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If there are not any last minute changes, the last days of the once-mighty Yahoo company have begun.

Verizon offered $4.8 billion for the Yahoo brand name, core patents, and the bulk of the company's Internet properties, and Yahoo accepted the offer last year.

The only major properties not included in the deal is the stake in Yahoo Japan, and the stake in Chinese company Alibaba.

All other web properties will be part of Verizon once finalized. The following Yahoo properties will fly under the Verizon flag from that moment on:

Windows 10 supports Windows Hello, a biometric authentication feature that allows you to sign in using your face or fingerprint.

The main idea behind Hello is to make the authentication process easier. Users don't have to enter a password anymore when they sign in on a machine running Windows 10, but can sign in using the device's camera or fingerprint reader.

I have set up Windows Hello on the Surface 4 Pro device that I bought some time ago. To be precise, I enabled the face detection authentication option.

Mozilla plans to remove the Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module in Firefox 52 Stable.

Adobe Primetime is a content decryption module that is only available for Firefox on Windows. It is designed to play back protected media streams. In other words, it is a plugin for DRM.

Microsoft just shipped the first Windows 10 Insider Build of the year 2017, Windows 10 Build 15002, to the Fast Ring Insider channel.

The build is not entirely new, as it leaked earlier and many snagged it to be the first to report on new functionality found in that build.

If you have read the leaked reports, you know that Microsoft has pushed plenty of new features in that build.

KeePass 2.35 has just been released; the latest version of the popular desktop password manager for Windows ships with a new file format and Argon2 support among other things.

KeePass is my password manager of choice, and at least some regulars here on Ghacks are using it as well instead of other password managers.

You have probably read about Gartner's latest forecast already which sees Apple shipping more combined devices than Microsoft / Windows in the year 2017 and the following years.

CryptoPrevent 8 is the latest version of the popular malware prevention software for devices running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

Windows users have quite the diverse selection of security tools at their disposal. Even if you ignore the options that Windows itself ships with, there is a variety of tools that users can install to improve their system's protection against malware threats.

CryptoPrevent falls into the supplemental category, meaning that it adds to the protection but should be used next to resident antivirus software or other protections.

Microsoft is working on the next feature update for Windows 10 called the Creators Update.

The new version of Windows 10 will be made available in April 2017 according to latest projections, and it will introduce a series of new features and changes to the operating system.

The built-in Share functionality of Windows 10 will be updated in the Creators Update as well. We talked about this when the first screenshots of the new user interface leaked.

The core change is that the Share user interface will open up in the center of the screen instead of the sidebar.

ClickMonitorDCC is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows devices that enables you to control a monitor's brightness, contrast and volume using mouse and keyboard.

Most computer monitors come with buttons and options to change parameters such as the display brightness or contrast. While that is the case, it is usually not that comfortable to change the values using the built-in functionality.

On some device types, laptops for instance, you may not have these options at all, or only in basic form.