Operating Systems

Many of Microsoft Edge's most important features are now faster than ever
Microsoft Edge just got a big update that improves the speed of at least 14 UI elements by 40% on average. The speed boost is thanks to Microsoft's migration to WebUI 2.0.
2025-02-19 13:47
Trump’s 10% tariff hits US laptop prices, but Apple absorbing cost for now
Trump’s 10% tariff on all imports from China – payable in addition to any existing duties – is now in effect, and is starting to be reflected in US prices. The tariff is paid by US businesses and consumers when goods arrive from China, with compa...
2025-02-19 13:37
Pokemon Go maker Niantic might be inching closer to selling its game division
The company behind the 2016 hit Pokemon Go game might have reached a deal to sell out its gaming business. Read more...
2025-02-19 13:08
Two of the best-looking laptops of 2025 landed on my desk, so here's a photoshoot
I got both the Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i and ASUS Zenbook A14 in for review, and decided to share my first impressions of these two exciting Windows laptops.
2025-02-19 13:00
Wireless reverse charging being tested in the iPhone 17 Pro – leaker
Wireless reverse charging is a long-awaited feature which we know Apple has been working on for a long time, and which it partly implemented back in 2020. However, it hasn’t been fully activated in any iPhone model, despite widespread adoption in And...
2025-02-19 12:49
Save the date: Honor expected to show off AI vision and products
Honor is due to set out its vision for the AI era at MWC 2025. It will also show off its latest AI innovations and products at the event. Read more...
2025-02-19 12:12
Claimed packaging adds weight to today’s announcement being the iPhone 16E
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently revealed that a product announcement will be happening today, and it seems 99% certain that’s the 4th-generation iPhone SE – which some reports have suggested will instead be named the iPhone 16E. A leaker with a decent ...
2025-02-19 12:03
Five ways AMD can bungle its RDNA 4 launch — Will NVIDIA GPUs get the competition they need?
After weeks of delay, AMD is ready to reveal its RDNA 4 graphics cards on February 28. Will it be a success? Here are 5 reasons why it might fall flat.
2025-02-19 12:00
5 ways AMD can bungle its RDNA 4 launch — Will NVIDIA GPUs get the competition they need?
After weeks of delay, AMD is ready to reveal its RDNA 4 graphics cards on February 28. Will it be a success? Here are 5 reasons why it might fall flat.
2025-02-19 12:00
Mesa 25.0 Released With Vulkan 1.4 Driver Support, AMD RDNA4 Ready
Mesa 25.0 was officially released today as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers used on Linux systems by multiple hardware vendors...
2025-02-19 11:39
NetEase confirms Marvel Rivals' Seattle-based studio laid off for 'organizational reasons'
NetEase has confirmed that it has laid off the US-based development team that had been working on Marvel Rivals. Read more...
2025-02-19 10:42
Perplexity releases open-source R1 1776 reasoning model without China censorship
Perplexity has released R1 1776, a reasoning model based on DeepSeek's R1 model. R1 1776 has the benefit of not censoring answers China doesn't like. Read more...
2025-02-19 10:16
Avowed: All Godlike powers and abilities
As the Envoy, your Avowed character has access to Godlike abilities, so I've pulled together the full list of Godlike powers you can find.
2025-02-19 10:14
Linux Driver Posted For Enabling Apple Web Camera Support For M-Series Macs
A set of patches were posted today for review by the upstream Linux kernel developers in providing driver support for the Apple web camera and image signal processing (ISP) for Apple M-Series devices. This is enough to get the web camera support workin...
2025-02-19 10:13
Valve makes major changes to DOTA 2 map and mechanics again in new update
DOTA 2 just received another major update that reworks many of its map mechanics, heroes, items, and much more. Check out the details here. Read more...
2025-02-19 10:00
Obsidian is trolling all of us by disabling one of Avowed's most useful settings by default, and we're mad about it
Why they decided to disable the ability to see such important objects on the compass is beyond me!
2025-02-19 09:57
Mozilla once again extends Firefox support on Windows 7
Mozilla is still not ready to drop Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 support in Firefox. The browser will continue receiving security updates throughout 2025. Read more...
2025-02-19 09:32
Buying Books in Google Play Books for iOS is easier than ever
Google is making purchases easier to buy e-books and audiobooks in the Play Books iOS app by introducing the ‘Get book' button. Read more...
2025-02-19 08:58
VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support
VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...
2025-02-19 08:45
Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust
The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-co...
2025-02-19 08:40