For all sorts of products we’ve irremediably blurred the lines between renting vs. owning, local vs. cloud — but are we ready to do the same for the PC? Blade thinks so, and over the past few years has been slowly rolling out its Shadow desktop-as-a-service subscription. It has about 5,000 subscribers in France, and …

In advance of CES 2018, LG announced its newest flagship monitors. In addition to incorporating its Nano IPS technology for the first time in its monitors — Nano IPS debuted in TVs earlier this year — they also bear the imprimatur of the just-minted VESA DisplayHDR standard. The first is its 32UK950, a 32-inch 4K UHD display with a 98-percent …

Editors’ note: This article was first published Nov. 17 and has since been updated with B&H and Adorama Black Friday deals. Also, expired deals have been pruned. There aren’t many Black Friday deals on cameras to get excited about — at least not yet, unless you want to wade into some murky shopping waters. For instance, Abe’s of Maine deals are …

Two months after Logitech announced it would be bricking its Harmony Link (which allows you to control your TV using a phone or tablet as a remote) and charging people to replace it with a newer product, it suddenly rose to a cause celebre across the web on Wednesday. On Thursday, Logitech announced on its blog that it would replace them …

In September, Logitech sent an email to Harmony Link owners stating that the six-year-old product, which lets you control your TV via an app on your phone or tablet, will cease to function after March 16, 2018.  On a typical Wednesday in November, due to the mysterious forces that govern the web, the story suddenly blew up after newer posts …

Apple could be working on an augmented reality headset, though we shouldn’t expect to see it until 2019. The news comes from “people familiar with the situation,” cited in a Bloomberg report published Wednesday. If true, it’s not surprising: Every major company is betting on “reality” headsets — AR, VR or mixed — of some form as the future of human-computer interaction. …

We’ve recently seen the first laptops powered by Intel’s eighth-generation mobile processors arrive, and now it’s AMD’s turn. The difference is Intel’s processors use a “refreshed” version of the seventh-generation Kaby Lake architecture and a rebranded version of the graphics processor that gains most of its improvements through the addition of a couple of cores and some tweaks.  For AMD, …

Apple’s physical stores will have the iPhone X in stock next Friday, Nov. 3, the company announced in a press release Tuesday — but it encourages customers to arrive early. iPhone X preorders open this Friday, Oct. 27. Apple Stores will open at 8 a.m. local time around the world. Is the advice a consequence of a possible shortage of iPhone X …

As if anyone needs another way to procrastinate, Instagram now lets you do it en masse with your friends.  The social media company has been testing the ability to invite friends to your livestreams since early August, and today it announced that it’s rolling the feature out to everyone. With face filters, naturally. You simply hit an add button and …

For years I’ve been urging Adobe to rebuild its Lightroom image editing software on top of a more robust database than its years-old problem child that randomly corrupts itself and doesn’t speak network, among other things. From now on, I’ll be careful what I wish for.  At this year’s Adobe Max conference, along with feature and performance updates to the …