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Top Stories @PCWorld Apr 20, 2016 Chrome turns 50 and stands at a crossroads Google Chrome has done plenty of good for the Web, but its future looks uncertain as it hits version 50. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • As Intel shifts its focus to the cloud, it commands its PC products to fight—or die • Best mid-priced high-resolution digital audio player: Which DAP reigns supreme? • The laptastic Razer Turret mouse and keyboard is finally ready for couch gaming • Chatbots land on Skype's Mac client and web app • Pioneer XDP-100R review: This polished and flexible high-resolution audio player is loaded with features • Microsoft might be eyeing a Surface phone with a trackpoint/fingerprint reader • Europe files antitrust charges against Google over Android's licensing requirements • This crazy tiny Arduino clone nestles into a AA battery slot • Lian-Li's wild motorized standing desk doubles as a case for formidable PCs • Intel's less of a PC company, shedding 11,000 workers as it moves into other businesses • Microsoft kills off its Xbox 360 gaming console, but Xbox 360 games will live on via thanks to the Xbox One • New AWS service helps companies to move their apps to the cloud • AWS focuses on hard disks for new big data services • Word tutorial: Clean up a messy document's formats and styles using macros As Intel shifts its focus to the cloud, it commands its PC products to fight—or die Intel is moving to slowly extricate itself from the PC market through a competitive process where every project in Intel's client PC business is being evaluated for its future prospects. Read More ▶ Best mid-priced high-resolution digital audio player: Which DAP reigns supreme? We review hi-res audio players from Astell&Kern, Pioneer, and Questyle; one shines above all the others. Read More ▶ The laptastic Razer Turret mouse and keyboard is finally ready for couch gaming The Razer Turret mouse and keyboard makes playing PC games in your living room look a little less nerdy. Read More ▶ Chatbots land on Skype's Mac client and web app Now you can chat with Skype's bots on more platforms including Macs and the web version. Read More ▶ Pioneer XDP-100R review: This polished and flexible high-resolution audio player is loaded with features Pioneer's great-sounding, feature rich, Android-based player's only major drawbacks are its lack of MacOS support and its bulky size. Read More ▶ Microsoft might be eyeing a Surface phone with a trackpoint/fingerprint reader Microsoft's new patent filing envisions a trackpoint with an embedded fingerprint sensor, enabling Windows Hello in mobile devices. Read More ▶ Europe files antitrust charges against Google over Android's licensing requirements The European Commission on Wednesday made new antitrust charges against Google, alleging that the company foisted its search application and the Chrome browser on Android smartphones makers as a condition to license its other apps and services. Read More ▶ This crazy tiny Arduino clone nestles into a AA battery slot It's not as high-powered as a Raspberry Pi, but the AAduino is a tool many DIY types will find useful. Read More ▶ Lian-Li's wild motorized standing desk doubles as a case for formidable PCs Lian-Li's motorized standing desk PC kills the clutter of having a separate desktop. Read More ▶ Intel's less of a PC company, shedding 11,000 workers as it moves into other businesses Chipmaker Intel said Tuesday that the company plans to lay off 12,000 jobs, as the company evolves away from being a purely PC company. Intel's primary engines of growth are now the data center and the Internet of Things. Read More ▶ Microsoft kills off its Xbox 360 gaming console, but Xbox 360 games will live on via thanks to the Xbox One Microsoft announces it will cease production of the Xbox 360, but don't despair: all of its services will continue uninterrupted. Read More ▶ New AWS service helps companies to move their apps to the cloud A new Amazon cloud service announced Tuesday could help companies with legacy applications have an easier time taking the leap to the cloud. Read More ▶ AWS focuses on hard disks for new big data services Amazon Web Services is going retro to help companies deal with big data workloads. The cloud provider announced Tuesday that it's launching two new volume types for its Elastic Block Store service that are powered by traditional, spinning disk hard drives. Read More ▶ Word tutorial: Clean up a messy document's formats and styles using macros You have a long, messy Word document, with a bunch of formats and styles that are just plain wrong. With Word macros, you can fix them all by recording each fix and running them as much as you need. We'll show you how. Read More ▶

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