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Microsoft has moved with surprising speed ever since it announced the move to the Chromium browser engine. It spent years toiling in an attempt to make EdgeHTML work, but it could never compete with the speed and near-universal compatibility of Chromium. Microsoft launched test versions of Chromium Edge earlier this …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all. What are the developers talking about? What Do app publishers and marketers need to know? How is international politics playing out …

  Dell’s new Latitude 5300 2-in-1 laptops are designed to be an affordable business solution for those people that need a tablet and a laptop. In testing, the 5300 did a decent job, but here you don’t get enough performance for your money. Overview The Latitude 5300 was constructed out …

  For much of the past year, Intel’s Core i9-9900K was the top x86 CPU on the market. AMD’s Ryzen 2700X offered excellent performance-per-dollar and made a strong argument in its own right, but the Core i9-9900K was the top-end performer in absolute terms. That remained the case until July …

  DJI is the undisputed leader in the consumer drone market, with products running the gamut from a few hundred to thousands of dollars. Few people will jump right into drones with a $2,000 unit, so the entry-level is important. DJI is hoping to attract more drone pilots with the …

  On October 29, 1969, the first successful message was sent over ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline transmitted from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an SDS 940 machine at the Stanford Research Institute. The initial message was inauspicious — the letters “lo” were sent before the machine crashed. The …

  If you’ve been reading some of the sensationalist headlines about the paper Google published in Nature claiming “quantum supremacy,” you’d be forgiven for thinking the day of omniscient supercomputers and shattered security systems are nearly upon us. You may have been curious enough to wade through the paper itself …

  TeamGroup is sometimes overlooked in the SSD market, but the company has been in business since 1997, and it’s been an active participant in the production of solid state drives for a decade. The company’s new T-Force Cardea II is the latest product in the company’s SSD product line, …

  The big four US carriers rarely cooperate on anything, but they have joined forces to “transform messaging” on your phone. ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint have formed a joint venture called the “Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative” (CCMI). Its goal is to deploy a complete RCS-based messaging system for all carriers …

  The wearable business is apparently a tough nut to crack for any company not called Apple. Rumors began percolating several weeks back that Fitbit was putting itself up for sale, and now we know who its suitor might be. According to Reuters, Google parent company Alphabet is in talks …