Industry standards change over time, and eventually new technologies almost always take the place of old ones. If you're old enough to remember using 3.5-inch or even 5.25-inch floppy disks, you know ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the state of a society can be gleaned from its luxury technology, then nothing sums up the unbridled consumerism quite like ...

If there’s been one weakness of the Surface tablet series, it’s been a lack of available expansion ports—a shortcoming Microsoft addressed with the Surface Dock. But three years after the latest Dock ...

Today, Microsoft announced the Surface Book 3, Surface Go 2, and Surface Headphones 2, but alongside new products comes new accessories. The company introduced the Surface Dock 2 and USB-C Travel Hub, ...

Microsoft's new lineup of Surface devices looks pretty impressive. The key specs of the Surface Pro 6 convertible and Surface Laptop 2 — mainly performance and battery life — got really nice boosts, ...

Microsoft Surface devices primarily target high-powered creative types at a substantial price point, but the tech giant is looking to change that with a new $399 hybrid tablet. Microsoft unveiled the ...

It's almost embarrassing, at least for Microsoft, that Apple would be at the forefront of pushing new standards like USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 while its premier flagship computers obstinately remain in ...

Microsoft latest Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2 devices, announced this week, won't come with USB-C or Thunderbolt 3, the latest and fastest standards for connecting accessories and charging your ...

A new Surface Pro could arrive later this year, and Microsoft may give its detachable tablet design a big makeover. Part of that makeover involves making USB-C a native feature for the first time on ...

When I was cleaning out my office this weekend, I realized something: I don’t need my Surface Dock any more. Microsoft’s Surface Dock (later replaced by the Surface Dock 2) was part and parcel of ...

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