Microsoft is killing support for running Android apps on Windows 11

What you need to know Microsoft has announced that it is deprecating the Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 11. This means support for installing and running Android apps is being removed from the OS. The feature will be deprecated on March 5, 2025. In a shocking move, Microsoft has announced that it is deprecating […]

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Microsoft is killing its Windows VR platform — announces deprecation of ‘Windows Mixed Reality’

What you need to know Microsoft has added Windows Mixed Reality to the list of features it is deprecating in Windows. The company says support for Windows Mixed Reality devices will be removed in a future version of Windows. This includes support for SteamVR using Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets. Microsoft has announced that it […]

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Ubisoft is killing off a game millions have bought thanks to one of gaming’s worst trends

What you need to know Ubisoft’s The Crew is being shutdown in 2024 when the servers will be turned off.  The game has been delisted from stores, but players who own the game have until March 31, 2024 to play it. Then it’s gone for good.  The lack of an offline mode for The Crew […]

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Microsoft is killing the Windows 11 ‘Tips’ app, will be removed in a future OS update

What you need to know Microsoft has added its Tips app for Windows 11 to the list of deprecated features. This means the Tips app is no longer being developed, and will be removed in the future. The Get Help app is remaining, and will likely become the destination for learning how to use Windows. […]

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Microsoft is killing the classic Windows WordPad app after almost 3 decades

What you need to know Microsoft has announced that it is deprecating the classic WordPad app that has shipped as part of Windows since Windows 95. The app hasn’t been updated since Windows 8, but still ships in the latest version of Windows 11. Microsoft says the app will be removed in a future release […]

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Microsoft is killing Visual Studio for Mac, focusing on VS Code instead

What you need to know Microsoft has announced the end for the Visual Studio IDE on Mac. Current users have another year of support planned, but no further new features will be released.  Users are being directed towards Visual Studio Code or towards Microsoft Dev Box (or other VM solutions on Mac) if they continue […]

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The Weird Way That Human Waste Is Killing Corals

“Even with a severe heat wave in 2015, 20 percent of those reefs that were in cleaner water with the herbivore fish not only went got through the heat, but some improved,” says Arizona State University ecologist Greg Asner, coauthor of the study, who leads the Allen Coral Atlas reef mapping project. “There are vast […]

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If I can blame TM Roh for anything, it’s killing the Galaxy Note series

TM Roh took over Samsung Mobile from DJ Koh at the start of 2020. It was a challenging time for not just the company but the world as the pandemic was raging. Samsung Mobile required new leadership that would lead the world’s largest smartphone vendor into the “Next Normal,” a post-pandemic future that would change […]

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Microsoft News Roundup: Diablo 4 early access, sad WinRAR, motherboards making people bleed, and killing Cortana

Microsoft news continues to roll out at a respectable pace. Diablo 4, WinRAR, and Microsoft Teams all made the headlines this week. With so many stories coming out each day, it’s easy to miss a few pieces. Luckily, our weekly news roundup gets the biggest stories straight to you in bite-size pieces. Diablo 4 (Image […]

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A Parasite Is Killing Sea Otters. Is Cat Poop to Blame?

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientist Melissa Miller was seeing something in California sea otters that she had not seen before: an unusually severe form of toxoplasmosis, which officials have confirmed has killed at least four of the animals. “We wanted to get the word […]

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Microsoft may be killing off this amazing Xbox Game Pass deal (Update)

What you need to know Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s pay-monthly subscription service offering hundreds of games and access to Xbox cloud streaming. Since it launched in 2017, new users were offered a month for just $1.  Over the weekend, users began to notice that the promo offering seems to have come to an end.  […]

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Spotify is killing the heart icon, replacing it with a plus

Spotify has announced that it’s killing the heart icon today. But don’t worry, it’s all for a higher purpose. Before, you had the heart icon “to mark the songs you wanted to save”, Spotify says in a blog post, and the “Add to playlist” icon to add tracks or episodes to your favorite playlist. From […]

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Rumors about Samsung killing a Galaxy S24 model are misleading

Samsung may have just confirmed the Unpacked event for the Galaxy S23 series today but the rumor mill is already moving on to next year’s lineup. The latest suggests that Samsung is going to reduce the number of handsets in this series to two, killing off one of the models. According to our information, that’s […]

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Microsoft Store killing open-source app sales, angering developers (Updated)

Update (1:50 PM (ET), July 6, 2022): Giorgio Sardo, Microsoft general manager of apps, partners, and the Microsoft Store, clarified the intention behind the new Microsoft Store policies. “We absolutely want to support developers distributing successfully OSS apps. In fact there are already fantastic OSS apps in the Store! The goal of this policy is to […]

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Samsung killing the Galaxy Watch bezel ring would be so bad

I’m sure you’ve heard it by now: According to our very own sources, Samsung could be launching a Pro version in its new Galaxy Watch lineup this year. Whether or not this means the Classic model is going away is unclear at this time, but I sure do hope Samsung isn’t going to be killing […]

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These Razer Krakens purportedly stopped a stray bullet from killing someone

Source: Enough_Dance_956 / Reddit Call it good luck, and no, this doesn’t appear to be an April Fool’s Day joke: Imagine sitting in your bedroom, likely gaming or listening to music with some Razer headphones on, when a stray bullet crashes through your window and hits you in the head, except instead of being injured, […]

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One reason why Samsung killing the Galaxy Note series was wrong!

Samsung has confirmed it, even though we already knew it was going to happen: The Galaxy Note brand is dead and has been replaced by the Galaxy S Ultra. Going forward, every Galaxy S Ultra flagship will bring with it a built-in S Pen slot along with all the top notch specs we’ve come to […]

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Killing the Galaxy Note was Samsung’s brilliant plan to save Galaxy S series

The Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series have been a permanent fixture of Samsung’s smartphone strategy for years. In the first half of the year, Samsung would launch new Galaxy S flagships. The Galaxy Note would come in the second half with almost similar specs but that didn’t prevent people from loving this series. The […]

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