Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

Public broadcasters won’t have to adopt ATSC 3.0 anytime soon if they don’t want to. That’s the biggest takeaway from the FCC’s notice of proposed rulemaking for ATSC 3.0, also known as Next Gen TV.

For almost ten years now, Battlestate Games has toiled away on Escape From Tarkov with the help of its community. The hardcore, realistic survival FPS game birthed the extraction shooter genre, paving ...

Things are about to get messy for free, over-the-air TV. This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed a notice of proposed rulemaking that’s designed to allow broadcast TV stations to ...

For a case study in how a once-promising technology turned toxic, look no further than ATSC 3.0. Also known as NextGen TV, the new broadcast standard promised to revolutionize free over-the-air TV ...

WASHINGTON—After announcing on Oct. 6 that it would vote on a notice of proposed rulemaking on ATSC 3.0 at its October meeting, the Federal Communications Commission released a draft of the measure ...

In the 9 1/2 months since President Trump returned to the White House and FCC leadership transitioned from Jessica Rosenworcel to Brendan Carr, forces behind the transition to ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN ...

The FCC announced this week that it will consider proposed rules to sunset ATSC 1.0 to make way for full transition to ATSC 3.0 (aka “NextGen TV”) “For television, ATSC 3.0 represents the future of ...

A proposal to transition America’s television broadcasters from the current digital standard to NextGen TV would allow television stations to decide when to shut off their current digital signals, ...

The Federal Communications Commission is advancing a framework that would eliminate mandatory simulcasting requirements for television broadcasters adopting the ATSC 3.0 standard, according to a ...

The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its ...