From CNET: Microsoft is trying to make it even easier to use its Office apps. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced its new Office app for Windows 10.

The app will act as a central hub for all your Microsoft Office needs, replacing the current My Office app. Open it up and you'll get access to all the...

From CNET: Facebook on Wednesday said it was necessary to grant Spotify and Netflix special access to users' private messages to enable integration of messaging features.

The social media giant said in a blog post that experimental features no longer offered required granting read/write access to...

From PC Mag: As Intel struggles to move beyond 14nm, chip maker TSMC just gained approval for what's thought to be the world's first 3nm chip-making factory, a factory that is expected to start churning out processors by 2022 or early 2023, ready for them to go in the latest phones and tablets.

As...

From CRN: Next up in the ongoing dispute between Qualcomm and Apple: a possible ban on sales of certain iPhone models in Germany as a result of alleged patent infringement by Apple, according to a court ruling in the country.

The ruling follows a court-ordered ban on the sale of certain iPhone...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft rarely mentions Internet Explorer (IE) anymore, but when it does, it usually means bad news.

So it was Wednesday, when Microsoft issued a rare emergency security update to plug a critical vulnerability in the still-supported IE9, IE10 and IE11. The flaw was reported to...

From AnandTech: AMD on Thursday announced that it would be added to the NASDAQ 100 index of non-financial companies next week. The chip company will be added to the list due to its increased market capitalization, which is a result of successful launches of its Ryzen and EPYC processors as well as a...

From QNAP Press Release: QNAP Systems, Inc. (QNAP) today launched the Intel Xeon E based TS-x83XU enterprise NAS series with ECC DDR4 memory that delivers server-class performance and dependable reliability. All models in the series feature two 10GbE SFP+ ports using Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx SmartNIC...

From CNET: Digital photography has changed a lot over the past two decades, with clunky DSLRs giving way to sleek smartphones. Over the next 10 years, expect a similar evolution as the science behind the art changes.

Much of the technology in use today represents the breakthroughs of the first...

From Tom's Hardware: The Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme WaterForce is an E-ATX motherboard carved from an eight-layer 2x copper PCB (printed circuit board). It comes with an over-the-top 16-phase digital power delivery subsytem for overclocking the latest 8th- and 9th-generation Intel Core processors...

From ExtremeTech When Nvidia launched the RTX family, it purposefully confined itself to the top three GPUs in the stack: the RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti. The company focused on refreshing the top of its product mix and on pushing new GPUs at higher price points into the market rather than launching...