Microsoft celebrates its 40th anniversary It was on April 4, 1975, that Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft. Gates hadn’t even turned 20-years-old at the time, and Allen wasn’t much older at 22. Yet what they created changed everything. In reflecting on the past 40 years of Microsoft’s existence, Gates talked about the shared…
Expired security certificate caused Gmail to wig out Procrastinating kids trying to email the Easter Bunny on Saturday using their Gmail account may have run into some trouble getting their messages sent. That’s because a “majority” of Gmail users, or hundreds of millions, were affected by a problem that Google later identified as an expired…
Proudly, and with great anticipation, we announce that Aaru’s Awakening is coming to PS4 and PS3 on April 7th. At last! The plan was to release the game last summer but first we had to learn about the hefty work of post-production in video games. The hard way. Since this is the debut game for…
Build 10051 is here Another day, another Windows 10 leak. So what if it’s not even been a week since the release of the last official Windows 10 Technical Preview build (10049)? It’s never too soon for a build leak. But you’re going to have to lower your expectations a touch this time as build…
The Redmond-based company finally relents Microsoft won plaudits from privacy advocates when it released Internet Explorer 10 in 2012 with the Do Not Track (DNT) option enabled by default. For obvious reasons, the move didn’t go down well with advertisers, who saw it as an act of overbearing unilateralism on the company’s part. Microsoft, though,…
The dedicated PC sensor had become redundant Production of the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor has now ceased. Coming some nine months after the $200 PC-compatible variant of Xbox One’s powerful motion-sensing camera first began shipping, Microsoft says the move is designed to allow it to “consolidate the Kinect for Windows experience around a single…
E-tailers begin taking pre-orders for the Intel Compute Stick ARM had the whole PC-on-a-stick market to itself not that long ago, but that changed in October when a Chinese company began selling what was an otherwise ordinary looking HDMI dongle, save for one glaring oddity: the iconic “Intel Inside” logo. Soon Intel itself joined in…
Normally when you forget your backpack on the way to the bus stop, you either leave it behind or run back home to get it. In Nia’s case, however, her backpack is a living monster named V. And V is trying real hard to catch up to Nia before it’s too late. Also, he may…
For the Geek in all of us With Easter right around the corner, we thought it would be fun to update our old software easter eggs story to encompass 20 of our favorites. Do you have a personal favorite software Easter egg? Or perhaps you’d like to share one that we didn’t mention? Let us…
Top Deal: What’s better than one solid state drive? Two, of course! It opens the door to RAID 0 (see our guide on how to set one up) for increased performance and all-around awesomeness, though it’s not always cost effective. Ah, but that’s why you should check out today’s top deal for two (yes, TWO)…