msoftnews

Tweet The Chinese wing of the Redmond-based giant made reference to the Surface Phone yesterday when comparing Cortana’s performance on Android with its anticipated abilities on the fabled device. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms, has been the recent wunderkind of the material science world. It is the strongest material in existence and an amazing conductor of electricity and heat. A recent paper preprint out of Rice University documents another form of carbon that could have even more impressive properties: carbyne. The pearl-like strings of single carbon atoms are theorized to be stronger than graphene, carbon nanotubes and…

Tweet Previously uncovered in leaked slides, the Windows 8 app store was never officially confirmed. That all changes with a post on the B8 blog that indicates there is a Windows 8 App Store team. Read more… Neowin.net