Wireless earbuds help you tune into your music on the move without the risk of getting tangled in cords, and today, one of our favorite pairs is on sale for the lowest price we’ve ever seen.

Today’s a great day to level-up your PC loadout with one of the most popular gaming mice out there.

The symbolism surrounding Intel’s Architecture Day briefing—an event to signal a new strategy and own up to past mistakes—couldn’t be richer.

Long criticized for reusing old cores in its recent CPUs, Intel on Wednesday showed off a new 10nm Sunny Cove core that will bring faster single-threaded and multi-threaded performance along with major speed bumps from new instructions.

The Razer Phone 2 is a gaming powerhouse. Under the hood it’s running the latest hardware, features a giant battery, and offers a viewing/listening experience that is unmatched—on top of a near-stock version of Android.

Gaming isn’t restricted to big, bulky PCs anymore. The rise of USB-C and Thunderbolt 3’s blisteringly fast data transfer speeds can now transform ultraportable laptops and diminutive desktop systems into full-blown gaming rigs when they’re connected to an external graphics card dock (eGPU).

Vinyl records are making a major comeback, but digital recordings are better suited to mobile pursuits.

Your decision isn't between two products, it's between two entire ecosystems.

Truly wireless earbuds let you ditch all cables in our post-headphone jack world, but like with anything else, their quality varies.

Microsoft lets you know right up front its aim for the Sulpt Ergonomic Keyboard wireless keyboard-and-mouse combo.

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with a comparison of the ethnic regions both tests represent.

We all know December can get busy, and for cord-cutting TV fans, it can be hard to squeeze in time to watch all of your favorite shows.

OnePlus may be a company known for crafting phones with premium specs and affordable prices but that doesn’t mean it can’t bust loose once in a while.

Somewhere between 2010 and 2018, tablets became about as exciting as a new couch.

A USB-C hub is quickly becoming an indispensable piece of gear. Though we like to mock Apple for its rat’s nest of wired dongles for connecting legacy peripherals, more and more PC laptop and tablet makers are adopting USB-C, making it a headache to connect devices like older hard drives or mice.

Folks used to think that e-readers would relegate traditional paper books to the scrapyard of the past and destroy the publishing industry as we knew it.

Amazon's All-new Kindle Paperwhite comes along just in time. While we've loved prior versions, the e-reader hasn't changed much since its debut in 2012, aside from incremental upgrades such as better front-lighting, additional storage and a few software tweaks.

Data seems to be worth more than gold these days, and for good reason, too.

This HomeKit-compatible smart outlet is protected from the weather, so you can extend the perimeter of your smart home into in wet and damp locations such as your patio and porch.

Today’s the 25th anniversary of Doom, if you can believe it. On December 10, 1993 people first stepped foot onto a demon-infested Mars, courtesy of id Software.

With models from Lutron, Wemo, Leviton, iDevices, and others, it can be difficult to know which easy and inexpensive device is best for controlling the lamps and small appliances in your smart home.

Vacuuming is one of the most hated household chores. Here are your best choices for outsourcing it to some automated help.

Google+ may be a punchline in the social-network world, but there’s something seriously wrong with it.

Whether you’re motivated by water conservation, saving money, a drive to render every aspect of your home smart, or all the above, a smart irrigation controller will scratch that itch.

If improving your heath is part of your new year's resolutions, a fitness tracker needs to be on your holiday wish list.

If you’ve been following along with the Galaxy S10 rumors, then you know Samsung is planning something very different for its 2019 flagship: A display with a hole in the front rather than a notch.

Today we've found a collection of deals that’ll make your home a little smarter, and make life a little easier when you’re feeling lazy or have your hands full.

Ever wanted to feel the sound of games rather than just hear it? That's the idea behind the Nari Ultimate headset from Razer, which we loved so much that we gave it a rating of 4.

We just spent a week hearing about the future of Qualcomm’s PC chips.

“Immersion. ” It’s become a meaningless buzzword in video games because it represents a dream.

High-end audio lovers finally got the attention they craved this week when Creative Labs showed off its upcoming $300 Sound BlasterX AE-9 sound card.

One of the most hyped features of the Pixel 3 is Night Sight, Google's low-light mode that blends AI, computational, and long-exposure photography to turn incredibly dark scenes into usable and sometimes mind-blowing images.

