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You can take all the usual steps to safeguard your home network—change the administrator password, set up a strong and unique password for Wi-Fi access, bump the encryption protocol to WPA2 or WPA3. But if you don’t set up guest Wi-Fi, you’re not doing everything you can to protect your security and privacy.

Microsoft has made a big deal about the increased security in Windows 11. According to Microsoft, the surprisingly high system requirements that prevented many users with even fairly new computers from installing the Windows 11 are mainly due to security features. So what’s the deal and how can you make sure you benefit from it?

In this article, we p

You love your devices, but you hate having to charge them. All that cable clutter becomes a real nuisance, which is why it’s smart to consolidate chargers when you can. Fortunately, this

Unfortunately, retailers still use back-to-school sales to offload subpar hardware at attractive prices. Not this deal. Best Buy is selling an excellent Chromebook for almost half off, and there’s really no reason not to buy it.

If you’ve followed our almost daily roundups of the

Anyone who’s bought or researched buying a new SSD for their PC understands their limitations: SSDs are often constrained by the PCI Express bus to the rest of the PC, and they generate tons of heat. The architects of PCI Express are thinking about a solution: replacing PCIe’s electrical interconnect with one that uses light instead.

The PCI Spe

Intel has quietly launched the Arc A530M and A570M for laptops, offering another option for low- to mid-range GPUs that won’t eat much of your budget.

While Intel has confirmed the

Google is bringing its AI search engine up to par with Google Search, adding images and video to the search results which will bring more context but also continue to take up more space. At least it still doesn’t have ads.

Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) is problematic. It attempts to synthesize results and provide you with an answer

Heading back to school? You’ve probably checked the big items off your list: a new laptop, the latest smartphone, updated clothes, and so on. But don’t forget the small essentials that you’ll need to make sure all of your gear actually works!

When you’re out walking from class to class, you’re going to want to make sure that yo

A few days ago AMD announced the Radeon RX 7900 GRE as a China-only retail release. It was significant because even half a year after the initial 7000-series cards released, we still have just three desktop GPUs availab