Smartphone plans are expensive—but they don’t have to be. While they’re not nearly as astronomical as when they first launched, signing up for a plan with one of the major carriers still costs around $60 per month (before taxes!) for a single line.
Sure, you can sign up for a family plan to cut costs, but those generally default to an unli
As expected, microcode applied to fix the Intel “Downfall” bug a Google researcher discovered this week can have a severe impact on performance, according to early tests, with the performance hit reaching nearly 40 percent in select workloads.
That will pose a tough choice to consumers: if they accept Downfall BIOS patches from their system and
The launch of Microsoft 365 kick-started the Windows cloud PC era with a focus on business in 2021, but it has become increasingly clear that Microsoft is planning a cloud-based Windows for private users as well. Now, Windows 11 Insider preview testers who subscribe
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If you’ve surfed the web, you’ve no doubt run into captcha test — those annoying “fill in all the boxes with cars” challenges presented when you want to sign up to an email list, log in somewhere, or whatever.
Websites use captchas to protect online systems and forms from automated robots that crawl sites daily for various purp
If you’re old enough to remember when the term “DOOM clone” was something you’d see in a magazine (printed on paper, made out of dead trees!), then you probably have fond memories of the early days of first-person shooters. Quake II is a landmark in the genre, building on the grungy aesthetic of the original with a more sci-fi feel an
You’ve heard the name (Microsoft Office) and you’ve seen the whopping price tag, or yearly subscription fee, but do you have the app suite installed on your current computer? If the answer is no and you’ve been waiting for a price drop, we have just the deal for you.
For the next two days only, you can get a lifetime license to Microsoft O
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If you only ever use the Windows search function to track down the occasional program or settings menu, you’d be forgiven.
In the past, Windows search was notoriously slow at tracking down files, and in recent years the search panel has become more bloated with things like Bing search results. As such, the Windows search bar might not be your first st
