Set to arrive next month, the new Echo Buds add wireless charging, a smaller design, and twice the noise cancellation of the original Alexa-enabled earbuds. https://www.techhive.com/article/3614704/amazon-unveils-smaller-second-gen-echo-buds.html#tk.rss_all
The Oculus Rift is dead, slain by the majestic Oculus Quest and its self-contained virtual reality, but that doesn’t mean the PC VR dream is dead too. Oculus just announced an upcoming v28 update that aims to supercharge the VR chops of the Quest 2 with faster 120Hz refresh speeds, “Air Link” wireless PC connectivity, and a better way to bring your physical desktop into your virtual world.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3615168/oculus-quest-2-am
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 offers a rare opportunity for benchmarking nerds: a chance to test rival AMD Ryzen and Intel Core processors in the same device. But unlike with our AMD/Intel CPU comparison using the Surface Laptop 3, this time it’s an unfair fight: Intel’s latest 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake processors take on AMD’s older Ryzen 4000 Mobile processors, instead of the company’s latest Ryzen Mobile 5000 chips.Why? Because AMD and Microsoft jointly develop “Surface Edition” versions of
Q: I saw PCWorld’s lists for the best password managers, and your top picks were for cloud-based services. Wouldn’t a locally stored password database be more secure?A: One of our top password managers is BitwardenRemove non-product link, which supports the setup of a locally stored database as a paid feature. It’s not the default way to use the service, so it takes a bit more elbow grease and vigilance to maintain, but it’s an option. That said, let’s dig into the security of local files ver
Lots of competitors are more powerful, but few are this affordable. https://www.techhive.com/article/3614779/ring-video-doorbell-wired-review.html#tk.rss_all
Think you’ve been taking good care of your Roomba? Think again. Here’s how to do it right. https://www.techhive.com/article/3614611/how-to-completely-clean-a-roomba.html#tk.rss_all
Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop 4 on Tuesday with some bold performance claims: The Surface Laptop 4 should surpass the performance of the Surface Laptop 3 by 70 percent or so, or even offer twice the performance under certain scenarios.Does it live up to the hype? Does it ever. Although the difference between the two generations of Surface Laptops narrows during everyday activities, our early tests show the Surface Laptop 4 winning any CPU-intensive tasks by a mile. (If you were eyeing
If you’re waiting for the crippling graphics card shortage to loosen up before buying new hardware, well, you might be waiting for a while. Nvidia says it expects GPU stock to remain constrained for the rest of 2021 (which probably helps explain why we won’t see an RTX 4080 this year).“Overall demand remains very strong and continues to exceed supply while our channel inventories remain quite lean,” Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress said in a statement. “We expect demand to continu
AMD’s modern Ryzen APUs with integrated Radeon graphics have been a big hit with budget PC builders since their arrival, and should be in hot demand given the untenable state of today’s graphics card market. But there hasn’t been a fresh DIY offering since the Ryzen 3 3200G’s release in 2019—until now. On Tuesday morning, AMD quietly announced a new generation of Ryzen 5000G desktop processors, including models with significantly more cores than before. You might still be waiting a while to g
Ready to cut the cord? You’ll need a quality antenna to pick up digital broadcasts. Here are our recommendations for best indoor and outdoor TV antennas. https://www.techhive.com/article/3322842/the-best-tv-antennas-for-cord-cutters.html#tk.rss_all