Intel next-gen Barlow Pass persistent memory to pair with Cooper Lake and Ice Lake CPUs, while Arbordale+ will bring 144 layer Penta-Layer Cell SSDs | Continue reading
Mozilla is letting beta testers try out Firefox Private Network, a VPN-like proxy service to mask your IP while browsing. | Continue reading
Don't feed the troll: Apple just said its budget iPad is twice as fast as the PC. | Continue reading
AMD says that it will provide a BIOS fix to address reports that its 3rd-gen Ryzen chips can't hit advertised turbo boost speeds. | Continue reading
If you’re thinking about resetting your Windows PC with a local account, consider upgrading to the Windows 10 May 2019 Update first. | Continue reading
Intel's EMIB allowed chiplets to expand in two dimensions. The Foveros technology allows for chip logic to be stacked. Intel's new co-EMIB and ODI combine the two. | Continue reading
The U.S. ban on Huawei calls into question whether the company's Matebook and Matebook Pro laptops are safe to buy. We update you on Intel and Microsoft support, and all the remaining uncertainty. | Continue reading
Microsoft has made its revamped Windows Terminal app available in preview for you to download, though many features will be added along the way to a more formal release this winter. | Continue reading
PCWorld asks Intel Fellow Ajay Bhatt why he was inspired to create USB, why Apple didn't play along at first, and why, oh why it didn't have a reversible connector. | Continue reading
It's dubbed "Xbox Game Pass for PC," a name almost as bad as Games for Windows Live, but with support from Bethesda, Paradox, Sega, and Deep Silver, it could be a great value for PC gamers. | Continue reading
Windows is plagued by backup software that's difficult to understand and use. Where is the elegant three-step solution that's been offered by Apple for over a decade now? | Continue reading
Qualcomm announces "Project Limitless," a design win with Lenovo that uses its Snapdragon 8cx chip. Qualcomm also releases benchmarks to prove that the 8cx outperforms an older Intel Core i5. | Continue reading
With Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, a full Linux kernel running in Windows, and Google's pledge that all future Chromebooks will be able to run Linux apps, 2019 is the year of Linux on the desktop. | Continue reading
As part of its investor day conference, Intel disclosed the existence of the 10nm Tiger Lake chip, as well as more performance details on Ice Lake and Lakefield. | Continue reading
Facebook confirms that user passwords from Facebook, Facebook Lite, and Instagram were being stored in a readable format on Facebook servers. Hundreds of millions of accounts will be notified accordingly. | Continue reading
The best password is one you probably can't easily remember—that's why a password manager is so crucial to your online security. We review LastPass, Dashlane, Keeper, 1Password, and others to find the best one for managing passwords. | Continue reading
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said GeForce RTX 2080 'crushes' Radeon VII and that 'FreeSync just doesn't work.' | Continue reading
Intel's surprisingly newsy press conference at CES ushered in its new Core chip, Ice Lake, plus a few surprises: a stakced "Lakefield" chip and "Project Athena," its | Continue reading
Intel's first major CPU core update in years kicks the chip giant back into high gear. Meet Sunny Cove. | Continue reading
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx is working hard to convince PC customers that the chip can offer great performance as well as outstanding battery life. | Continue reading
Microsoft has slammed the brakes on the Windows 10 October 2018 Update's rollout after it deleted entire folders full of files for some users. | Continue reading
The world's first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, arrived September 23, 2008. It was a whole lot different than the Android handsets of today. | Continue reading
Just try plugging a handful of USB-C headphones and dongles into a stack of smartphones and you'll see that compatibility is still a mess. | Continue reading
Can a Ryzen 7 1700 system replace a 5-year-old PC? For PC gamers, the answer isn't straightforward—and the results might surprise you. | Continue reading
Intel's latest Core chips, Whiskey Lake for laptops and Amber Lake for two-in-ones and tablets, will highlight Intel's Gigabit Wi-Fi as part of custom branding for its 8th-gen parts. | Continue reading
AMD's clearing the decks for the 2nd-gen Threadripper processors by selling their predecessors at a steep discount. | Continue reading
Panelists at the Hot Chips conference debate short- and long-term solutions to Spectre and Meltdown, the two side-channel attacks that leveraged the speculative execution techniques of many modern microprocessors. | Continue reading
Though Microsoft Bing continues to gain share in search, here are several reasons for choosing Google instead as your preferred search engine. | Continue reading
This Office alternative gets even better with productivity improvements. | Continue reading
Project Precog is a concept PC formed of two shimmering sheets of glass. Asus showed it at Computex in Taipei, and it just might become reality in 2019. | Continue reading
Verizon and AT&T have both announced that they will be selling the $1,200 Red Hydrogen One phone when it launches later this summer. But something tells me sales aren't the reason. | Continue reading
Intel has released a target for how smart it wants its Loihi brain chip systems to be by 2019, measured by the number of synapses it will simulate compared to an animal with a like number of real synapses. | Continue reading
The Samsung 970 Pro and 970 EVO launched on May 7 with suggested prices far lower than originally announced to put the heat on rival NVMe drives. | Continue reading