Mighty was designed to be a better, faster web browser… by leveraging cloud computing resources to speed up your online experience. But when the company announced an early access program last year, it left a lot of folks scratching their heads. That’s because unlike most web browsers, Mighty doesn’t run on your local computer. It […]
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Nestbox makes running Linux virtual machines easy on Google’s Pixel 6 or later smartphones
4 Comments on Nestbox makes running Linux virtual machines easy on Google’s Pixel 6 or later smartphonesAndroid developer Danny Lin (also known as kdrag0n), has introduced a new app called Nestbox that makes it easy to run Linux virtual machines on Google’s latest Pixel phones. In a nutshell, this lets you run Linux tools and apps on an Android phone without the need to reboot. While this isn’t the first app […]
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Lilbits: iOS 16 unveiled, Google Pixel’s latest feature drop, and an open source handheld messenger
1 Comment on Lilbits: iOS 16 unveiled, Google Pixel’s latest feature drop, and an open source handheld messengerApple is bringing widgets (and more) to iPhone lock screens with iOS 16. A public beta is set to launch in July and the software should roll out this fall for most iPhones released in the past five years. Google, meanwhile, has just released its latest Pixel feature drop, which brings a few new features […]
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Lilbits: Virtualization in Android 13, Steam Deck case CAD files released, a new NOOK leaks, zombie Google+ is even deader
1 Comment on Lilbits: Virtualization in Android 13, Steam Deck case CAD files released, a new NOOK leaks, zombie Google+ is even deaderGoogle is bringing a new virtualization framework to Android, and it’s now available for testing if you have a Pixel 6 smartphone running the recently released Android 13 Developer Preview. While it’s not entirely clear what Google plans to do with this technology, one possibility Mishaal Rahman investigated a few months ago had to do […]
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The latest RISC-V specifications open new AI and IoT possibilities
RISC-V International has announced the ratification of 15 new specifications for the RISC-V ISA that it says will speed the pace of adoption in a variety of markets. The organization highlighted three of those specifications — Vector, Scalar Cryptography, and Hypervisor — in a press release issued just ahead of this year’s RISC-V summit in […]
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Lilbits: Windows 11 won’t run in virtual machines without TPM, Mozilla VPN picks up new features, and more
4 Comments on Lilbits: Windows 11 won’t run in virtual machines without TPM, Mozilla VPN picks up new features, and moreYou don’t need a particularly powerful computer to run Windows 11. But you do need one with a relatively recent processor featuring a Trusted Platform Module because Microsoft is making TPM one of the minimum system requirements for security purposes. Until recently one way to get around that was by installing Windows 11 Preview builds […]
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Mighty is a web browser that’s… hosted in the cloud.
As the internet has become increasingly integrated into everyday life, the web browser has become one of the most important apps that runs on most computers, allowing you to stream video, play games, do online banking and accounting, edit documents, make video calls, and much more. But as we ask browsers to do more and […]
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Parallels Desktop now lets you run Windows on Macs with Intel or M1 chips
When Apple launched the first Macs with ARM processors, the company managed to deliver big gains in performance and efficiency, whether you’re running apps designed to run natively on ARM or apps that were originally made for Macs with Intel chips. But there were some things you couldn’t do. You couldn’t install Windows on a […]
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Lilbits: Windows on Apple Silicon, Android apps on Windows
Apple Silicon is fast. Macs with Apple M1 chips outperform just about every other laptop on the market in most benchmarks, while consuming less power. Even Mac apps that were designed to run on x86 chips run faster on the new Macs than they do on equivalent models with Intel processors. Not every Mac app is […]
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Shadow slashes game streaming price to $12 per month (rent a gaming PC in the cloud)
Shadow is one of the more unusual players in the game streaming space. Rather than charging you for the games you want to stream over the internet, Shadow charges you a monthly fee to basically rent a virtual gaming PC hosted in the cloud. That means you can buy and install just about any game […]