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Looks like the Nintendo Switch and Valve Steam Deck’s resounding success gave Sony some ideas for a new handheld device. At the PlayStation Showcase, the company confirmed an upcoming handheld console dubbed Project Q for the time being. It consists…

At its Build conference, Microsoft announced that its ChatGPT-based Copilot functionality will soon be available in all Windows applications. As with Copilot Microsoft 365, Windows Copilot is a new window that opens to the right of your screen and…

Microsoft wants to make it easier to set up and use Windows development machines. A new Dev Home for Windows 11 control center, available in preview, carves out development environments for machines that will link to GitHub and connect to necessary…

We’re thoroughly familiar with the web’s top-level domains (TLDs) such as .ca, .uk, .com, .net, .org, .gov, and .edu, and we’ve even come across more uncommon ones such as .biz, .aero, .game, or .movie. Earlier this month, Google Registry put…

Beepberry is the fusion of a backlit BlackBerry Classic keyboard, a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a 2.7-inch Sharp Memory LCD 400x240 monochrome display, all powered by a 2,000mAh battery. The device is the brainchild of Eric Migicovsky who created the…

Even with strong financial results, Microsoft is tightly controlling payroll costs. The company does not plan any raises for its employees this year. In an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees that only…

At its I/O conference, Google announced Studio Bot, an AI assistant that helps Android developers write and debug code. Studio Bot is just starting out and is currently available only to developers in the US via the Canary channel. It is built on…

GitHub announced a complete overhaul of its code search tool, a project that has been in development for several years. The company says its new search is “about twice as fast” as the older system and “understands the code, prioritizing the most…