OnePlus is merging its OxygenOS with OPPO's ColorOS

Following the merger with OPPO, smartphone maker OnePlus is prepping to merge its OxygenOS with ColorOS. The move should help standardize the user experience across the OPPO and OnePlus devices. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 2 years ago

Screenshots of Windows 11 inside and out – Neowin

We managed to get our hands on a copy of the leaked ISO and I can tell you, we stuck that in a virtual machine immediately. Install went as expected, really quick, and so far it's all familiar. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 2 years ago

Linus Torvalds asks Covid vaccine conspiracy theorist to shut up

Linus Torvalds went hard at a poster in a Linux kernel maintenance thread asking them to "SHUT THE HELL UP" when the person started propagating conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccination. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 2 years ago

Intel CEO says semiconductor shortage could last year

Intel's new CEO Pat Gelsinger has warned the world could be facing several years of semiconductor shortages thanks to the shift to working and study from home due to the coronavirus. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 2 years ago

Bill Gates left Microsoft board during probe into relation with an employee

A report from the Wall Street Journal says that some members of Microsoft's board of directors wanted Gates to step down as company director following inappropriate relations with a female employee. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 2 years ago

Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches

Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the heads of the Linux kernel dev team, has banned the University of Minnesota from further contributing as the latter had injected questionable patches for research. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 2 years ago

Microsoft job listing hints at Sun Valley UI overhaul for Windows

Microsoft has been rumored to be working on a major UI overhaul for Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley, Now, the company has hinted at this redesign through a job listing on its website. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 5900HX mobile APU puts up solid numbers on Geekbench 5

Geekbench 5 scores of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 5900HX flagship mobile APU show impressive performance. These will be the mobile counterparts to Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Twitter Acquires Squad

Twitter has snapped up video chat and screen-sharing social platform, Squad, including the people behind it for an undisclosed amount. As a result, Squad will be shut down on December 12. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

YouTube will start to demand ID / credit cards information from European users

YouTube will require some users in Europe to verify their age before watching age-restricted videos. The upcoming change will take effect in the next few months in line with the region's regulations. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Linux Mint re-adds Chromium to its official repositories

Clem Lefebvre, head of Linux Mint, has said Chromium is available again in its official repositories after it started building the browser itself. It has also started work on an IPTV player. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Microsoft plans to unify Outlook across platforms using web technologies

A Microsoft Ignite session titled 'The Evolution of Outlook' details the firm's efforts to leverage a shared architecture, like React, to unify Outlook across platforms, including for Windows. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Microsoft plans to unify Outlook across platforms using web technologies

A Microsoft Ignite session titled 'The Evolution of Outlook' details the firm's efforts to leverage a shared architecture, like React, to unify Outlook across platforms, including for Windows. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Facebook rolls out its crowdsourced predictions service to everyone in the US

Facebook has launched Forecast, its crowd-sourced predictions platform, for all users in the U.S. and Canada after kicking off its beta testing in June. It's available on the web and as an iOS app. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

X64 emulation is coming to Windows on ARM

Microsoft today made the long-awaited announcement that you'll be able to run AMD64 apps in emulation on Windows on ARM. It's coming to all generations of the platform, back to the Snapdragon 835. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

TikTok used Android loophole to collect Mac addresses without user consent

A WSJ report has found that TikTok collected the MAC addresses of all Android devices up until November last year and passed it to ByteDance servers in China. This behavior is banned by Google. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

Slimbook has announced the third iteration of the KDE Slimbook. The device is now available from €900 and comes in two sizes; 14-inch and 15.6-inch. It comes with KDE Neon, a Linux distribution. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Google loses blogspot.in domain breaking hundreds of thousands of links

Google seems to have lost ownership of its blogspot.in domain. The domain is part of Google-owned Blogger service and seems to have been picked up by a domain service provider. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Head of Google AI talks about the lack of inclusiveness in AI

Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and Senior Vice President at Google, took to Twitter to talk about the lack of inclusiveness in the industry. He shared that the field needs to be welcoming to all people. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Scheduled tweets and tweet drafts are now available on Twitter's website

After the capability was discovered a few weeks ago, Twitter has officially announced the ability to schedule tweets to go live at a specific time. It's also possible to save tweet drafts for later. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Windows 2010 2004

With the release of yet another feature update for Windows 10, it's time to go over the new features and improvements that are included in Windows 10 version 2004. Here's what you need to know. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

ProtonVPN now available on de-Googled Android devices via F-Droid

Proton has announced that its VPN service, ProtonVPN, is now available via F-Droid. Aside from the benefits F-Droid brings, Proton will reach more users where the Play Store isn't available. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 3 years ago

Tesla gets $1.29B loan from Chinese banks for its Shanghai car plant

Tesla has agreed to a 9 billion yuan loan with several banks in China. The firm plans to use the money to pay off debt it has and will invest the rest in construction and production at Gigafactory 3. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Firefox Adds NextDNS Alongside Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)

Mozilla has partnered with NextDNS to give users more security and privacy. NextDNS joins Cloudflare in the Trusted Recursive Resolver program which Mozilla plans to expand further in future. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Firefox can now send tabs to your VR headset with Firefox Reality

