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The Christmas season is a particularly busy time for buying and selling on Amazon — unfortunately, this also means that fraudsters and scammers are booming. For users who don’t want to be ripped off, one golden rule applies, especially now: Know your enemy — or at least their methods.

We present typical scams and fraudulent scams on Amazon

We are well in the midst of the streaming revolution, and everybody has picked their sides. Well, if you know somebody who hasn’t and you want to bring them into the world of Apple TV, then this is the perfect gift. Through December 17th, you can get a refurbished

The human eye just isn’t equipped to see color as well as we would like. That’s why we need paint swatches and why when you paint a room without them it almost never looks quite right. The DIYer in your life knows this, which is why they’d appreciate the

Next year will likely be the first year of the AI PC, and chipmakers are racing to be the ones powering it. This week, AMD launched its Ryzen 8040 series of mobile CPUs alongside new Instinct hardware for the datacenter. AMD explained it all in a special episode of The Full Nerd podcast.

First up: Jason Banta, AMD’s client CPU chief, who spoke to Adam

While the term “gaming laptop” isn’t necessarily synonymous with “massive brick” anymore, it’s true that there’s still a tendency for anything packing a discrete graphics card to be thicker and heavier than most other options. MSI’s Stealth series bucks that trend, combining pixel-pushing power with sleek lines and rela

Most people should know that Windows 11 is the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system. That’s easy, but do you have the latest update, or are you still on an older build?

Each year, Microsoft releases a major new build for Windows 11 and Windows 10. Normally, your computer should take care of that itself with automatic updates, but ther

British researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to recognize keystrokes by sound. A smartphone placed near a laptop served as the microphone.

The researchers combined the sound of each key with the corresponding letter for the training. They then typed a password into the laptop and had the AI calculate which word was heard based on the sound. T

Caveat emptor is the rallying cry whenever someone finds a nasty surprise coming along with a purchase. But I don’t think “let the buyer beware” really applies if you buy a product that, in addition to being duplicitous, might just burn your house down. Such was the case with one unlucky Reddit poster, who opened their new 500-watt power su

Photoshop is so successful that the name of Adobe’s image editing program has become a deonym: Anyone who says “This image has been photoshopped” actually means “This image has been edited.”

Much like Kleenex,