After announcing earlier this year that VMWare Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro virtualization apps were free for personal use, Broadcomm has now made those applications free for commercial use as well.

Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-6 is now rolling out for supported phones and tablets with wireless display improvements, Fairphone 5 support, and more. But the anticipated VoLTE support has been postponed.

A Chinese company called Aoyi is showing off a color ePaper display that it says delivers higher refresh rates and better color gradient representation than E Ink. But a demo video shows that video still looks shaky, so it's not an LCD/OLED replacement.

This summer Fairphone launched an Android 14 update for the Fairphone 5 and said it would bring the update to the Fairphone 4 by September. Now the company says it's taking longer than planned, and assistance from Qualcomm is needed. .

Microsoft says the controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 will be available in preview for Copilot+ PCs by December. The company had delayed the launch in order to make changes in response to privacy & security concerns.

Intel Lunar Lake chips feature on-package LPDDR5x-8533 memory which saves space and reduces latency and power consumption. But it also drives up the price, so Intel says it's a one-off. Future Intel chips won't have integrated RAM.

Google has historically released new versions of Android in the third quarter of the year, but Android 16 is coming in Q2, 2025 "to better align with the schedule of device launches across our ecosystem ."

Thunderbird 8.0 for Android is now available. It's basically Mozilla's modified, branded version of the open source K-9 Mail app with support for importing data from K-9 or the Thunderbird desktop app.

It looks like a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 could be set to launch on or around November 20th. Mouser Electronics has product listings for a CM5 I/O carrier board, heatsink, and I/O board case, although pictures are "fore reference only."

An unannounced Onn 4K Plus media streamer has shown up in a Geekbench report, with a multi-core performance score that makes it one of the fastest Google or Android TV devices to date. No word on price or launch date yet though.

ARM is cancelling Qualcomm's license that allows the company to design its own chips based on ARM architecture, effective in 60 days. It's the latest step in an ongoing legal battle between the two companies.

Several new Lenovo Legion Go handheld gaming PC models have been registered with the Eurasian Economic Commission, possibly including models with AMD Strix Point, Hawk Point, and Rembrandt chips.

Google Pixel 9a will reportedly have a new 48MP primary camera with larger pixels than the 64MP camera in the Pixel 8a. It'll be paired with the usual 13MP ultra wide-angle camera.

RISC-V ratifies the RVA23 profile standard with a Vector Extension for accelerated math workloads including machine learning, cryptography, and compression and a Hypervisor Extension for virtualization.

Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-6 brings support for VoLTE to some devices with MediaTek chips running Halium 12 or newer, and initial support for newer devices including the Fairphone 5 and Volla Phone Quintus.

Google Chrome for Android is adding support for third-party autofill services, allowing apps like password managers to fill in forms on websites. It's available in Chrome 131 beta on Android 14 and later, will roll out widely on Nov 12.

Benchmarks for a previously unannounced Intel Core 3 N350 processor show that it's an 8-core, 8-thread chip with 1 GHz base and 3.9 GHz max boost CPU speeds and 1.35 GHz integrated graphics with 32 compute units.

Following criticism for the way it released the source code for Winamp under a very restrictive license, Llama Group has deleted the GitHub repository. It looks like the license was just one of many problems.

Amazon confirms that it's discontinuing the Kindle Oasis. The last model was released in 2019, and it's currently out of stock at Amazon. Other retailers may still have some inventory, but the end is nigh for Kindles with physical page turn buttons.

In addition to Android 15, Google is rolling out a Feature Drop for Pixel devices. Among other things, there's support for hands-free Gemini on Pixel Buds, Audio Magic Eraser for videos, underwater photography mode, and pollen tracking in the Weather app.