Author Archives: Mark Hachman

Microsoft’s Windows 10 May 2020 Update may not be as ambitious as in years past, but there are still new features worth checking out. It’s already available as a voluntary update to your PC, and it will eventually be pushed to your PC automatical… Continue reading →

Can you trust what you read on Facebook? No. And why not? Because Facebook has now explicitly said that it will obey an executive order from President Trump and will refuse to fact-check misinformation and disinformation as American heads into the 2… Continue reading →

While the coronavirus has caused many trade shows to close or go virtual, Computex, Taiwan’s celebration of everything about the PC, had so far remained open—though rescheduled for September. Early Friday, that domino finally fell, too.TAITRA, t… Continue reading →

Why did I put up with Microsoft’s Surface Book 2? Why did anyone? That’s the question I asked myself recently as I tried to convince the Surface Book 2 to recognize my 4K monitor, yet again. Surface Book 2 users have suffered through quite a bi… Continue reading →

Jim Keller, an Intel senior vice president who has helped design several high-profile CPUs for various companies, has left Intel for undisclosed personal reasons, Intel said Thursday.Keller’s departure was revealed in a blog post from Intel that des… Continue reading →

Mods, or the ability to modify your PC game’s code, has been one of the inherent appeals of the PC platform. Microsoft said Thursday that it’s making it far simpler to use a mod for a supported PC game within its Xbox app for Windows PCs.While g… Continue reading →

Mods, or the ability to modify your PC game’s code, has been one of the inherent appeals of the PC platform. Microsoft said Thursday that it’s making it far simpler to use a mod for a supported PC game within its Xbox app for Windows PCs.While g… Continue reading →

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced two new features headed for Windows users: audio capability for the Your Phone app, and a nested virtualization capability that to date had excluded PCs using AMD’s Ryzen processors. The two features rolled out s… Continue reading →

On Wednesday, Intel officially announced two “Lakefieldâ€� chips, otherwise known as the 9-watt “Intel Core processor with Intel Hybrid Technologyâ€� chips, which will be showcased in thin-and-light PCs like the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Book S. … Continue reading →

Microsoft says it has patched a bug that may have prevented some of its most recent Surface devices from receiving the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.In its list of issues associated with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, Microsoft notes that it recently … Continue reading →