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I can finally express myself with this long-overdue Windows 11 feature, now available directly from within the Microsoft ...

After years of silence, Finnish company Jolla is stepping back into the smartphone market. Today, the company announced on X that the new-generation Jolla Phone is coming soon with fresh hardware, a ...

OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and one of the most iconic figures in the indy computing scene, says the bad rep ...

TL;DR: Linus Torvalds chose an Intel Arc GPU for his perfect Linux PC, swerving Nvidia (unsurprisingly) and AMD (much more surprisingly). The Arc B580 was used in the build, but that wasn't Torvalds's ...

ChromeOS has been a very successful platform for Google, helping it secure a foothold in the laptop industry without competing at the premium end of the spectrum. Google positioned ChromeOS devices as ...