Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was planning to stop supporting Office apps (Microsoft 365) on Windows 10 after the October 14th end of support cutoff. Now, Microsoft is performing a U-turn and has pledged to continue providing security updates for Office apps on Windows 10 for an additional three years.“To help maintain security while you transition to Windows 11, Microsoft will continue providing security updates for Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 10 for three years after Windows 10 reaches end of support,” says Microsoft in an updated support article published last week. “These updates will be delivered through the standard update channels, ending on October 10, 2028.”Microsoft quietly announced this three-year extension in late April in a separate support article for IT admins, and it reiterates that the Microsoft 365 apps will “continue to function as before,” but that businesses should upgrade to Windows 11 “to avoid performance and reliability issues over time.”This latest language is a lot different to the blog post Microsoft issued in January that warned businesses that Office apps would no longer be supported on Windows 10 later this year. “To use Microsoft 365 Applications on your device, you will need to upgrade to Windows 11,” said Microsoft at the time.Microsoft has been pushing consumers and businesses to upgrade to Windows 11 ahead of the end of support for Windows 10 on October 14th. The company declared at CES earlier this year that 2025 would be “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh,” despite Windows 11 adoption lagging behind Windows 10. Microsoft has also been trying to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts over the past year. Consumers who don’t want to buy a new PC or upgrade to Windows 11 will also be able to purchase Extended Security Updates for the first time. You’ll have to pay $30 for an extra year of updates, while businesses will be able to purchase up to three years of extended updates.

Watching YouTube videos from the website on your PC can be a drag. You have pop-ups and distracting sections on the screen. There is clutter on the right side of the video with advertisements, related videos, other distracting content on the right, and comments under the video.

The Mavic 4 Pro. | Image: DJIToday, DJI is officially announcing the Mavic 4 Pro, which could be the most versatile drone it's ever made. It's the first with a 360-degree rotating gimbal for footage that tilts, rolls, and offers true vertical filming. It's the first Mavic to offer 51 minutes of battery life, tied with the old Mini 3 and close to the longest flight times DJI has achieved. It's the first with a built-in 100-megapixel camera, which can also record 6K/60fps HDR, as part of its triple-camera array. Another important distinction: it's the first off-the-shelf DJI drone that won't launch in the United States. Today, it's going on sale in Canada, Mexico, and every other country where DJI sells drones, but the company tells The Verge it has no timeline on bringing it to the US. DJI won't honor its limited warranty if you cross the border to purchase one in Canada or Mexico. It's not even sending the drone to US-based technology reviewers - we don't have one, and we're not sure when we'll get one.Why is the Chinese drone maker doing this? The company says Trump's tariffs were among the top reasons it chose to abandon a US launch - and there's also the fact that, seven months later, US Customs is …Read the full story at The Verge.

When Microsoft slipped the first public preview of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) into the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in August 2016, it mostly appeared to be a niche convenience aimed at developers who missed Bash and a Linux terminal. Few outside the Insider community guessed it would grow into a fully fledged, GPU-accelerated, GUI-capable Linux environment, maintained and delivered by Windows Updates and the Microsoft Store. Yet, nearly a decade later, WSL has grown and flourished into something more, and is arguably one of the biggest features added to Windows in a long time.

There’s still a week to go until Google I/O 2025 starts in earnest, but some of the developer conference’s biggest announcements are likely to arrive today in a one-off livestream called The Android Show: I/O Edition.When the Android Show will happen and where to watch itThe Android Show takes place today, Tuesday, May 13th, at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. You can watch it live on the Android site or its YouTube channel, and we’ve embedded the livestream at the top of this page too.Google’s main I/O keynotes tend to run for a couple of hours. Breaking Android out should mean this is a shorter show, though we don’t know for sure how long it’ll run.A new look for AndroidOne thing we’re pretty confident is coming is the launch of Android’s new design language, Material 3 Expressive. That’s because Google already published (and deleted) a blog post revealing the new look, and still has the name online in an I/O session listing that calls it “the future of Google’s UX design.”We haven’t seen Material 3 Expressive in Android 16’s beta releases yet, so the Android Show should be our first detailed look at how it works, and hopefully we’ll find out when it — and Android 16 — will arrive on our phones.Android XRGoogle first announced its Android-ified take on extended reality in December 2024, so we’re about due an update on it, especially with Samsung’s Project Moohan headset still slated to launch this year. We got to try the tech out last year, so we know the basics of what to expect, but Google needs to prove that its concept is ready to become reality. Is a boatload of XR updates the reason it broke out the Android Show into its own event?Don’t hold your breath for hardwareGoogle is inconsistent about announcing hardware at Google I/O, but an announcement today feels especially unlikely: we already have the Pixel 9A, it’s too early for the Pixel 10 phones, and by all accounts we’re never getting a Pixel Tablet 2.Unless Google decides to drop a sneaky I/O tease of the Pixel 10 line — like it did for the Pixel 7 series, but hasn’t done since — the focus will probably be firmly on software.When is the rest of Google I/O?The bulk of Google I/O will take place next week, on May 20th and 21st, with Google’s main keynote set for 10AM PT / 1PM ET on May 20th. That’s right in the midst of Microsoft’s Build conference, which takes place from May 19th through May 22nd. With today all about Android, expect next week’s I/O event to put Gemini center-stage.

There is no other game series in the first-person shooter genre that is praised more than Doom. It is the gold standard against which all other FPS titles are compared, and the benchmark by which gaming setups are judged. When it comes to pure mayhem and adrenaline-pumping action, Doom is arguably one of the greatest video game series ever developed. Nobody can truly experience the fun of playing a first-person shooter without playing a Doom game. It's just that good and enticing to come back to many times over.

Gearbox Software has been busy building the Borderlands franchise over the years. The first game in the series was released back in 2009. Since then, the developer has created nine titles. This includes multiple spin-off games that have helped further build up the franchise. The latest game in the series is Borderlands 4, which isn't being released until September 12, 2025. While we wait for the next game to be released, let's rank each of the previous titles from worst to best.

Windows is one of the oldest and most popular operating systems in the world, and it's no surprise that its popularity has led to multiple modified distributions that anyone can install and try out. It's never recommended to install a modified Windows ISO that you didn't modify yourself, as they can come prepackaged with just about anything. And oh, as you'll see, they really did come with anything. These are some of the weirdest Windows bootlegs I came across, and there are countless more out there, too.

Anyone with pets knows the truth—clean floors don’t stay clean for long. Whether it’s tumbleweeds of shed fur, muddy paw prints after a rainy walk, or the occasional drool puddle near the food bowl, messes tend to pile up quickly. And for pet parents, that means cleaning becomes a near-daily chore.

Hey, remember that one Recall feature that Microsoft pushed back again and again? We're coming up to a year since it was meant to come out, but after there was a huge issue with its security practice, we saw Recall delayed for further fixes.

Once you've started self-hosting a few apps on a NAS, one of the next improvements to your home lab is adding a reverse proxy to access your services through one domain name. While many home labbers use Nginx as their reverse proxy solution, it was created as a webserver, and lacks some of the comforts of purpose-built code.

There's one sentiment that's been consistent among PC gamers for nearly two years: 8GB graphics cards just don't cut it for a modern gaming rig. Games have gotten more demanding, and even at 1080p, there are titles that can fully saturate an 8GB frame buffer. Running out of VRAM doesn't always look the same, though.