Huawei’s ultraportable MateBook X Pro will be hard to beat in 2022

Despite a controversial lack of availability in the United States, Huawei’s svelte laptop designs have been turning heads all over the world for the last few years. The company’s latest flagship model is the MateBook X Pro 2022, and it’s a stunner of an ultraportable. Dominic Preston went live at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to give us an early look at this sleek new notebook.

You can check out Dom’s impressions live on PCWorld’s YouTube channel:

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Discover your body’s secrets with this 24-hour deal on 23andMe’s Health DNA kit

If you want to know about your risk for various diseases, Amazon has the deal for you. The online retailer is selling 23andMe Health Service for $99. That’s $50 off the usual price. The deal ends just before midnight Pacific time on Thursday.

This version of 23andMe genetic testing tells you genetic facts about your health. It will include things like health predisposition to diseases like Type 2 diabetes, late-onset Alzheimer’s, and celiac. It also has carrier status reports, w

How to use voice dictation in Google Docs

Voice dictation wasn’t used to create this article on how to use Google Docs’ voice typing, but it could have been. The service is actually very accurate and quite flexible, thanks to Google’s inclusion of basic formatting and editing commands. There’s a reason Google’s offerings remain a mainstay in our roundup of the best free Office suites.

Still, there’s an inherent lag between the issuing and execution of a command that makes the feature less than id

Intel’s 12th-gen vPro chips now actively fight ransomware, supply-chain attacks

Intel launched its 12th-gen mobile and desktop Core processors for businesses today—Alder Lake processors with included vPro technology. And, in the way it continues to segment its processor lineup, Intel has added two new categories of its vPro technologies: vPro Essentials for small businesses, and vPro Enterprise for Chrome devices.

Intel expects its customers to ship 150 commercial designs or more using the new vPro chips, from Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and P

Make your photos sparkle with Adobe Photoshop for just $56, today only

If you’re looking to bump up your photo editing game, today you can do it for under $60. Amazon is selling Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 for $56, which is down from the usual $100. That’s a great deal for Adobe’s latest photo editing package. The deal expires just before midnight on Thursday evening, Pacific time.

This year’s edition of Elements was released in October. Some of the new features include the ability to add moving overlays to your photos such as snowfla

Why is Bungie banning Destiny 2 players on the Steam Deck?

The Steam Deck runs Valve’s SteamOS, a gaming-focused Linx-based operating system. But it’s also designed to run the vast majority of PC games, including those made for Windows, with the help of its WINE-style Proton compatibility layer. According to the company’s initial testing, about 80-90 percent of games on Steam can be played on the Steam Deck. So why is it that Bungie has declared that it will ban anyone playing its online shooter Destiny 2 on the Steam Deck?

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Dynabook’s ultra-secure Portege laptop weighs under 2 pounds

Toshiba’s legacy as a PC company, Dynabook, has carved out a niche for itself as a vendor of ultralight business notebooks. Dynabook’s legacy continues with a handful of new Portege premium laptops, all hovering around two pounds.

At MWC 2022, Dynabook announced four new Windows 11 notebooks: the Portege X30L-K and the Portege X40L-K, plus the Portege X30W 2-in-1 convertible. All of them feature the new 12th-gen Intel 28W “Alder Lake-P” processors that Intel recently

7 mechanical keyboards that offer custom-built features for half the price

Mechanical keyboards are more than a product category. Over the last decade they’ve become an online phenomenon, with an enormous community of fans and tinkerers (including yours truly) joining in the fun. Not only has that made the market for keyboards explode with a wide array of options, it’s caused some interesting transference between the hobbyists and the manufacturers.

A few years ago you’d need some pretty decent fabrication and programming skills to build an &ldqu

Learn from experts how best to navigate an IT job interview for just $20

Sometimes, having all the right qualifications isn’t enough. In a competitive marketplace, which is what IT often is, you also need to know how to artfully navigate an interview. After all, if an interviewer isn’t impressed by how you answer a question, then no amount of qualifications are going to help.

That’s why we’re offering The 2022 Tech and IT Interviewing Skills Training Bundle. With five in-depth courses, this package prepares students for the most

New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 test build is another substantial one, adding two important features: payment information, and a new security feature called Smart App Control that will watch over new apps and games that you add to your PC.

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22567 for the Dev Channel on Wednesday with other changes, too–including a tweak to Windows Update, so that now you can configure your PC to turn on an update when renewable energy is at its mo


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