This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Whether it’s family Zoom calls or entire offices going remote, more of our lives than ever are taking place in the online world. While that offers plenty of benefits, it brings its share of risks as well. Even if you …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Holiday shoppers might run into a few obstacles this season in a quest to stuff stockings. Even with stores launching early Black Friday deals, supply chains are being impacted by COVID-19. Online shopping skyrocketed from the 2020 year with more people being at home, and manufacturers, …
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For a company that likes to trumpet everything it does, Nvidia’s pre-CESannouncement of its entry-level laptop graphics chips seems oddly low-key. Not that the GeForce RTX 2050, MX570 and MX550 need or merit trumpeting. They’re just the 2022 versions of the silicon that allows notebook manufacturers to use the attention-grabbing “starts at $999” in searches for “laptops under $1,000” — …
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some workplaces have opted to work remotely to keep employees healthy and safe, and this pushed meetings into the virtual world. Now, some people find themselves in a marathon of meetings with no time in between to go to the restroom, grab a snack or get to their next meeting on time. Not …
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Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7i Pro gets better the more you use it. Frankly, when I first unboxed it I found the laptop to be pretty unremarkable. It’s Lenovo’s first laptop to ship with Windows 11 but otherwise, it doesn’t really have any big attention-grabbing features. The 14-inch laptop is thin, light and has a full metal chassis — premium but …
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Personal computers got a lot more exciting in 2021 thanks to Intel and Apple. Intel got a new chief executive who has plans for the giant chipmaker to reclaim its faded glory. Meanwhile, Apple introduced Macs with its own powerful new processors that challenge Intel’s plans. Processors — the electronic brains, also called chips, that power our smartphones, game consoles, …
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It’s 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night in Ellicott City, Maryland and I’m in the mood for some comedy. The Ellicott Silly festival is in town and there are local comics all over the town entertaining people from all over the state. But at the Wine Bin down the street, projected on a 130-inch screen on the side of the …
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When co-founder Jack Dorsey returned to Twitter as chief executive in 2015, he made it clear the social media company needed to constantly reinvent itself. “The world needs a Twitter that not only remains relevant,” Dorsey said during a conference call that year, “but thrives and continues to redefine what came before it.” Parag Agrawal became Twitter CEO with Jack …
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From the best TVs to game consoles like the Sony PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, to cameras like the GoPro Hero 10s and the one on the shiny iPhone 13 Pro, fps matters. But what does fps mean, and why should you care? The short version is that fps stands for “frames per second.” In other words, fps is the exact number of individual still …
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Windows 11 dropped in October (here’s our full Windows 11 review), and with it came significant compatibility questions. Uncertainty regarding compatibility has been common among PC users since this summer when Microsoft unveiled its first major Windows OS upgrade in six years. Fortunately, Windows 11 should work with most PCs, according to a company blog post. That said, though Windows 11’s release date already came …
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