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You have to be a brave soul to wander into public voice chats for modern online shooters…or the kind of jerk who just enjoys that sort of toxic environment. The Call of Duty series is infamous for its vulgar and off-putting voice chat, especially in open public games. To combat the worst of the worst players who ruin the experience for others, Activis

We’ve had AI assistants in smart speakers, phones, TVs, and even cars. But in your backpack? This is new territory, and Microsoft is staking out a claim via a new patent.

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Several months ago, I wrote about my irritation with Windows ads—how I hate having Microsoft push services and products within a piece of software I paid for. Sadly, the situation hasn’t improved since then. It’s getting worse.

When I

Remember back in 2008, when you could get a high-end graphics card that only took up one PCI slot in your desktop case? Good times, good times. It isn’t 2008 anymore, and today a “slim” version

Calling all gamers! If you’re in the market for a judiciously fast gaming monitor, you’ve come to the right place. Amazon’s selling the Acer Nitro XZ270 gaming monitor for $1

The Pavilion lineup is HP’s answer to the IdeaPad or Inspiron line in its competitors, sort of the Toyota Camry of the consumer PC world. But the company is spicing up this vanilla image with this year’s new entries, the Pavilion Plus 15 and 16. Anodized aluminum bodies give these laptops a more premium look, and better internals make a case for users loo

Between the increase in cybercrime and how many online accounts we have these days, a

If your laptop has an LTE or 5G adapter and thus a fast Internet connection, you can use it as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot to connect other devices in the vicinity to the Internet, such as your smartphone, other people’s computers.

This works with any Internet connection; your Windows laptop can also use an Ethernet connection or another Wi-Fi connection a