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This might be the best deal I’ve seen all year on a budget laptop. Right now, Acer—by way of eBay—is selling a refurbished Aspire 15.6-inch laptop with 16GB of RAM, a touchscreen display, and an AMD Ryzen 5 processor for just $287.99. For a laptop that’s normally $500 retail, that’s a certified banger of a deal.

Sometimes AI just feels overwhelming, like it’s another thing to manage. Google, however, is announcing a couple of features within Gmail that will use AI to actually simplify your life.

At PCWorld, we’ve written numerous articles on ways to

Let’s say you end the month with an extra $250 in your pocket. What do you do with it? You might spend it on a nice dinner out, perhaps with friends. A day trip. A spa treatment. Or maybe… AI?

Google’s AI Ultra subscription—a recurring charge, mind you—is the newest way to flaunt your wealth. Announced at Google I/O today, Google says you can have all the b

Wouldn’t you want to know how a dress or shirt will look on you before you buy it? (Yes, we do have stores for that.) But in the age of online shopping, Google is suggesting an AI-powered alternative.

In 2023, Google launched

With voiceover translation within Google Meet, Google may have finally come as close as we can to solving real-world translation issues.

We’ve dealt with translating information from one language to another in any number of ways: automatically translating Web pages,

Microsoft famously brought its Copilot AI to the Edge browser in Windows. Now Google is doing the same with Chrome.

In a list of announcements that spanned dozens of pages, Google allocated just a single line to the announcement: “Gemini is coming to Chrome, so you can ask questions while browsing the web.”

Google later clarified what Gemini on Ch

Whether you embrace it or not, AI is shaping the future of Google Search. Google is bringing AI Mode to Google Search for every U.S. user, beginning today.

Google launched AI Overviews a year ago, which aims to

Mini PCs are all the rage at the moment, cramming laptop parts into a teeny-tiny space to give you a desktop that’s cheap and powerful, and at least a little bit upgradeable. But with most of them relying on AMD APUs, their gaming is limited. Can you make that setup work in a larger desktop form factor? Asus thinks you can, and at Computex it’s game to try.

At Computex 2025, Gigabyte really came out swinging with a fresh lineup of laptops that check all the right boxes. We’re talking smarter AI features, modern designs, improved thermals, and plenty of firepower underneath the hood. The overall vibe this year is about combining AI intelligence with serious power and putting it in a portable package. Whether you’re gamin

For as long as I’ve been on the internet, I’ve been warned not to download anything without verifying it first, especially if it’s a program or executable. It’s as true today as it was back then, only the threats have intensified. For example, a modified version of