
HP will continue to scale up efforts to make and distribute more PCs here in the US as well as in other countries as it transforms its production and distribution from a global model to a more localized model, said HP’s president and CEO Enrique Lores.
Lores made that admission in his opening address at the HP Amplify Conference in Nashville this week, high

Steam is, or at least it’s supposed to be, something of a walled garden. Like Apple’s App Store for iPhones or the various console game stores, items listed on the store are supposed to be safe, if not necessarily good. The implicitly carry Valve’s seal of approval. But a couple of recent instances of full-on malware being hidden in Steam games is starting to take th

Philips Hue appears ready to expand its line of home security devices, with clues to the manufacturer’s plans hidden within its own app.
The leak details an unannounced product that would round out Hue’s existing catalog of security cameras, floodlights, and motion and contact sensors: a video doorbell, which would mark a logical next step in terms of bran

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If you’re like me, you don’t use Facebook as often as you once did—in fact, it’s probably been months (or years!) since you last logged in. Facebook isn’t what it used to be, so I don’t blame you. But it still sucks to miss out on messages, invitations, and what not.
What can you do if you don’t want to check in on Facebook but still want to be aware of stu

People are pretty pissed off at HP printers. Wait, hang on a sec, let me revise that statement: People are pretty pissed off at all printers, perpetually, but HP printers in particular have been extremely irksome for the last few years. A class-action lawsuit was filed over HP’s attempts to lock users into its expensive first-party ink, but the results are p

There are good deals, and then there’s this crazy discount on Lenovo’s IdeaPad Pro 5i at B&H. Now just $1,099, this configuration is fantastic and usually only available this cheap on days like Black Friday.
This laptop is a rocket for productivity, gami

The firewall is one of the most important security features in a computer environment.
In the classic sense, a firewall is set up on an appliance, such as a computer that fulfills just a single, narrowly defined task — those found in companies, public authorities, and scientific institutions, for instance. A firewall of this type monitors the connection be

Some laptops now have eUFS storage. Unlike the more common NVMe PCIe SSD that we see in most laptops these days, eUFS storage is soldered to the motherboard and isn’t upgradable. Not ideal.
There are other potential concerns as well. In theory, eUFS storage is slower t
