What’s a sports game developer supposed to do when the sport they simulate stops making sense? This is the question facing 2K Sports after a bizarre offseason in the NBA left the league in chaos. But 2K has to put out their yearly product, and NBA 2K20 came out like clockwork, over a month before the start of the season and with a league it’s supposed to model that may unmodelable. Although…
Google first added app shortcuts to Android with the debut of Nougat, but many apps never added the functionality. Now, there’s evidence that Instagram is finally adding app shortcuts to its Android app, but there’s no telling when they’ll…
After testing the feature with some users in beta, Google has today announced that incognito mode for Maps will start rolling out to Android and iOS users in the next few weeks.
Incognito mode first made its debut in Chrome and expanded to YouTube last…
Just how, exactly, will Windows work on dual-screen PCs like Microsoft’s Surface concept? With Windows 10X, a new variant of the OS that’s designed for machines with two displays. This isn’t like Windows 10S, Microsoft’s ill-fated and restrictive variant for the Surface Laptop (which has since become far more relaxed). Instead, 10X is more like a rethinking of the OS…
Windows is a big, bloated operating system by the modern standards of today’s tablet and phone users. This is known. But every time Microsoft has tried to strip it down to something simple, users have (rightly?) revolted. Now, the company is officially trying again with…
Apple analyst Dan Ives at Wedbush today released a report indicating that Apple’s supply chain partners are increasing their production schedules and forecasts as Apple sees stronger-than-expected demand for the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro.
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Microsoft announces Windows 10X for dual-screen PCs
October 2, 2019
Microsoft today announced Windows 10X, a new flavor of Windows 10 designed for dual-screen PCs. Windows 10X will power dual-screen PCs from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and of course Microsoft. But we won’t seem them until holiday 2020. Microsoft teased the Surface Neo running Windows 10X at its event today. Lenovo unveiled what it called “the world’s first foldable PC” earlier this…
Microsoft’s Surface Duo is a foldable Android phone
October 2, 2019
Microsoft today announced something of a surprise during an event this morning in New York City: A new foldable with phone functionality. It’s called the Surface Duo, and it runs Android instead of Windows.
The outer shell of the Surface Duo is rounded, much like that of…
For the first time, Microsoft plans to offer a 15-inch version of the Surface Laptop. In addition to offering variants with Intel’s 10th-gen Ice Lake chips, Microsoft worked with AMD to develop a custom Ryzen mobile CPU for the Surface Laptop 3. The company’s…
By balancing price, performance, portability, and design, the 13.5-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop became one of the best notebooks of 2017, and the company barely bothered to tweak that formula for 2018’s Surface Laptop 2. But with the just-announced Surface Laptop 3, Microsoft is actually changing the laptop’s design in a few key ways — including the long-awaited USB-C port so you can…
