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 the just-announced Windows 10X — specifically for devices like the new dual-screen Surface Neo, the company’s big surprise…
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…
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 Panos Panay claimed the Ryzen “Surface Edition” is the most powerful mobile CPU in a laptop available today, noting…
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…
More than a billion scam popup ads were served thanks to bugs in Apple’s WebKit and the open-source Blink frameworks which power Safari and Chrome on iOS and macOS…
Scam popup ads are one of the biggest headaches for web publishers. Scammers manage…
Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 packs a 10th-gen Intel CPU
October 2, 2019
Microsoft has good news if you just want a straightforward portable PC instead of one of its more exotic models: there’s a new Surface Laptop in town. The Surface Laptop 3 shares much of the familiar design (more on that in a bit), but there’s considerably more power under the hood. You now have the option of special Surface Edition AMD Ryzen processors with Vega 11 graphics, for a…
After taking several years between updates to its popular Major headphones, Marshall has announced a new pair just one year after it came out with the Major III. The company’s new Major III Voice Bluetooth headphones add voice control through Google Assistant and a…
A British iPhone owners’ lawsuit against Google filed in 2017 and which the High Court blocked in 2018 has today been reinstated.
The ‘representative action’ (the UK equivalent of a class action lawsuit) was seeking compensation for every Brit who used an iPhone…
The popular iOS app Duet Display that turns your smartphone or tablet into a secondary monitor is now available to download on Android.
While you can already turn your Samsung Galaxy phone into a desktop machine using the DeX system, it’s harder to turn your phone into an actual extra screen for an existing PC or Mac.
Duet Display for Android, when released, will enable you to turn your…
