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Windows 10 Will Add Instant File Transfer for Samsung Phones Microsoft’s “Your Phone” app can help you get data and features from your phone on Windows, but the software maker has an exclusive partnership with Samsung to enhance this connection. Samsung owners already had semi-exclusive notification and call synchronization, and …

Meet the Zhaoxin KX-U6780A: China’s First Homegrown x86 CPU For the past few years, we’ve lightly covered the work of Zhaoxin, China’s first homegrown x86 CPU company. Zhaoxin is the result of a joint agreement between the Shanghai Municipal Government and the Taiwanese company VIA Technologies, which owns Centaur, which …

Report: The 10th Gen Intel Core Family Draws as Much Power as an RTX 2080 The launch date of Intel’s 10th Generation Core family is drawing nearer. As it does, reports are surfacing confirming that at least the upper-tier CPUs in this family will have a power consumption best described …

Google Might Use Custom 5nm Samsung Chip in Pixel 5 Instead of Snapdragon 865 Most high-end smartphones launching in 2020 will have the Snapdragon 865 inside, but that might not include Google’s upcoming Pixel 5. A new report claims Google and Samsung are working on a new custom system-on-a-chip (SoC) …

Apple and Google Team Up to Fight Coronavirus With Bluetooth Most of the world is on lockdown right now as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, but that won’t be the case forever. After we’re all allowed to go outside again, it will be up to public health experts to …

Microsoft Said to Be Pivoting Windows 10X to Single-Screen Devices When Microsoft demoed Windows 10X (pronounced like the letter X, not the Roman numeral 10) last year, the company declared that this version of Windows was specifically intended for dual-screen devices like the upcoming Surface Pro Neo (now delayed until …

After We Bend the Curve: What We Need to Unwind the Great Lockdown As optimism grows that many areas around the world, including much of the US, are successfully “bending the curve” of the spread of COVID-19, there’s reason to hope the worst of the current wave of infections is …

Microsoft May Not Ship Dual-Screen Surface Neo in 2020 After All Microsoft gave us a preview of its dual-screen future late last year with the Surface Duo and Neo, but that future might be further away than we thought. According to a new report, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer Panos Panay …

Report: Apple’s iOS 14 contains code that would let you  before download Apple has under development a feature that would allow iOS users to interact with a third-party app, even if the app wasn’t yet installed on your device, according to a report from 9to5Mac. The report is based on …

Samsung Announces Galaxy A51 and A71 for the US, Plus New Ultra-Budget Offerings Samsung’s midrange phones used to be almost universally bad values that relied on the Samsung name more than anything else. A few years ago, the company revamped its budget offerings under the much improved Galaxy A series. …