Microsoft has added image upscaling to Bing Maps and is rolling it out to its Edge browser, using deep learning and AI to make images sharper and more detailed than the originals. | Continue reading
AM5 motherboard buyers were shocked and angry to find their RAM slots damaged after removing a warning sticker | Continue reading
Surprisingly legit-looking, "free" copies of Microsoft Office are (unsurprisingly) still scams | Continue reading
Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and Bioshock Infinite are all free on the Epic Games Store this week | Continue reading
Chrome may dominate, but Firefox is a known name among browsers for a reason. Whether you care about features, performance, or privacy, it could be a better fit for you. | Continue reading
Windows 11 Home in S Mode may ship by default on PCs like the Surface Go 3, preventing you from installing "unverified" apps that aren't in the Windows Store. Here's how to upgrade from Windows 11 S to Windows 11 Home. | Continue reading
Devices using Qualcomm's Nuvia chips for PCs and phones are expected in late 2023, Qualcomm executives said Wednesday. The company says it's still consistent with its original roadmap. | Continue reading
Dell's new CAMM memory design might actually be a good thing for the PC industry. | Continue reading
Apple's dithering on performance always feels dishonest when it doesn't have to be, and that holds true with the powerful new M1 Ultra chip in the Mac Studio. | Continue reading
Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22567 includes a new payment subsection within the Windows 11 Settings menu, adds a new security watchdog app, and changes the time Windows Updates occur. | Continue reading
A report by Business Insider says Microsoft has scrapped plans for its own HoloLens 3 and has instead partnered with Samsung—but that no one really knows what's going on. | Continue reading
AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution works great, but only in certain games. The new Radeon Super Resolution feature works in practically every game—though it requires some minor tradeoffs. Here's what you need to know. | Continue reading
The months-long project demonstrates the physics behind the CPUs we take for granted | Continue reading
The finals of the Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC) take place this weekend, where the top Excel modelers will go head-to-head in an esports battle broadcast live by ESPN3 and YouTube. | Continue reading
When it comes to display quality, many tech aficionados consider OLED to be the cream of the crop. However, OLED displays tend to be more common in the home theater space than anywhere else. Fortunately, manufacturers like Dell and Samsung offer quite a few laptops with OLED disp … | Continue reading
Adata's NVMe-based SD Express 7.0 card doubles UHS-II performance, and runs faster than a SATA SSD. | Continue reading
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is confident Alder Lake will topple AMD's celebrated CPUs. | Continue reading
Windows 11 reorganizes Windows, not to great effect. Several new features improve upon Windows 10, but technical limitations, feature delays, and some functional downgrades leave us thinking that it needs some more development time to be be truly useful. | Continue reading
Just look for these USB-C power rating logos to ease your shopping headaches. | Continue reading
A bad batch of early cards and a unique power load from Amazon's New World MMO are to blame for two dozen dead RTX 3090 GPUs. | Continue reading
A source close to Microsoft has confirmed: Windows 10 Home will require a Microsoft account during the signup process. | Continue reading
We've tested a bunch of Thunderbolt docks—from budget-priced to full-featured—to help you find the right one for your laptop PC. Our buyer's guide will tell you what to look for. | Continue reading
Google will begin signing up Google account holders for two-factor authentication (2FA), provided that you've already given the service a secondary email or phone number. | Continue reading
Sometimes a program's new version is actually worse than the previous one. Here are 13 apps we liked better before they were "improved"--plus tips on finding the earlier editions. | Continue reading
Intel just clapped back with a carefully crafted takedown of Apple's Arm-based M1 chip. Let's review the claims, one by one. | Continue reading
A look at the history of hard drives. | Continue reading
We tested how Windows on Arm (Surface Pro X with SQ1 Arm chip) compares to Apple's M1 chip (MacBook Air). The results look bad for Windows on Arm. | Continue reading
Let's just say this out loud, OK? Apple is full of it. | Continue reading
Intel was once the unrivaled leader in CPU technology, but after half a decade of 10nm process woes, it faces a resurgent AMD and Arm-based Macs. | Continue reading
Intel has finally defended AVX-512 in laptops against Linus Torvalds, who hopes it dies a painful death. | Continue reading
Google has settled a class-action lawsuit over the Google+ data breach, and you might be able to claim some of the $7.5 million in payments. | Continue reading
The principal engineer who worked on CPUs from the Pentium III to Core i7 says Intel has lost focus, and it's "lucky" AMD can't make enough CPUs to do more damage. | Continue reading
Apple's move from Intel x86 to ARM chips will probably allow Intel-based Macs about five years of support before they are abandoned. Sounds like a good reason not to buy a Mac. | Continue reading
We put a Ryzen-powered Acer Swift 3 against Apple's new MacBook Pro 13 and the results weren't pretty | Continue reading
There are genuine benefits behind the hype for mesh Wi-Fi technology. | Continue reading
This Zoom background trick is handy: Record a video of yourself that you can loop as a virtual background, so you can duck out on the meeting. | Continue reading
For the first time ever, AMD's processors rule in both desktops and laptops. Here's how Ryzen managed to overturn Intel's long-held dominance. | Continue reading
AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs simply crush Intel's 9th-gen CPUs and offer game-changing performance for laptops. | Continue reading
Backing up isn't difficult, it's getting around to backing up that's the challenge for most users. Here are the backup basics made so easy you'll have no excuse for not creating a safety copy of your data. | Continue reading
Intel's new ATX12VO spec eliminates 3.3-volt and 5-volt rails and rejiggers the balance of power in future PCs. | Continue reading
AMD's rolling out new CDNA graphics optimized for compute tasks, and these data center GPUs could portend big changes for Radeon graphics cards. Here's why. | Continue reading
Calling AMD’s upcoming 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop CPUs a “watershed” moment for AMD, the company hinted that at least one model could hit “18 hours” of runtime. | Continue reading
Microsoft's latest reorganization reportedly sees chief product officer Panos Panay taking control of Windows and Surface development, as Windows experience chief Joe Belfiore moves to Office. | Continue reading
An upcoming version of Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus will automatically switch Chrome users to searching with Bing and Microsoft Search, unless admins and users take these steps. | Continue reading
Lenovo comes to CES 2020 with the ThinkBook Plus, a new category of notebook PC that puts an E Ink display on the outside of the laptop. | Continue reading
A new vulnerability, called Plundervolt, affects most modern Intel CPUs by allowing attacks via slight undervolting of the CPU's core voltage. We've updated the story with new input from Intel. | Continue reading
Intel finally killed its odd-duck, against-all-odds CPU based on AMD's Vega graphics. | Continue reading
AMD's latest game bundles give Borderlands 3, The Outer Worlds, and Ghost Recon Breakpoint to Ryzen and Radeon buyers, along with three free months of Xbox Game Pass for PC. | Continue reading