If you’re looking for some nighttime entertainment later this week, you may want to turn your eyes upward: The Orionid meteor shower is expected to peak Thursday, October 20, through Friday, October 21. According to AccuWeather, you can expect to see around 25 meteors per hour — assuming cloud cover and the waning gibbous moon …

Personality-filled, voice-activated digital assistants are everywhere. Apple has Siri, Microsoft has Cortana and Google has Google Now and Google Assistant. At the moment, Google Now and Google Assistant are still two separate things — Google Now works from within the Google Android and iOS app, while Google Assistant is found in Google’s Allo chat app and integrated into Google Home …

Facebook wants to get into the local buying-and-selling game with its new mobile classifieds section, Facebook Marketplace. The new Facebook Marketplace — not to be confused with the old Facebook Marketplace — lets you put up Craigslist-like ads for everything from furniture and clothing to cars and housing. The new Facebook Marketplace lets you sell to anyone (well, anyone within …

Guess what? Windows 10 has a “secret” Start menu. I say “secret,” because it’s not really a secret — it’s not something you have to turn on, it’s just a little trick that makes accessing important features, such as the Command Prompt, the Control Panel and the Task Manager much easier. Related Stories: How to customize the Windows 10 Start …

Did you go a little crazy uninstalling all of the default apps in Windows 10, only to discover that some of the apps are actually necessary for other Windows 10 features to work? Luckily for you, getting them back is as easy as…well, uninstalling them in the first place. If you haven’t yet installed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, you …

Windows 10 comes with two built-in browsers: Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. But Microsoft really wants you to use Edge, not IE11, because Edge is faster, sexier, simpler and more secure. Microsoft knows that Internet Explorer ended up with a bad rap for being slow and lacking in security, so the company even disabled several legacy technologies in Edge …

Google’s highly anticipated “smart” messaging app, Google Allo, is finally available for (most) of the masses. The app started rolling out last night, and should be available worldwide in the “next few days,” according to Google. Google Allo is your basic modern-day chat app, with a Google twist. Like its competitors — WhatsApp, Line, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, and so forth …

Is Google Allo the next big thing in messaging apps? Maybe…or maybe not. The new “smart” messaging app is actually pretty straightforward — especially if you’ve used its competitors, such as Whatsapp or Line, in the past — but it does have a few tricks up its sleeve (namely, that in-chat Google search that nobody will ever be able to …

Thanks to the recent Windows 10 Anniversary Update, you can now get Android notifications on your Windows 10 PC. This feature works through Cortana and the Cortana app for Android (there’s a Cortana app for iOS, but iOS doesn’t support this kind of fancy notification-mirroring). Once set up, your Windows 10 action center will be able to tell you when …

The first major update to Windows 10 — the Windows 10 Anniversary Update — started rolling out to all users on August 2. This update brings several changes to the operating system, including visual modifications, improvements to the Edge browser and new features such as Windows Ink. See also: 15 things to look forward to in the Windows 10 Anniversary …