According to a new patent filed by Microsoft, titled: “Fingerprint Detection With Transparent Cover”, the possibility that we’ll see a Surface Phone this Fall or early next year is becoming very real, with a big hint on the kind of changes we might find also in future Surface touchscreen products, like the Surface Pro tablet, and Surface Book.

Enter the era of cross-platform malware: once a menace almost exclusive to Windows users, malware is now gone full-on mainstream, with widespread attacks across all operating systems, including Mac OS X, and Linux.

Ransomware is a rampant plague and a cyber-security nightmare that won’t go away anytime soon. Ransomware is also an 18 million dollar a year business, according to 2015 reports with an average paid ransom between $300-$600.

John Ellenby may not have been the father of the modern clamshell laptop, but as the CEO of Grid Systems, the first company who successfully commercialized the clamshell laptop in 1982, Ellenby was an early influencer of a trend that would set the standard for how all laptop computers look and function today.