Last week, news leaked that Microsoft’s upcoming build 1809 of Windows 10 (the October 2018 update) would include a new warning system that informed users they already had Microsoft Edge installed when they attempted to download Chrome or Firefox. The new warning — and that was Microsoft’s term for its …

CyberLink’s collection of editing tools have long been an alternative to Adobe’s Creative Cloud, but now the company has made the comparison more clear by wrapping them into a unified offering branded Director Suite 365. While still promoting the individual purchase of its applications, CyberLink has taken a page out …

Ever since Intel switched away from using solder to a thermal interface material on its desktop CPUs, enthusiasts have been asking the company to reverse that decision — and occasionally cracking the integrated heat spreader off the CPU to remove Intel’s thermal interface material (TIM) and substitute their own. Earlier …

It can be depressing that all the remarkable exoplanets scientists keep discovering are so mind-bogglingly far away. We obviously can’t visit them, but they’re also more difficult to study at such great distances. Proxima Centauri b offered a ray of hope when it was confirmed in orbit of our nearest …

YouTube will no longer maintain a separate app targeting gaming and live game streaming, the company announced today. The YouTube Gaming app, which first arrived in 2015, will be sunset sometime next spring as its host of features make their way over to YouTube’s main site. Over the years, the …

  Popular travel app Kayak has put augmented reality to clever use with a new feature that lets you measure the size of your carry-on bag using just your smartphone. Its updated iOS app now takes advantage of Apple’s ARKit technology to introduce a new Bag Measurement tool that will …

  Silicon Valley and the wider tech community have always had a place for blunt, tell-it-like-it-is kind of people, but some personalities loom larger than others. When it comes to software development, Linus Torvalds has a reputation for being someone who tolerates no fools and pulls no punches. He’s also …

Update 9/18/18: The issue is related to region locking; read our new story for details. The original story continues below. When digital downloads first began to cut into the physical media market, one common argument was that buying digital goods meant they were never really yours. That argument hasn’t gone away, …

Hubble may be old, but it can still survey incredibly distant objects in the universe. NASA is even undertaking a project to augment Hubble’s eyesight with the aid of some “natural telescopes” in deep space. Researchers hope that these new observations will tell us more about the structure of the …

Google’s parental control software for mobile devices, Family Link, will now help parents of teenagers, too. The company announced this morning the addition of new features aimed at parents of children over the age of 13. Perhaps the most controversial choice Google has made with this expansion is that teens …