How can I use three computer monitors like Bill Gates?

Cameron wants to try multi-monitor computing, like the Microsoft co-founder is known to do, but ideally without the spaghetti junction of wires this usually entails

Quantum Break review – a costly and unrepeatable mistake

With this time-spanning opus, Remedy Entertainment hoped to unite narrative gaming and linear television. But neither comes out of the experiment well

Apple’s at the top of the tree, but the winds of change can blow it down

The US giant, 40 years old and looking good, could soon go the dismal way of Sony and Microsoft unless it comes up with something better than the Watch

Microsoft Tay, Bodger & Badger, the sun, a chicken tikka Yorkshire pud – we review anything

Every Friday we apply critical attention to things that don’t normally get it. This is an important function that might hold civilisation together. Or, more likely, not. Drop your suggestions for reviews in the comments or tweet them to @guideguardian

Microsoft ‘plans to offer adblocking in Edge browser’

Tech giant adds to publishers’ woes as it is revealed it expects to include adblocking features in next version of its Internet Explorer replacement

Microsoft’s racist chatbot returns with drug-smoking Twitter meltdown

Short lived return saw Tay tweet about smoking drugs in front of the police before suffering a meltdown and being taken offline

The tech industry wants to use women’s voices – they just won’t listen to them

From Siri to Microsoft’s Tay, women’s voices are leading the AI frontier but we have no reason to believe the male-dominated industry understands us at all

Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from Twitter

Attempt to engage millennials with artificial intelligence backfires hours after launch, with TayTweets account citing Hitler and supporting Donald Trump

PlayStation 4.5 rumours: is this the age of upgradeable games consoles?

Game developers say Sony is readying a new version of PlayStation 4 with 4K compatibility and more processing power. If it’s true, is it a good idea?

Microsoft to close Lionhead Studios – cans Fable Legends

Veteran UK studio, founded by Peter Molyneux, is likely to close as Microsoft ceases production on latest Fable title, which has been in the pipeline since 2012

How did email grow from messages between academics to a global epidemic?

Ray Tomlinson, the man who literally put the @ in email addresses, has died. Here’s a brief history of electronic messages, from the Queen’s first mail to the triumph of spam

Gears of War developer tells games industry: we must fight Microsoft

Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney launches blistering attack on Microsoft, over what he sees as plans to curtail users’ freedoms and subvert rights of developers

Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it

Microsoft is looking to dominate the games industry ecosystem with its aggressive new UWP initiative. Developers must oppose this, or else cede control of their titles

Minecraft comes to Oculus Rift – hands-on in the virtual world

A new version of the block-building game puts players into an immersive virtual environment, courtesy of Facebook’s VR headset

Forza Motorsports is coming to PC – new Apex title is just the beginning

Microsoft is bringing its famed console racing simulation to Windows 10 machines as a free-to-play taster. Subsequent Forza titles will all arrive on both PC and console