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If asking digital assistants to play music, answer questions, read stories, and tell jokes,tu on lights, lock doors is your thing, then Amazon Echo(3rd Gen) is definitely a great product and in many...

Samsung put its Galaxy Tab S6 for sale back in August this year, and now the company is now all set to offer a 5G variant of the tablet which will simply be called Galaxy Tab S6 5G.The Galaxy Tab S6 5...

Back in July, Apple aounced its plans to acquire Intel’s smartphone modem business for about $1 billion.“This agreement enables us to focus on developing technology for the 5G network while ret...

Are you yet to become an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber? Do you love deals? If you answered yes to at least one of these questions, you’ll want to check out the latest deal from Xbox.For the next ...

Microsoft’s official eBay outlet is selling new Acer Mixed Reality headsets for an amazing price. They are offering the Acer Windows Mixed Reality headset with the controller for only $169.99. The i...

Today on Twitter, Bethesda aounced that anyone who logged into Fallout 76 after its full release in 2018 will receive an entitlement to Fallout Classic Collection on PC. The deal also extends to Xbo...

You can now get 42% discount on 12-month Xbox Game Pass membership from Amazon US. After the discount, you can buy it for just $69.99. With Xbox Game Pass membership, you can: Get unlimited access to...

Quick Pad is a NotePad replacement which is designed to quickly jot down notes. It offers features such as the ability to use Rich Text and support for emojis, but its main selling point is support f...

Microsoft has releasedKB4469342 for Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The cumulative update was released to Windows Insiders onRelease Preview Ring earlier and is now rolling it out to all the users....

When Ori and the Blind Forest released, it quickly became a prime candidate for speedruns thanks to its tight controls and excellent platforming. Developer Moon Studios appears to have taken note of t...

If you don’t want to mess around with Canary builds but still want to try out Chrome’s new Material Design UI you can now activate it in the stable version of Chrome by just selecting a drop-down in t...

Update:Telltale has confirmed earlier reports about its partnership with Netflix. Minecraft: Story Mode is coming to Netflix this fall and Telltale will publish a game based on Stranger Things for consoles and PC at a later date.Separately, we're thrilled to confirm that Telltale is developing a game based on Stranger Things that we'll publish to consoles a...

Minecraft is certainly no stranger to tie-in packs, and another one was just added to its list. This time, players can jump into Minecraft and ado the looks of their favorite Final Fantasy XV characters.The Final Fantasy XV Skin Pack released on the Minecraft Marketplace today with a whopping 43 character skins from the popular series. This pack includes F...

[embedded content]Microsoft today aounced several new SharePoint pages and news capabilities across Office 365. Microsoft has now added the ability to create news from SharePoint home in Office 365.Users can just click Create news button in Office 365 SharePoint home page and choose where they want to publish the news. Once they select the site, they will...

American chip manufacturer Qualcomm has officially aounced the Snapdragon x50 modem based on 5G technology. With this, Qualcomm also revealed a list of 18 OEMs who will be using the x50 modem and 5G technology in their upcoming hardware.The latest x50 modem will operate at around 6 GHz frequency and will be able to maintain a stable 4G network and also coect to the 5G network.Qualcomm also emphasizes that the enormous transmission rates may even make fiber optic coections obsolete.Qualcomm Technologies is deeply committed to helping our customers deliver next-generation 5G mobile experiences to consumers, which requires enhanced mobile broadband 5G NR coectivity enabled by 5G NR networks, mo...

You can now save up to $650 on popular Lenovo Yoga devices in the US. Some of the Yoga models included in this sale include Yoga 920, Yoga 910 and Yoga 720 13-inch. These devices offer incredible value when compared to Microsoft’s Surface lineup. For example, the new Yoga 920 with 8th gen Core i7 processor, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and 4K display costs only $1799. If you configure a similar spec Surface Laptop from Microsoft, it will cost you around $2,699! Find some of the available deals below.Yoga 720 13″ With Pen:8th Generation Intel Core i7-8550U Processor (1.80GHz 8MB)13.3″ UHD IPS AntiGlare Multitouch (3840×2160) with integrated camera16.0GB DDR4 2133 MHz (Onboard)1TB PCIe SSDDeal price: $1,...

With Fortnite’s growing popularity thanks to its battle royale mode, Epic Games has laid out a road map for the coming months. In this ‘State of Development’ post it was revealed that a 60FPS mode is coming to consoles.The aouncement can be read below.Later this month we plan to add an optional 60 FPS mode for Battle Royale on consoles (PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, Xbox One X). This 60 FPS mode is tuned for each console to maximize frame rate while minimizing loss of visual quality.In addition, Fortnite Battle Royale is set to get new cosmetic items and weekly updates to improve the experience for all players. Some of its upcoming quality of life fixes are as follows:Improved building controls on...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 is an operating system that powers devices ranging from phones to consoles to tablets to laptops. While it has been argued before that an operating system that tries to do too much will inevitably be mediocre at most things, Microsoft touts Windows 10 as an example. Indeed, the best selling device that the firm puts out hardware wise is the Surface Pro hybrid device which is by all accounts a tablet-focused device.When all is said and done, however, there’s no denying that Microsoft has left the Windows 10 tablet mode in a dire state, and there’s no sign of that changing in the near future.Tablet mode in Windows 10 was introduced with Continuum, the term Microsoft coin...

Symantec today aounced that it is partnering with Microsoft to bring its Symantec Web Security Service to Azure and Office 365. Using this service, Azure customers can proactively protect themselves against cyber threats and can better control their corporate data.Generally, traffic from remote sites and mobile users coects through corporate data centers to access applications and utilizes security infrastructure to access the web. But this traditional security architecture adds latency and increase costs when organizations move to Azure and Office 365. Symantec is targeting these organizations so that they can make use of Symantec Web Security Service to move their entire network security s...

[embedded content]Last year, Microsoft aounced Resume Assistant, which integrates with Word, and would show users writing a resume example profiles from the relevant area they are working in, pulled from real public profiles on LinkedIn, which could help resume writers polish their resume, include relevant skills and even decide on which training to pursue. This Resume Assistant is now generally available to Office 365 subscribers on Windows in select regions.Unique features of Resume Assistant:Showcase your unique skills and experience. Resume Assistant gathers insights from millions of LinkedIn profiles to inspire you with examples of how others in similar roles – or aspirational roles – d...