Microsoft's Sway is the anti-Office, with no rigid separation of tasks among Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Instead, it lets you create live documents that give images, video and sound as much weight as words. And now you can try it for yourself, because Microsoft has released a public app for iOS, Windows 10, and the Web. Users can download the
A lawsuit alleging that Apple mishandles the text messages of people who switch from an iPhone to an Android smartphone can’t proceed as a class-action case. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled there isn’t enough evidence to determine whether everyone who could be part of a group suit would have been impacted by a possible “contractual breach or interference” related to Apple’s iMessage application. Even if plaintiff Adrienne Moore’s allegations are correct, and iMessage contains flaws that interfere with text messages, there is not enough information for the court to determine whether the issues affect all users who would join in on the case, Koh said.
Windows 10 users, save all your work before logging out today. Microsoft is rolling out a major patch today and tonight that will force a system restart. What’s known as “KB3081424” is a cumulative or “rollup” patch, tying together all of the major incremental updates that have already been applied to Windows 10 since the “release” version went live last week. The
Facebook is giving businesses more reasons to use Facebook Messenger to reach customers. Businesses using the site now have more ways to send private messages, through Messenger, to Facebook users who interact with businesses’ pages or ads. Previously, businesses could only respond to users’ messages in the way they were initiated, either through a comment or a private message. Now, if a user leaves a comment on a Facebook page, the page owner can respond privately through Messenger. The changes also include new messaging integration for ads on Facebook. Businesses can incorporate a “Send Message” button into their ads, to let Facebook users initiate a private conversation directly from the ad.
I played an hour of It was, in other words, I can’t even say I feel bad about that cop-out. So much of this series is steeped in esoteric nonsense—from the lore to the game’s various systems—that to some extent it feels almost futile to delve into what’s changed between
Facebook and Twitter have been Facebook’s live-streaming video feature isn’t as egalitarian as Periscope. The video tool is only offered inside
There are now at least 24,000 different Android devices in the wild. This is among the surprising findings from the annual OpenSignal gets the data by analyzing the most recent 682,000 downloads of its mobile app. It then mines the data to determine version of Android the devices are running and their various general hardware specifications. OpenSignal sticks with the 682,000 figure for a more direct comparison from one year to the next. The
Microsoft sure is brazen. Windows has long offered native DVD playback capabilities, but Microsoft scrubbed them starting with Windows 8 in order to
The 4GB model of the Xbox 360 was always a stupid idea for modern gamers, but even the base model 500GB Xbox One is looking a little paltry these days, given the rise of full game downloads and consoles as media centers.That’s why Seagate came up with its new 2TB Game Drive for Xbox, which works with both the Xboxes One and 360. The drive is priced at $110 and comes with a top-case in Xbox green and a black body. It’s also emblazoned with the Xbox and Seagate logos and uses USB 3.0 to connect to your Xbox. Seagate hasn’t announced a specific release date for the new drives and, at this writing they were not available at Amazon or Gamestop.
Epson has figured out a way to get you to pay more than $300 for a printer again: a two-year supply of printer ink, built-in. The company recently announced a lineup of "EcoTank" all-in-one printers that offer 24 months of printer yields based on the average use case for each class of printer, thanks to their use of a large ink tank, rather than smaller ink cartridges. In other words, if you spend a bit more to upgrade to Epson’s EcoTank series, you won't have to buy new ink for a long, long time. Another way to think of it—especially if you use more ink than the average for your class of printer—is that one EcoTank equals about 20 standard ink cartridges.
I can't tell give you exact numbers because I don't know either your computer or what SSD you'll buy. But I can tell you this: The hard drive, with its mechanical moving parts, is almost certainly the biggest bottleneck in your PC. (If it isn't, you've got something seriously wrong--
Skylake is here, and with it, the expectation of faster performance and other innovations, from memory to connectivity. Here's your highlight reel of what's coming with the new chips. Skylake CPUs use a new LGA1151 socket that is, of course, incompatible with LGA1150 motherboards used for Haswell and Broadwell. “Why oh why” you scream? The need for DDR4, as well as a very different power delivery design for Skylake, pretty much mandated it. If you have a big investment in a liquid cooler or honking-big air coolers, they’ll still work. Intel used the same dimensions for the cooler as the LGA1150. This, by the way, hasn’t changed since at least the LGA1156 days.
Intel introduced its 6th-generation “Skylake” CPUs on Wednesday, but for most consumers it’s just a dream. At Gamescom in Germany, Intel unveiled two new 14nm desktop Skylake CPUs aimed at PC enthusiasts and gamers. Expectations are running high for Skylake, which is a “tock” in Intel's processor roadmap. For years Intel has worked on a “tick, tock” cadence for CPUs: Ticks are used to introduce new process changes and bring fairly conservative improvements, while the follow-on tocks are expected to bring a performance boost. The two Skylake CPUs include the 4GHz Core i7-6700K and the Core i5-6600K. Both are quad-core, desktop chips, with the key differentiator being support for Intel’s virtual CPU Hyper-Threading technology.