The possibility of a $400 Microsoft Surface tablet coming out in 2018 got a boost this week from FCC filings and hints of cheaper chips. A budget Surface would be designed to better compete with Apple’s iPad, leaving the current Surface Pro to challenge the iPad Pro. WinFuture reported Wednesday that sources inside the company say the …
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Picture it: San Francisco, July 4, 2006. It’s a year before the first iPhone would go on sale and six months before we even knew for sure that the earth-shattering handset existed. Sure we had “smartphones” at the time, in the form of Palm Treos and assorted Windows Mobile devices (for you youngsters out there, that was Microsoft’s software before Windows …
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In 2011, CNET reported the inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier slate — an innovative dual-screen tablet design that imagined the future of the PC. Now, after months of rumors and patent applications, The Verge claims it’s seen an internal Microsoft document that confirms a new pocketable, dual-screen Microsoft Surface tablet is not only on the way, but will …
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I’m holding a phone about FaceTime length away from my face as I’m running around a room. If a certain company has its way, everyone will be doing this a lot more soon. I’m playing a game created by Niantic, the startup that was the force behind the 2016 smash hit mobile game Pokemon Go. You know, the game that …
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Walmart added a 3D virtual shopping tour to its website Wednesday, giving customers the chance to explore a nonexistent apartment filled with products they can buy. The tour showcases about 70 items from various brands and Walmart’s own offerings. Customers can click their way around the one-bedroom apartment and click on products to buy them from the site. The items …
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Apple released the Pencil-compatible sixth-gen 9.7-inch iPad this spring, but a good keyboard case for it seems like it’s finally arrived in June. Logitech’s two newest cases fit the the recent iPad and last year’s same-sized budget iPad, but also add room for a pressure-sensitive Pencil. I recently looked at Logitech’s education-only two-part combo case for the iPad and realized it …
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Facial recognition systems might recognize you better now. Microsoft on Tuesday said it has updated its facial recognition technology to improve recognition across all skin tones and genders. The company said it reduced the error rates by up to 20 times for skin tone. The improvement comes as people have raised concerns that current facial recognition systems perform best on …
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Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay said it would be a dongle for “people who love dongles,” and boy howdy was he right. The brick pictured above is NOT an entire docking station. It’s the dongle that Microsoft built to add a single USB-C port — yes just one — to a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet, Surface Book or Surface Laptop for data …
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Don’t know what something is called and your description isn’t cutting it for a search engine? Besides Google Lens, now you can also search using pictures on Bing. Microsoft on Thursday launched a new function on Bing that lets you search an image on the web using your camera, the company said in a blog post. This AI-powered feature is …
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On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft News, a news engine that curates articles from across the web and delivers them to your Microsoft feed. You can experience Microsoft News for yourself right away. To start using Microsoft News on your phone, download the Microsoft News app. The app is currently available for both iOS and Android. On Windows 10 devices, Microsoft News …
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