Microsoft‘s Surface tablet PCs have come a long way since their 2012 launch, but the concept behind the design remains unchanged: A tablet that can convincingly double as a laptop. Both the hardware and the Windows OS had to mature, and it finally hit its stride with 2015’s Surface Pro 4. It instantly became the …

Intel’s processors power the majority of laptops, but it doesn’t actually make laptops. That hasn’t stopped the chipmaker from patenting a design here and there. Among the company’s latest is a 2-in-1 laptop/tablet hybrid with a detachable curved display according to a design patent. The US Patent and Trademark Office granted the patent in November, but apparently it went noticed …

GoPro’s Karma drone is getting a second chance to take on market leader DJI. Shortly after the quadcopter debuted last September, GoPro voluntarily recalled the approximately 2,500 Karma drones sold to consumers. The recall followed the discovery that, in a small number of cases, the quadcopters lost power during operation. GoPro determined an insecure battery latch was the cause, so …

Nvidia’s offering a little incentive to bump up your laptop or desktop graphics to one of its higher-end GPUs. The Prepare for Battle bundle gives anyone who buys a GeForce GTX 1080 or 1070 GPU, or a gaming rig with one, a free copy of either Ubisoft’s For Honor or Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands. For Honor is a single- …

Dell isn’t playing favorites with its education laptops: All three of its new systems are available to run on Microsoft Windows 1o or Google Chrome. Both Microsoft and Google announced education initiatives this week and part of those was new low-cost laptops and convertibles made specifically for classroom use. For Dell that list includes the 11.6-inch Latitude 11 and Chromebook …

Google just made it a no-brainer for school districts to kick Apple and Microsoft to the curb. At the education technology conference Bett, the search giant announced two new Chromebooks from Acer and Asus that basically offer low-cost, secure alternatives to iPads and Windows notebooks in one device. Google has been pushing hard into the education market for the past …

Back at CES 2017, Acer announced a Chromebook built for heavy use day after day in schools. Now, it’s giving the same treatment to a Windows laptop — and it’s a convertible one to boot. The Acer TravelMate Spin B1 is an 11.6-inch laptop running Windows 10 Pro with 360-degree hinges letting students use it like a clamshell, a tablet …

Power management on your PC doesn’t have to be so hard. Tucked into the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15014 for PC and Mobile is a new slider user interface designed to make complicated power management a thing of the past. The power slider UI being tested as part of the build will be accessible via the Taskbar power …

Google Chrome users on Windows 10 are apparently being treated to a new experience: a pop-up ad. The pop-up promoting the software giant’s Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) extension for Chrome appears above the browser’s colorful icon when docked on the Windows 1o Task Bar, according to a report on Myce. Pop-ups certainly aren’t a new experience for Windows 10 users, …

With the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Compute Module 3, digital makers can integrate the same processing power of the Raspberry Pi 3 into their own Internet of Things (IoT) designs. The $30 CM3 uses a Broadcom 1.2GHz, 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU processor, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of eMMC flash storage on a standard DDR2 SODIMM module, making it easier …