Apple is buying the ‘Netflix of magazines’ for an undisclosed amount

From The Verge: Apple is buying a digital magazine subscription service known as the “Netflix of magazines,” which lets readers access over 200 magazines for a monthly fee. The acquisition of the service Texture, owned by Next Issue Media, comes at a time when news publishing as an industry is being...

Report: Intel Considers Buying Broadcom

From PC Mag: If a Broadcom-Qualcomm merger becomes likely, Intel may intervene. It's reportedly considering a bid for Broadcom.

Intel has been watching Broadcom's hostile takeover of Qualcomm, knowing that a potential tie-up represents a "serious competitive threat," according to a new report from...

Crucial MX500 500GB Review (Page 1 of 11)

"Here is your new license plate," the person at the local registry said as she handed me a license plate ending in "1688". I quietly giggled to myself about my sheer luck of getting the most Asian plate in the world -- I swear it was pure coincidence -- as I inserted my debit card to the payment terminal. A few years ago, in my Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK motherboard review, I talked about why Chinese people like license plates with certain numbers...

Microsoft to unveil new Surface Hub 2 displays in coming months

From The Verge: Microsoft is currently working on a second generation of its Surface Hub, the company’s giant 55- and 84-inch 4K smart displays. “Surface Hub created an entirely new device category and we’re thrilled with the strong momentum we have seen across the globe,” says a Microsoft...

Intel Launches Optane 800P SSDs for Consumers

From PC Mag: if you want a fast PC in 2018, then an SSD is essential as your boot drive while hard drives still have their place in a system, offering terabytes of cheap storage. But there is a third option you'd be forgiven for forgetting about. It's called Intel Optane Memory, was developed by...

Fortnite is coming to mobile with PS4 and PC cross-play

From CNET: Fortnite, released last July for the PS4, Xbox One and PC, is best described as a game that's kinda like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. But now it's truly setting itself apart with a mobile port.

The mobile version of Fortnite, announced on Thursday by Epic Games, is ambitious: It'll...

Switching Out of Windows 10 S Mode Will be Free

From PC Mag: Yesterday, Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President in the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, revealed on Twitter that Windows 10 S becomes 10 S mode in 2019. However, today that revelation got clarified and we probably won't be waiting until 2019 to get S mode.

Windows 10 S is a...

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