Microsoft’s next-generation Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are both expected to be announced tomorrow, but the size of the update may disappoint those who were hoping for more than a minor refresh. Having been criticized roundly in 2017 for offering a minor update to the Surface Pro 4 with the …

Do you dream of CONFIG.SYS and find yourself doodling “DOS=HIGH,UMB” on scraps of paper during moments of boredom? If so, recent news from Microsoft will likely make your day. Microsoft is re-open-sourcing MS-DOS on GitHub. As implied, this isn’t the first time the OS has been released as an open-source …

Just around a week ago, lost item finder Tile announced its new CEO and added Comcast as an investor. But the company isn’t done making changes just yet. Today, Tile is launching new devices that tackle consumers’ most frequent complaints about its trackers – the lack of a user-replaceable battery. …

Koepka was quick to apologise and went over to check on her well being, signing a glove to give to her. Quite clearly, there is responsibility on the part of the organisers, Ms Remande told AFP. Koepka rushed over to Ms Remande to check on her and offered her a …

Ever since biometric authentication began rolling out across phones and laptops, security researchers and legal analysts have both warned that such security measures would not protect against federal searches. Until now, however, such issues had been largely theoretical. There have been a handful of cases in which iPhones or Android …

A shiny new smartphone can do all manner of cool things like snap high-quality photos, recognize your face, and run an almost uncountable number of apps. You would also expect it to do some basic things like charge when you plug it in. That seems to be a challenge for …

We’ve been sending probes and rovers to Mars for years, but we have yet to get a sample of the red planet back to Earth. The best we can do is characterize the planet and transmit the results. If we’re going to plan for a long-term human presence on Mars, …

VC powerhouse Benchmark has filed to raise $425 million for its ninth flagship fund. While other firms close billion-dollar venture funds despite a history of smaller fundraises, Benchmark is sticking to its guns. The firm, known for its early bets on Twitter, Uber, Snap and WeWork, hasn’t fallen victim to the …

  Defaults are powerful. Psychological research has repeatedly demonstrated that most people don’t change defaults, opting instead to use systems and settings the way they are configured out-of-the-box. That’s why so many battles have been fought over questions like what the default browser in Windows should be, and it’s why …

Now that large hard drives, including the massive new 14TB models, are available to everyone, it makes sense to think about how they can be used to create your own personal offsite backup system without paying the monthly fees required by cloud storage providers. Since cloud storage can easily cost …