In internet-fail news, it looks like streaming service Hulu, gaming service Xbox Live and self-described “front page of the internet” Reddit all experienced outages Wednesday afternoon. Down Detector recorded over 10,000 reports about Microsoft’s Xbox Live being down and another 10,000 reports of Hulu being down. The Xbox Live status page confirms that core services are “limited.” “Our …
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Your kid’s next buildable project might very well be a full-blown two-in-one laptop that’s running Windows. Kano and Microsoft are unveiling the Kano PC Wednesday, which is an 11.6-inch touch-enabled tablet that is designed for kids to assemble with the help of a storybook. The Atom-powered computer appears to have a keyboard cover similar to those in the Microsoft Surface …
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Some of the workers saw video of a man being stabbed to death. Others viewed acts of bestiality or animals being tortured. Suicides and beheadings popped up too. The reason for watching the gruesome content: to determine whether it should be pulled from Facebook before more members of the world’s largest social network could see it. Content moderators protect Facebook’s …
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Google did something un-Googley last week: It officially released an image of the Pixel 4, the next version of its flagship phone. This is a phone we all expected to appear, based not just on rumors, but also on Google’s pattern of an annual October release. Teasing a photo of an unannounced phone is a move we expect from LG …
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Using an iPhone or iPad ($170 at Amazon) with a Windows PC as your main computer has always been a tricky setup. You’re forced to accept that you’ll miss out on Apple services such as iMessage and won’t be able to easily sync photos between your computer and iPhone, like through AirDrop. If you pay for extra iCloud storage and rely …
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Microsoft may be planning to make future versions of its Surface Pen more functional — and flexible. The tech giant is envisioning a stylus with an earpiece dock, an application published by the US Patent and Trademark Office last week shows. The earpiece would be fitted with a speaker, earpiece battery and wireless radio that would pair with a host device. …
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You’ve been seeing the dedicated Windows key on Microsoft’s keyboards for years, but we might see an Office key soon. The company asked people who’ve tried keywords with such a key for feedback, as spotted by regular Microsoft leaker WalkingCat. You can even see a concept design showing what the Office key might look like. the Office key concept https://t.co/TAuu7l8y8W …
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If you like your text white on a black background, good news: Browser support for dark mode websites is hitting the big time. Apple built dark mode support into its Safari browser for MacOS and Mozilla followed suit with Firefox. But now dark mode website abilities are coming to Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s newly overhauled Edge and Apple’s Safari on iPhones and …
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Microsoft’s online store has resumed selling Huawei laptops, after disappearing MateBooks from the Microsoft Store after the Chinese tech giant was blacklisted by the US. The US last month added Huawei to its “entity list,” and President Donald Trump signed an executive order essentially banning the company in light of national security concerns that Huawei had close ties with the Chinese government. Huawei has repeatedly denied …
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When Telltale Games shut down in 2018, there were questions about what would happen to the games that had already been released. One particular series is on its way out and has seen a big price increase — but for a good reason. In 2015, Minecraft developer Mojang partnered with Telltale for an adventure game based on the hit creative, …
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