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WTOL

Paint-a-plow program shares the importance of snow safety with students

HOLLAND, Ohio — The Lucas County Engineer's office is preparing for its upcoming Paint-a-Plow Program by teaming up with four local school districts this winter. The program lets students paint an ...
PC Gamer

Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player

Video playback on old computers was a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred ...
The New Yorker

TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software

The so-called desktop first appeared on a home computer in 1981, with the release of the Xerox 8010 Star Information System. That device pioneered the graphical-user interface, or G.U.I., a convenient ...
ExtremeTech

MS Paint Users Can Save and Reopen Editable Projects for the First Time

Microsoft Paint's latest update lets users save their work as editable Paint project files under a new .paint format. This makes resuming prior work easier, as users just need to open their .paint ...
ZDNet

Windows Paint just got a major Photoshop-like upgrade you'll want to try - what's new

Windows 11 Paint can now save your work with all edits intact. Paint also now lets you adjust the transparency of your strokes. The new features are rolling out to Windows 11 insiders. One of the many ...
The Verge

Microsoft Paint is getting its own Photoshop-like project files

Paint is also getting opacity sliders to adjust the transparency of the pencil and brush tools. Paint is also getting opacity sliders to adjust the transparency of the pencil and brush tools. is a ...
Wired

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
TweakTown

Tilt! Ex-Microsoft coder explains bug in Windows 3D Pinball that hogged CPU and ran at 5000 FPS

TL;DR: Dave Plummer, an ex-Microsoft software engineer with a hefty following on YouTube, explained the worst bug of his career in his latest upload - leaving Windows 3D Pinball with an uncapped frame ...
TechCrunch

RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI

Sometimes it’s nice to have a simple app that does one thing well without a lot of fuss. Microsoft Lens was that type of app: a mobile document scanner that turned paper documents, business cards, ...
Thurrott

Microsoft’s New Copilot 3D Turn Images Into 3D Models

Microsoft has just launched an experimental Copilot 3D tool that can transform a static image into a 3D model. The AI-powered web app is available for select users via Microsoft’s Copilot Labs portal, ...