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Google's parent company Alphabet announced its first quarter 2023 financial results today. It also announced that it will give stock holders a quarterly cash dividend for the first time.

Microsoft brought in $61.9 billion in revenue for its fiscal third quarter of 2024, which ended on March 31, 2024. Those numbers were up 17 percent from the same time period a year ago.

The newly revealed 8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode Controller can serve as an officially approved wired game controller for Xbox consoles, along with wireless support for PC and Android devices.

Canonical has released its latest version of the Linux-based OS Ubuntu. Version 24.04, which has the code name Noble Numbat, enables frame pointers by default for 64-bit architectures.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it will not be holding its in-person fan event BlizzCon in 2024. The developer did say it will hold the event at some point in the future.

A new report claims that after a series of high-profile security breaches at Microsoft, the company is now concentrating on making improvements to its security features and services.

The Nvidia GeForce NOW cloud gaming service is adding more older Blizzard games to its library this week, along with the highly anticipated historical city builder game Manor Lords, and more.

The Lenovo Legion Go portable gaming PC includes an 8.8-inch display and detachable controllers, among other features. It's now available for an all-new low price of $629.99 at Amazon

Microsoft has revealed that the classic Teams desktop app will no longer be updated or supported after July 1, 2024 and that it will stop working altogether in the near future as well.

Proton Mail is adding some new features for its business customers, including a way for companies to add their logo to the web email app, plus a new employee availability feature for its calendar.

The Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS internal hard drive is a great choice for people who want to use it for their home media server. It just hit an all-new low price of $159.99 at Amazon.

Google is rolling out a new feature in ChromeOS that will now allow Chromebook users to open, use, and edit Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in the Chromebook Files app.

Starting with this week's non-security preview release, updates for Windows 10 22H2 should be much smaller for downloads, thanks to lessons learned from doing the same thing to Windows 11.

Blizzard Entertainment is now hiring for a number of positions for a new but currently unannounced game, a few months after its survival game was canceled after several years of development.

The popular cloud storage service Dropbox has announced it is launching a beta that adds support for real-time co-authoring features with Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more.

President Joe Biden has now signed the TikTok bill into law. That means the social network's Chinese owners at ByteDance have 270 days to sell it, or the TikTok app could be banned from US app stores.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has announced it is taking comments from others to see if the partnerships that Microsoft and Amazon have made with AI companies could harm competition.

The Asus TUF F15 Windows 11 gaming-themed notebook has a 15.6-inch display and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 GPU. It just hit a new all-time low price of $750 at Amazon for a limited time.

The US Senate has voted for a bill package that includes a bill that could lead to the banning of TikTok from US app stores. President Joe Biden will sign the bill into law on Wednesday.

Microsoft has released the non-security preview update for Windows 10 22H2 under KB5036979. It includes new Microsoft Account notifications, Widgets lock screen improvements and more.

Microsoft has released non-security updates for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 under KB5036980, They both include changes to the Start menu for apps, Widgets improvements and more updates.

Microsoft goes into detail on some new features in its Edge web browser designed to add more text editing options, including using Copilot to rewrite text and more support for digital ink writing.

Noted third-party Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims the company has cut its first-year shipment numbers for the Vision Pro mixed reality headset from 700K-800K units down to just 400K-450K units.

Microsoft and Google, in collaboration with Thorn and All Tech Is Human, have announced new child safety commitments for generative AI features in their various AI software products.

Razer has launched its newest high-end gaming PC mouse, the Viper V3 Pro. It has a 35,000 DPI optical sensor and is very lightweight at just 54 grams. It's now available for an MSRP of $159.99.

Microsoft has announced a new five-year deal with The Coca-Cola Company, which plans to spend a total of $1.1 billion during that time to access Microsoft's cloud and generative AI services.

To promote the current Disney+ Marvel animated series X-Men 97, Microsoft is giving away a custom Xbox Series X console with art that's also an exclusive X-Men 97 comic book story.

Microsoft has announced that a Russian hacker group has been exploiting an old Windows Print Spooler issue for as long as four years in order to "steal credentials in compromised networks."

Crucial's flagship T705 Gen5 internal solid-state drives have just hit all-new low prices at Amazon. You can get the 1TB version for $154.99, the 2TB model for $279.99, and the 4TB variant for $514.99

Adobe has revealed a new beta version of its Photoshop image editing software. It includes the new Firefly Image 3 model for making more realistic AI images, along with other new features.

Microsoft has announced that the private preview of Content Integrity tools will expand to EU political parties, campaigns, and media groups worldwide to fight election deepfake images.

The LG UltraGear 34-inch ultrawide curved gaming PC monitor has a 3,440 x 1,440 resolution and a refresh rate of up to 160Hz. It's currently at its all-time low price of $249.99 at Amazon.

Manor Lords, the city builder game from the one-person dev team Slavic Magic. has reached the 3 million wishlist milestone on Steam before its April 26 release for PC and Microsoft PC Game Pass.

Meta announced its Meta Horizon OS, used for its Meta Quest mixed reality headsets, will be used by third parties to make their own VR products, including Microsoft on an "inspired by Xbox" device.

Microsoft will hold another of its ID@Xbox Digital Showcase streaming events on Monday, April 29. It will be streamed on IGN's site and social networking accounts starting at 1 pm Eastern Time.

Microsoft Defender for Individuals has expanded its privacy protection features to iOS users in the US and UK along with Android users in the UK, with plans for more regions and platforms.

Microsoft-owned game developer Rare has officially revealed a new and nearly 13,000-square-foot building on its campus made with sustainable design in mind as part of Earth Day 2024.

Microsoft and Cognizant have announced a new partnership that will include Cognizant buying 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats to help expand the use of generative AI in the enterprise space.

The popular third-party game mod hosting site NexusMods has been experiencing heavy traffic in the last few days, which, it says, is due to the Fallout TV show that has boosted Fallout player numbers.