A mysterious white window is showing up on Windows PCs. Here’s a fix

Windows 10 and 11 users are reporting a blank white window appearing at startup or unlock. Here's the likely cause and a ...

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge is the default web browser and PDF reader in Windows 11, but it needs to be configured correctly before it's ...
Digital Trends

Windows 11 File Explorer is getting the fix it should’ve had years ago

Microsoft is finally acknowledging what many Windows 11 users have felt for years, File Explorer can be slow in ways that a faster launch alone won’t fix. The latest explanation from Microsoft points ...
CNBC

Japan's Sakura Internet jumps 20% as Microsoft plans $10 billion AI push with SoftBank

Sakura Internet shares jumped after Microsoft announced an AI partnership in Japan. Microsoft pledged $10 billion to build AI infrastructure and train workers. SoftBank and Sakura partnered to provide ...
The New York Times

A.I. Is Giving You a Personalized Internet, but You Have No Say in It

The relentless addition of artificial intelligence in popular apps raises questions about what’s at stake. The answer: the future of the internet and its lifeblood, digital advertising. Credit...Derek ...
PC World

Microsoft Copilot is the new Internet Explorer

Copilot should be ahead of the competition—it comes pinned to the taskbar on every Windows PC. But I keep bouncing off it, and I’m not alone. AI-positive Windows users are largely going out of their ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about internet use, smartphone ownership and digital divides in the U.S.

For 25 years, Pew Research Center has tracked some of the biggest technological shifts in history. Note: We conducted polls via phone from 2000 to 2021; via web and mail in 2023; and via web, mail and ...
Neowin

Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

There were a few ways to activate Windows 11/10 officially. However, Microsoft has now apparently killed one such way without prior notice. In November last year, we reported on the removal of an ...
BGR

10 Major Internet Providers Ranked From Worst To Best

You almost never think about what internet provider you're using until you experience video call freezes, stream buffering, or lag during intense video game sessions. This frustration is shared by ...
Ars Technica

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...
TechSpot

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...
TweakTown

Microsoft's plan to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11 backfires: double the RAM, still slow

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft's Windows 11 is widely considered to be in a pretty rough spot thanks to ongoing performance issues, unnecessary features taking up system ...