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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
When Panos Panay, the former EVP and Chief Product Officer, left Microsoft, Windows and Surface split up into separate groups. Now it seems that they’ve been unified once again. Pavan Davuluri, a company veteran, will…
Portable gaming handhelds like the Asus ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go run on Windows, true. But if Microsoft itself were to make such a console, it appears that Xbox, not Windows, may have…