TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 is $29.97 (MSRP $229) and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more. A lot of people get a new computer for Christmas, whether given as a gift or something…
Unbeatable Review
The pitch for Unbeatable is an enticing one: a visually striking rhythm-adventure hybrid about a punk rock rebellion in a dystopian city where music is illegal – kinda like Jet Set Radio…
Routine Review
Intelligent, stylish, and brutally hands-off, Routine is one of the most terrifying — and at times terrifyingly frustrating — horror games I’ve played for some time. Confident and cruel, it’s a masterclass…
YouTube TV teases slimmed-down streaming bundles for 2026
YouTube TV is about to get skinny—that is, it’s set to add skinny bundles of live streaming TV channels next year, including a sports package with every ESPN network. More than 10 of these “genre-specific” bundles…
Best online backup: iDrive, Backblaze, Livedrive, and more
Online backup is your protection against any disaster that might befall your computer or local storage devices. Mechanical failure, acts of malice, or natural disasters are serious threats to the data you…
This HP laptop with Ryzen power and 16GB of RAM is just $499
Budget is a relative and highly personal term, and one that sometimes gets abused. If you only have $500 to spend on a laptop, then anything above $500 is not “budget” for…
You can now record Teams calls with Microsoft 365 Personal and Family
While it may be most common to use Microsoft Teams for work, the communication app is actually also available for personal use through Microsoft 365 subscriptions. However, private users have been missing…
Firefox 146 adds Windows backup, improved privacy, and security fixes
With the update to the newest Firefox 146 version, you can enjoy a number of new features and improvements. A new backup feature saves important data even without synchronization, and using the…
Razer’s 20th Anniversary Boomslang mouse is packed with retro appeal (and fake leather)
Retro tech is all the rage at the moment — look at 8BitDo’s excellent offerings, or those wonderfully transparent new Analogue N64 clones. Razer’s no stranger to retro appeal, but the new…
Best external drives 2025: Top picks in portable storage
External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also…