Microsoft has finally crossed an important milestone for Windows 11, months ahead of Windows 10’s end of support cutoff date. Stat Counter, spotted by Windows Central, now lists Windows 11 as the most used desktop operating system nearly four years after its release, with 52 percent of the market, compared to 44.59 percent for Windows 10.Windows 11 became the most popular OS for PC gaming in September, but overall adoption had still been lagging behind Windows 10 until now. Leaked data in October 2023 also revealed Windows 11 was used by more than 400 million devices at the time, a slower adoption pace than Windows 10 — which took just a year to reach 400 million devices compared to Windows 11’s two year period.Part of the slow adoption is down to Windows 11’s hardware requirements. While Microsoft offered a free upgrade to Windows 10 users, millions of machines have been left behind due to stricter CPU and security requirements. Microsoft has been trying to convince the owners of these machines to upgrade their hardware in order to get Windows 11, sometimes with a full-screen prompt.Windows 10 is due to reach end of support on October 14th, and Microsoft recently revealed it would give away a free year of extra security updates to consumers if they were willing to enable Windows Backup and sync their Documents folder to OneDrive. If you don’t want to do this, you’ll have to pay $30 for a year of updates, or redeem 1,000 Microsoft Reward points.

I'll be honest — when I first heard about an operating system that runs entirely on a browser, I didn't take it seriously. It sounded like a fun little experiment, not something you could actually use. I figured it would be sluggish, buggy, and barely of any use. But curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to give Puter a spin. To my surprise, it worked. Like, actually worked. Not only was it responsive, but it also had a surprisingly intuitive interface that mimicked traditional desktop behavior.

With two days until the official launch, more details have leaked about the trio of foldable phones Samsung is about to reveal. The latest leak details the screens, storage, batteries, and other core specs of the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and new Z Flip 7 FE.The new information comes from WinFuture’s Roland Quandt, who claims to have obtained official Samsung promotional materials for the new phones, which will be officially revealed at a Galaxy Unpacked event this Wednesday, July 9th. The Fold 7 is expected to be substantially thinner than its predecessors, and Quandt quotes marketing materials that say it will measure 4.2mm thick when unfolded, and 8.9mm folded. That would make it the same thickness as the Oppo Find N5, and just 0.1mm thicker than Honor’s Magic V5, though at 216g it would actually be the lightest book-style foldable phone yet.It cuts the weight despite having bigger screens than the Fold 6 — 6.5 inches on the outside, and 8 inches on the inside — and squeezing in the exact same battery capacity of 4,400mAh. As expected it’ll be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, with either 256GB or 512GB of storage. This may vary by market however, as in a previous post Quandt reported on a 1TB version of the Fold 7, in line with what it offers for the current Fold 6. The only camera detail listed is a resolution of 200 megapixels, presumably for the main camera, and it will apparently launch in blue, black, and silver.View LinkThe smaller Flip 7 is just as interesting. Quandt claims that it will have a substantially larger 4.1-inch cover screen, sharing an image that shows this will wrap right around the two camera lenses, just like on Motorola’s recent Razr flip phones. That design appeared over the weekend in an alleged hands-on video of the new Z Flip, and has been seen in renders since March.The Flip 7 is also tipped to be substantially thinner than older models despite its bigger 4,300mAh battery, only a little smaller than the Fold 7’s. Storage options and colors are the same as the bigger phone too, though the Flip sticks to a 50-megapixel main camera.Quandt also has a few details on the long-rumored Z Flip 7 FE, expected to be a cheaper take on the flip phone. It drops to 128GB and 256GB storage, along with a smaller 4,000mAh battery. It has the same screen sizes as the main Flip 7, suggesting that it too will use the wrap-around cover display design, though that contradicts earlier reports that it will reuse the Flip 6’s design. It’s apparently only launching in black and white versions.Alongside leaks of the new phones, Quandt shared what appear to be official marketing images of the Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic, which have apparently adopted the squircle body design Samsung introduced in the Galaxy Watch Ultra. His latest leaks make no mention of the rumored Samsung trifold, which the company may tease this week but is unlikely to reveal in full.

