Category: General Technology

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Lenovo will ring in the arrival of Windows 11 with a pair of premium AMD Ryzen-based laptops. The IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon will feature a carbon lid and aluminum body to go…

Windows 11 contains an unexpected new feature: a separate set of quieter, more mellow audio cues that accompany the operating system’s Dark Mode. Microsoft confirmed the new Windows 11 dark mode sounds…

Microsoft now has a Start menu and a Start feed, within both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft’s ongoing new efforts took a new turn on Tuesday, as Microsoft rebranded its news…

Your home network’s security is only as good as the configuration of your router or gateway. Leave it open or vulnerable, and you might end up with freeloaders that hog your bandwidth,…

The P5 Plus is the follow-on to Crucial’s affordable and surprisingly fast P5 NVMe SSD. It’s a worthy encore, at least in terms of performance. Not only is this new version slightly faster,…

A few times each year, the Google Doodle team cranks out some high-quality games to celebrate anniversaries and special events, or to raise awareness of ongoing issues. Usually these games are meant…

At some point, everyone learns that a CPU has a variable number of cores inside, and that number influences its performance. The next natural impulse is to find out how many cores…

Most people who are in the market for a new graphics card have one primary question in mind: Which card will give me the most bang for my buck? Obviously, the answer…

Intel says its upcoming 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs will be the company’s “most significant” change in more than a decade. Alder Lake will likely be Intel’s first attempt to wrest the ”best…