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Google Chrome has long had a reputation of being fast, secure…and ravenous for memory like a starving teenager at an all-you-can-eat buffet. But finally Chrome is going to slim down, right in time for the new year. Over the next few weeks, Chrome wil

If you don’t use Twitter often, you may be unaware of how the site has dissolved into organizational chaos. But it’s a mess right now—and dangerous as a result. Prior to the company’s sale to Elon Musk, Twitter had a verification process that confirm

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft confirmed what gamers suspected: The big 2022 update to Windows 11 was affecting the performance of high-end games. It said as much in an official bug tracker, and delayed the rollout of the big 2022 Update for quite a

Someone on the internet wrote that ChatGPT just made the first two years of high-school homework meaningless. That assessment is not far off the mark. OpenAI’s new AI text-generation tool currently offers sophisticated, lengthy, and even fun response

The Google Chrome browser now supports something new to secure your life: passkeys, a stronger, leak-proof version of a password that can use your phone as a token to authorize you to websites. Passkeys can and will be stored inside the Google Passwo

PCWorld made its debut in early 1983, hitting the streets as a 310-page magazine brimming with essential information about IBM PCs, the long-forgotten CP/M operating system, and a 5MB hard disk that cost a cool $1,995 (or nearly $6,000 in today’s dol

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it is filing suit in an attempt to block Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of game developer Activision Blizzard, on the grounds that it would suppress competition. The FTC said that the prop

The war for the next generation of graphics supremacy is finally on. AMD’s new RDNA 3–powered $999 Radeon RX 7900 XTX and $899 Radeon 7900 XT finally hit the streets on Tuesday, December 13, primed for battle with Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce RTX 4090.

With the latest iteration of its premium Spectre x360 14, HP adds two new premium features not found on last year’s convertible alongside the requisite update to 12th-generation Intel silicon. The biggest addition is the high-resolution OLED panel th

The latest high-profile heist of valuable digital currency has nothing to do with Bitcoin or Ethereum. Nope, this time thieves are stealing currency and assets from Roblox players. Roblox is a massively popular kid’s game platform that has a disturbi

Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition hits stores recently, lightning-fast performance and a massive new price tag in tow. While last generation’s awesome RTX 3080 cost $700 at launch, delivering a monumental 60 to 80 percent performance upl

Though Windows provides its own file backup facilities in Windows File Backup, the OS has continually made them less obvious and less intuitive. Why is anyone’s guess. There are plenty of alternatives, but they can be hard to find or just as hard to

PC gamers looking for a big screen monitor have great options in 2022, including new 42-inch and 48-inch monitors with OLED panels. These have many benefits over the IPS and VA panel monitors that came before them, but also sell at a higher price. Th

When Acer announced the new Chromebook Vero 514, I was thrilled to bits. I’m something of a Chromebook stan, as I dig its bare-bones nature. This is the first Chromebook in the manufacturer’s eco-friendly Vero line, which is exciting news for eco-con

After years of shortages and product delays, the PC industry slammed on the gas pedal in 2022, unleashing bleeding-edge hardware at a truly frenetic pace. A wave of long-lasting, heavy-hitting laptops started the year with a bang. Then the battle tur

The internet is getting weird again. Twitter’s recent stumbles under new ownership have surprisingly shined a quick light on the world of federated and decentralized social networking services, like Mastodon. These services are peer-to-peer or commun

Ready or not, two-factor authentication is something you’ll need to start thinking more about. This approach to online security, also known as two-step authentication, multi-factor authentication, or just 2FA for short, involves combining a regular p

Whether you’re writing the next greatest novel or a simple grocery list, Microsoft Word is used for all types of things. Fortunately, if you’re looking to add check boxes to a personal survey or work checklist, it’s relatively easy to do. We’ll guide

If you ever need a textbook example of misleading marketing, just look at what some internet providers are saying about gigabit internet service. Cable companies would have you believe that speeds upward of 1 Gbps are essential for modern internet us

For me, the Steam Deck’s aha moment came when I figured out how to play the PC version of Stranglehold without a mouse and keyboard. The John Woo–produced, somewhat underappreciated third-person shooter didn’t include controller support when it launc

Most laptop and CPU makers encourage you to upgrade your PC because its performance can’t keep up with the latest hardware. But there’s another, more compelling reason that’s largely ignored: Your laptop’s battery life will become significantly worse