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Windows 11 may have switched to once-yearly major updates, but that doesn’t mean new features can’t show up more often. Case in point: This week, Microsoft suddenly and surprisingly dropped a massive update for Windows 11 that’s absolutely brimming with fresh goodies to play with.

My colleague Mark Hachman covered

Let’s be real: Even cheap gaming laptops aren’t all that cheap. There’s a reason that our guide to the best gaming laptops under $1,000 has far fewer options than our other laptop roundups—even rock-bottom options usually go for $900 or so, with r

Pasting plain text in Windows isn’t as easy as in browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Hitting Ctrl + Shift + V to dump out a clean copy of your clipboard isn’t universally supported, so you’ll often wind up with HTML links and formatting gunking up your pasted text, which you need to manually remove. But that’ll eventually change

With the release of AMD’s RDNA 3 RX 7900 XTX, Nvidia has some serious competition!

The GPU landscape has been a tough one to navigate the last few years, with perpetual “out of stock” issues and increasingly high prices. 

Looking to put the last generation behind them, Nvidia launched first, with the

Every product reflects the era it’s born into, and Windows 8 was no exception. Launched a year and a half after Apple’s iPad, the successor to Windows 7 was designed to combat the so-called end of the PC.

Part of the fight involved getting Windows 8 on tablets, not just larger laptop-like slates such as the Microsoft Surface. For a handful of ye

Just because you’re techie doesn’t mean you don’t have a creative side or a story to tell. And whether you’re working on a novel, composing a piece on the

Most water-cooled desktops have a system that cools the CPU, and maybe the GPU if it’s extra-fancy. But that wasn’t good enough for one intrepid user on the /r/watercooling subreddit. They spent months on possibly the most elaborate water-cooled desktop ever, cooling what appears to be every single internal component and then some. It’s all topped o

What’s it like to use Bing Chat within Windows 11? It’s remarkably like using it on the web, though easier to find.

Microsoft pushed a new feature update to Windows 11 on Tuesday. The unnamed update (which may be referred to as the February 2023 Update or Windows 11 22H2 Moment 2) includes

For decades, the market for desktop graphics cards has had two players: AMD (formerly ATI) and Nvidia. Intel decided to enter those hotly-contested waters in 2022 with its Arc series of GPUs along with similar dedicated offerings for laptops. According to a report on graphics card market share, Intel managed to grab 9 percent of dedicated desktop GPU sales by the end