Mozilla's browser for virtual reality, Firefox Reality, is getting an update today which adds the ability to send tabs from your phone or PC to a VR headset, letting you enjoy those experiences in VR. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Gmail now lets you attach emails to your emails

Google has announced a new feature for Gmail, which allows users to attach email messages in emails. The feature is rolling out starting today, but it may not show up for everyone right away. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Wunder no more: Wunderlist will be shut down on May 6, 2020

Microsoft and the Wunderlist team have finally announced when the to-do service, Wunderlist, will stop being supported. The app has received a successor in the form of Microsoft To Do. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Microsoft is working to bring 64-bit Intel app emulation to Windows on ARM

Current Windows on ARM PCs can only run native ARM64 apps and emulated 32-bit Intel apps, but that's all going to change. Microsoft is working to bring 64-bit emulation to the platform. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Microsoft's Edge browser is officially coming to Linux soon

During a session at its Ignite 2019 conference today, Microsoft confirmed that its Chromium-based Edge browser is coming to Linux, something that the company has previously teased. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Microsoft patents story creation system with auto-generated content

Microsoft's latest patent features a system that comprises of story creation and storytelling mechanisms involved with production of user-created content, which help in forming a background story. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Microsoft rolls back decision to take away internal usage rights from partners

Microsoft posted an update today about its decision to repeal internal usage rights for its partners, effectively reversing the decision. The company said it heard feedback loud and clear. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

YouTube and UMG to Remaster Older Music Videos in HD

YouTube and Universal Music Group have partnered in order to remaster hundreds of old music videos with HD video and better audio quality. The enhanced videos can be found at the original videos' URL. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

New Windows 10 zero-day gets published to GitHub by SandboxEscaper

A new Windows 10 zero-day has surfaced on Github. The vulnerability, which Microsoft isn't believed to have been forewarned about, was released by SandboxEscaper who has previously released zero-days. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Twitter admits to 'accidentally' sharing some iOS location data with a partner

Twitter has admitted that it accidentally shared the location data of a subset of iOS users with a "trusted partner". However, the bug has now been resolved and the data has apparently been deleted. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Microsoft won't be removing Paint from Windows 10 for now

Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc confirmed today that the classic Paint will remain in Windows 10 for the time being and will be available as part of the May 2019 Update. Its removal alert is also gone. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

The Windows Media Center SDK Is Now (Unofficially) on GitHub

A former Microsoft employee has uploaded the SDK for the Windows Media Center to GitHub, giving fans the chance to look into the feature that was removed from Windows 10 back in 2015. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge

Microsoft released the first public builds of its new Chromium-powered Edge browser today. But while there are a lot of similarities to Google's Chrome browser, there were some features removed. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Mozilla launches Reference Browser for Android, a testing bed for new features

Mozilla has announced a new test program for the future of its mobile browsers. This will arrive in the form of a new Reference Browser, which will serve as a testing ground for future products. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

Firefox 69 will have Flash disabled by default

Mozilla has announced that Adobe Flash will be disabled in Firefox 69 which is due for release in September 2019. Mozilla plans to remove the plugin from its browser entirely in 2020. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

Firefox shows ads for Booking.com in New Tab page

Firefox 64.0 has been spotted serving a hotel booking ad in the snippet section of its New Tab page. That section is traditionally used to provide updates from Mozilla concerning its services. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

Microsoft patents a magnetic USB-C port

A new patent filed by Microsoft hints that the company might be planning to re-imagine the USB-C connector with magnetic latching mechanisms, bringing the benefits of both worlds to future devices. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

Microsoft Edge still more power efficient than Chrome and Firefox

Microsoft has quietly run battery tests with its Edge browser in Windows 10 October 2018 Update, once again finding it to be more power efficient than Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

F-word removed from Linux code comments in favour of 'hug'

Several patches have been submitted to the Linux kernel which drop the F-word in favour of 'hug'. The change was made to make the project more inclusive in line with the Code of Conduct. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

Apple T2 Security Chip Removes Linux Support from Some Newer Macs

Documentation for the Apple T2 Security Chip, a component found in the new Mac Mini among other devices, reveals that Linux will not be able to be installed due to certificate incompatibility. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

Microsoft is sharing Indian bank customers' data with U.S. intelligence agencies

Per the Reserve Bank of India, Microsoft has been sharing the data of customers of Indian banks that utilize Office 365, in order to comply with demands from U.S. intelligence agencies. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

WhatsApp to start showing ads in the Status tab

The Facebook-owned messaging service has confirmed that it will use the Status tab to serve up ads to its users, which will serve as the primary monetization method for the app going forward. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

Microsoft unveils the Cortana powered noise-cancelling Surface Headphones

Microsoft today unveiled Surface Headphones at its event in New York. The headphones employ noise cancellation and have Cortana built in. They will be available in the US and UK during the holidays. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago

Apple demands hefty $9B price tag from Google for default search on iOS

It seems Apple has gouged the price for default search engine privileges on iOS threefold to a whopping $9 billion this year, a price Google is only too eager to pay in order to keep Bing at bay. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 5 years ago