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Windows 10X Mothballed With Focus on Windows 10 for Desktop, Reports Say

Home News (Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has indefinitely delayed Windows 10X, its lightweight operating system for low-spec systems and foldables, according to reports from Windows Central and Petri. Instead, the company will turn its focus to the existing desktop experience. A Microsoft spokesperson told Tom’s Hardware that “Microsoft has nothing to share at this time.”… Read more

Windows 10 Update Fail: New AMD Driver Reportedly Causes Boot Issues

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) An issue with the AMD SCSIAdapter driver appears to be causing Windows 10 boot issues on certain hardware configurations, ComputerBase reports. The problem apparently being most commonly encountered on Gigabyte motherboards. People have complained of these problems on the ComputerBase forums, Microsoft Answers, and the /r/AMD subreddit. The issues seemed… Read more

Microsoft reportedly shelves Windows 10X, its Chrome OS competitor

Microsoft has been trying to build a lighter version of Windows for more than 10 years without success. The latest effort, Windows 10X, has reportedly now been shelved, in favor of improving Windows 10 instead. Petri reports that Windows 10X will no longer ship this year, and the OS will likely never arrive in its… Read more

How to use YouTube’s gestures to make it bearable on a portrait-locked phone

This story is part of a group of stories called It isn’t enough to have great new devices, apps, and games — you also have to know how to use them. Here at The Verge, we offer step-by-step how-tos for experienced and new users who are working with online, macOS, Windows, Chrome OS, iOS, and… Read more

Microsoft would like to remind you the Xbox definitely makes money

A Microsoft executive has admitted that the company doesn’t earn any profit on sales of Xbox consoles alone. The admission came as part of the Epic v. Apple trial yesterday, confirming what we’ve known for years: Microsoft sells Xbox consoles at a loss. Asked how much margin Microsoft makes on Xbox consoles, the company’s head… Read more

Resident Evil Village Benchmarks and System Requirements

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Reviews for Capcom’s Resident Evil Village have gone live, and we’re taking the opportunity to look at how the game runs on the best graphics cards. We’re running the PC version on Steam, and while patches and future driver updates could change things a bit, both AMD and Nvidia… Read more

Microsoft is finally ditching its Windows 95-era icons

Microsoft is finally preparing to refresh its Windows 95-era icons. The software giant has been slowly improving the icons it uses in Windows 10, as part of a “sweeping visual rejuvenation” planned for later this year. We saw a number of new system icons back in March, with new File Explorer, folder, Recycle Bin, disk… Read more

Lenovo Pad Pro 2021 teased with 90Hz OLED display and Snapdragon 870

Lenovo has officially teased its new high-end tablet device. As posted to the brand’s official Weibo handle, the Lenovo “Xiaoxin” Pad Pro 2021 is confirmed to have a 90Hz OLED screen with support for HDR10 and DolbyVision. This display will be capable of 600 nits of brightness, it will carry TÜV Rheinland certification for eye… Read more

Microsoft will end Adobe Flash support for Windows 10 in July

Adobe Flash is reaching the very end of its life. The final nail in its coffin comes from Microsoft. Even after Adobe officially ended support for Flash on the very last day of 2020, Flash remains a component of Windows 10, that is until Microsoft releases the 21H1 update for Windows 10. Rollout for this… Read more

Resident Evil Village GPU Benchmark + Ray Tracing Analysis

Resident Evil Village is the latest addition to the long-running horror series, and just like last year’s Resident Evil 3 remake, it is built on Capcom’s RE Engine. We test over 25 GPUs at 1080p, 1440p and 4K to find out what sort of hardware you need to run this game at maximum settings, while… Read more

UL’s Wild Life Extreme is a cross-platform benchmark for Apple, Android, and Windows

João Silva 15 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming UL Benchmarks has recently announced the Wild Life Extreme benchmark, a more demanding version of the Wild Life benchmark. Unlike Wild Life, the Extreme version won’t be limited to smartphones and tablets, allowing users to run it on Apple computers with M1 CPUs and… Read more

Microsoft will begin removing Adobe Flash from Windows next month

Matthew Wilson 15 hours ago Featured Tech News, General Tech, Operating Systems Microsoft has revealed plans to start removing Adobe Flash from Windows 10 this year. Flash officially reached End of Life status on the 31st of December 2020, but remnants of it still remain in Windows to this day. Starting in June, Microsoft will… Read more

Dell issues firmware update to hundreds of PC models to fix security vulnerability

Matthew Wilson 21 hours ago Featured Tech News, Security It was revealed this week that Dell is in the process of updating hundreds of PC models to address a security bug affecting machines dating all the way back to 2009. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain kernel-level permissions in Windows. The vulnerability was found… Read more

Synology launches upgraded 12-bay and 16-bay RackStations

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago General Tech, Professional Synology has a new pair of professional-grade storage racks launching this week. The 12-bay RackStation RS2421+ and RS2421RP+, and 16-bay RS2821RP+ will be available starting this month, built to excel in large-scale infrastructure backups, business-level file serving and private cloud services. Speaking on the new racks, Julien… Read more

Epic v. Apple turns into Windows v. Xbox

Is an iPhone more like a PC or an Xbox? That question was asked — implicitly and explicitly — over and over on the third day of Epic v. Apple testimony. The antitrust trial started on Monday with some heady pronunciations about Fortnite, the game and/or metaverse at the heart of the case. Yesterday, both… Read more