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Double the capacity We’ve come a long way since solid state drive makers tried pushing paltry 64GB and even 32GB capacity SSDs on consumers. Sure, you can still find them, but these days, much higher storage options are available. Such is the case with Samsung’s 850 Pro and 850 Evo lines, both of which are…
A better browser Ever since Mozilla switched to a rapid release schedule for its Firefox browser, new versions have lacked the same excitement that came when upgrades were fewer and far between. Be that as it may, Firefox 39 is here, and it brings with it a few interesting additions and changes. Perhaps the biggest…
Company has received orders from ‘several’ PC vendors In-cell displays, which are becoming increasingly popular among thinness-obsessed smartphone makers, could soon be commonplace in the laptop market too. South Korean company LG says the Advanced In-Cell Touch (AIT) display technology found in its latest Android flagship, G4, is ready to graduate to bigger screens. Its…
Part of the StoreJet 35T3 range Transcend has added an 8TB option to its four-year-old StoreJet 35T3 USB 3.0 external hard drive range, which also contains 3TB and 4TB models. According to the company, the drive boasts “real-world” transfer speeds of up to 200 MB/s and comes with 256-bit AES encryption. Tom’s Hardware suspects the…
A look at Microsoft’s revamped Settings panel At the risk of being too blunt, we’d say that Microsoft created a mess with Windows 8. The operating system, launched in October 2012, forced customers to use an entirely new UI while making the coveted desktop a secondary platform. Sure, all you had to do was click…
Company is working on a fix The last few days have been rather hectic in terms of Insider Preview releases, with those in the Windows Insider program’s so-called Fast ring getting hit by as many as three builds in a span of four days. This is probably to be expected as Microsoft races to fix…
Will be available on July 29 When Microsoft acquired Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion last year, it came as a bolt from the blue. Further, it wasn’t immediately clear what Microsoft hoped to accomplish from the deal. But the whole picture is gradually becoming clearer, and it now seems one of the key motivations…
Turmoil at reddit You may have noticed that some of the subreddits you frequent are inaccessible at the moment. No, the site wasn’t hacked, though it is turning on itself in protest of the firing of Victoria Taylor, a high-ranking administrator and Director of Talent who coordinated the sometimes complicated process of reddit’s Ask Me…
Turmoil at reddit You may have noticed that some of the subreddits you frequent are inaccessible at the moment. No, the site wasn’t hacked, though it is turning on itself in protest of the firing of Victoria Taylor, a high ranking administrator and Director of Talent who coordinated the sometimes complicated process of reddit’s Ask…
Pushing Silverlight over the Edge Microsoft will not support its own Silverlight web plug-in in Edge, the next generation browser that was formerly known as Project Spartan. Instead, the company is going all-in with HTML5 specifications, the company confirmed in a blog post. “Support for ActiveX has been discontinued in Microsoft Edge, and that includes…