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Chromebooks have been around since 2011, but they’ve undergone a serious transformation since the early days. They’re no longer the low-resolution, low-powered machines from the days of old. Now, in addition to the ones that fit the needs of casual users, a handful of them are capable of running games, a far-fetched idea at one point in time.

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Are you ready for your PC to communicate by light?

Don’t hold your breath, unfortunately. But the possibility became more real as the PCI Express Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) said today that it’s working on a way for future PCI Express communication to take place over optical interconnections.

It was a busy day for the PCI-SIG: the standards c

Over the past few years, high-end PCs have come to be associated with PCI Express 5.0, the infrastructure that connects graphics cards and SSDs. That’s close to changing, as the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) hits a key milestone this year to bring the higher-bandwidth PCI Express 6 to PCs.

Most of the news today from the PCI SIG is theoretical: the S

You need to cool your PC’s processor no matter what, but you can do so in different ways—with a heatsink and one or more fans for old-school air cooling, or with an AIO liquid-cooled setup as seems to be the trend for any high-end PC setup. But which is better?

PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray cornered Nick from G

One of the best ways to move files between devices is still the humble flash drive. Cloud services are convenient but can be unreliable, and they can take much longer depending on your internet connection. That’s why I always recommend having a high-speed flash drive on hand, like this

Despite ever-growing interest in AI tools and assistants, it’s worth remembering that they’re still quite limited with numerous shortcomings. They are not as smart as they might seem on the surface. Case in point, ChatGPT is pretty useless when it comes to playing chess.

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Google just announced a slew of features coming to Google Home, and one of them will come in particularly handy for Google TV users with Nest Cams guarding their households. 

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Steve and the other members of the Gamers Nexus team are a pretty knowledgeable bunch. They’re also unafraid to pull their punches when covering the PC industry, as demonstrated by some excellent investigat

Whether you’re trying to access location-restricted content on a streaming site or keeping your data from being sold to advertisers, using a VPN on your Fire TV Stick is just good practice.

Here, I’ll walk you through how to easily install and set up a VPN on a Fire TV Stick. Most VPNs nowadays come with native Fire TV apps, but if not I’ll discuss an alter