Microsoft rolled out a new version of Skype to its Insider Preview program this week that expands the maximum number of people on a call from 25 to 50, as well as making audible notifications optional, for all platforms. According to the update note, “When you start a call in these large groups, it will send …

Steam’s continuing beta of its Steam Link app, which lets you play games on any supported device by streaming them off a computer, added a major new capability today: streaming to devices on any network rather than only on the same network as the host computer. It’s all still in beta, but it fills an important hole that Steam needs …

The free device ride on Dropbox is slowing down.  The company posted a note in its help center today with a new three-active-device limit for its free Basic accounts. The limit doesn’t apply to paying Plus and Professional users. That tidbit comes to us via 9to5Mac (and a tweet from Liliputing News).  Some Basic folks can still breathe easy, since …

The US Product and Safety Commission on Tuesday announced a “battery safety” recall of about 78,500 HP laptops for what the UPSC calls “fire and burn hazards.”  HP requested we emphasize that it’s recalling the batteries, not the laptops. Given that most batteries are nonremovable by end users, it amounts to the same thing on your end — you still …

If you’ve been eagerly anticipating Sony’s recently announced flagship phone, the Xperia 1, your chance to click “preorder now” on Amazon is here — though not if you were expecting it at a lower price than $1,000. The new Galaxy S10 is $900, so $1,000 is relatively competitive for a flagship these days, but possibly not for a phone that …

Whether you love or hate Microsoft’s automatic updates for Windows 10, it’s a given you’ll run into a snag at some point. To deal with the inevitable botched installs before you start angry-tweeting, Microsoft’s added an upcoming capability to Windows 10 that will make it automatically uninstall any update that’s preceded a failed startup. At the moment, it’s just entering …

Corel surrendered to the inevitable and dropped its Mac version of the CorelDraw products in 2001. 18 years on, the company is bringing it back simultaneously with the release of its latest Windows update, CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2019, and its debut into the web app world. The difference this time is the Mac version isn’t a warmed-over Windows application. Instead …

Leica is nothing if not consistent. Despite its new 47-megapixel sensor and even more streamlined design, shooting with the Leica Q2 feels exactly like shooting with its predecessor from 2015, the Leica Q. It maintains the Q’s performance and photo quality, simply writ larger. Given that the original Q was one of my favorite compact cameras ever, that puts it …

Samsung may be reaching the limits of shoehorning new tech into its old designs as teardown king iFixit learned when it took its tools to the new lineup of Samsung Galaxy phones — the S10E, S10 Plus and S10.  Notably, iFixit found that Samsung stuck a lot of heat-dissipating layers between you and the bidirectional wireless charging coil and that the …

Chinese phone-maker Meizu made a big splash when it launched its Zero “True Holeless Phone” on Indiegogo on Jan. 30 with offers of 100 “Engineer Units” for $1,299 each and a single “Pioneer Unit” for $2,999. Now it’s marked as a closed campaign showing it reached only $46,000 of the $100,000 goalm and its CEO told fans on Meizu’s forum …