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Windows 10 Is Getting a Built-in Linux Kernel

Microsoft today announced Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2—that’s WSL 2. It will feature “dramatic file system performance increases” and support for Docker. To make all this possible, Windows 10 ...

Microsoft’s Edge Browser Keeps Getting More Interesting

Microsoft’s Edge browser is getting better privacy controls, an Internet Explorer Mode, collections for organizing web research, and even a Mac version. Microsoft announced these features at Build 2019, where it also an...

Josh Hendrickson May 6th

Windows 10 Is Finally Getting a Real Command Line

Forget the Command Prompt. Microsoft is launching a new command line application named “Windows Terminal.” It features tabs and themes, with centralized access to PowerShell, the classic Cmd environment, and Bash ...

Chris Hoffman May 6th

Daily News Roundup: Your Private Facebook Posts Are Being Read By Workers

A report from Reuters states that Facebook is sharing private posts with contracted workers to help train its AI. That means real-life people are probably reading your private posts. This sounds all too familiar....

Cameron Summerson May 6th

Daily News Roundup: What to Expect from Google I/O 2019

Google I/O, the company’s yearly tech conference, starts next week. As usual, all the new stuff Google has been working on for the last year will be front and center. Here’s a quick look at what we expect to see....

Cameron Summerson May 3rd

Windows 10’s “Check for Updates” Button Just Got Safer

Microsoft promised to stop installing unstable updates when you click “Check for Updates” and now it’s delivering. Rather than automatically installing such updates, Windows gives you a “Download and i...

Chris Hoffman May 2nd

Daily News Roundup: Google Gives More Granular Control Over Location Data

A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times had a piece about how police are using a Google database called “Sensorvault” to track and find witnesses and suspects. Now, Google is going to offer better control of you...

Cameron Summerson May 2nd

Daily News Roundup: Facebook’s Privacy Shift

Yesterday at the keynote for Facebook’s F8 developer conference, several key Facebook leaders took the stage to announce new additions to the product. But it was CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s statements that deserve the m...

Cameron Summerson May 1st

Daily News Roundup: Virtual Desktops on Chrome OS are Coming Along Nicely

Virtual Desktops are coming to Chrome OS. The first glimpse of how this is going to work showed up in February, and now there’s a new video of how the feature is progressing. And it looks amazing....

Cameron Summerson Apr 30th

Chrome for Android Has Dark Mode–Here’s How to Turn it On

The Chrome desktop browser recently got dark mode on both Mac and Windows, but it’s also available on Android. It’s not quite as straightforward as other platforms, however, as it’s currently tucked behind a...

Cameron Summerson Apr 29th

Daily News Roundup: New Chrome for Android Attack Spoofs the Omnibox

There’s a new Chrome attack on the horizon, and man, it’s a doozy. Dubbed the “Inception Bar” by the finder, it replicates Chrome’s Omnibox, essentially giving attackers the potential to take con...

Cameron Summerson Apr 29th

Windows 10’s Your Phone App Gets Android Notification Mirroring

Microsoft is updating the Your Phone app in Windows 10. As promised, it’s getting Android notification mirroring so you can see all your smartphone’s notifications on your desktop. This app can also send texts and...

Chris Hoffman Apr 26th

Daily News Roundup: Free One-Day Shipping from Amazon

One of the most significant benefits of Amazon Prime has long been the free two-day shipping on almost everything. But that time may be coming to an end—Amazon is talking about transitioning to free one-day shipping. Oh...

Cameron Summerson Apr 26th

Windows 10 Now Requires 12-16 GB More Storage

Microsoft has raised Windows 10’s minimum storage requirement to 32 GB. Previously, it was either 16 GB or 20 GB. This change affects Windows 10’s upcoming May 2019 Update, also known as version 1903 or 19H1....

Chris Hoffman Apr 25th

Daily News Roundup: AT&T Says 5G’s Pricing Structure Will Be Similar to Home Internet

Right now, when you pay for a cellular plan, you typically get what you get when it comes to speed. AT&T says that 5G is going to change that, allowing users to pay more for faster speeds.

Cameron Summerson Apr 25th

Daily News Roundup: Kohl’s Wants Your Amazon Returns

If you love buying from Amazon but hate dealing with returns, life is going to get a lot easier starting in July: Amazon and Kohl’s announced an extended partnership that will allow all Kohl’s stores to accept Ama...

Cameron Summerson Apr 24th

How-To Geek Is Looking for a Mac and iOS Writer

Are you a die-hard Mac and iOS user who knows the ins and outs of working with both? We want you to write for us.

Walter Glenn Apr 24th

Daily News Update: Galaxy Folded

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Samsung—the first Galaxy Fold hands-on posts looked promising, but then review units started breaking. Now, the company has canceled launch events in China and delayed the Fol...

Cameron Summerson Apr 23rd

Nobody Wanted Microsoft’s Doomed Sets Feature (We Just Wanted Tabs)

It’s official: Sets is dead. That’s no surprise. Sets was doomed from the start because Microsoft turned it into a complicated mess that no one wanted and few Windows users could understand. Sets was all about wh...

Daily News Roundup: Your Passwords Are Probably Trash

Recently, the UK’s National Cyber Security Center paired up with Have I Been Pwned?’s Troy Hunt to conduct a survey that analyzed passwords of accounts that had been breached. Turns out that most users (still) suc...

Cameron Summerson Apr 22nd

Windows 10’s “Sets” App Tabs Are “No More”

Sets was going to bring tabs to File Explorer and other Windows applications. An early version of Sets once appeared in Windows Insider builds, but Microsoft pulled it. Now, according to Microsoft’s Rich Turner on Twitt...

Chris Hoffman Apr 20th

What’s New in Chrome 74, Arriving April 23

The stable version of Chrome 74 is set to land on April 23rd. It will include a dark mode on Windows, Incognito detection blocking, support for media keys in PiP, various Chrome OS improvements, and a lot more....

Windows Updates Are Breaking PCs With These Antivirus Programs

On April 9, Microsoft issued a Windows patch that broke PCs with certain antivirus programs installed. This affects PCs running Windows 7, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2—not Windows 10, this time....

Chris Hoffman Apr 19th

Daily News Roundup: YouTube is On Fire

After years of feuding, Google and Amazon have finally made up. As a direct result, YouTube is coming (back) to Fire TV, and Prime Video is getting support for Chromecast and Android TV. Finally.

Cameron Summerson Apr 19th

How the UK’s New Internet “Porn Block” Will Work

On July 15, 2019, the UK government will enforce an age-verification requirement for online pornography websites. Websites that don’t comply with the UK’s rules will be blocked in the country. Here’s how thi...