How to work on your laptop with a migraine
Nausea. A sharp pain in one side of the head. Light sensitivity that feels like you’re being stabbed in the eye. When a migraine headache has you in its grip, the last thing you may…
Mark Hachman
Mark Hachman
Qualcomm says Snapdragon X Elite kicks Intel Core Ultra’s butt, too
When Qualcomm showed off its benchmarks of its new Snapdragon X Elite chips last October, there was one flaw in its argument: Qualcomm was comparing the new Snapdragon platform to Intel’s older 13th-gen Core chips.…
Happy 20th birthday to Gmail, the email client that changed our lives
Twenty years ago in 2004, I vaguely remember Google’s announcement of Gmail as a topic of conversation. Was it another of Google’s infamous April Fool’s pranks? I was a young reporter, about a decade into…
Best DisplayLink docks 2024: Move over, Thunderbolt
Historically, you’ve had two options to expand the port capabilities of your laptop: an inexpensive USB-C dongle or a more powerful, pricey Thunderbolt docking station. A third option is quietly emerging, trying to split the…
How we test webcams at PCWorld
Testing a webcam seems easy enough: Assemble a bunch of them, use them to take photos or video, and compare the results. But it’s worth it to go further. When recommending a webcam, I want…
How to fight the new Windows Outlook app and keep Mail…for now
Microsoft has threatened to take away Windows Mail and replace it with a new Outlook app. Now it’s already doing so, trying to wrest it away from you before its end-of-the-year self-imposed deadline. I’ll never…
13 free tips to make your Windows PC run faster and better
Spring is here and that means weeding, cleaning, packing away winter clothes… and tuning up your PC! Optimizing your PC’s performance isn’t as complicated as it sounds, however. Just a few tweaks here and there…
Store everything you’d ever need on this 20TB drive for $279
As a colleague put it, 20 terabytes would probably encompass every file you’ve ever touched. Today, WD is offering you the option to store 20TB on its Elements external hard drive for just $279.99. The…
Intel pushes harder to make AI apps run best on Core Ultra
Intel said Tuesday that it is expanding what it calls its AI Acceleration program into midrange software vendors, launching an AI developer NUC to speed the process. It’s all a bid to lasso software developers…
Chrome browser for Snapdragon PCs lands just in time
Google has published a final, shipping version if its Chrome browser for Snapdragon PCs just a few short weeks before the launch of PCs using the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor. Chrome for Windows on…