In just two weeks Microsoft is expected to unveil the future of its Windows operating system. Although we know changes will be made to the look and features of the OS, what we don’t know is what this new and (hopefully) improved version of Windows will be called.

Solid-state drives may be the go-to for phones and most PCs and laptops, but the humble mechanical hard drive still has a place in the computing world - especially when you need a lot of storage, but you don't have the money. Therefore, it is probably no surprise that in recent time hard drive manufacturers have turned to increasingly esoteric methods of improving performance and capacities.

Multiple major websites went offline briefly Tuesday after an apparent outage at the cloud service company Fastly, and there were still reports of sporadic disruptions after the company patched the problem about an hour later, AP reported. Dozens of sites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch, Reddit, the Guardian, and the UK government’s home page, could not be reached.

Jeff Bezos will be aboard for Blue Origin’s first human space flight next month, AP reports. In an Instagram post early Monday, Bezos said he, his brother, and the winner of an ongoing auction, will be aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft during it’s scheduled launch on 20 July.

Twitter Blue is the social media giant's shiny new effort at making itself more user-friendly and pretty, while also making more money. And while the subscription service does allow users to undo and change a sent tweet for 30 seconds after it was tweeted, the much-requested option to edit sent tweets is still a faraway dream.

This morning in a livestream, Huawei officially kicked off the launch of Harmony OS - its in-house operating system and (among other things) its replacement for Android. The company also announced a new watch, a new tablet, and a new phone powered by the new operation system and said it would be updating a massive list of 100 different Huawei Android phone models to Harmony OS over the next year.

Facebook announced today a number of new developer tools, including several messaging features for businesses, at its virtual F8 software developer conference. As outlined by CNBC, the event marked Facebook’s first software developer conference since 2019, as the Covid pandemic forced the company to cancel last year’s event.

Thanks to an official Press Release over on Nintendo of Japan’s website, it’s been revealed that Nintendo is planning to open a museum for the public by March 2024. According to Nintendo President, Shuntaro Furukawa, “Uji Ogura Plant (Ogura-cho, Uji-city, Kyoto) and the land surrounding the building will be used as a new gallery to showcase the many products Nintendo has launched over its history”.

The European Patent Office (EPO) is hosting the first-ever digital edition of the European Inventor Award ceremony on Thursday, 17 June, which viewers will be able to watch at http://www.inventoraward.org in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The ceremony, an important event in the science and innovation calendar, will give audiences around the globe an opportunity to learn about outstanding inventors from Europe and beyond who have devised ingenious solutions to some of today’s most pressing problems.

US Intel which is a leading producer of semiconductor chips warned that the current global shortage is not likely to be fully resolved in the coming years. The global chip shortage has undermined the recovery of several industries, including the production of cars, consumer electronics and others.