Enlarge / Who doesn’t love some new Windows? Peter Bright / Flickr The ill-fated Windows 10 October 2018 Update has hitherto been offered only to those Windows users that manually sought it, either by using the dedicated upgrade and media creation tools or by manually checking for update in Windows Update. Three months after its […]
Enlarge / The Cortana button is now no longer part of the search box. Microsoft Today’s Insider build of Windows 10, number 18317, changes how search and Cortana are used, as Microsoft is working to reposition Cortana as a productivity-focused digital assistant and integrate search with Office 365. Currently, Windows 10 has a single text […]
Enlarge Google is implementing major new Play Store rules for how Android’s “SMS” and “Call Log” permissions are used. New Play Store rules will only allow certain types of apps to request phone call logs and SMS permissions, and any apps that don’t fit into Google’s predetermined use cases will be removed from the Play […]
LAS VEGAS—Heart health was clearly one of the main focuses of CES 2019. There were tons of new wearables that incorporated tools like electrocardiograms and improved heart-rate monitors—all of which were packed into stylish designs. (Apple Watch, who?) But blood pressure was on the agenda, too, and there’s one wearable that stood out more than […]
Enlarge / Licensing and support lifecycles are not really the easiest topics to illustrate. Peter Bright Windows 7’s five years of extended support will expire on January 14, 2020—exactly one year from today. After this date, security fixes will no longer be freely available for the operating system that’s still widely used. As always, the […]
Enlarge / The iPhone XR in its myriad colors. Valentina Palladino As the new year kicks off, we already have rumors swirling about the next round of iPhones to come from Apple. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple plans to release three new iPhones this year, two models with OLED displays […]
Enlarge / VLC on the Mac. Samuel Axon Popular open source video and audio player software VLC will add support for Apple’s AirPlay streaming feature soon, according to statements given by the app’s development team to Variety. VLC also provided the following statement to The Verge to comment on the timeline and clarify some specifics […]
Enlarge / The Chromecast Audio let you hook up just about any audio device to the cast ecosystem through a 3.5mm jack. RIP. Another day, another dead Google product. Today, Google is discontinuing the Chromecast Audio. The company told Android Police it has stopped manufacturing the audio-only version of the Chromecast, so when the current […]
The Nokia 8.1 Plus render. 91Mobiles We’ve got a hole-punch display and a rear fingerprint reader. 91Mobiles That front Nokia logo is a bit ugly. 91Mobiles I spy: a top headphone jack and a bottom USB-C port. 91Mobiles Is it just me or does this not make any sense? The Nokia 9 has a dated […]
Enlarge / Windows 10: Doing great things sometimes requires 7GB? Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images The latest Windows 10 Insider build, number 18312, introduces a new feature wherein the operating system reserves a big old chunk of disk space, effectively expanding its on-disk footprint by another 7GB. The storage reservation is to ensure that certain […]
Enlarge / AMD Radeon VII. AMD AMD’s next flagship video card will be the Radeon VII. The VII slots in above the RX Vega 64 and averages about 29 percent faster, putting it within spitting distance of Nvidia’s RTX 2080. The GPU inside the VII is called Vega 20, which is a die-shrunk version of […]
Lenovo Yoga A940 from the front. Lenovo Lenovo Yoga A940 folding hinge demonstration. Lenovo Lenovo Yoga A940 Precision Dial on the left of the screen. Lenovo Lenovo Yoga A940 charging mat. Lenovo Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet stimulated a range of copycat systems from PC OEMs, with all the major PC companies coming out with their […]
The front and back of the Lenovo Smart Clock. Lenovo With a cloth back, it looks just like a Google Home product. Lenovo Lenovo’s Smart Clock next to the bigger Lenovo Smart Display. Lenovo The top has plus and minus volume buttons. Lenovo The back has a power port, microphone mute switch, and a USB-A […]
Enlarge / Complete Lakefield motherboard. Intel Intel had a big presentation at CES last year, which was strange, because the company didn’t really have many things to announce. The delays to its 10nm manufacturing process meant that, instead of exciting new chips, the best we could really hope for was rehashed versions of its current chips, […]
7th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon from the front. Lenovo 7th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon from the rear, showing the weave pattern in the lid. Lenovo 7th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon from the left, showing the power button, one USB 3.1 generation 1 port, and a Kensington lock hole. Lenovo 7th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon from the right, showing the […]