Microsoft said Friday that it has begun testing some extremely practical new capabilities for Windows 11, with new features that include Voice Clarity, 80Gbps USB support, and sharing and compression features that accommodate more applications. Windows 11 Build 26040 is part of the Windows 11 Canary Channel, code that may or may not be released to the general public. As proof of this, Microsoft pulled back a "remote capture" feature that had been released to the Canary and Dev Channels last September, making it part of the Snipping Tool app instead. While Microsoft hasn't shipped any groundbreaking features with this release, it has included a number of useful additions that hopefully will make their way to the stable Windows channel this fall. Last fall, Microsoft launched a "remote capture" feature that streamlined the process of capturing and editing photos taken with your smartphone.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has seized an American sea drone in the Gulf and tried to tow it away, only releasing the unmanned vessel when a US Navy warship and helicopter approached, US officials have said. The incident on Tuesday marks the first time the Navy's Middle East-based 5th Fleet's new drone task force has been targeted by Iran. While the interception ended without incident, it comes amid growing tensions between the United States and Iran as negotiations over the tattered Iranian nuclear deal hang in the balance. The U.S. Navy prevented a support ship from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) from capturing an unmanned surface vessel operated by the U.S. 5th Fleet in the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 29-30. The IRGC's Shahid Baziar warship attached a line to the Saildrone Explorer in the central part of the Gulf in international waters late Monday night, said Commander Timothy Hawkins, a 5th Fleet spokesman.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPad on January 27, 2010, in San Francisco. When I hustled out of CNET headquarters in San Francisco on May 26, 2010, and slipped into a rental car with two of my co-workers to head to a meeting across the Bay, one of them slipped me a copy of The Wall Street Journal and pointed to a headline that announced Apple had passed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable tech company. "What do you think of that?" she said. "Unreal," I responded, shaking my head. Just over a decade earlier, Apple had nearly been on its deathbed and needed a $150 million investment from Microsoft simply to stay alive. But then the iPhone arrived in 2007, and Apple rewrote the playbook on the mobile revolution.

One of the big breakout manga hits of the past five years or so is definitely Yasuo Ohtagaki's grittier take on the original Mobile Suit Gundam. Set as a sidestory to the main conflict, Gundam Thunderbolt is a fascinating and very different approach to the saga. I was lucky enough to catch up with its author and find out how the manga came about. Considering the huge success of Gundam Thunderbolt, I was curious as to how Ohtagaki had gotten into making manga in the first place. Thankfully, he was more than happy to explain, "I am from Osaka originally and I've really enjoyed manga since I was a child. My father used to buy two volumes of the latest release, although at that time there were already 30 volumes on the market. He would buy the volumes like souvenirs and I would look forward to them. This is how I got into Dokaben and the first thing I copied was the art of Dokaben. I liked manga for a long time but when I was in high school, the romantic comedy boom arrived. I started to look at Akira Oze sensei's work, as he was at the time drawing romantic comedy manga. I realized then that I wanted to create manga like Oze sensei. "At the time when I was drawing manga, there was the romantic comedy boom and I liked this type of manga, the kind where a boy and girl flirt.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard unveiled a new attack drone which is similar to a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle captured five years ago and is capable of carrying bombs, state media reported on Saturday. The drone, called the "Saegheh," or Thunderbolt, was unveiled at an expo showcasing the latest achievements by the Revolutionary Guard. This photo released on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, shows a new attack drone called Saegheh or Thunderbolt in an undisclosed location in Iran. "This long-range drone is capable of hitting four targets with smart precision-guided bombs with high accuracy," the head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace arm, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA, Reuters reported. The semi-official Tasnim news agency said the drone is similar to the RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone used by the U.S. Iran's state-run Press TV said the long-range drone can carry four precision-guided bombs.