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Save money with Raspberry Pi projects. From media centers to smart homes, Pi beats mini PCs in terms of cost and flexibility.

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Microsoft's long-gestating Gaming Copilot AI assistant is coming to more PC users and the Xbox mobile app in the near future. This toolset is sort of like an AI version of those old Nintendo help ...

The Xbox app is now a launcher for all of your PC games. Microsoft is rolling out a new aggregated gaming library inside its ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue caused by the August 2025 security updates, which triggers unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and app installation problems for non-admin users on all ...

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Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to lock your Windows 11 PC remotely using an Android phone. Microsoft is rolling out a new update to the Link to Windows app that now includes the ability to remotely ...

Xbox has revealed that it is testing a feature on its PC app that allows users to access third-party launchers, such as Battle.net and GOG Galaxy, directly from Microsoft's own app on supported ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to make its official app store the default gateway for Windows software. The effort has mostly flopped, but the company keeps nudging the store toward ...

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