Alaina Yee 2021-04-22 11:00:00 www.pcworld.com A new addition to Phantek’s Eclipse lineup of mid-tower cases aims to tempt fans of small PC builds. Announced Thursday, the Eclipse P200A shrinks the company’s airflow-focused cases down to a mini-tower that accommodates…
Mark Hachman 2021-04-22 12:00:00 www.pcworld.com Microsoft said Thursday that the company plans to migrate its News and Interests feed to all Windows 10 users, adding a small weather icon to the Windows 10 taskbar that can expand into news…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-22 14:37:00 www.pcworld.com It might not get the same attention as Nvidia’s GeForce Now or Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming, but Sony offers a longstanding cloud service of its own, PlayStation Now. The company just announced that PlayStation…
Ian Paul 2021-04-22 12:28:00 www.pcworld.com It’s Earth Day, and all the world’s companies want to make sure you know they care about the planet too. So please, buy their stuff? Sure, that’s a little cynical, but Earth Day promotions…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-22 11:04:00 www.pcworld.com Call of Duty: Warzone just hit 100 million players, and to celebrate, Activision’s fast-paced battle royale game is giving you the gift of faster performance—if you own a swanky GeForce RTX graphics card, that…
Gordon Mah Ung 2021-04-21 06:50:00 www.pcworld.com The new M1-based iMac represents a significant upgrade for Apple’s popular All-in-One computer. But PC makers sell All-in-Ones too, though, and some of them are good machines. Can any of them measure up to…
Ben Patterson 2021-04-20 14:50:00 www.techhive.com Apple has announced a second-generation Apple TV 4K with a new and unambigously designed Siri remote—at last, there’s no more holding the remote the wrong way! The new streamer is powered by Apple’s A12…
Jon L. Jacobi 2021-04-20 06:30:00 www.pcworld.com If you’re not sure what you want to back up, where it is on your device, or just want to avoid the pressure of trying to figure it all out—Backblaze is the online…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-19 11:26:00 www.pcworld.com If you’ve been unable to secure a graphics card in these trying times, you’re about to gain another gaming alternative. Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service will land on PCs, iPads, and iPhones in limited…
Ian Paul 2021-04-19 06:36:00 www.pcworld.com Google collects a lot of data about you if you use the company’s services. To its credit, the company makes finding and deleting that data easy by showing most of it on a single website.…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-16 16:07:00 www.pcworld.com Nvidia’s Studio drivers for GeForce GPUs revolve around creative applications rather than games, but they just swiped a nifty trick from the company’s Game Ready drivers anyway. The April Studio drivers, released this week…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-16 11:00:00 www.pcworld.com In this episode of The Full Nerd, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray discuss long-anticipated AMD Ryzen APUs that you might be able to buy soon, and Nvidia graphics cards that you…
Mark Hachman 2021-04-16 10:00:00 www.pcworld.com Microsoft has released more information about the custom-built Ryzen Surface Edition processors found within the Surface Laptop 4, allowing potential buyers to compare them to the 11th-gen Core chips also being offered for this…
Scott Wilkinson 2021-04-16 06:00:00 www.techhive.com Cleer has made quite a name for itself in high-quality, high-value headphones, such as the noise-cancelling Flow II I reviewed in 2020. But the company also makes wireless speakers, including the flagship Crescent, which…
Jon L. Jacobi 2021-04-15 14:07:00 www.techhive.com The latest iteration of PowerDVD, version 21, features only a few very minor improvements. Its release, however, coincides with the introduction of additional PowerPlayer clients for CyberLink’s share-your-media-across-every-device infrastructure; specifically, Apple TV and…
Mark Hachman 2021-04-15 12:58:00 www.pcworld.com The world’s largest chip foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), has confirmed what you probably already feared: It’s running at maximum capacity, and yet the supply of available chips won’t be easing anytime soon.In…
