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Best SSDs: From SATA to PCIe 5.0, from budget to premium

August 27, 2025
SSDs, or solid state drives, have drastically improved the computing experience over the last decade or so. Thanks to them, once ponderous boot times now border on instantaneous, programs and games are far more responsive, and the frustratingly long waits to load large files are largely a thing of a past. So… if you’re not yet using an SSD, what are you waiting for? If you already have an…
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TCL’s new Dolby Atmos speakers can go anywhere in your living room

August 26, 2025
Dolby Atmos in your living room isn’t as easy as it sounds. Whether you’re dealing with a component A/V system or a soundbar, your speakers must be carefully positioned and calibrated to create that immersive Atmos experience—and if your furniture is in the way, you’ll just need to move it. But with its new FlexConnect technology, Dolby is looking to make its Atmos audio technology more…
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A free VPN allegedly takes screenshots of Chrome users

August 26, 2025
“If the product is free, you are the product.” You can apply that thinking to pretty much anything supported by advertising or data collection, including tools like Chrome and Gmail. (And you’re not paying to read these words, are you? Food for thought.) But one VPN…
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Don’t fall for McAfee’s tricky antivirus warnings on your laptop

August 25, 2025
I review a lot of laptops and I’ve noticed many of them come with a “free trial” of McAfee antivirus preinstalled. I’ve clicked through so many warnings about how my PC will be “at risk” unless I pay up for extended protection, and those McAfee alerts are in a stark red color that’s surely designed to scare me. It’s too much! It’s not just a problem on budget laptops, either. I…
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It’s official: The U.S. owns 9.9 percent of Intel

August 25, 2025
On Friday afternoon, Intel confirmed what everyone already knew: that the U.S. government is taking the unprecedented step of investing $8.9 billion into the company. On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the United States was pushing Intel to accept its…
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Newegg has RTX 5090 cards in stock at base price right now

August 22, 2025
It’s been seven months since Nvidia launched its flagship RTX 5090 card to a hungry audience of PC gamers… and people building AI data centers… and a bunch of scalpers trying to bilk them all. In that time, I’ve yet to see one actually available to purchase at the alleged base price of two thousand dollarydoos. Until now! As of just before 11 AM Eastern US time, Newegg has one for the base…
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