As laptop performance improves over time, you may be excited to discover that the PC you reserved exclusively for Excel and Zoom calls now can serve as a gaming PC, too. But beware: Leaving a game store app like the Epic Games Store open may significantly slice into your laptop’s battery life.Consider Intel’s latest Tiger Lake H35 announcement. The new CPUs enable a class of ultraportable laptops that wield office apps and Zoom calls by day, then play Destiny 2 or Valorant by night. The probl
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Customers can choose between two cloud-storage subscription plans or a $35 local storage option. https://www.techhive.com/article/3612254/blink-announces-new-storage-options.html#tk.rss_all
Nextbase makes some of our favorite dash cams, but they’re also on the pricey side. The company’s new, Walmart-exclusive, dual-channel (front/rear) 222X reviewed here is more affordable ($139 at Walmart.com), and it handles the basics with Nextbase’s singular style. But it’s less expensive for a reason. Actually, a couple of reasons. This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best dash cams. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them. To read this article in
You hang up on phone surveys and pretend no one is home when a government census taker rings the door bell, but god forbid if your gaming PC doesn’t get counted in Valve’s important Steam Hardware Survey.And why not? As the pulse of the world’s largest gaming store, you want your hardware to count if it helps tell developers they need to make games that support 16-core CPUs and ultrawide screens.While there’s definitely reason to question whether the Steam Hardware Survey is truly a random sa
The Radeon RX 6700 XT is here, and once again, XFX returns with an absolutely spectacular custom spin on AMD’s new GPU—if you have room for it in your case, that is.The $570 XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT Merc 319 costs $90 more than the reference card (and will no doubt sell for much more than that on the street during today’s crippling GPU shortage), but you get a lot for your cash: A big, bold, barn-burning graphics card capable of fueling no-compromises 1440p gaming experiences without making a pe
A low-priced audio component that compares favorably to the likes of Sonos and Bluesound—at a fraction of the price. https://www.techhive.com/article/3612213/andover-audio-songbird-review.html#tk.rss_all
The tiny USB-C Dual DAC Cable can be used with smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile devices equipped with a USB-C port. https://www.techhive.com/article/3612108/astellandkern-offers-a-usb-c-dac-for-high-res-audio-listening.html#tk.rss_all
Our comprehensive Radeon RX 6700 XT evaluation tells you everything you need to know about AMD’s just-launched graphics card, including performance results with Smart Access Memory and real-time ray tracing active. But if you want to dive even deeper, don’t miss PCWorld’s exclusive interview with Radeon chief Scott Herkelman below.Scott’s no stranger to the show, and he returned to answer well over an hour’s worth of questions about AMD’s latest RDNA 2 GPU from both us and the live audience.