Tag Archives: gaming

Upgrade to a Bigger Screen for Less With Up To 40% Off Amazon Fire TV Omni Series Now

Football season may have come to a close, but basketball season is still in full swing. Whether you’re gearing up with friends to watch the big game or prefer streaming movies and shows from your favorite apps like Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, Hulu and more, now is a great time to upgrade your home …

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Intel’s New Car Division Aims to Modernize Driving

Intel on Thursday announced a new division to design and sell chips that will help carmakers modernize vehicles and the processors that power them. The chipmaker is trying to cash in on a fast-growing market for the semiconductors it builds. For automakers, processors in 2019 represented 4% of a car’s cost, but it’s going to soar to 20% by 2030, …

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Crunchyroll’s Nintendo Switch App Brings Anime to You Wherever You Are

Crunchyroll, an anime streaming service, launched a streaming app for the Nintendo Switch on Thursday. There’s a new way to watch anime 🌟 Crunchyroll now available on @NintendoAmerica Switch ✨🎮 LEARN MORE: https://t.co/peIQjWAAje pic.twitter.com/vCaEhmnSSE — Crunchyroll 🎉 Now on SWITCH! (@Crunchyroll) February 17, 2022 “You can stream all of your favorite anime on TV while your console is docked, or …

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Alienware 34 QD

Dell’s gaming brand Alienware pulled out all the stops for its CES 2022 slate of announcements, and two of the most notable debut products are landing at lower prices than we expected — not that we’re complaining. First, we have the x14, the company’s first entry in the booming 14-inch gaming laptop market. When Alienware announced it in January, the …

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What is WireGuard? The VPN term explained, and whether you need it

Editors’ note, Feb. 9, 2022: The VPN industry has undergone significant change in the past few months, with all three of our top VPN choices announcing major changes in corporate ownership. In December, ExpressVPN announced that it had officially joined Kape Technologies, a company that already owns several other VPNs and has raised privacy concerns in the past. In February, …

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MSI Raider GE76 gaming laptop has the fastest of everything. It shows

MSI’s top-end 17-inch Raider GE76 gaming laptop comes with state-of-the-art components that let it fly. It’s stacked with an Intel Core i9-12900HK CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU. That processor is the newest Intel mobile Alder Lake architecture, which splits the cores into performance-optimized and efficiency-optimized (like Apple’s M1 chips). And while the RTX 3080 Ti is just a …

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How to buy a gaming laptop

Gaming laptops have evolved to keep up with the needs of even the most intense gamers, making them a serious alternative to desktop PCs for all but the highest-power setups. Almost everything you need to start gaming is in that one chassis; you definitely don’t want to use the touchpad, though, so an external mouse is a must-have. Another bright …

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9 great reads from CNET this week: Spotify, Wordle, Porsche and more

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Spotify. Legendary rocker Neil Young yanked his music from the service, calling it out for the COVID-19 misinformation served up on Joe Rogan’s podcast, an exclusive to Spotify. Other musicians, including Joni Mitchell and India.Arie, followed suit, and for a while at least, the hashtag #DeleteSpotify was trending on social media.  Spotify’s …

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How to speed up your VPN connection

We’ll be upfront: Unless your internet provider is deliberately throttling your connection speeds, using a virtual private network will slow down your internet. It’s the nature of how VPNs work, and there’s really no way around it. However, there are a few things that might give your VPN a bit of a speed boost. VPNs add a layer of encryption …

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Gaming modes, webcams and QD

Every January, the world gets a look into the latest tech trends at CES, where companies from around the world showcase their most audacious, exciting and groundbreaking products. In the world of TV and home entertainment, this year Samsung, Sony, LG and other manufacturers debuted everything from new TV models, to new features, and even new product categories. The companies want …

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