Ready, set, overclock your budget Skylake CPU!

From PC World: Budget PC builders, here's your holiday bonus: Motherboard maker Asrock has just released its “Sky OC” BIOS for its Skylake motherboards, so even folks without pricier CPUs can overclock their chips.

In a blog post on Wednesday, the company called the BIOS "an alternative for users...

League of Legends' Riot Games now completely owned by China's Tencent

From CNET: Riot Games has already told fans that they'd be improving League of Legends with a series of major updates next year, but that's not the only change planned.

On Tuesday, the Californian games studio quietly announced that it was now completely owned by Tencent, an economic giant from...

Microsoft restarts Windows 10 Insider delivery with new beta build

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft today restarted distribution of Windows 10 previews by delivering the first new build since the November upgrade of five weeks ago.

The new version, identified as build 11082, was offered to Windows Insider participants who have selected the "Fast" ring, or delivery...

Google rewrites its Angular JavaScript framework

From InfoWorld: Angular 2, a re-architected, rewritten version of the popular JavaScript framework also known as AngularJS, goes to a beta release stage today, with general availability planned for early-2016.

The upgrade features enhancements for speed in rendering and updating pages, near-initial...

Slack sets aside $80 million to help developers extend its platform

From ComputerWorld: If there's any company that's been virtually synonymous with growth over the past year or so, it's Slack, and now the team-software vendor is taking a big step to make sure that momentum continues.

The company has established an $80 million fund to provide early-stage...

Microsoft pulls Windows 10 Mobile update after users hit snags

From PC World: Microsoft has pulled an update to Windows 10 after users reported a wide variety of issues with the upgrade process, according to a post on the company's Answers technical support forum.

The patch, which was the first cumulative update Microsoft made to its mobile operating system...

Apple to add polish, not product lines, in 2016

From CNET: Apple spent 2015 catapulting new toys and services at consumers. Next year will be all about refining its aim.

The Cupertino, California, company wants to touch every aspect of your life, whether on the go with the iPhone 6S or Apple Watch, at your office with an iPad Pro or MacBook, or...

Dell moves toward EMC takeover with no rivals in sight

From ComputerWorld: It looks like the Dell-EMC wedding is on: EMC says it hasn't gotten any better proposals, and Dell reportedly is trying to shed Perot Systems to trim down for those photos.

The companies announced their engagement in October, when Dell agreed to buy the massive storage, cloud...

Google will revoke trust in a Symantec root certificate

From PC World: Very soon, the Android OS, Chrome browser and other Google products will stop trusting all digital certificates that are linked to a 20-year-old Verisign root certificate.

The announcement comes after Symantec unveiled plans to retire the Class 3 Public Primary Certification...

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