Firefox calls it quits on antiquated Windows XP, Vista

From ComputerWorld: Mozilla last week shut down Firefox's support for Windows XP and Windows Vista, ending browser security updates for the outdated operating systems.

"It required effort, and it required devoting resources to supporting XP well after Microsoft stopped doing so," Chris Hutten...

Microsoft plans to sell post-2020 support for Windows 7

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft bowed to the reality that enterprises won't purge Windows 7 by its January 2020 retirement, and has announced it will sell extended support for three years past that deadline.

Called "Windows 7 Extended Security Updates" (ESU), the after-drop-dead deal will add support...

OnePlus 6T will have an in-screen fingerprint sensor, OnePlus confirms

From CNET: OnePlus' second flagship phone of the year, presumed to be called the OnePlus 6T, is shaping up to be more than the incremental update we were anticipating.

In addition to being available on T-Mobile (which would be OnePlus' first US carrier deal), the company confirmed that the OnePlus...

Apple Music now does a much better job of showing artists’ albums

From The Verge: Apple has fixed one of the biggest problems with Apple Music: the unhelpful way that a given artists’ releases were listed and displayed on the service. Previously, singles and collections were lumped together with studio albums, so if you wanted to put on a particular album you’d...

Sennheiser CX Sport Review (Page 1 of 4)

While I like different genres of games such as first person shooters, role-playing, platformers, racing, and more, I have recently been enjoying more multiplayer games. Whether it is the hot kitchen of Overcooked, the space traveling of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, or casual party games from Jackbox Games, they all are fun in their own regards. I purchased several collections of Jackbox packs and we were playing a game called Drawful 2. In...

Crucial MX500 500GB (M.2) Review (Page 1 of 11)

"Where are my shoes?" I asked my friends. Looking around our Airbnb rental apartment in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, reality was about to set in. For some reason, despite getting the check on my list of things to pack, my shoes are still almost 2,000 kilometers away in the foyer of my house in Calgary. Since I am not about to spend money buying shoes anywhere in this city of 20,000 people here in the Canadian North, I decided to...

Samsung’s $360 Galaxy A6 launches in the US September 14th

From The Verge: Samsung has confirmed that its latest batch of mid-range phones and tablets will arrive in the US from September 14th.

The newest entrant in Samsung’s mid-range-but-still-very-nice-looking Galaxy A series, the A6, will be available with Sprint. (Is the A6 Plus coming too? It’s not...

AMD's New $55 Athlon Chip Targets Budget PC Builders

From PC Mag: AMD is targeting budget PC builders with a new Athlon chip that'll retail for only $55.

The Athlon 200GE will pack both your computing and gaming graphic needs on a single chip. The product features AMD's Zen core architecture, which is also used in the company's Ryzen branded chips...

Pixel 3: Google officially sends out invites for Oct. 9 event

From CNET: So -- Google just invited us to an event on October 9 in New York City, with a big flashy invitation like the kind tech companies send when they're about to introduce something big, like -- for instance -- a set of flashy new phones.

We totally wouldn't go out on a limb and say that we...

Amazon upgrades the front-facing camera on the Fire HD 8 tablet

From The Verge: Amazon announced the next generation of its Fire HD 8 tablet today, which adds a 2MP front-facing camera with 720p video, and 16GB storage with support for up to 400GB additional storage via microSD. It’s a definite upgrade from the previous model, which only had a VGA front-facing...

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