The best webcam makes you look your best — for less. Most laptops ship with a 720p webcam, so a 1080p webcam or even a 4K webcam can make you stand out by comparison.
I haven’t tested every one of these webcams, just most of them — and I describe how I test under my recommendations. You can also refer to my separate story on the
If you’ve been thinking of upgrading your PC or laptop’s storage, now’s the perfect time because you can save 30 percent on the amazingly fast 2TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD. That means you can get 2TB for a mere $130 right now on Amazon, the all-time best price we’
Good monitors don’t have to cost a ton, as this Asus TUF model proves. Now available for a new best price of $169 on Amazon, that’s a 32 percent discount that makes it all the more affordable.
This is a 27-inch monitor with an IPS panel and a crisp 1440p resolu
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Encrypting your system’s hard drive is a great way to protect your laptop if it ever gets stolen. During the encryption process, readable data (aka plain text) is converted into unreadable character strings (aka cipher text). Only with the correct password can you reverse this process and restore the original data. It acts as a digital lock that prevents unwanted acc
Vo1d is a long-known botnet that infects Android TV devices, and security experts from XLab have now discovered a new variant that’s said to have infected over 1.6 million Android TV devices around the world, turning them into remote-controlled malware bots.
According to the security res
A webcam is indispensable for video conferencing. However, other applications can also access the camera, which means there’s a potential risk that a malicious intruder is in the system and watching your every move. Creepy. If you don’t need the camera or want to deny access to other people using the computer, you’ll want to make a change to the registry.
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Microsoft plans to sunset Skype, a service that was part of the foundation of IP telephony, by May 5. Instead, Microsoft plans to replace Skype with the free version of Microsoft Teams, the company said.
In doing do, Microsoft will throw a shovelful of dirt on Skype, which it bought for $8.5 billion in May 2011, 14 years ago.
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For me, one of the most surprising things at Amazon’s lavish Alexa+ event earlier this week was what didn’t happen.
A little backstory: Amazon traditionally trots out its latest dev
You can’t find a new Nvidia graphics card for love nor money. Between pent-up demand from PC gamers and Nvidia selling every GPU it can to the bubbling AI industry, new models are going out of stock in a matter of minutes — and it looks like the situati