Many Windows PCs feel sluggish in everyday use, despite their hardware specifications suggesting otherwise. The reason? The processor is handling tasks that the graphics card, SSD, or network chip could process more efficiently. Windows 11 offers several options to change this.
You can shift the computational load by smoothing out performance peaks, reducing fan noise, and making the system more…
While there weren’t any genuine zero-day vulnerabilities to patch in May’s Patch Tuesday update, the fallout since then has been severe.
The first attacks on Microsoft Exchange Server occurred as early as Patch Tuesday week, abusing a vulnerability that still hasn’t…
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PCWorld highlights that Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft is currently available for free on Epic Games Store instead of its usual $30 price.
The collection includes all three classic Tomb Raider games plus…
With the big AI providers cracking down on usage limits for their most powerful agentic features, it’s tempting to kiss our ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini subscriptions goodbye and go all-in with local AI–and it’s certainly doable, if you’re willing to pay for it.
AMD is the latest to step up to the plate with a local AI solution, a mini PC dubbed “Ryzen AI Halo.” At first blush it looks…
I don’t know how your tech drawers look, but mine are filled with wires I’ll likely never use again because technology has advanced quite a bit. Thankfully, USB-C seems to be here to stay since there is no wrong way to plug these things in. It’s not just smartphones…
Last week I spent a few days watching the Asus and Best Buy websites like a hawk, waiting for that slinky little Zenbook A14 to start shipping. It’s a really cool, lightweight laptop with battery life for days, literally. But it has one design problem that I see all too…
The latest version of Firefox for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android brings a number of improvements to privacy protection, the built-in PDF viewer/editor, and the VPN feature, plus fixes for over 30 security vulnerabilities. Updates are also available for the ESR versions.
The free VPN feature that was introduced back in Firefox 149 now offers a choice of several virtual locations. Firefox’s…
Samsung makes a darn good monitor, though it tends to make you pay for the privilege. The company was also at the forefront of the gaming OLED space, though again, it’s far from anything approaching “affordable” territory unless you find one on sale. That trend…
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PCWorld reports on the ZeroWriter Fold, a specialized laptop designed exclusively for distraction-free writing with an e-ink screen and mechanical keyboard.
Designer Adam Wilk emphasizes affordability and reliability, creating…
We’ve all been in this situation: You know what you want to say, but you’re too mentally exhausted, distracted, or confused to actually say it. Google’s new conversational AI, Docs Live, wants to help.
The metaphor Google is using here is a “brain dump,” and Google is applying this technique to Docs, Gmail, and Google Keep. Google’s trying to offload more of the “thinking” away…