Ryan Whitwam 2021-04-15 06:33:00 www.pcworld.com Samsung has risen to the top of the Android device ecosystem by offering stunning hardware, but its software lags behind the competition in some key areas. If you want to enjoy the Galaxy S21’s…
Mark Hachman 2021-04-15 06:00:00 www.pcworld.com Microsoft launched the Surface Laptop 4 this week with a choice of either Intel’s 11th-gen Core (Tiger Lake) processors inside, or a special Surface Edition version of AMD’s Ryzen processor. Which Surface Laptop 4…
Mark Hachman 2021-04-14 09:59:00 www.pcworld.com Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 offers a rare opportunity for benchmarking nerds: a chance to test rival AMD Ryzen and Intel Core processors in the same device. But unlike with our AMD/Intel CPU comparison using…
Alaina Yee 2021-04-14 06:33:00 www.pcworld.com Q: I saw PCWorld’s lists for the best password managers, and your top picks were for cloud-based services. Wouldn’t a locally stored password database be more secure?A: One of our top password managers is…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-13 16:10:00 www.pcworld.com If you’re waiting for the crippling graphics card shortage to loosen up before buying new hardware, well, you might be waiting for a while. Nvidia says it expects GPU stock to remain constrained for…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-13 12:25:00 www.pcworld.com AMD’s modern Ryzen APUs with integrated Radeon graphics have been a big hit with budget PC builders since their arrival, and should be in hot demand given the untenable state of today’s graphics card…
Mark Hachman 2021-04-13 11:05:00 www.pcworld.com Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop 4 on Tuesday, offering a potent combination of performance upgrades and battery life improvements in the familiar 13.5-inch and 15-inch clamshell sizes, for prices as low as $999.Unlike its predecessor,…
Gordon Mah Ung 2021-04-13 09:00:00 www.pcworld.com Dell's beloved XPS 13 premium laptop will get the infinite black treatment, thanks to a new OLED panel option. Announced Tuesday, the OLED is the fanciest of four screen options Dell will offer…
Ben Patterson 2021-04-12 12:43:00 www.techhive.com Well, the other shoe finally dropped. After years of speculation about the fate of its Harmony line of universal remotes, Logitech has announced that it will stop making the devices effective immediately.In a post…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-12 14:32:00 www.pcworld.com Don’t expect a new generation of Nvidia graphics cards anytime soon. As part of his GTC 2021 keynote, CEO Jensen Huang revealed “Grace,” the company’s new Arm-based data center CPU—yes, Nvidia is making CPUs…
Brad Chacos 2021-04-12 12:49:00 www.pcworld.com Don’t expect a new generation of Nvidia graphics cards anytime soon. As part of his GTC 2021 keynote, CEO Jensen Huang revealed “Grace,” the company’s new Arm-based data center CPU—yes, Nvidia is making CPUs…
Thomas Ryan 2021-04-12 10:15:00 www.pcworld.com One of the simplest hardware upgrades you can do to make your computer feel snappier is to upgrade your memory.Over the years, operating systems like Windows, software like Photoshop, and now even web browsers…
Jon L. Jacobi 2021-04-12 06:30:00 www.pcworld.com As of our latest look, iDrive remains the most comprehensive online backup and sharing service we’ve tested. It’s not the cheapest, but it’s still affordable and comes with backup clients for nearly every…
Ben Patterson 2021-04-09 20:57:00 www.techhive.com Well, the other shoe finally dropped. After years of speculation about the fate of its Harmony line of universal remotes, Logitech has announced that it will stop making the devices effective immediately.In a post…
Jon L. Jacobi 2021-04-09 19:47:00 www.pcworld.com Online backup is an essential hedge against physical data disaster. Whether it’s an act of theft or an act of God (earthquakes, floods, hard-drive devouring locusts), you never know what could hit your…
Adam Patrick Murray 2021-04-09 10:00:00 www.pcworld.com Mechanical gaming keyboards are the way to go if you’re looking for a superior typing or gaming experience, and size doesn’t always matter. Corsair’s K65 RGB Mini is a 60-percent mechanical keyboard—meaning it…
Jon L. Jacobi 2021-04-09 06:00:00 www.techhive.com TechHive doesn’t typically cover monitor speakers—powered or otherwise—but Pioneer DJ pitched its new VM series as versatile powered speakers good for both work and play. Intrigued, we kicked the the tires on a…