Who needs a 6-inch touchscreen Windows desktop?

Ockel made a name for itself building credit card-sized PCs for people who wanted to take their desktop with them wherever they went. The Sirius B (and its pro-edition brother) were both hits, prompting the company to build a version that you could use on the go. That product was the Sirius A, a wedge-shaped device with eight regular-sized ports at the back and a touchscreen up top.Both versions are pitched as full-bodied desktops...

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Microsoft released the wrong version of ‘Forza Horizon 3’ for PC

The Forza team has since rolled back to the previous build and is working on a fixed update. And if you stuck to your profiles from an earlier version, you should be safe even if you used them with the flawed software. However, you’re in for some headaches even then: you have to reinstall the game to get back on track. Suffice it to say that you won’t be happy this month if you’re using an internet provider with data...

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Microsoft released the wrong version of ‘Forza Horizon 3’ for PC

The Forza team has since rolled back to the previous build and is working on a fixed update. And if you stuck to your profiles from an earlier version, you should be safe even if you used them with the flawed software. However, you’re in for some headaches even then: you have to reinstall the game to get back on track. Suffice it to say that you won’t be happy this month if you’re using an internet provider with data...

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Lenovo Yoga 910 review: The devil is in the details

That said, the 910 is just long enough that it won’t comfortably fit into a standard 13-inch laptop sleeve; you’ll want to size up to one designed for 14- or 15-inch systems. Unfortunately, too, another cost of that bigger screen is some blank space at the bottom — a thick black bar where instead of pixels you’ll find the 720p webcam. This isn’t the first laptop we’ve seen with a camera on the lower...

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The blue screen of death is going green for Windows testers

If there’s one color guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of Windows users, it’s blue. But as one Twitter sleuth has discovered, the iconic and always alarming “blue screen of death” is going green, and not because Microsoft is feeling festive. The new crash screen was spotted in a recently leaked preview version of Windows 10 (build 14997, to be exact), which isn’t expected to be formally released...

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