(Photo: PCMag/John Burek) Valve Software has released the results of its March hardware survey, and there’s been some movement on the leader board. The gaming and hardware developer regularly asks users of its Steam software to allow it to poll their PC’s hardware. This information provides Valve and the public…
(Image: PCMag) Windows 11’s rollout has been somewhat rocky due to its incompatibility with older hardware. That hasn’t prevented a lot of early adopters from “upgrading” off Windows 10, despite a lack of must-have features in its successor. For example, in January Microsoft reported that the adoption rate for Windows…
They’ve finally done it, those crazy-you-know-whats. Microsoft has finally fixed a very shortsighted design decision in Windows 11. The change finally allows people to change their default browser with just one click. It’s a simple fix, and should have never been required in the first place, but we’re grateful Microsoft…
Microsoft’s approach to Windows has long been to support as many devices as possible, even when they didn’t have the hardware to support an ideal computing experience. Things are different with Windows 11, which has a stringent set of system requirements — if you don’t have a relatively new CPU…
(Photo: Rafael Rivera) Microsoft certainly has a list of suggestions for Windows 10/11 sent in by its users that’s as long as a CVS receipt, if not longer, and so far the company has been regularly experimenting with a lot of new features by adding them to its preview builds…
With Nvidia’s recent RTX 3050 likely the last in the Ampere family, eyes have turned to what lies ahead with RTX 4000. Unfortunately, that glimmer on the horizon might be a giant fireball, possibly emblazoned with the words “Ada Lovelace.” Nvidia’s next-generation RTX 4000 GPU architecture is reportedly so power-hungry…
AMD’s Ryzen Mobile 6000 family of CPUs has launched and reviews of the new CPU have popped up across the net. Reviewers are pleased with the platform overall, but the Ryzen 9 6900HS doesn’t quite match the performance of CPUs like the Intel Core i9-12900HK. It also doesn’t burn nearly…
(Image: WDC) In what can only be described as a major whoopsie, Western Digital (WDC) has announced that some kind of contamination has occurred at two of its NAND flash fabrication facilities. The company is involved in a joint venture with another firm, Kioxia, and says they are working together to…
Anyone with a Google account can confirm the big G takes password security seriously. The number of account security features added in the past few years is staggering, and a change made last year is having a particularly strong impact. According to Google, accounts on which it has required two-factor…
As of today, Facebook slash Meta has made another step towards jettisoning its baggage of yore and rebranding itself completely into a Metaverse-first company. Though Facebook is officially called Meta now, and has been for several months, we were waiting to see what the company would do with its Oculus…