With a note-taking app, a task management solution, and documents scattered across various clouds, my digital workspace felt like a chaotic collection of half-solutions. I tried Capacities, Notion, Obsidian, and even Anytype, and yet the promise of seamless productivity often felt just out of reach. That all changed the moment I discovered Craft. It’s an intelligent, all-in-one productivity tool that has redefined how I organize my thoughts, manage my projects, and tackle my daily workload.

Like many PC enthusiasts, this generation was the one that I finally decided to give a Radeon GPU a proper kick at the can. For the last 10 years or so, I have been the proud owner of various EVGA-branded (RIP) Nvidia graphics cards, ranging from the GTX 750 Ti to an RTX 3080.

Destiny: Rising, the mobile-exclusive sci-fi RPG shooter set in Bungie’s Destiny universe, will be released for iOS and Android on August 28th. The launch date was announced by Chinese developer NetEase Games alongside the release of a new gameplay trailer that shows off some of the missions, strikes, PvP battles, and PvE features that players can expect to encounter.The game was announced in October last year, spawning from the $100 million Bungie investment that NetEase (the developer behind Marvel Rivals and Diablo Immortal) made in  2018. NetEase says that Destiny: Rising is “set in an alternate timeline before the events of the original game,” allowing players who are new to the franchise to jump in without needing to experience previous Destiny titles. Players can choose to take on the role of a “fully customisable” Lightbearer named Wolf, or play as established Destiny characters like Ikora Rey and Iron Lord Jolder. Game features include single, co-op, and competitive multiplayer modes, customisable Primary and Power Weapons, the ability to share weapons across character arsenals, and a new weapon type and “Mythic” rarity gear tier.The Destiny: Rising release date announcement follows a limited-access playtest that was launched in November, with preorders for the game now available on Google Play and the App Store. NetEase is also holding a pre-launch event that allows players to register to receive special in-game bonuses, with more rewards being unlocked when registration milestones are crossed.

If you've ever scrolled through PC hardware threads on Reddit, you've probably seen gamers obsessing over CPU bottlenecks. Some of them act like it's a crime to pair a high-end GPU like the RTX 5090 with anything less than a 9950X3D or 9800X3D. But is that really justified? In the past five years, I've owned two AMD CPUs — the Ryzen 9 5900X and 5800X3D — and two high-end Nvidia GPUS — the RTX 3090 and 4090. And from my experience, CPU bottlenecks are often overstated.

While you may not instinctively think about using an app with "CPU" in its name to check out how your GPU is faring, CPU-Z does have its own "Graphics" tab where you can get a quick rundown on your card's specs. For a little while, CPU-Z didn't officially support some of the latest GPUs that hit the market; if you owned one of them, you were just out of luck.

The Nintendo Switch Online service has a collection of classic Nintendo game releases readily available for everyone to play. Depending on whether one gets the Expansion Pass or not, there is a large selection of retro games to play that people have loved over the years. While the Nintendo GameCube classics section recently started alongside the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, the company has plans to add more GameCube titles to the service for subscribers to have access to. But for Nintendo fans to really take advantage of the service, and for more people to join, Nintendo needs to add more multiplayer GameCube titles to the library of Switch Online classics.

I don't mean to alarm anyone, but I think that Microsoft has finally remembered that the Windows 11 lock screen exists. A few days ago, I reported on how Microsoft is adding a battery indicator to Windows 11's lock screen, and honestly, while it should not have taken Microsoft four years to get around to adding one, I'm just glad we finally got there. Now, another lock screen feature has emerged from the woodwork in the beta builds, and honestly, I'd take just about anything at this point.

Speedruns can be amazing things to watch, especially when they involve classic games that people have played over the years. The level of skill and patience required to execute a fast speedrun can take years of practice and endless hours of repetition of a game, and that can just be the surface level of understanding of it. But even in the fast-paced world of speedrunners, things can change as new technology becomes available to players. With the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, some speedrunners are discovering some interesting things with the new console. To everyone's surprise, the Switch 2 may be breaking speedruns in ways nobody thought were possible.

Working with Home Assistant is relatively easy when using popular integrations with newer hardware. Its versatility as a community-built open-source software shines in crafting automations that don’t require any additional hardware. If you like to tinker, you can unlock Home Assistant’s true potential by automating the devices already on your network, apps with cloud integration, and app-based services. Wondering how? Here are a few hand-picked examples of Home Assistant automations anyone can use without any additional hardware. Of course, they do require some setup work.