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"Plenty of market hype around AI PCs and a less sexy commercial refresh cycle" grew the global PC market by 3% in Q2 of 2024, but China continues to dwindle these efforts
By Kevin Okemwa published
ON THE UP AND UP According to a new report by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the market grew by 3% in the second quarter of 2024 — translating to 64.9 million units.
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"We're not blessed with big marketing budgets," Xbox's EMEA marketing lead laments Microsoft's lack of investment
By Jez Corden published
Microsoft goes cheap Microsoft has been exploring essentially abandoning marketing Xbox in Europe according to rumors, and now we have some comments from Microsoft itself that may effectively confirm it.
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CrowdStrike's CEO finally apologizes after users react angrily to the firm's response to the Windows BSOD apocalypse
By Jez Corden published
Crowdstruck Initially, Crowdstrike seemed to refuse to take responsibility for the outages affecting thousands upon thousands of PCs across the globe today.
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As the world wakes up to a "digital pandemic", Microsoft suggests turning it off and on again 15 times
By Jennifer Young published
HELLO? IT? The world came to a standstill this morning as many services reliant on Azure servers were affected by an outage. Microsoft's solution? A classic. Turn it off and on again.
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NordVPN will soon work on Qualcomm Snapdragon X PCs, closing a big part of the Windows on Arm app gap
By Sean Endicott published
An Arm-native version of NordVPN is in its final stages of testing.
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As the world suffers a global IT apocalypse, what's more worrying is how easy it is for this to happen
By Richard Devine published
☠ Friday, July 19, 2024, will forever be remembered as a day global IT outages crippled industry and healthcare services. But what's most terrifying is how easy it is for this to happen at all.
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"Shout out to an early Friday finish": CrowdStrike BSOD and chaotic outages are a blessing in disguise for some workers
By Kevin Okemwa published
3-DAY WEEKEND(?) Microsoft services are experiencing a global outage. And while Microsoft and CloudStrike work on a fix, corporate employees aren't too upset about getting an early weekend.
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Traveling today? Here's how airport delays and 911 outages triggered by 'CrowdStrike' bug and Microsoft downtime can affect you
By Sean Endicott published
Travel disruption A global IT outage has caused flights to be grounded, affected 911 services across the United States, and caused issues for banks. The outage is related to a CrowdStrike is, which is being fixed.
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Move like a Jaguar, sting like a... centipede? Here's EVERYTHING we learned about the Spiritborn — a new dexterity-based class coming to Diablo 4
By Jennifer Young published
DIABLO 4 SPIRITBORN Diablo 4 gets its first new class added to the game in the Vessel of Hatred expansion, which is coming later this year. Here's everything we know about the Spiritborn class.
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Overwatch 2's new hero Space Ranger is Juno and is crash-landing in Season 12, but she's playable this weekend
By Brendan Lowry published
🚀 Space Case Blizzard has officially revealed Overwatch 2's latest new hero: Space Ranger Juno. She's coming in Season 12, but you'll be able to play her this weekend during a "hero trial."
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