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Antivirus software is an essential piece of protection on any Windows PC. On an internet where malware is only becoming more and more profitable for organized crime, you don’t want to be without a good antivirus program.

But there are a lot of myths floating around out t

TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro is down to $14.97 through June 1, its lowest price to date (reg. $199).

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If you hang out on hardware subreddits long enough, you’ll hear the joke “Nvidia -$50” tossed around about AMD’s long-held Radeon pricing strategy. Well, AMD managed to buck that trend today, in the mainstream segment where pricing matters most.

AMD revealed the Radeon RX 9060 XT during the company’s Computex keynote – and it priced the 16GB model at $349.

AMD’s monstrous Threadripper CPU is back at Computex 2025 with both the Threadripper Pro 9000 WX series and the consumer-friendly Threadripper 9000 HEDT—both boasting a Zen 5 performance upgrade within the same socket and 350W thermal envelope.

Every time AMD launches a new Threadripper generation, we have to remind readers that these are really workstation

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