If you've been waiting for this week's Edge Dev build, you should know that it's not coming. To align with the Chromium release schedule, Microsoft is pausing updates for a couple of weeks.
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Indefinite Lumia Personality of the Year. All puns are intended. Lover of all things technology, but also pizza and French fries.
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It's Wednesday, meaning that it's time for a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build in the Dev channel. This week's build is build 20161, and this time, there are a bunch of new features.
Today, Microsoft announced a bunch of features that are coming to its OneDrive cloud storage service. You can now upload larger files, dark mode is coming to web, there's Teams integration, and more.
While Microsoft had fixed an issue affecting PCs using the Always On, Always Connected feature earlier this month, it has finally removed the block preventing them from installing the May 2020 Update.
Announced back in April, Microsoft's Xbox Game Bar Widget Store is now open for business. The firm also introduced a couple of other new features coming to Game Bar, such as click-through.
A new result has shown up in the Geekbench database that shows a Microsoft PC with Qualcomm's rumored Snapdragon 8cx Plus chipset. It seems that the Redmond firm is testing out the upcoming SoC.
While here was a lot of speculation about the name for the new mid-range OnePlus smartphone, the company has confirmed that it will be called the Nord, and that it will cost under $500.
Qualcomm today introduced the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+, marking the first time that Google's Wear OS ecosystem has seen a meaningful improvement in its smartwatch processors.
Today, AdDuplex released its monthly report showing the usage data for various versions of Windows 10. The year-old version 1903 is still the most popular, with version 2004 on 7% of Windows 10 PCs.
Today, Motorola announced that its Edge smartphone will arrive this summer for $699.99, and it will also come with more RAM and storage than it originally promised at the time of announcement.
Some users have taken to Reddit to complain that Microsoft's new Edge browser is stealing their data. It imports from Chrome or Firefox before getting permission, and then deletes it if you decline.
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While Microsoft has been championing its upcoming Xbox Series X for a while now, a new, lesser model is on the horizon. Codenamed Lockhart, the Xbox Series S could be announced in August.
Announced two weeks ago, Microsoft is replacing the Windows Insider Program rings with channels, and the change is going live today. You'll see the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels.
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Apple's new ARM64 macOS development kits are reaching some hands, and developers using it are already starting to benchmark it. The scores don't beat an Intel Mac, but this isn't production hardware.
Announced earlier this week, Panasonic's new rugged Android tablet has hot swappable batteries, an 800-nit display, MIL-STD-810H certification, 4G LTE connectivity, and a whole lot more.