In brief: The Windows 10 Your Phone app continues to gain useful abilities, even if most of them only benefit Samsung Galaxy users for now. The latest addition to that exclusive list of features is wireless file drag and drop that Microsoft recently made available to the Windows Insider community, with a public release to follow soon in a future update.

Microsoft partnered with Samsung to enhance the PC-mobile

Facepalm: Even the most experienced of PC users feel that moment of anxiety when hitting the power button on a new build, so imagine live-streaming your first-ever attempt to an audience and something going horribly wrong.

The incident was the work of 21-year-old Twitch streamer Fastaction99 , who was putting together a PC for the first time with some help from viewers in the chat and friends on Discord.

Once the build was complete, Fastaction99 pressed the button to see if the

Bottom line: A recently published patent from Valve details a revised Steam Controller design with interchangeable parts on the front and back for added customization. Although the development doesn't guarantee the arrival of a new model, it does reveal the company's internal efforts with the hardware in what could potentially become the Steam Controller 2.0.

The Steam Controller wasn't exactly the huge success that Valve (and gamers) hoped it would be, and was ultimately discontinued in late 2019 after being on the

In a nutshell: The economy might be crashing and unemployment on the rise, but some markets are stronger as a result of Covid-19 disruption, one of which is the gaming sector. Spending on video game TV advertising was an estimated $17.3 million in March, $5.3 million more than the previous month.

GamesBeat partnered with TV ad measurement and attribution platform iSpot.tv to reveal which gaming companies spent most on national television ads last month. The number one firm by a huge

Why it matters: Do you know how to code in Common Business Oriented Language, better known as COBOL? If you’re familiar with the programming language, which was first developed in 1959, several states struggling against Covid-19 are desperate for your skills.

CNN reports that states including New Jersey, Kansas, and Connecticut still use COBOL for their systems. With the sudden rise in unemployment, the local governments are struggling to process the vast number of claims.

Kansas was in the process of

Editor's take: There’s some seriously good content on offer here from some of the top experts in the industry. Why not make the most of the lockdown period and learn a new hobby or sharpen your existing skills? It’s absolutely free to do so and you don’t even need a fancy standalone camera to indulge.

Camera makers Olympus and Leica are following Nikon’s lead by making select photography courses and content available for free to anyone that is interested.

Olympus’ experts are being made

The big picture: A surge in remote working and learning due to shelter-in-place measures from Covid-19 has resulted in increased demand for new PCs around the globe. That’d normally be welcome news for PC makers except in this instance, they were already behind the eight ball due to Intel’s lingering CPU shortage.

According to a recent report from research firm Canalys, vendors shipped 53.7 million desktops, notebooks and workstations globally in Q1 2020 – an eight

Why it matters: Lian Li is best known for its premium aluminum PC cases featuring unique designs, but that doesn't mean it lacks creativity with standing PC desks. The company's latest touch to an otherwise familiar design is to use electrochromic glass, which allows you to quickly switch between a clear view of your components and RGB lights, and a frosted glass aesthetic that hides them from envious eyes.

Lian Li quietly released the latest refresh of its DK-04 and DK-05 PC desk cases

Highly anticipated: Leaks of Intel’s next desktop chips are a dime a dozen, but the processors themselves aren’t. Direct Dial, a reliable Canadian retailer, has become the fourth retailer to list prices of a few of the new processors. It’s just enough data to piece together the big picture and start drawing early conclusions before the chips arrive, likely in the coming weeks.

Hardware pricing can vary based on retailer, region and market conditions, sometimes quite illogically and randomly. Instead of getting into