Samsung announced Friday what could be the most interesting laptop in some time.

Time is up for Amazon’s $200 Echo Look, which snaps photos of your outfits and makes Alexa-powered fashion suggestions.

Digging deep into Windows 10Image by Dan Masaoka/IDGWindows 10’s constantly evolving nature means fresh features arrive twice per year, most recently via the big May 2020 Update.

Apple now sells three phones that can all be considered affordable.

Forget remasters. Gone are the days where developers could stretch new textures over old games and call it a day.

Whether you suffer from allergies or asthma or just want to optimize your indoor environment, these devices will give you insight into the air you're breathing.

The Hub adds your Wave air quality monitors to your home network, so you can get the most up-to-date readings from anywhere.

We are terrible at passwords. We suck at creating them (the top two most popular remain “123456” and “password”), we share them way too freely, and we forget them all the time.

Both Hulu and Plex have started testing features that let far-flung friends and loved ones stream videos together.

The HP Reverb G2 might be the savior Windows Mixed Reality (MR) so desperately needs.

The Atmos experience will be delivered via Dolby Digital Plus.

Epic’s been on a tear the past few weeks, giving away some great games from 2K’s back catalogue for free.

The Razer Blade Studio Edition is Razer’s workstation laptop for those who need pro graphics without a “pro” CPU.

If Trend Micro's generically named “Password Manager” product sounds rudimentary, you're onto something.

If you think that overclocking is solely for performance-obsessed geeks armed with bottles of liquid nitrogen, it’s time to reconsider! Even a small bump in PC performance can delay the need to upgrade your CPU, keeping money in your pocket.

Microsoft said Thursday that its upcoming Xbox Series X console will automatically apply some visual improvements to Xbox 360 and even original Xbox games.

When the Raspberry Pi 4 launched last June, it delivered an impressive amount of computing power for such a tiny package.

Several smart speakers sound much better and cost much less than Belkin's Google Home-compatible effort.

The Windows 10 May 2020 Update is finally here, Microsoft says, meaning that you can download it now.

Is your computer’s CPU too hot? If your PC starts spontaneously shutting down, locking up, or acting sluggish during intense tasks, overheating could be the issue.

“Cease your magic, before the hourglass shatters!”[Note: This is a review of an expansion.

Apple and Google have new technology to help you know when you might have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.

You don't need to be a cord-cutter to be curious about HBO Max. Here's what you need to know as the new streaming service launches today.

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000, which is the only version that explains how this function works.

Android’s Smart Unlock is the perfect solution to the problem of Face ID not working when you’re wearing a mask.

The competition is fierce in the video doorbell market, and this one from security camera vet Lorex doesn't deliver enough features or performance.

Spotify fanatics, rejoice: no more will you need to prune your collections of songs and albums because your Spotify library is maxed out.

In this special edition of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, and Adam Patrick Murray are joined by Frank Azor, the Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD and Alienware’s co-founder.

ARM has announced the next generation of smartphone processors, set to deliver up to 20 percent or greater performance than the prior generation.

The Crucial P2 is a budget NVMe SSD that delivers good everyday performance—in other words, it runs the operating system, loads apps, and performs small tasks just fine.

When comparing phones, you generally want them to be in the same league.

McAfee is a longtime name in the world of PC security, and these days it offers three security products to consumers: McAfee Total Protection, Gamer Security (a suite specific to gamers), and LiveSafe—the latter provides protection for unlimited devices.

There might not be an I/O keynote to stream this week, but some new hot Google hardware might still be on the way.

The race to be the world’s next high-performance memory card standard took it up a notch this week when the SD Association said it will adopt PCIe 4.

Fitbit has launched a new survey that aims to help detect COVID-19 in Fitbit users before symptoms show up.

Pac-Man turns 40 today, and even though the days of quarter-munching arcade machines in hazy bars are long behind us, the legendary game’s still helping to push the industry forward.

The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shift” technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.

Keys are yesterday’s tech, your smart home needs a smart door lock.

It's great to have the range and reliability of Wi-Fi, and Weber’s hub supports up to four probes, but this high-tech grilling gadget barely justifies its price tag.

