Microsoft's Edge Browser Is Headed to iOS, Android

From PC Mag: Not thrilled with your current mobile browser? Microsoft has a new option.

The software giant just announced plans to bring its Edge browser to iOS and Android devices. Along with that, Microsoft introduced a new Android launcher app, which lets you customize you phone's home screen....

China approves HP's $1.1B purchase of Samsung's printer unit

From CNET: China has given HP the green light to buy Samsung Electronics' printer business, but the deal comes with conditions.

HP has received approval to buy Samsung's printer business for $1.1 billion -- along with restrictions meant to keep the company from monopolizing the market and engaging...

GoPro's newest Hero camera is boring and important all at the same time

From The Verge: It’s a GoPro. Just like the iPhone 8 is an iPhone, the new iPad is an iPad, and how most iterative product releases tend to resemble their forebears, the new Hero 6 Black is stunningly similar to the camera it’s supplanting.

Well, mostly. After spending all launch day with the $499...

Google Launches Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 2 Smartphones With Squeezable Sides

From eWeek: Google introduced the Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 2 smartphones Oct. 4, to refresh the sales momentum behind these popular Android handsets and their Google-centric applications.

The phones, which have been rumored for months, include the Pixel 2 XL, which has a 6-inch quad-HD edge-to-edge...

Seagate Ships Consumer-Focused 12TB Helium Drives

From AnandTech: Seagate is launching a trio of 12TB hard drives today with a focus on the consumer market. The 3.5” drives build upon the 'PMR platters in a helium-filled enclosure' platform used in the 10 TB consumer hard drives released last year. The new 12TB drives target three different market...

Netflix Hikes Prices on Top Plans

From PC Mag: Bad news, Netflix members: prices are going up.

Netflix's most popular plan, Standard—which offers HD-quality streams and lets you watch on up to two devices at a time—is increasing $1 to $10.99 a month. The company's Premium plan, which offers Ultra HD quality and allows four...

Western Digital Offers World's First 14TB Hard Drive

From PC Mag: Every time more terabytes are added to a hard drive, data centers rejoice as it means they can fit more storage into their already packed to bursting server farms. So Western Digital shipping the world's first 14 terabyte hard drive will be music to their ears. But it's not just more...

Samsung Will Make $4B More Off the iPhone X Than Its Own Galaxy S8

From ExtremeTech: If mathematicians are collectively devices for turning coffee into theorems, as Alfréd Rényi once remarked, phone patents and purchase agreements are devices for turning patents into gobs and gobs of cash. Devices and technologies are so intertwined, it’s not unusual to see...

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini passes away

From TechCrunch: Paul Otellini, who presided over Intel during some of its most prosperous years, passed away today at the age of 66. The company announced the news in a press release.

Otellini joined the company in 1974, eventually rising to the position of CEO in 2005. Those were the salad days...

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