.

The shipping version of .NET 9 also adds explicit support for the Windows 11 accent color (as configured by the user in the Settings app in Personalization > Accent color). As it is, .NETpa...

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Plus, More Event Updates for November 7 by EverOut Staff

Henry VIII’s six wives will belt pop songs on the Paramount Theatre stage when the Tony Award-winning musical Six returns to Seattle next spring. Post-hardcore band Chiodos is coming to Seattle next year to celebrate 20 years of their debut album All’s Well That Ends Well. Plus, Billboard-charting hard rock outfit Catch Your Breath has dropped dates for their Broken Souls tour. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can use.

MUSIC

Catch Your Breath - The Broken Souls Tour
The Crocodile (Feb 6, 2025)

Chiodos: 20 Years of All’s Well That Ends Well
The Showbox (Mar 28, 2025)

Fleetmac Wood
The Crocodile (Apr 4, 2025)

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The former daytime talk show host thanks the 'Charlie's Angels' actress for pioneering green-screen chat technology as she uses the effect for her own 'Oprah Conversations' show.

The 'Justice' singer is reportedly joining forces with the Bangtan Boys for his next music release following the merger of his manager's firm and the group's agency.

The 'Montero (Call Me by Your Name)' hitmaker talks about controversies surrounding his name, saying he loves taking on online trolls although he always tries not to start the fight.

The 'Saturday Night Live' member decides to 'burn off' his body inks because he's worried they would keep him from landing the onscreen roles that he wanted.

The 'Montero (Call Me by Your Name)' hitmaker talks about controversies surrounding his name, saying he loves taking on online trolls although he always tries not to start the fight.

The 'Saturday Night Live' member decides to 'burn off' his body inks because he's worried they would keep him from landing the onscreen roles that he wanted.

In this episode, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to enable the Fast long-press speed option on iOS 17. This new feature allows for quicker access to context menus and other Haptic Touch actions, enhancing your workflow and making your iPhone feel more responsive.

Here’s how you can activate the Fast Long-Press Speed Option:

1. Launch the Settings app.
2. Navigate to Accessibility.
3. Select Touch.
4. Choose Haptic Touch.

5. Under Touch Duration, opt for Fast.

   You can gauge the new response time by long-pressing on the flower image displayed on the same screen. This simple adjustment can significantly boost your iPhone’s responsiveness.

In this episode, Thomas Domville demonstrates the call recording and transcription feature in iOS 18.1. This update brings an exciting built-in call recording capability to iPhones. Recording a call is straightforward: just double-tap the Record button in the top left corner during a call (note that you might need to hide the keypad to see the button). A voice message will notify all participants that the call is being recorded. These recordings are saved directly in the Notes app, which uses end-to-end encryption to keep your conversations private. To review a call, simply go to the Notes app, and you'll find your recordings securely stored there. Additionally, iOS 18.1 offers automatic transcription, generating real-time captions and notes during your call. This feature makes it easy to reference important points later, with transcriptions handled entirely on your device to ensure privacy, with no data sent to external servers. Furthermore, supported iPhone models can provide summaries of these recordings, making it even easier to keep track of your conversations.

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript was generated by Aiko, an AI-powered transcription app. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Domville, also known as AnonyMouse.

I want to show you a feature called call recording and transcription.

This is a beautiful feature that allows you to record your phone call.

And yes, you're able to get a transcription of what transpired within that conversation of the phone call.

Very useful for any time that you want to record a meeting or conversation.

Maybe perhaps you're doing an interview with somebody or just simply just want to record for keepsake.

Whether there's somebody close to your family you just want to have for record, for archival, or maybe you have a business transition or phone call you just want to make sure it's recorded.

Now a couple things I want to note about this feature is that I always like to let people know that I'm about to record them.

So it's kind of a respectful kind of a thing and not to get them caught off guard.

So some people can maybe kind of leery about those kind of things that you just all of a sudden you just pop on them that you're recording their phone calls and such.

Make sure you tell them that you're about to record them.

Now even though Apple put a great safety feature in this and if you begin the recording no matter what you do it's going to let that recorder know that the phone call is being recorded.

So that is a nice feature that Apple ensured that everybody knows that the phone call is being recorded.

Now before you can use this feature you'll have to turn this option on and that's within the settings.

So let's head over to settings.

Settings.

Double tap to open.

You one finger double tap on settings.

Settings.

Now what we're looking for and we're looking for the phone app.

Now the phone app now lives in the app section.

Yep.

So at the very bottom of the settings so I'm going to do a four fingers tap at the bottom half of my phone here.

Apps.

Button.

Which will directly to get me to the app…

The question was; what to do on a dank Sunday in February for a day out without spending loads of dosh? And here’s the answer: A trip to RAF Museum Cosford.

A festival of art, commerce and love celebrating Stirchley, Birmingham