From PC World: The Fury is with you, Star Wars fans: AMD is teaming up with its old pal Electronic Arts to offer gamers looking for a new graphics card a nice freebie. Anyone who buys a select AMD Radeon R9 Fury graphics card before the end of January 2016 will get a free copy of Star Wars...

From CNET: Google+ hasn't lived up to its full potential as a social network developed and promoted by Google, one of the world's largest and most innovative organisations. However, the US-based tech giant isn't giving up on the platform.

On Tuesday, it began the rollout of a completely redesigned...

From ComputerWorld: IBM has partnered with chip maker Xilinx to expand the use of IBM Power processors in servers, taking on Intel for a bigger slice of the data center market.

It's one of several announcements IBM is making Monday around its Open Power effort, which it launched last year to...

From PC World: Nvidia is staying in the tablet market after being hit with a recall of its Shield Tablet, relaunching the device under a new name and at a lower price.

The new Shield Tablet K1 is targeted at gamers and priced at $199 with 16GB of storage —$100 less than the original Shield Tablet....

From CNET: You heard right. Pandora wants to play just the song you ask it to spin.

The online radio giant on Monday said it will buy most of smaller rival Rdio for $75 million in cash. As a result, Pandora plans to roll out new services next year that include on-demand listening.

The deal...

From DailyTech: Want Google Inc. (GOOG) Android 6.0 "Marshmallow" on your OnePlus device? Well, the Chinese OEM has now shared its update plans.

According to a recent announcement made on its forums, OnePlus plans to begin its roll out the major operating system upgrade to most of its users in Q1...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft this week posted links to disk image files in .iso format for Windows 10's first upgrade, giving users a way to install the latest version of the OS without waiting for the company to push the code via Windows Update.

With a disk image, users can create installation...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft fixed an issue in its Hyper-V hypervisor that, if exploited, could have resulted in a denial-of-service condition.

The issue exists on the hardware level in certain chip sets, but users who run Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Professional and...

From PC World: Facebook’s Safety Check tool to help users alert friends about their safety was activated for the first time after a terror attack in Paris on Friday, with a large number of users reporting they had benefited from it.

But that move drew widespread criticism online that the company...

From CNET: The future is uncertain for Microsoft's plan to introduce a tool for bringing apps originally written for Android to its own Windows 10.

The tool, nicknamed Project Astoria, was designed to encourage programmers who wrote apps for devices powered by Google's mobile software to bring...