If you&aposve been lucky enough to get your hands on the new MacBook Air, you know that the keyboard really is excellent. Thanks to the scissor mechanism, which replaced the hated butterfly keyboard, the keys are noticeably cushier, with more travel. iFixit took a closer look at those keys in its latest teardown and reports that the height difference is about 0.5 millimeters.
“More…
Dell teased in January that its Mobile Connect software would become much more iPhone-friendly this spring, and it&aposs honoring that promise. The PC maker has updated Mobile Connect (you&aposll need the Microsoft Store and App Store downloads, and officially a…
If you didn&apost rush out to buy a VR headset to play Half-Life: Alyx, your patience might be rewarded. HP is teasing a Reverb G2 headset developed in tandem with Microsoft and Valve that should be “more immersive, comfortable and compatible” than…
Windows 10 now has one billion active monthly users — likely thanks in part to the deprecation of Windows 7 in January. To celebrate the milestone, Microsoft&aposs chief product officer, Panos Panay, shared an Instagram video recounting the various iterations of Windows&apos UI. The look of Windows 10 could keep evolving, it seems, as some eagle-eyed viewers spotted new types of…
Razer is making surgical masks to help with supply shortages
August 24, 2020
With many healthcare workers in dire need of more supplies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, some companies are helping by making essential items. Razer, for one, is joining the effort to fight the virus by making and donating surgical masks.
The company plans to provide…
Apple is upgrading the MacBook Air with better internals, its new more reliable Magic Keyboard and is hacking the price down to $999. The upgraded model also gets double the amount of storage, making it a better machine for folks who want to work on the go.
Ever since Apple…
There are now 1 billion Windows 10 devices in the wild
August 24, 2020
Windows 10 is now being used on one billion devices around the world — that&aposs one in every seven people on the planet. Since 2015, the operating system has made its way onto consoles, laptops and PCs across 200 countries, as exec Yusuf Mehdi notes that the entirety of the Fortune 500 is using Windows 10 devices. According to Microsoft, more businesses are in the process of…
You won&apost have to be a tester to try Windows 10&aposs new, built-in Linux kernel in the near future. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will be widely available when Windows 10 version 2004 arrives. You&aposll have to install it…
An improved MacBook Air could debut as early as next week
August 24, 2020
Apple hasn&apost really touched the current MacBook Air design since its 2018 debut unless you count the addition of True Tone, but it might be close to a substantial update. A MacRumors source with a largely positive track record has claimed that a refreshed MacBook…
Microsoft is working on at least a couple of big features for Windows 10&aposs Your Phone app, and Insider Preview users will be able to test them out after installing the latest test build. One of those features is the ability to copy-paste text and images between a phone and PC — for this particular iteration, however, the capability will only work between a Samsung Galaxy S20, 20+…
