I’m an audiobook evangelist. I rarely go more than a few days without listening to one, and I’ll blast through two or three in a single road trip. But audiobooks are expensive and their prices…
It seems like every month or so we hear about a new security flaw affecting tons of consumer-grade CPUs. Perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising, though, since the complexities of modern processors and the PCs around…
As a lifelong PC fanboy and a former professional Android blogger, it hurts me to say this: Apple’s iPad really is the best tablet on the market, and it’s been true for a while. That’s…
Most people on the internet use the Chrome browser, and most Americans are using ad blockers. And even though advertising puts food on my table, I can’t blame them — because I block ads, too.…
I block every single ad on YouTube. And I’m a hypocrite for doing it. But I’m not ashamed. Because through a series of blunders and malicious decisions, Google has systematically made YouTube a worse and…
Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service has unique appeal to PC gamers, leveraging the collections they’ve already amassed on Steam, Epic, and other digital storefronts instead of paying for a big Netflix-style library — and the…
The 2560×1440 resolution (also called 1440p or QHD) has become the sweet spot for gamers who want sharper, more vivid visuals without having to sacrifice frame rates. But it’s tough to find a 1440p monitor…
If you’ve been keeping up with tech news for the last few months, you’ve almost certainly heard about the flaws affecting Intel 13th- and 14th-gen desktop CPUs. You might’ve also heard that Intel’s fixing them…
The other day, I sent my dad—who’s old enough to remember programming computers with punch cards—a photo of a two-terabyte M.2 drive. He replied: “The first Burroughs 5700 mainframe I worked on had a two-megabyte…
Two terabytes of data fits on approximately 2,900 CD-ROMs, 1.5 million floppy disks, or 333,333 Super Nintendo game cartridges. Or, in modern terms, about double the total storage of an average laptop in 2024. And…