Stories by Mark Hachman

Microsoft 365 recasts Windows 10 S laptops as inexpensive corporate machines

Microsoft is aiming its Windows 10 S PCs at another big customer—corporate America—with inexpensive laptops that run on Microsoft 365 subscription-based services.

Loihi is Intel's brainy chip designed to outthink your PC's Core CPU

Intel plans to make its digital brain chip, code-named Loihi, available to researchers in 2018, in a bid to put its hardware into cutting-edge AI applications. Will your PC be next?

Microsoft plans to own quantum computing like it owns Windows PCs

Microsoft is developing everything from a programming language to the chips themselves to develop quantum computing, the foundation of a computer that runs on qubits.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet (2017) review: Competition pushes this competent tablet down

Lenovo's second-generation ThinkPad X1 Tablet is a solid, if slightly anemic, two-in-one PC that changes little. Unfortunately, some of its competition has caught up to it.

Intel launches 8th-gen Core desktop chips, claims new Core i7-8700K is the best gaming chip ever

Intel has revealed the six new 8th-generation desktop Core chips that will begin shipping on Oct. 5, including the six-core Core i7-8700K, which the company claims as the best gaming processor ever.

Intel kills its standalone Project Alloy VR headset, as PC-powered VR wins out

Intel has decided not to go forward with the Project Alloy VR headset it launched with great fanfare in 2016, citing a lack of customer interest.

Intel may tie future Core CPUs to the VR trend with dedicated features

Intel's virtual-reality chief says that the company is eyeing dedicated logic blocks in its Core PC microprocessors that will be specifically designed to optimize VR for even cheap notebooks.

Windows 10 digital ink: All the improvements with the Fall Creators Update

You can use your Windows tablet's digital pen to ink notes into Windows 10, saving them as editable digital text. And with the Fall Creators Update, it's even easier to do so.

Shopping site leaks Microsoft Surface Pro LTE price, features, and December ship date

Microsoft's expected to announce a Surface Pro with LTE at the end of October in the U.K., and a U.K. shopping site has already published prices and configurations.

Windows 10: How to type emoji on your PC using the Fall Creators Update

Soon in Windows 10, adding an emoji smiley-face will be almost as easy as a keyboard shortcut. Here's how to it will work in the Fall Creators Update.

Windows 10: Microsoft promises to fix an ongoing game-stuttering problem

Microsoft says it's aware that games may stutter within the current Windows 10 Creators Update, and it's finally working on a fix.

How Microsoft Edge will beat Chrome as the best PDF reader with the Fall Creators Update

Microsoft Edge will get some powerful tools for viewing, marking up, and even signing PDF documents when the Fall Creators Update ships. Here's a rundown of what's new.

Comcast is the fastest broadband ISP, and T-Mobile is the fastest wireless carrier, Ookla says

Millions of tests conducted by consumers themselves named Comcast as the fastest broadband ISP, and T-Mobile as the fastest wireless carrier.

Google Drive is being replaced by Backup and Sync: What to expect

Google will turn off its Drive app for PCs and Macs, replacing it with two new cloud-storage apps: Backup and Sync for consumers, and Drive File Stream for business.

Lenovo's Superfish bloatware scandal reveals a sneaky tactic we thought Microsoft had started

The VisualDiscovery Superfish adware that Lenovo loaded on to thousands of laptops not only slowed browsing but also used a sneaky opt-in practice that Microsoft later used with Windows 10.