What just happened? The EU has formally opened two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay. Cupertino will be scrutinized for charging third-parties a 30 percent fee for hosting their apps on the App Store while promoting its own competing services on the marketplace. The company's mobile payment solution will also be probed for restricting the use of NFC to its Apple Pay app, thereby prohibiting banks and other financial service providers from offering NFC payments through their own apps.

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In a nutshell: The Corsair One series has long been one of our favorite pre-built small form factor PCs. Now, a new version becomes the first to feature one of AMD’s 3000-series processors, offering up to 16 cores/32 threads of performance, combined with an RTX 2080 Ti or 2080 Super, in a compact case.

We called the Corsair One the ultimate compact gaming PC back in 2017, awarding it a

In a nutshell: If, like me, you consider yourself a veteran of PC gaming (i.e., old) and have been tinkering with computers since the 90s, you’ll probably have fond memories of the GeForce 256, the graphics card that Nvidia called the “world’s first GPU.” Now, it’s been recreated in Lego form.

Why it matters: Parallels is partnering with Google to bring full Windows applications to Chrome OS via its virtualization technology. This would allow businesses to deploy cheaper Chromebooks while still being able to leverage legacy Windows applications when needed. There's no word as to general availability but this should help bolster Chrome OS in the software department.

Parallels is known for allowing Mac owners to run Windows virtual machines within macOS itself. Now, Google wants to get in on the action with its own announcement of a partnership with Parallels that brings

Forward-looking: Intel is baking new anti-malware protections into its latest mobile CPUs, as well as upcoming desktop and server platforms. The new CPU-level security feature is called Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET), meant to protect against classes of malware that so far have been difficult to mitigate only via software.

Intel's CET will first become available with Tiger Lake mobile CPUs that are expected to drop in the second half of 2020. So far we've seen a few

Why it matters: Google has not released any official numbers regarding how many Stadia users it has, so it's hard to tell how well the platform is performing. However, the company continues to promote and offer discounts frequently. Its latest move seems to be to drop the Premiere Edition bundle to $100.

On Tuesday, Google reduced the price of its Stadia Premiere Edition from $129.99 to $99.99. The price drop is not the first we have

Why it matters: We all know Nvidia's RTX 3000-series GPUs are likely to be revealed in just a few months, but thanks to new reports, we now have a better idea of when the cards might enter full production.

Sources familiar with the matter told Igor's Lab that Nvidia is currently in the Design Validation Test phase with its RTX 3080 and 3090. This information, combined with historical data gathered from past Nvidia launches, prompted the site to

Why it matters: Robotics specialist Boston Dynamics on Tuesday started offering its quadruped Spot robot for sale to interested businesses for the first time. Up to this point, Spot was only available to lease through the company’s early adopter program which opened in late 2019. The price? About as much as a brand new Tesla Model S.

First introduced in 2016, the canine-inspired robot is more of a general purpose workhorse than some of Boston Dynamics’ earlier (and far creepier )