Enlarge / Google’s Windows Android app store. Google As it announced in December, Google is bringing Android games to Windows. The project is simply called “Google Play Games,” and the Windows version is now open for beta sign-ups. The catch is that Google Play Games is getting a very limited distribution: you’ll need to be in Korea, Taiwan, …
Editor’s note: Updated 1/19/22 with product updates. Also adding information about a compatibility issue with M1 Macs and Apple’s Thunderbolt and LED displays. Apple equips its Macs with Thunderbolt ports that are compatible with USB-C. A new MacBook Pro comes with either two or three of these ports, depending on the model you pick. A …
Garmin Garmin has released two new high-end smartwatches, the Fenix 7 and Epix, less than two weeks after launching the Venus 2 Plus and Vivomove Sport at CES. The Fenix 7 is the latest iteration of the company’s robust, multi-sport flagship, while the Epix picks up the torch of a similarly high-end watch that hasn’t …
Opera Software has continued its trend of building specialized browsers with The Crypto Browser Project, a specialized Web3 browser optimized for the use of the blockchain and cryptocurrencies, together with its own dedicated wallet. It doesn’t appear that Opera plans to replace its desktop browser with its Crypto Browser, although the language Opera used was …
For a long time now, Apple offers you credit towards a purchase (or an Apple gift card) for trading in your old device. The program started out with just Apple devices, but the company now accepts Android phones as well. And why wouldn’t it? What better way to make switching to iPhone easy? [Want to …
Students and teachers have long enjoyed the benefits of Apple’s education pricing, which offers the latest devices at a lower price. And in the U.S., many non-students and teachers enjoyed it as well due to Apple’s extremely lax terms in its online education store. That won’t be the case anymore. Apple has finally brought the …
If you’re planning on using a newer Intel processor in your next media center PC build, a combination of security precautions and digital rights management might just have you singing the Blu-ray blues. Intel is dropping support for the software guard extension feature in 11th- and 12th-gen Core processors, which breaks DRM functionality for the …
Just as animals use their senses to detect danger, cybersecurity depends on sensors to identify signals in the computing environment that may signal danger. The more highly tuned, diverse and coordinated the senses, the more likely one is to detect important signals that indicate danger. This, however, can be a double-edged sword. Too many signals …
AMD’s $199 Radeon RX 6500 XT is here, bringing both real-time ray tracing and affordable graphics cards back to the masses—if it can stay well-stocked enough to remain on store shelves for close to its suggested pricing, that is. This ain’t your average graphics card though. AMD needed to tweak and tune the Radeon RX …
With laptop makers transitioning to Alder Lake over the next few months and the ongoing push to get Windows 10 stock off the shelves, it’s an awesome time to find laptop deals. Acer is currently selling a Core i3 version of the Spin 3 convertible laptop for just $450, which is down from the $800 …