The best touchscreen laptops: Best overall, best for content creators, and more

Whether you’re a content creator or a business professional, if you’re looking for a laptop with a great touchscreen, you’ve come to the right place. Back in the days of old, it used to be something of an insurmountable task to pinpoint a laptop with a decent touchscreen. Well, those days are long past. However, with so many options out there, it can still be rather daunting. If you’re not sure where to begin, don’t sweat it. The team here at PCWorld curated a lis

What DisplayPort’s new Ultra-High Bit Rate (UHBR) certification means to you

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has announced a new DisplayPort certification called Ultra-High Bit Rate (UHBR) for DisplayPort 2.0. It establishes two levels of certification, DP40 and DP80, that mark cables as capable of up to 40 and 80 gigabits of data, respectively.

VESA intends this to clear confusion, but I’ll bet it has left you scratching your head. Here’s what UHBR means for you.

What is DisplayPort UHBR?

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Discover the best ways to earn passive income in 2022 with this $20 bundle

If you’re trying to get rich working for someone else, then the best of luck to you. From a practical sense, the only way to truly realize wealth is with passive income. Not sure how? Then the Online Passive Income in 2022 Bundle will get you up to speed.

This web-based education package is an ideal resource for anyone that wants to earn money on the side. It features eleven courses that offer a ton of ideas, show you how to market a product, and then make money us

AMD halts chip sales to Russia

An AMD representative said Thursday that the company is halting sales of its products to Russia. This seems to be the first explicit commitment from the chip industry in taking action against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

According to AMD, the chip ban extends to Belarus, which Russia has used as a staging ground for its attacking forces. “Based on sanctions placed on Russia by the United States and other nations, at this time AMD is suspending its sales and distribution of our pr

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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