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Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

Downloadable now, update version 21.1.0 for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 is an incredibly small one. The patch merely looks to make “system stability improvements to enhance the user’s ...

The “production release” of Windows MIDI Services just hit the Dev and Beta Windows Insider channels, and Microsoft says it will land on retail installs in “the next few months.” This means ...

The developers for Stellaris: Console Edition have released update 1.002 for the game, which is for patch 4.2.0. This is the ‘Corvus’ update, and it comes with balance fixes and bug fixes. Released at ...

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Microsoft has released Windows 11 build 28000.1199 to Insiders in the Canary Channel. This update for version 26H1 does not contain new features or something specific, and instead, focuses on "a small ...

A journalist with more than eight years of experience in the gaming segment (she blames The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for that). If you are one of over a million players who have added Escape ...

Rumors say Google will release Gemini 3.0 on October 22, as the next-generation frontier AI model has been in testing for a while. It's unclear what Gemini 3.0 will have to offer, but it's easy to ...