It’s getting harder for American companies to do business in the East – the Russians have already started hitting Microsoft with bad news that turns worse soon enough, and now the Chinese government has passed a legislation forcing software companies, network equipment manufacturers, and other technology suppliers to disclose their …
Read More »HP announces a new 2-in-1 laptop designed for school students
HP has announced the ProBook x360 Education Edition 2-in-1 laptop; designed and built for the teenagers who often treat their gadgets with some fair amount of abuse. HP indeed means that; the laptop passes the MIL-STD 810G qualification – the same standards that U.S. military equipment need to pass. HP …
Read More »Nokia brand to return in 2017 with Android-powered smartphones
Nokia is making a comeback; In the May of 2016, Microsoft decided to sell the feature phone division at Microsoft Mobile, and described it as an “unwanted extra.” The sale has a complicated structure – while the factories and the 4,500 employees who were working in said factories are now …
Read More »Boeing wants to use HoloLens and drones to fight wildfires
Here’s something straight out of science fiction: drones detecting wildfires, and fire chiefs using mixed-reality headsets to coordinate the battle against said wildfire. Boeing has built a system to do exactly this; developed by the Insitu division at Boeing, the system can coordinate and control multiple unmanned ariel vehicles and …
Read More »Adobe XD is now available via the Windows Store as private beta
It seems like Adobe is pretty adamant on bringing their productivity suite to the Windows Store; it has only been a few days since the release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 on the Windows Store, and now it turns out – Adobe is bringing Adobe XD to the Store as …
Read More »Unity game engine adds support for Windows Holographic, and Visual Studio Code in the latest update
Unity Technologies has released a new update for the Unity game engine, bumping the version to 5.5. The beautiful thing about Unity is that it works everywhere – BlackBerryOS 10, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows – including UWP, Apple TV, Android, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, PlayStation. It doesn’t matter where you …
Read More »HoloLens is coming to Japan, preorders start from 2nd December
Microsoft announced last month that HoloLens would be coming to countries in Europe and the Australian region by the end of November – the end of November is here, and HoloLens is available for purchase in the mentioned countries. Today, Microsoft has announced one more addition to the HoloLens expansion …
Read More »Microsoft’s Surface Phone under trial production, according to new rumours
The story of Surface Phone is bringing new twists every day; yesterday, a report suggested that the device to be launched at MWC is going to be made by HP. Today, new rumors have emerged claiming that the Surface Phone is already under trial production by Pegatron. The report comes …
Read More »November update for Office 365 brings real-time collaboration to PowerPoint and more
The Office 365 subscribers are getting some sweet treats soon; for the Insiders, the soon is… now. Microsoft is bringing real-time collaboration to the Office suite, one app at a time. This month’s update brings real-time collaboration to PowerPoint, adds the ability to upload attachments to the cloud directly from …
Read More »Surface Studio gets the teardown treatment, reveals a hidden ARM chip
The insides of Surface Studio have been revealed; an expensive adventure, since the device starts at $3,000. The teardown, of course, is by iFixit – the folks famous for their excellent toolkit, as well as their teardowns that make incredible devices look very lame (but still awesome). The hardware inside …
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