Google is losing one of its strongest champions of the web. Alex Russell, who has led the Fugu project to make web apps as powerful as those running on Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS software, is leaving the company on Wednesday. Russell announced his departure on Twitter. He’s not quitting in anger or being pushed …

Microsoft will unveil its major Windows 10 redesign at a virtual event on June 24, the tech giant said Wednesday. CEO Satya Nadella and Chief Product Officer Panos Panay will introduce the “next generation of Windows,” which Nadella teased in his keynote address at the Microsoft Build developers conference last week.  Rumors about the big Windows 10 update, reportedly codenamed …

If you’ve been eyeing a projector to turn a boring vacant wall into a home theater and also happen to dig Star Wars, the perfect toy is on sale right now. It’s the Limited Editon Star Wars-inspired Nebula Capsule II projector and it’s marked down $200 to just $500 in a flash sale. It’s one of the brand’s more powerful …

Vizio has announced a slew of new soundbars for 2021 that will include a replacement for CNET’s favorite Dolby Atmos system, the Vizio SB36512-F6. Prices start at $100. The range consists of 13 soundbars, which are named like the company’s TVs with M and V models, and which include the previously released M21d-H8, V21-H8  and Elevate (the single P series) from 2020.  …

If you’re persistent, patient and willing to shell out $1,199 when the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card ships on June 3, you may be able to pick one up before the well runs dry and before the eBay prices skyrocket. The company’s latest gaming GPU for 4K speedsters comes in right behind the flagship RTX 3090 in the line …

HBO Max gets that, for many HBO fans, the next best thing to zero ads is as few of them as possible. That’s why HBO Max With Ads — the cheaper, ad-supported tier of the streaming service that launched Wednesday — is aiming to serve fewer of them than anyone else: less than four minutes of ads per hour.  “HBO has previously been …

Online marketplace Etsy on Wednesday announced its $1.625 billion (£1.2 billion) acquisition of UK-based fashion resale app Depop, as it looks to expand its customer base among younger shoppers. Depop is especially popular with people in their teens and early twenties, who use the app to buy and sell clothes. It follows a two-sided online marketplace model similar to that …

Debating the advantages of getting the new Chromecast with Google TV compared to a Roku, Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV? Google has brought back a bundle that it hopes might sway you toward its new streamer. First appearing last year, the Google Store is offering a bundle its new Chromecast with six months of Netflix’s Standard plan for $90. Google’s …

Huawei held global launch event Wednesday, where it announced a bevy of new hardware products for a global rollout. But the big news is the upgrade to Harmony OS, the software some of those products run on. Harmony has been around since 2019, but this second-gen version will run on a much broader array of Huawei products for the first time, …

Facebook is trying to make it easier for users to message businesses, as more people have turned to online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.  The social media giant said Wednesday that app developers will have the tools they need to build more messaging experiences on Facebook’s photo service, Instagram, where people already go to shop and get customer support.  And Facebook-owned messaging …