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My colleague and co-conspirator Gordon Mah Ung passed away this weekend, after a battle with cancer.
I’m heartbroken. Gordon is the journalist and the person I want to be when I grow up.
But you can read about why in PCWorld’s obituary for Gordon. I’m
PCWorld executive editor Gordon Mah Ung, a tireless journalist we once described as a founding father of hardcore tech journalism, passed away over the weekend after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Gordon was 58, and leaves behind a loving wife, two c
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USB Type-C is the most flexible connection for notebooks and smartphones. The most important of its many capabilities is as a charging socket for battery-powered devices. USB-C should finally make everything simple: One socket, one cable, one power supply for all devices – from computers to smartphones and tablets to headphones and other peripherals.
It’s the best season of the year to find amazing deals, and this 27 percent discount on Asus’ 4K TUF monitor is perfect. Now available for $399 instead of its usual $549, this is the best price we’ve seen for this monitor.
This 28-inch display has an IPS panel and delive
2024 has been a big year for on-device AI in consumer electronics. Both Microsoft and Apple took swings with their respective operating systems, with Microsoft debuting its “Copilot+ PC” branding for AI-capable laptops and Apple releasing Apple Int
I’ve been writing these roundups for seven years running and in that time integrated graphics have gotten a lot more powerful. Just look at the Steam Deck and its many imitators: it’s the most popular gaming PC on the market by far, and it’s running off a laptop chip from several years ago. The upshot is you’ve got more choices than ever for games on a low-power PC.
The days of walling off the outside world to protect your network are quickly going the way of the Dodo. Thanks to the extraordinary growth of remote workforces, the adoption of cloud-based networking, and new cyber threats, the old network security model just no longer works.
In this time of ultimate shareability and interconnectedness, threats can come fr