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When Major League Baseball starts its 2025 season on March 27, you can enhance your big-screen game-watching experience by enlisting the aid of your small screen; i.e., your smartphone or tablet laptop. A second screen adds context to the game by delivering everything from analysis, player stats, and interactive features, to tools for communicating with othe

Here at PCWorld, we all love great deals on great hardware—like this crazy discount on the Acer Swift X 16 gaming laptop. “That’s a LOT of laptop for $899!” said one of our editors when I shared with him this hot deal on Acer’s gaming laptop at B&H.

And h

Keeping your computer in tip-top shape involves regular cleaning and maintenance. It’s possible to do it all by hand, but your time is more precious than that, isn’t it? For the price of a Starbucks frap, you could just grab CCleaner and let it clean out the junk on your PC for you.

Right now, CCleaner Professional 6 is

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 lucky that I didn’t end up in any trouble.

Some parts of the internet are like that, too. If you think you’ll be p

So, what kinds of streaming ads will you tolerate? Maybe a 60-second commercial break in the middle of a show? Pause ads? A static ad on the home screen? 

There’s a range of streaming advertisement that most of us will tolerate. Nobody loves an unskippable 30-second ad before a YouTube video, but most of us will deal with it, waiting patiently for that “Ski

Are you tired of all those power cords and charging cables cluttering up your workspace? Between laptops, phones, monitors, headphones, keyboards, mice… it can get messy and overwhelming.

That’s when a sleek charging station like this 6-in-1 Baseus Blade can work wonders, and right now

I develop an acute case of appliance envy every January. That’s when LG, Samsung, Whirlpool, and other manufacturers at the CES tradeshow demonstrate how their new wares can be integrated into the smart home, controlled via a single app, self-report minor problems that could lead up to expensive repairs if not addressed, and—in the case of appliances that work togeth

When DeepSeek-R1 released back in January, it was incredibly hyped up. This reasoning model could be distilled down to work with smaller large language models (LLMs) on consumer-grade laptops. If you believed the headlines, you’d think it’s now possible to run AI models that are