You’d think Epic’s new storefront and The Game Awards would’ve swept up all the week’s news, but no! Turns out plenty happened in and among this week’s bombshell announcements: Below surprise-announced a release date in the near future, DayZ preps to emerge from Early Access at long last, Call of Duty starts selling Black Ops 4 sans-zombies, and Just Cause 4 adds a Getting Over It Easter egg.

If you're reading this post, you have a device that needs a charger.

Low-profile mechanical keyboards are the next trend, it seems. Just last month we reviewed Roccat’s Vulcan 120 Aimo, the first keyboard I’d seen to combine laptop-style keycaps with full-sized mechanical switches.

We’re here! 2018 is over (mostly) and awards season has begun. We’ll be running our own Game of the Year list later this month but gaming’s faux-Oscars, The Game Awards, took place last night in Los Angeles.

We’ve had a bunch of deals on graphics cards this week, but an awesome graphics card can’t shine without an awesome monitor to pair with it.

The OnePlus 6T isn’t just the best mid-range phone you can buy—it’s one of the best phones of the year, with a gorgeous screen, tiny notch, and killer specs.

Pixel-pushing, PC-melting graphical firepowerImage by Gordon Mah Ung/Rob SchultzSo you built yourself a brand-new gaming rig, you’ve slotted your sweet new graphics card into the PCIe slot, you’ve sealed up the case, and you’ve heard it all POST—congrats! Now it’s time to throw games at your fresh build until it breaks, then cry at the thought that if you’d spent just 200 dollars more you could’ve played at 4K instead of a mere 1080p!To read this article in full, please click here.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx is the chip the company hopes will scale the performance mountain, reaching the heights that competing Intel Core chips have already surmounted.

Qualcomm’s efforts to put its Snapdragon chips into PCs have historically run into one major obstacle: The performance simply isn’t competitive with that of chips from Intel and AMD.

Microsoft is overhauling its struggling Edge browser in pretty much every way over the next year.

As a longtime staple of work and personal computer use, Microsoft Office doesn’t often go on sale.

Everyone lives on the internet, period. Whether you’re streaming a standup special on Netflix, answering emails from your boss, chatting on Tinder, or completing everyday errands like paying bills online, you’re likely spending most of your day tangled up in the world wide web.

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 mobile processor offers a ton of new features that could be potentially enabled on next-generation smartphones—almost too many to list.

Google would like us to think of its messaging strategy as a work in progress.

There’s a great deal right now on the most powerful gaming console available.

Qualcomm has given Android users an early Christmas present in the form of a sneak peek at the Snapdragon 855 processor, the chip that will power 2019’s flagship phones.

The Sony PSZ-HC1T quickly became one of my favorite external hard drives to use around the lab.

A year ago, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 845, the brains behind flagship smartphones like the Google Pixel 3, the U.

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In this episode of the Full Nerd, Gordon Mah Ung and Adam Patrick Murray are joined by Creative Labs’ Ryan Schlieper to talk about Super X-Fi, old-school computers, and a sneak peek at the newest Sound Blaster!First the crew discusses Creative’s breakthrough “holographic audio” dongle known as the Super X-Fi, which promises to pack a surround-sound system into your pocket.

The right peripheral devices can make or break your entire PC experience, and today you can grab some awesome ones for super cheap.

Amazon’s awesome 12 days of Christmas sale just keeps rolling along.

Desktop computers are notorious for being bulky, towering machines that take up a ton of desk space and are no fun to transport.

There’s a tug-of-war behind the design of every device you own.

So how fast is 5G, anyway? About as fast as a premium-tier cable modem, according to a live test performed by Qualcomm, Motorola, and Verizon on Tuesday.

Qualcomm opened its Snapdragon Technology Summit as a cheerleader, evangelizing the 5G wireless technology that’s rolling out worldwide from chipmakers, carriers, and smartphone makers.

Valve must be sleeping poorly these days. Steam is still king of PC gaming at the moment, but it’s an increasingly belabored kingdom beset on all sides by would-be rulers.

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With a month full of parties and winter adventures ahead, picking the perfect playlist is key to setting the mood, and a portable Bluetooth speaker can help you wirelessly connect to your tunes wherever you go.

For a company that prides itself on its gaming creds, Razer’s 13-inch Razer Blade Stealth has always had one weakness: no discrete graphics.

If you’re buying a Pixel Slate, you pretty much need a keyboard.

If you missed the awesome storage deals during Black Friday, today’s deal comes close to those crazy low prices.

While I already reviewed the Pixel Slate at considerable length as a Chromebook, I also wanted to take a look at it as an Android device.

The Galaxy S9 and S9+ might look a lot like the models they replace, but they're not exactly the same.

