Best Buy’s best Black Friday tech deals
Since joining the team in 2016, she’s written about CPUs, Windows, PC building, Chrome, Raspberry Pi, and much more—while also serving as PCWorld’s resident bargain hunter (#slickdeals).
This giant LG 240Hz OLED ultrawide monitor is $700 off right now
Michael's previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he's covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live.
Getting started with Google Password Manager
The system, once considered part of Google’s Smart Lock feature, works across Android, iOS, ChromeOS, and any other desktop platform where you’re signed into Chrome — and it’s typically activated by default in all of those places.
This Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor
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Will the Trump victory get Europe off Apple’s back?
Cook’s strategic vision to set up shop in India seems likely to pay long-term dividends, as does the considerable work the company has already done and continues to do to repatriate jobs to the US — an ongoing effort on which it has spent hundreds of billions of dollars so far.
Intel slapped with class action lawsuit over crashing CPU fiasco
Michael's previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he's covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live.
Windows on Arm update could open the door to more gaming
“At a technical level, the virtual CPU used by x64 emulated applications through Prism will now have support for additional extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture,” Microsoft says.
Europe plans to check Apple’s iPad for DMA compliance
Failure to meet those DMA requirements means the European Commission can fine Apple up to 10% of its annual global revenue (or 20% for repeat infringements), so the company is under serious pressure to get its response right.
NI Looks to Grow Intelligent Test Focus
In this video interview, Favre reiterates the rationale behind the acquisition—for Emerson, it was an attempt to take advantage of the growth potential of the tech sector, and for NI it is clearly to bring the company through a test and measurement industry that has been relatively slow over the last couple of years.
Why I switched from Windows to Chromebook and haven’t looked back
ChromeOS works perfectly for me 99 percent of the time, but if you decide to follow suit and switch from Windows to Google’s operating system, there are some things you may miss — and I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least mention them.
Windows 11 market share grows, but Windows 10 still twice as popular
Slowly but surely, people are migrating to Windows 11, even as we recently passed the operating system’s three-year anniversary milestone.
Landing a tech job is tough: here’s how to beat the challenges in today’s market
That could explain why the number of unemployed IT professionals in the US dropped last month from 148,000 to 98,000, according to IT industry consultancy Janco Associates, which drew its findings from a US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data for Septermber.)