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Yesterday was January’s big Patch Tuesday, where Microsoft rolled out a big bundle of security updates across several apps and services, eliminating 159 security vulnerabilities.

This is the most extensive Patch Tuesday of the last few years with more than double the usual number of fixed security flaws. According to Microsoft, three of the patched Windows

Microsoft really, really, really wants you to ditch Windows 10 and upgrade to Windows 11 already. (Better yet, just buy a new PC!) The company says that 2025 is “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh,” and they’re trying their best t

Yesterday, Microsoft posted on the Tech Community blog, once again urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11. The company has been nudging users in this direction for a while now, employing increasingly desperate tactics as statist

For years, owners of Google’s Nest Protect smoke detector have been asking when their devices would make the leap from the older Nest app to Google Home, and the answer was always the same: one day, maybe. 

Well, it looks like that day has finally arrived. 

Google is rolling out public preview support on the Google Home app for smoke and carbon di

It feels like there are a million variations of every graphics card on the market. There aren’t, but looking at the search results for “4070” on Amazon, you could be forgiven for thinking so.

Speaking of which, Asus has five different flavors of the new

The big tech giants are all-in on AI. Regular users and corporate customers…not so much. But Google isn’t letting a little thing like reality stop it from injecting its Gemini AI product into every nook and cranny of your life. Instead of charging $20 per user for Gemini in Workspace, Google is just including it from now on. With a price increase. Wonderful.

There’s a growing trend of developers flexing their muscles to make PDF documents do completely different things than what they’re intended to do. The goal is to push the boundaries of the PDF format.

PDF (which stands for Portable Document Format) was created in 1992 as a way to present documents independently of software, hardware, and operating systems.

Microsoft is currently focusing all they can on Windows 11. Not only did the company recently dub 2025 as the “Year of the Windows 11 PC Refresh,” but this year’s CES has been all about Windows 11 and the new Copilot+ PCs that Microsoft has b

Individuals or companies who want to use the latest version of Office are faced with the choice of whether to buy a license in the form of Microsoft Office 2024 or take o