Best e-readers for digital-book lovers

Lightweight, easily readable in direct sunlight or, on models equipped with a built-in backlight, in the dead of night, an e-reader is an excellent choice for browsing periodicals, documents, comic books, and of course, books. Most are capable of storing thousands of books—and with power-efficient E Ink displays, word aficionados can typically read for weeks at a time before their device’s battery will need to topping off.These are all great features but, as they’re all features that most e-r

TorGuard VPN review: Serviceable speeds and the right privacy promises

TorGuard in brief: P2P allowed: YesBusiness location: Florida Number of servers: 3,000+ Number of country locations: 46 Cost: $60 VPN protocol: OpenVPN (default) Data encryption: AES-128-GCM (default) Data authentication: SHA-256Handshake: TLSv1.3 TorGuard is a no-nonsense VPN service. You won’t find a ton of extra features. There are no double VPN connections, specialized TOR over VPN connections, or anything like that. It’s a straight-up VPN connection over OpenVPN, WireGuard, or OpenConnec

Best media streaming devices

Roku Streaming Stick vs. Amazon Fire Stick vs. Chromecast vs. Apple TV, and more. Which streaming device is best for cord cutters? Our buying guide will help you pick the right accessories for your TV. https://www.techhive.com/article/3187462/best-media-streaming-device.html#tk.rss_all

Shelly Plug US review: A European brand makes a splash in the States

Though rough around the edges, this affordable smart plug includes some excellent features, such as energy monitoring. https://www.techhive.com/article/3596592/shelly-plug-us-review.html#tk.rss_all

Why Apple's move from Intel to ARM means we should stop buying Macs

Update: With Apple announcing three M1-based Macs this morning, our advice still stands that you should not buy a MacPro or MacBook Pro 16 unless you want to risk being abandoned as we lay out below.Apple’s news on Monday that it will be dropping Intel’s x86 CPUs for its own ARM chips can mean only one thing to anyone who doesn’t want to be left behind: Don’t buy a Mac.You may think this is another Internet-baiting hot take that will argue that x86 is better than ARM. Or you might think the m

SSDs are primed to get bigger and faster with Micron's new NAND memory tech

Micron has announced it’s shipping 176-layer TLC NAND flash memory to customers, a move that portends larger, faster and even cheaper SSD drives for all.The company said its 5th-gen 3D NAND memory should put its density about 40 percent higher than its nearest competitors, which are using 128-layer NAND. Micron said read and write latencies are reduced by 35 percent compared to its 96-layer NAND, and by 25 percent compared its 128-layer NAND.  Micron isn’t the only NAND memory manufacturer th

7 features the new MacBook must copy to catch up to the PC

Apple just announced its new MacBooks, and as expected, they don’t include any of modern features that would give their computers parity with PC laptops. The article below was written before Apple’s “One more thing” event, but everything we published this morning remains true. Read on for the hard truth...We expect Apple to unwrap its new MacBooks (or maybe PowerBooks?) on Tuesday, and we at PCWorld are as excited as anyone else—to see if Apple can finally catch up to all the things we alread


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