My Raspberry Pi 3 kit arrived over the weekend as promised, so I began the process of turning it into a tiny Amiga computer. I wrote about these plans a few days ago, in BYOPC: Raspberry Pi 3 + Amiga (Premium). Today, I'm detailing the first steps I took in transforming this kit into a…

I revisited Windows IoT Core a few weekends ago and found it to be useful in a quick project that involved dumping my wireless headset's EEPROM. In other words, just another weekend at Rafael's place.

As you may have heard, Microsoft is slowly replacing its monolithic and proprietary .NET technologies with the open, modular, and cross-platform .NET Core.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today that it has brought its PIXEL desktop environment to PC and Mac.

Tech tidbits from around the web: A real life Half-Life 2 City Scanner drone, Xbox One price drops by $50 ahead of E3, Windows 10 Mobile build 14342.1004 heads to Insiders in the Slow ring, a "leaked" image purportedly shows Surface phone, BBC's Micro Bit computer is now available to the public, more.

In the latest episode of Windows Weekly, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley and I discuss the "Christmas miracle" of Windows 10 build 10586.29, and so much more.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation today announced a new version of its kit-based computer dubbed the Pi Zero that costs just $5.

Looking at this week's Google I/O announcements, it's hard to miss the ways in which Google is undercutting Microsoft's mobile efforts.

Microsoft recently released a version of the Windows 10 Insider Preview for the Raspberry Pi 2 mini-computer, a new Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Here’s a quick peek at this release, called Windows 10 IoT Core, and what it’s like to get it up and running. Note: After four straight weeks on the road, it’s…

Earlier this month, the Raspberry Pi Foundation released a major new version of its tiny single-board computer system for aspiring computer science enthusiasts. But this rendition of Raspberry Pi has much broader aspirations than the first generation devices and is in fact powerful enough to form the basis of a general purpose PC. Better still,…

In the latest episode of Windows Weekly, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley (in London) and I discuss the Office for Windows 10 Preview, a new Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 update rollup, Raspberry Pi + Windows 10, how businesses will be able to acquire Windows 10, Windows Server vNext delayed, and Satya Nadella’s one year…

Tech tidbits from around the web: My road trip, 2 TB Xbox One S is selling out, Windows 10 Anniversary Update is available for the Raspberry Pi 3 too, Microsoft exec calls out Apple on its aging Mac hardware, more.

Google this week announced that it was killing its IoT platform, Android Things, less than two years after limiting its use to smart speakers and displays.

Google announced this week that it would limit Android Things to smart speakers and smart displays only, effectively killing any chance that it will turn into a general-purpose Internet of Things (IoT) platform. “Given the successes we have seen with our partners in smart speakers and smart displays, we are refocusing Android Things as a…

Thanks to a blockbuster year, Nintendo is upping its estimate for annual Switch console sales to 15 million units. No, that's not enough to surpass the rate at which Sony sells the PlayStation 4. But it's close, and this success came out of nowhere. More to the point, Nintendo's hybrid approach to video gaming---the Switch…

Happy New Year to everyone! And welcome to the final installment of "Ask Paul" for 2017. Overwatch jimchamplin asks: Do you play Overwatch on PC? If so how good are you? I do not. My son does, however, and it is one of his favorite games by far (the others being Rocket League and PUBG).…