“What’s the difference between memory and storage?” It’s a computer question everybody asks at least once in their life. And if you’re the “computer person” in your family, maybe you’ve answered it a whole lot more. But with most standard computer storage shifting to ultra-fast SSDs so similar to flash memory that it’s kind of hard to tell them apart at a glance, the question is becoming a lot more relevant. Physicists from Lancaster Univer
The regular NFL season is over, and thoughts are turning away from an insane year of fantasy football towards the ultimate holiday: The Super Bowl. If you’re hoping to upgrade your living room set before the big day on February 13, we’ve found a deal for you. Amazon is selling a Hisense 55-inch quantum dot 4K HDR Smart TV for $500. That’s $150 the usual price.
This TV features Dolby Vision HDR with the expected 1,000 nits brightness and more than 132 local dimming zones. I
Nvidia only just revealed the GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3090 Ti during its CES 2022 keynote last week, but that wasn’t all the company had up its sleeve. On Tuesday morning, Nvidia quietly and surprisingly launched a new 12GB version of GeForce RTX 3080 that fixes our biggest (albeit minor) gripe with an otherwise stellar graphics card.
The 10GB of VRAM on the original RTX 3080 felt somewhat lacking right out of the gate, as games like Doom already chew up immense amounts of memory wit
At a glanceExpert’s Rating ProsEliminates hassle of picking partsExcellent build instructionsDecent configuration optionsReasonable markup over DIY at MSRPFull customer supportConsTroubleshooting advice could be more extensiveLong wait times for customer support helpOur VerdictNZXT’s BLD Kits do a superb job of taking the pain out of DIY PC assembly, with minimal upcharge for handling part research and sourcing. The full customer support also protects against the potential problems
Ideally, protecting your privacy shouldn’t require hours of time or gobs of money. Instead of having to meticulously manage all the personal data that’s floating around on the internet, you should be able to minimize data collection automatically or proactively. If you value privacy like I do, you’ll want to check out the following apps and tools. While some have premium versions for certain features, all of them are free to use:
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You likely already know how important it is to maintain your security online. But if you are protecting your web accounts by using the same password you had five years ago, then you are just asking for trouble. Sure, selecting passwords that are more complex than ‘123456’ can be a daunting task, but that’s why password managers — such as Enpass — have grown so popular.
Enpass is a browser app that simplifies security while simultaneously rendering your acc
In 2020, PCWorld gave the original HP Elite Dragonfly our Editor’s Choice award. Executive Editor Gordon Ung said the svelte laptop is “thin, light, and beautiful, with a battery that won’t quit.” At CES 2022, HP is poised to make the Dragonfly label a new house brand, a la Dell’s XPS or Lenovo’s X1. The company is doing that with a revamped Windows laptop and a brand new convertible Chromebook design.
First up is the new Windows machine, rechristened th
Intel has named Michelle Johnston Holthaus, the current executive vice president of its Sales, Marketing, and Communications Group, as the new head of its Client Computing Group (CCG), which includes Intel’s Core processor line.
Gregory “GB” Bryant, who currently heads Intel’s CCG, will leave at the end of January for another opportunity, Intel said.
Holthaus has been the head of Intel’s sales and marketing group since 2017 and previously led all of Intel&rs
Canon is reporting that it has been forced to ship ink cartridges without chips that identify ink levels, leading to error messages when the cartridges are inserted. The company has published a workaround while it sorts the issue out.
Canon reported that supply chain shortages have forced the printer manufacturer to ship consumable print cartridges without certain semiconductors inside them. Canon doesn’t describe exactly what these chips do, though a German support page (as discovere
Raspberry Pi computers are great starts to electronics projects, but “start” is doing a lot of work in that compliment. Typically you need a few extras in order to really flesh it out. If you have a ton of desktop PC components sitting around, the new Axzez Interceptor carrier board might make the perfect companion to a tiny Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.
Plugging in a CM4 board to the Interceptor adds a ton of ports to the tiny machine: four RJ45 Ethernet ports, five standard