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With Windows 7 nearing its end of extended support, Microsoft has seemingly begun retiring some services for the OS. The updating of metadata is now unsupported in Windows Media Player in Windows 7.

Google has announced a beta for its peer-to-peer offline app installation program, which verifies that an app that is being transferred to another offline device is secure, by checking its metadata.

Google has announced that Google Images will now display creator, credit, and copyright notice information. This should help photographers protect their copyrighted material and get attribution.

A new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has reported just how many U.S. citizens have had their call detail records collected last year. The records consist of metadata.