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After eight years in development, it took less than a month for Concord to die.
Yesterday, Sony announced that the game, which only launched on August 23rd, would be shutting down on September 6th. Ryan Ellis, game director at developer Firewalk Studios, said that it “didn’t land the way we’d intended.” That seems to be an understatement:...
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Google has committed to releasing an Arm64 version of Google Drive on Windows later this year, after Microsoft and Qualcomm have been working hard to convince app developers to port their applications over to Windows on Arm.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon made the announcement onstage at the company’s IFA event earlier today, where he also revealed that both NordVPN...
Ignore my cruddy handwriting to marvel at this beautiful color. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales
A front light and color display are just two of the ways this pretty note taking device puts luxury first.
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Apple is getting ready to announce the iPhone 16, which will surely be its most powerful and best-camera-having phone yet (at least for the Pro models). It’s also expected to be the first iPhone to launch with Apple Intelligence across the board.
In addition to the iPhone 16 lineup and a slate of new watches and AirPods, Apple is expected to show more AI features,...
The flaw doesn’t impact newer YubiKey hardware that doesn’t use the Infineon cryptolibrary. | Image: Yubico
Security researchers have detected a vulnerability in YubiKey two-factor authentication tokens that enables attackers to clone the device according to a new security advisory. The vulnerability was discovered within the Infineon cryptographic library used by most YubiKey...
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Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and vice president of AI at work Jared Spataro will host the “wave 2” Copilot event on September 16th.
The event will be hosted on LinkedIn and focus on the business side of Microsoft’s Copilot offerings. I revealed in...
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Qualcomm launched its first big wave of Windows laptops this summer at $999 and up — but a new, somewhat weaker chip could soon shave off at least $100. Today, the company’s announcing its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that’ll retail for $899 each.
While the new Qualcomm chips have all the...
Microsoft’s latest Surface lineup for businesses. | Image: Microsoft
Microsoft is ready to start selling its Qualcomm-powered Surface devices to businesses. Starting on September 10th, both the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 will be available for business customers for the first time, after launching in June to consumers as part of Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PC wave of devices...
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Snapchat will soon start “experimenting” with placing sponsored messages next to chat threads from friends, according to CEO Evan Spiegel.
These “Sponsored Snaps” from brands will appear as unread messages in Snapchat’s main Chat tab, implying that they’ll sit above messages from a person’s contacts until they’re acted on. This is the first...
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Instagram is adding the ability to leave comments on Instagram Stories, the ephemeral posts that many people use even more than traditional posts these days.
Previously, replying to an Instagram Story sent a private message visible only to the person who posted the content. The addition of comments adds a more public way to respond to Stories. The ability to...