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Dolby Atmos in your living room isn’t as easy as it sounds. Whether you’re dealing with a component A/V system or a soundbar, your speakers must be carefully positioned and calibrated to create that immersive envelope of Atmos sound—and if your furniture is in the way, you’ll just have to move it. 

But with its new FlexConnect technology, Dolby is looking t

Gabe Newell, co-founder and CEO of Valve, has been working on a new brain-computer interface project through his Starfish Neuroscience company for several years. The company just announced that it plans to launch its first brain chip by the end of 2025, reports

How much storage do you need in a single desktop PC? If your answer is “over 200 terabytes,” you might be interested in Ultran’s latest PCIe storage card. This gadget can cram an incredible 28—yes, twenty-eight—M.2 drives into a space about the size of a larger graphics card, sharing data over a complex Broadcom PCIe 5.0 switch.

The card can handle

If you’re planning to switch AI platforms, you might want to be a little extra careful about the information you share with AI. Anthropic recently launched two new AI models in the Claude 4 series, but one of them—Claude Opus 4—exhibited s

Go to CES if you want to see new TVs, and go to Mobile World Congress if you want to see new phones. But if you want to see the newest in the real geek stuff—like cooling for your gaming PC—then pony up for a plane ticket to Computex. PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray did, and the CPU coolers by Sudokoo got his attention.

Some games are almost as much a part of Windows as the taskbar or the infamous blue screen. Seriously, nobody can deny the impact and legacy of games like Minesweeper, Solitaire, FreeCell, and Space Cadet Pinball (sometimes called 3D Pinball, Pinball 95, or Full Tilt! Pinball).

From Windows 95 t

In the latest update to Windows 11 24H2—patch KB5058411 which rolled out earlier in May—Microsoft made a quiet change to how Task Manager calculates CPU usage in the “Processes” tab, reports

Paying a fortune for a good laptop isn’t something you have to do anymore if you don’t need the portability. Why pay the extra premium when you can just get a mini PC instead? For instance, the Bosgame P4 mini PC is only $310 on Amazon right now, down from its usual $399 price

If you’re going to spend money on a flash drive, you might as well get a super fast one, right? Well, the SK Hynix Tube T31 is technically a portable SSD, but it looks like a flash drive. That counts, no? Right now, you can get the 1TB SK Hynix Tube 31 for $60 on Ama