Both the people who make PCs and the people who use them have repeatedly shown that they prefer a full-featured version of Windows.

The Steam Link is dead, and that sucks, but now we have the technology to resuscitate it.

Three weeks back, EA officially turned RTX on in Battlefield V, becoming the first game to support the radical real-time ray tracing capabilities of Nvidia’s  GeForce RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti graphics cards.

Even with wireless charging, keeping all of your devices powered up can still clutter your desk.

Being in a creative rut is bad, but getting out of one isn’t always better.

Amazon’s at it again with a huge one-day sale on gaming PCs and accessoriesRemove non-product link, including price drops on external storage, headsets, mice, keyboards, routers, and a smattering of laptops and graphics cards.

When the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti launched with a sky-high $1,000 theoretical price tag and $1,200-plus actual price tag, some people speculated that it simply took the place of the Titan at the top of Nvidia’s graphics card lineup.

MyHeritage’s DNA testing service may be similar to that of its older rival, AncestryDNA, but it differs in one important way: MyHeritage DNA has more users outside the US.

For those interested in the more distant eras of their family’s history, GPS Origins’ DNA test kit might sound especially appealing.

The newest player in at-home DNA testing, Living DNA claims to be the “world’s most advanced DNA test.

In this episode of the Full Nerd, Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray celebrate good deals and warn you about misleading ones.

We’re in a bit of a lull here. Next week is the Game Awards, a.

If you’re a bookworm with nowhere to stash more paperbacks, Amazon’s 7th-edition Kindle Paperwhite—a.

Six Sigma and Lean are powerful project management methodologies that eliminate waste, ensure efficiency, and keep profits high.

It’s a great time to be a Stardock fan. The fabled software and game developer has its own Humble Bundle available right now meaning you can get some great utilities at an awesome price.

Fallout 76 is not releasing on Steam. It’s perhaps not the best game of 2018 but it’s arguably one of the biggest, and it’s not coming to Valve’s storefront.

It's been either a few years or a few months since we looked at Razer's Mamba mouse.

Ivacy in brief: P2P allowed: Yes Business location: Singapore Number of servers: 459+* Number of country locations: 55 Cost: $40 (billed annually) VPN protocol: OpenVPN-UDP Data encryption: AES-256-GCM  Data authentication: MS-Chap v2 and TLS Handshake Encryption: SHA-II * Includes virtual server locationsEditors Note: This review was updated on November 29, 2018 to reflect changes to the Ivacy app.

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Intel has published its first Modern Windows Driver for several of its modern integrated GPUs, representing a new way for graphics drivers to be pushed to your PC—and something to keep an eye on until the new driver infrastructure settles in.

The AmazonBasics Wireless Keyboard, which Amazon trumpets as “quiet and compact,” is built for this age of open work environments.

Smart thermostats provide fine-tuned temperature control and can even help you save some money, but they can be a bit of an investment.

Wow. Just when you thought the graphics card deals couldn’t get any better, Newegg is selling an 8GB MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 for $165Remove non-product link after the checkout code EMCEERY39 and a $20 mail in rebate.

Excel macros are like mini-programs that perform repetitive tasks, saving you a lot of time and typing.

When does a PC have “24GB of Memory?” When its Intel Optane Memory is being counted on top of the 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB of RAM we’re used to seeing on mainstream PCs.

Admit it: At some point in your life, you've likely imagined how much easier it would be to have a personal robot or array of gadgets at your disposal—that is until you consider the hassle of going to school for an engineering degree.

Give Samsung credit: the Galaxy Book 2 boldly breaks from the first-generation Galaxy Book on both the inside and outside.

Akitio’s NT2 U31C offers mega-storage for people without mega-bucks.

There’s something for everybody in today’s graphics card deals, including GPUs ready to rip through 720p, 1080p, and 1440p gaming.

My current home PC, which I use for both video editing and gaming, is built around an Intel Core i5-2500K with only 8GB of RAM.

The Secretlab Omega Softweave gaming chair challenges the assumption that gaming chairs should be made from fake leather.

AMD’s Radeon RX 590 is the best 1080p graphics card you can buy, and at $280, it won’t break the bank.

Headphones come in all shapes and sizes. There’s so many different options, in fact, it’s difficult to find a pair that has everything you want at a price that’s affordable.

Reviewing the Pixel Slate was like reviewing two devices. Out of the box, it’s something of a high-end Android tablet running full-screen Play Store apps and a touch-friendly interface.