As someone who works at a computer more or less all day every day and has chronic back problems, a standing desk is an important part of my office setup. I’ve been using one for over ten years, and back then it was something of a luxury. But lately I

You could let Windows protect your PC—it does already shield against online threats. But independent antivirus software like Avast One is better at catching viruses and malware, and wins on user friendliness, too. Avast actually has two lines of paid

Microsoft appears to have pushed the ability to upload documents, screenshots, and images to Windows 11’s Copilot AI assistant, allowing you to ask it to make sense of documents stored on your PC. Being able to “query” a document is a subtly powerful

We’re now in “the age of the AI PC,” according to Microsoft. In 2024, so-called AI PCs are popping up everywhere, thanks to new chips from Intel, AMD, and (soon) Qualcomm. Don’t believe the hype: AI PCs aren’t what the marketing might lead you to bel

In the 1990s, a colleague took me to “Snake Alley,” Taipei’s red-light district, for a night of drinking with “entertainers” and some of their very muscled, serious friends. A good time was had by all, fortunately. Still, I was young, dumb, and very

HP said in January that it hoped and dreamed to make printing a subscription. Now the company has done just that, with the All-In Plan that allows HP customers a limited number of printed pages per month for a monthly fee, with a two-year commitment

On paper, BenQ’s IdeaCam S1 Pro certainly appears very far out of reach of most consumers hoping to pick up an inexpensive 4K webcam. But BenQ’s three-in-one webcam offers a ton under the hood, even if some of the core features slightly underdeliver

Every device you use is under attack. And malware isn’t just a prank that slows down your PC anymore—it’s big business. Modern malware is the domain of organized crime, from ransomware that holds your files hostage to keyloggers and Trojans designed

If you’re not sure what you want to back up or where it is on your device, or you just want to avoid the pressure of trying to figure it all out, Backblaze is the online “backup” (see below for an explanation of the quotes) service you want. It offer

A while I back, I wrote a column for TechHive on ways to rent or buy DVDs without Netflix’s now-dead DVD service. So it’s only fitting to now write the opposite story, about how to declutter the optical media you no longer want. First, we’ll go over

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon may be one of the best business laptops you can get your hands on. This isn’t your average laptop. It’s a high-end product that combines the latest Intel hardware with a lot of extra touches that make it just nice to use.

Intel continued its climb up the clock-speed ladder by launching the Core i9-14900KS, a “special edition” desktop chip that offers the very fastest clock speed of any current PC processor, at 6.2GHz. As expected, though, you’ll pay for it, at a price

After three years, it’s finally time to upgrade to Windows 11. With Windows 11, Microsoft shifted into productivity mode, and to this day Windows 11 still feels like the operating system for work, while Windows 10 still feels lively and fun. But Wind

Microsoft is unexpectedly killing off its support for Android apps within Windows 11, although you’ll have a year to play games on your Windows tablet until support officially expires. But if you haven’t already installed support for Android apps, yo

With AI services like Microsoft Copilot and Google Bard claiming to be able to easily summarize PDF documents at the drop of a hat, it’s a little surprising that Adobe itself hasn’t already supplied AI tools. But now it has. Adobe on Tuesday announce

The Alienware m16 R2 isn’t exactly the type of PC I’d expect from Alienware. This 16-inch laptop delivers solid gaming performance, but it’s also focused on being compact and offering long battery life. It doesn’t even offer the highest-end GPUs as a

All good things must come to an end, in the words of dads and starship captains everywhere. And Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service is no exception. No, the system isn’t shutting down—in fact it’s been going from strength to strength lately,

Scientists from China are currently working on an optical disc the size of a DVD that could store up to 200 terabytes of data, as reported by IEEE Spectrum. This is made possible by storing data in three dimensions instead of just two. The scientists

Lexar’s SL600 is a worthy contender for your 20Gbps USB storage bucks. It doesn’t blow away the competition in either price or performance, but it matches them—and does so with style. The Lexar SL600 is a 20Gbps USB 3.2×2 (Superspeed 20Gbps) external

I’ve long been a fan of both Bitwarden for password security and email aliases for privacy, but I recently discovered a slick solution that combines the benefits of both. The process involves connecting Bitwarden’s username generator with DuckDuckGo’

WordPad, a Windows rich-editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be removed in a future version. BleepingComputer first

Microsoft said Friday that it has begun testing some extremely practical new capabilities for Windows 11, with new features that include Voice Clarity, 80Gbps USB support, and sharing and compression features that accommodate more applications. Windo

You may have already experienced it yourself with a new desktop PC or notebook: After the final installation of the prepared Windows 11, the desktop is covered in icons—much of which is bloatware. Common culprits are test versions of security suites

We’ve been recommending that most Windows users have at least 8 gigabytes of RAM if they want their PC to operate smoothly for a while—which is a shame, because a lot of budget laptop sellers still seem to think 4GB is acceptable in 2024. But a new r

The internet service industry is no stranger to somewhat nebulous claims of speed and reliability. But even in that context, Comcast’s self-styled “Xfinity 10G network” for its home internet business raised some eyebrows. After months of arguing with

An astronomical 26 billion records of leaked, breach, and sold data has been discovered on the web—and it’s likely your information is caught up in the mix. Discovered by cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com and the team at

Every time you think the PC industry is out of ideas, they come back with some new ones. CES 2024 offered a solid glimpse of where things are going. The AI hype train is running at full speed, of course, but we also saw some promising developments fo