Best external SSD for gaming 2025: Portable performance drives
But choosing an external SSD means sorting through a dizzying array of options, and making a poor choice can leave you feeling hard done by.
MSI’s new Titan 18 HX laptop loves dragons, dragons, dragons
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.
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He's covered technology for three decades and held senior editorial positions with Ziff Davis, Jupitermedia, Disney Publishing, McGraw-Hill and Advance Digital.
Health AI: How Apple can boost public health
But, ultimately, it’s not just the lives saved when using Emergency SOS via Satellite from a remote location that matter, it’s also the many that may never encounter problems as a direct result of taking 10,000 steps a day and closing all the Activity rings on their Apple Watch.
Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 7 review: A budget business ARM laptop
The Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 7 combines a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor with a speedy solid-state drive, so it’s no surprise that it provides good, snappy performance in day-to-day tasks.
The best smart home products of 2024
It’s reasonably priced–especially when it’s on sale–and it’s loaded with features, including a 150-degree field of view (horizontal and vertical), package detection, and a 1:1 aspect ratio that shows your visitors from head to toe in 1536 x 1536-pixel resolution with high dynamic range (HDR).
Hands-on with Adobe’s Acrobat AI Assistant: AI for your PDFs
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.
Going Full Nerd: My favorite Gordon Ung video is a masterclass in his talents
His charm absolutely oozes throughout the video, ranting about then-new GeForce Now gaming subscriptions (take a shot, Full Nerd faithful) and tossing off one-liners while drinking a ludicrous monstrosity and wearing a beanie covered in $100 bills.
My first Thunderbolt 5 experience has been a huge bust
In fact, the whole setup felt pretty laggy just navigating around the laptop and via a Web browser — not something you’d expect with a top-of-the-line Intel CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU inside.
8 brilliant browser tab tricks for Windows power users
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.
The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us
Other chiplet companies include Celestial AI for photonic fabrics, Elyian for more flexible memory controllers, Credo Semiconductor for I/O and Alphawave Semi for wired connectivity.
Hands on with Microsoft’s Windows Recall: Not impressive yet
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.
If you want security, start with secure products
Even in the UK, IBM estimates the average cost of a data breach on UK businesses as $3.4 million, and while that does depend on the size of your enterprise, that’s the kind of money that makes the seemingly higher one-off investment in a new platform seem aminor in contrast to the consequences of leaving yourselves vulnerable to attack through reliance on patched together solutions with so many built-in security weaknesses your top tech teams struggle to protect them.
How Quantum Computing is Driving the Future of Mobility
Automotive companies understand the importance of these transformations and are investing heavily in research and development, and patenting large numbers of innovative new technologies that vehicle owners stand to benefit from in the years ahead.
Save $600 on our favorite gaming laptop, Alienware’s long-lasting m16
The lower tier configuration that’s on sale today ($1,299.99, $400 off) comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 GPU, a 16-inch non-touch 2560×1600 display, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of SSD storage.
Best Black Friday SSD and storage 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).
Judge won’t alter Google antitrust trial dates to accommodate Trump DOJ’s proposal
A US federal judge indicated that the trial addressing the Department of Justice’s proposals to curb Google’s dominance in online search will proceed as scheduled in April 2025, even if DOJ officials under President-elect Donald Trump seek to revise the remedies.