The Level Lock is the first smart deadbolt to have absolutely no impact on your home's décor, on either side of your door.

The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shift” technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.

Pairing AirPods or AirPods Pro with a PC may not be as utterly simple as with an iOS device, but it’s only marginally harder.

I hope you grabbed Grand Theft Auto V from the Epic Games Store if you wanted it, because it’s gone now.

Prime Day, Amazon’s summer shopping event, is expected to return for a sixth year, but due to the pandemic it'll likely be delayed.

In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray talk about new CPUs and fresh changes of heart.

Intel's networking ambitions go beyond the high-profile purchase of Rivet Networks and its Killer Networking lineup, which should beef up its Wi-Fi quality.

Even better, Cleer's ANC headphone is less expensive than the best that higher-profile competitors such as Sony, Bose, and DALI have to offer.

How to save on your cable bill whether you're a cord-cutting or not.

The Yoga C740 15 is the kind of laptop Lenovo should have knocked out of the park.

As convenience goes, wireless charging can’t be beat. You simply drop your phone onto the charger and walk away.

Intel said Wednesday that it has acquired Rivet Networks, and will integrate the company’s Killer Networking line of Wi-Fi networking products into its own wireless portfolio.

Intel’s 10th gen Core i9-10900K is—without a doubt—exactly as Intel has described it: “the world’s fastest gaming CPU.

Today, Intel launched its badass new 10th-gen Core processors, cramming them with more cores and higher speeds than ever before.

When comparing phones, you generally want them to be in the same league.

If you’re really, really sick of the Microsoft Store, Microsoft now offers a return to the glorious days of the command line interface.

Google said Tuesday that the company is redesigning some of its Google Chrome browser UI with an eye toward preserving user privacy, both in terms of the layout and what’s under the hood.

Content creators, start your engines. Today, Adobe officially rolled out hardware encoding support for Nvidia and AMD GPUs in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Media Encoder, letting you lean on the power of your graphics card to speed up H.

Surprise! A mere week after announcing that its B450 and X470 motherboards won’t support future generations of Ryzen processors, AMD has had a change of heart regarding socket AM4 compatibility.

You’re not going to hear anything about Cortana this week at Microsoft’s Build conference.

Microsoft is adding GPU and graphical user interface (GUI) support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, pushing the intriguing Windows feature ever closer to becoming a full-fledged Linux instantiation.

Microsoft is unrolling some new features for its new Edge browser, including a contextual flyout that opens a sidebar when performing a search, the company said Tuesday.

Microsoft is providing glimpses of the future of Office at its Build 2020 virtual conference, showcasing two interesting but little-known collaboration efforts: Project Cortex and Fluid Framework.

Logitech's new Powered line of wireless chargers includes a 3-in-1 charger that will charge your phone, wireless earbuds, and an Apple Watch at the same time.

The Surface Book 3 continues Microsoft’s five-year mission to create the “ultimate laptop," still uniquely melding a tablet and keyboard base that can be used to create, work, and game.

In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray talk about Nvidia’s newly revealed Ampere graphics architecture before wallowing in disappointment.

It feels like an eternity since I left my apartment for any reason at all, much less for a business trip or a meeting.

Microsoft is sweating the details with the Surface Book 3, especially when it comes to thermal issues that users experienced with the Surface Book 2 and the original Surface Book.

If you’re hoping to emerge from your house in a few months with a thorough knowledge of Ancient Greek winemaking and Egyptian funeral rites, might I recommend Assassin’s Creed’s Discovery Tours? They’re free on Ubisoft’s website or Uplay (you’ll need Uplay to run them) and are absolutely worth grabbing, for you or your kids.

The writing’s on the wall for the 32-bit version of Windows. Microsoft won’t offer Windows 10 May 2020 Update rolling out later this month to PC makers in 32-bit form, with the minimum hardware requirements now mandating the 64-bit version, as spotted by Neowin.

Choosing the best Android phone for you is a big decision. The Android universe is teeming with options, from super-expensive flagship phones to more affordable models that make a few calculated compromises, to models expressly designed for, say, great photography.

If you’ve ever heard your laptop mysteriously start screaming or feel your phone warm up while you’re browsing the web, rogue ads could be the culprit—and now Google’s acting against them.

