Nvidia’s GeForce Now for Edge means you can play your Steam games on Xbox
There are a lot of different ways to play PC games on a big-screen TV, but nearly all of them are dependant on at least some kind of existing hardware. If your […]
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Here’s the story of Windows XP’s Bliss desktop theme
Editor’s Note: PCWorld originally published this story in 2014. This year, 2021, marks the 20th anniversary of Charles O’Rear’s iconic photo in 1996, which became the basis of the Windows XP desktop […]
Microsoft will push PC Health Check app to all Windows 10 PCs
Microsoft said last week that it will soon begin pushing its controversial PC Health Check app to all PCs, partly to prepare them for the Windows 11 transition, but also to provide […]
Kindle Paperwhite (2021) vs. Kindle Paperwhite (2018)
Our pick for the best Kindle just got an overhaul. The Kindle Paperwhite now sports a larger screen, faster hardware, longer battery life, and the addition of an amber tone for the […]
Adobe Photoshop finally comes to the browser, and Chromebooks
Users of Google’s Chrome OS have been waiting years — and years, and years, Adobe — for the industry-standard Photoshop image editing tool to become available to them. Today that wait is […]
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6800: Which GPU should you buy?
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 and AMD Radeon RX 6800 lay at what can be considered the sweet spot in gaming performance: good thermals, great performance, and theoretically decent pricing. With recent […]
AMD buys its way out of the PC chip crunch
AMD on Tuesday indicated that it’s far better positioned for the fourth quarter of this year than Intel, as executives noted that the company has invested in securing manufacturing capacity during the […]
Intel’s 12th gen pricing is aggressive AF
After months of sky-high price leaks and hand-wringing by the tech press over how much more expensive the new chip would be, Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs are here and the the […]
Intel’s XMP memory overclocking gets its first big upgrade since 2007
Intel has unveiled the first major update to its eXtreme Memory Profile (XMP) technology since the standard was introduced in 2007, bringing more profiles and (finally!) the ability to name them, too. […]
Intel unveils expensive 12th-gen Core ‘Alder Lake’ processors
Intel opened its Intel Innovation conference Tuesday by finally unveiling what everyone has been waiting for: how fast its new 12th-gen “Alder Lake” desktop Core chips will be, and how much they’ll […]
