From The Verge: Google announced this week that it’s rolling out support for its Nest Hello doorbell in the Google Home app. This allows you to transfer Google’s original video doorbell camera — aka the Nest Doorbell (wired, first-gen) — from the Nest app to Google’s Home app. Google is also...

From PC Mag: Android enthusiasts will tell you that a major benefit of the mobile OS over Apple's iOS is the ability to sideload apps that aren't in the official Google Play store. That flexibility comes with some security risks, however, so Samsung will make the process a little harder on its newer...

From PC World: Secure Boot, a tool that’s built into hundreds of millions of PCs to keep them from loading unverified software via UEFI, is a fundamental cornerstone of modern computer security. It uses cryptographic signatures in hardware components to make sure that nothing connected to your PC...

From PC Mag: Microsoft is releasing its own version of AI-powered summaries for its search engine, Bing, the company announced Wednesday.

Bing's generative search feature is only being enabled on a small, predetermined selection of specific web searches to start, like "what is a spaghetti western"...

From PC World: There’s a lot of enthusiasm surrounding AMD’s next-gen desktop CPUs, which were announced for a release at the end of this month. I’m sorry to report that you’ll need to curb it, at least for a couple of weeks. AMD has amended the launch date for the Ryzen 9000 series to August 8th...

From CNET: The Pixel 9 series looks set to arrive much sooner than anticipated, with Google inviting the press to a Pixel hardware event on Aug. 13. The company's Pixel 8 and 8 Pro launched in October last year, but it looks like Google wants to get its phones out before Apple announces its iPhone...

From FinalWire Press Release: FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme 7.35 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Engineer 7.35 software, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for...

From The Verge: CrowdStrike has published a post incident review (PIR) of the buggy update it published that took down 8.5 million Windows machines last week. The detailed post blames a bug in test software for not properly validating the content update that was pushed out to millions of machines on...

From PC Mag: Netflix is set to expand its gaming catalog, with 80+ titles in development and plans to release at least one new title every month starting now.

Most of the new titles will be based on popular Netflix shows and be categorized as "Netflix Stories," the company said in its latest...