Teach an old dog new tricksImage by Intel Free PressThere’s a reason that unboxing videos and the phrase “new car smell” are firmly ensconced in the public groupmind.

As Microsoft readies its Surface Book 3 to ship later this month, you might be wondering: Why doesn’t it have a 4K display? The answer, according to Microsoft, is simple: You wouldn’t be able to tell the difference anyway.

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All eyes might be on the next-gen “Ampere” graphics architecture Nvidia announced during today’s digital GTC 2020 keynote, eager to catch a glimpse of what’s coming to future GeForce graphics cards, but another announcement benefits owners of existing GeForce RTX 20-series GPUs.

My son won’t stop dueling people. It’s Earl Muiredach who brought it to my attention, both his pride and his arm wounded.

Chances are you own Grand Theft Auto V by now. Hell, you might even own two, three, maybe even four copies of Grand Theft Auto V by now.

Nvidia’s next-generation GPU architecture is finally here. Nearly a year and a half after the GeForce RTX 20-series launched with Nvidia’s Turing architecture inside, and three years after the launch of the data center-focused Volta GPUs, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled graphics cards powered by the new Ampere architecture during a digital GTC 2020 keynote on Thursday morning.

Editing in PDFs in Microsoft Word has become a lot easier since Microsoft built in more functionality, starting with Word 2016.

The Quest for the Holy Grail of gaming laptop features—upgradable internal graphics—ended in a horrible, ignominious death on Wednesday, with the release of Alienware’s Area-51m R2.

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are right around the corner, and with new consoles comes a new Unreal Engine.

Google said Wednesday that it’s joining the group of browser companies offering grouped tabs, which should roll out next week within Chrome.

After previously revealing its 10th-gen Core processors for consumers, Intel has now announced the same 10th-gen processors with vPro enabled for business computers.

Amazon unveiled an update to its popular Fire HD 8 tablet on Wednesday, bringing more speed, more storage, and an overdue design refresh for just $90 with “special offers” (lock-screen ads).

With the debut of the Dell XPS 17, the company will bring its popular XPS brand to a 17-inch laptop this summer, with a bezel-less design, H-class 10th-gen CPU, and up to RTX 2060 graphics.

The Dell XPS 15 is long overdue for an upgrade, and on Wednesday it’s finally, officially getting one.

Wink users now have seven more days to decide whether to pay a monthly subscription fee or jump to a new platform.

Spam lives on, despite all our efforts to snuff it out—but Outlook has some features to help slow it down.

Nvidia’s off-again, on-again virtual GTC 2020 keynote is hitting YouTube this Thursday, and to whip up some excitement, CEO Jensen Huang decided to cook up the ‘world’s largest graphics card’ in his kitchen on an unlisted video on the company’s channel.

There might not be an I/O keynote to stream this week, but some new hot Google hardware might still be on the way.

Learn how to change the sound of Google Assistant’s voice, teach it your nickname, make your conversations flow better, and more.

Sometimes, you get what you pay for. Outfitting your computer with useful software doesn’t have to cost a dime, as our roundup of the best free software for your PC proves.

Microsoft is adapting one of the more interesting features of Gmail, predictive text, and bringing it to the online version of Outlook.

Once you've created a Group Session, your friends can take charge of your Spotify tunes in real time.

The Lenovo IdeaPad Chromebook Duet is bringing its message to the people.

I’ve never used or tested any Elecjet products, but I was intrigued by the PowerPie 20000mAh battery pack’s promise to charge a Galaxy Note 10+ or S20 Ultra from zero to 70 percent in just 30 minutes.

I’ve never used or tested any Elecjet products, but I was intrigued by the PowerPie 20000mAh battery pack’s promise to charge a Galaxy Note 10+ or S20 Ultra from zero to 70 percent in just 30 minutes.

Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 delivers the performance of a tablet you’d enjoy using.

Most ultraportable SSDs are rugged by design, but Adata’s SE800 Potable SSD takes the cake with a real, honest-to-goodness IP68 rating.

Everyone’s giving away games these days and while Square Enix’s new “Stay Home and Play” bundle isn’t free, it might as well be.