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Microsoft officially put the Cortana app for iOS and Android out to pasture on Wednesday, announcing the end of support for the mobile apps, effective immediately. Reminders and lists created by Cortana users will no longer be accessible through the mobile app, but they still can be used on the Windows 10 Cortana app, Microsoft …

Arm, whose chip technology reaches every smartphone and just about every corner of the computing industry, announced a new processor architecture Tuesday designed to significantly improve security and performance. The architecture, called Armv9, should make its way into an estimated 300 billion processors starting this year through the next decade, the UK company said. Armv9, a successor to the Armv8 …

What’s this? A family enjoying a day in a park — but they’re blasting shots at creatures around them. It sounds like Pokemon Go, but more active. Niantic’s new augmented-reality 5G gaming demo app also seems like a taste of what could be coming with AR glasses, too.  Codename: Urban Legends is a multiplayer game that, as you can see …

Believe it or not, it’s been five years since VR seemed like the technology of the future. But then, it’s always seemed like the technology of the future. In the 1990s, I read about metaverses and tried VR in mall arcades. Then, in 2013 in a hotel room in Las Vegas, I was blown away by a demo of VR …

After years of struggling to keep up with competitors, Intel will adopt their core strategy by making other companies’ chips for them, new Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday. Intel largely has focused on making its own chips, but that’ll change with the new and independent Intel Foundry Services business unit. If the shift works, it’ll mark a major turnaround …

Last fall, I realized my decades-old wallet strategy was due for an update. Since I was a teenager, I’d been stuffing everything into a traditional folding wallet. But now I’ve made a dramatic change to the way I haul around money and cards, and I’m expecting even more radical changes to come. I felt no need for a new approach …

Xbox Game Pass for PC subscribers will get a bunch more games Thursday, as EA Play is added to the $10-a-month service. The library includes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Titanfall 2 and multiple games from the Battlefield and Madden series. Space-combat sim Star Wars: Squadrons is also being added to the service Thursday. The EA library is coming at …

It’s 2021, and the iPad still isn’t entirely a Mac replacement for me. But it’s so, so close. The totally wild Kensington StudioDock pushes the iPad Pro far outside its normal tablet window, and that just makes me want Apple to close the gap and turn this thing into the Swiss Army computer it nearly already is. I’ve already nearly …

Hitchhiker — a new mystery game from Versus Evil and Mad About Pandas — is coming soon to Apple Arcade. In the game, you play as a hitchhiker with no memory of your past or your destination. By catching rides with five strangers across a landscape of rolling hills, you must try and figure out who you are as well as …

Twitter has taken a significant step in helping you protect your account with hardware security keys, a top authentication technique when it comes to security. Previously, you could register one key for logging in, but now you can enroll multiple keys, Twitter said Monday. Passwords have abundant shortcomings. We forget them, we pick bad ones, and hackers steal them. Two-factor …