The Latest Breaking News from Best Buy

Microsoft accidentally shipped this exclusive Copilot+ feature to the wrong PCs

Copilot+ PCs will soon support super resolution within the Windows 11 Photos app. The feature uses a PC's NPU to upscale images. An issue caused the feature to appear on unsupported PCs, but Microsoft has since fixed it.

Windows Central · Oct 23, 2024

A third-party mod brings leaked Windows 12's macOS-inspired floating Taskbar to Windows 11 and Windows 10 — but it has a Microsoft Edge caveat

A new mod dubbed Seelen UI utility will allow Windows 11 users to tweak and modify certain design elements in the operating system's user interface according to their preferences, including "the floating Taskbar once seen in a Windows 12 leak."

Windows Central · Oct 22, 2024

Netflix closes its AAA game studio, shuttering the team that pulled in Halo and God of War veterans

Netflix Games' Team Blue has been shuttered, with the AAA developer that pulled in talent like former Halo and God of War veterans being closed just a couple of years after it first opened.

Windows Central · Oct 22, 2024

What Hi-Fi? Awards 2024: Epos crashes the speaker party as familiar favourites dominate

It’s been another great year for speakers with new arrivals from the likes of Q Acoustics and Epos shaking up the price categories for 2024.

What Hi-Fi? · Oct 22, 2024

Fallout TV show star says Season 2 starts filming soon, and that her character's "got some things up her sleeve"

The actress behind one of the Fallout TV show's major characters has revealed that its second season is scheduled to begin filming soon.

Windows Central · Oct 21, 2024

PlayStation tried to lock a major third-party game into an exclusivity deal (but the devs said no) — but still, it looks like Xbox fans will continue having to endure exclusionary deals like 'Silent Hill 2' going forward. Should Xbox start doing similar?

Third-party timed exclusive deals have typically hit Xbox the hardest, and they may continue to do so, too. This year saw Black Myth Wukong, Silent Hill 2, and others reach paid exclusionary deals from PlayStation targeting Xbox.

Windows Central · Oct 21, 2024

$22 billion Microsoft deal with U.S. Army could be in jeopardy unless the tech giant can get the price of its militarized HoloLens to be "substantially less than" $80,000 per unit

Microsoft's militarized HoloLens continues to face challenges, this time surrounding the cost of individual units.

Windows Central · Oct 21, 2024

OPINION: As Xbox Series X|S digital game sales reportedly hit a 91% share, Microsoft needs to ensure disc collectors don't get left behind with the next-gen Xbox — I think it's time to revive the "hated" 2013 disc-digital licensing model

Xbox digital games have reportedly hit a 91% share over physical discs, making the future of physical look bleak.

Windows Central · Oct 21, 2024

A TechTuber nostalgically runs Windows 95 on a Nintendo 3DS with 256MB of RAM and a stylus pen — but painfully slow boot times hashed his mellow

TechTuber MetraByte boldly attempted to get Windows 95 to run on the Nintendo 3DS with the aim of trying to make music. However, the experiment was rife with Blue Screen of Death errors coupled with poor performance.

Windows Central · Oct 21, 2024

A Kentucky Man Asked Best Buy Employees to Help Him Transfer Files from His Computer. Those Files Contained Child Porn and He Was Arrested, Police Say

Authorities alleged that Hancock had been in the process of downloading more child porn when the search warrant was executed

Latin Times · Oct 21, 2024