The latest social-media craze is Wordle, the simple game where you have six guesses to match the game’s five-letter word. Five green squares means you’ve succeeded, and can rack up likes on Twitter and Facebook. But there are at least three simple ways to cheat at Wordle—including a way to discover Wordle’s word in advance …
If you’re planning on using a newer Intel processor in your next media center PC build, a combination of security precautions and digital rights management might just have you singing the Blu-ray blues. Intel is dropping support for the software guard extension feature in 11th- and 12th-gen Core processors, which breaks DRM functionality for the …
With laptop makers transitioning to Alder Lake over the next few months and the ongoing push to get Windows 10 stock off the shelves, it’s an awesome time to find laptop deals. Acer is currently selling a Core i3 version of the Spin 3 convertible laptop for just $450, which is down from the $800 …
If you’re about to go PCIe 4.0 on your next computer build, we’ve spotted a nice deal on an SSD for you. Amazon is selling the 1TB Sabrent Rocket Q4 NVMe SSD for just $93.50, which is down from $110. That’s $16.50 off of the most recent price. This deal comes from third-party retailer Store4Memory, …
Did you know that Samsung makes its own processors? You’d be forgiven for glossing over that — the flagship Galaxy S series of phones technically uses Samsung’s home-grown Exynos system-on-a-chip, but almost never in the United States, where Samsung uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. But you might want to track down an all-Samsung machine for your …
Amazon has a solid deal on its Kindle Fire tablets, but the online retailer is having trouble shipping them in a timely manner right now. The 32GB Fire HD 8 is just $45, but shipping time for most colors is 6 to 8 weeks. That’s where Best Buy comes in. They have the same pricing …
Microsoft loves Microsoft Teams…and thinks you should, too. Yes, it’s useful, especially if someone you know schedules you for a meeting over Teams. But if booting up your PC and seeing a Teams window immediately pop up irritates you, you can remove Teams without actually uninstalling it. In fact, you’ll probably kick yourself that you …
If you’ve been hunting for computer upgrades, it’s been a rough couple of years. After the one-two-three punch of a worldwide chip shortage, a boom in cryptocurrency mining, and a scourge of scalpers (yes, “scourge” is the collective noun for scalper, I looked it up!), graphics cards in particular have been incredibly hard to find …
Looking for a portable 2-in-1 laptop for work? Well, you’re in luck. Today, Newegg is selling the MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo for just $1099 after a $100 rebate. That’s a whopping $500 off of the original price. The sale ends in about 18 hours, though, so you’ll want to act quickly. Let’s talk about …
Intel’s Core i9-12900HK indeed fulfills the company’s proclamation of being the “The fastest mobile processor. Ever,” based on the results of our early, exclusive hands-on performance testing of several 12th-gen laptops. Intel, which unveiled its 12th-gen Alder Lake laptop CPUs just last week at CES, let PCWorld take four nearly identical laptops outfitted with the …