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Mimicker Alarm won't let you sleep in. Photo: Microsoft

Mimicker Alarm won’t let you sleep in. Photo: Microsoft

No one likes being told what to do first thing in the morning, but Microsoft’s new alarm app for Android doesn’t care. The only way to stop it once it starts going off is to pull silly faces or find random objects.

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Why buy an expensive laptop when you can win one?

The Surface Book is Microsoft’s best work yet, running Windows 10 Pro and packing a detachable screen to be used as a clipboard. It’s as powerful as Bill Gates himself, and it’s all yours for absolutely no money. It’s simple, enter to win for your chance to call the Surface Book your own.

Cortana has arrived on Android and iOS. Photo: Microsoft

Cortana has arrived on Android and iOS. Photo: Microsoft

Microsoft Cortana is now officially available on Android and iOS following its beta run. The digital assistant, which has long been baked into Windows Phone and now Windows 10, hopes to compete with Siri and Google Now for a place on your device.

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A mysterious Gmail bug is putting a skull and crossbones emoji inside users’ inboxes. Hovering over the icon displays creepy messages like “Component Spy,” “Chat Spy,” and “Data Spy” — but it’s actually totally harmless, and Google is already working to fix it.

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Microsoft has a new outlook on its email and calendar app. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Microsoft is merging two of its most popular mobile apps into one: Outlook email and Sunrise calendar. Outlook has always been a favorite among email users while Sunrise rose to fame for being both free and feature-packed. Combined as one, Microsoft is hoping the move enables users to more seamlessly glide between emailing and calendar tasks.

The result isn’t really a huge departure from what Microsoft currently offers in Outlook, since Outlook already has your calendars built in. Instead, it’s more about refining navigation within the app while additionally bringing in some features from Sunrise.

The biggest change is that the sun is setting on Sunrise. After Microsoft bought the calendar app just this year, the company is already pulling the plug on it.

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