Lenovo’s Chromebook Duet is one of the most popular ChromeOS devices around, thanks to its Surface-style tablet form factor, small size, and even smaller price. The latest model is currently on sale with a refurbished unit on eBay for just $259.99. That’s $130 off the original price — and it’s the upgraded model with 8GB…
If you’re like me, I bet your desk is overcrowded with power strips, chargers, and too many cables. If so, then this Anker charging station will solve a lot of that for you — and it won’t cost you much at all. Right now, Anker’s 6-device charging station is on sale for $30 on Amazon….
The Acer Nitro V is consistently up there as one of the best-selling gaming laptops, mainly because it packs hearty gaming parts into a low-priced package. Today, Target is offering one of its most affordable variants for even less, giving you a Ryzen 7 7735HS octa-core processor, 16GB of RAM, and an RTX 4060 GPU for…
A webcam is indispensable for video conferencing. However, other applications can also access the camera, which means there’s a potential risk that a malicious intruder is in the system and watching your every move. Creepy. If you don’t need the camera or want to deny access to other people using the computer, you’ll want to…
Vo1d is a long-known botnet that infects Android TV devices, and security experts from XLab have now discovered a new variant that’s said to have infected over 1.6 million Android TV devices around the world, turning them into remote-controlled malware bots. According to the security researchers, the new Vo1d variant — or rather the botnet…
Microsoft plans to sunset Skype, a service that was part of the foundation of IP telephony, by May 5. Instead, Microsoft plans to replace Skype with the free version of Microsoft Teams, the company said. In doing do, Microsoft will throw a shovelful of dirt on Skype, which it bought for $8.5 billion in May…
For me, one of the most surprising things at Amazon’s lavish Alexa+ event earlier this week was what didn’t happen. A little backstory: Amazon traditionally trots out its latest devices, including Echo speakers, Ring cameras, Kindle tablets, and more during an annual hardware event in the fall. We’re not just talking a few devices, mind…
You can’t find a new Nvidia graphics card for love nor money. Between pent-up demand from PC gamers and Nvidia selling every GPU it can to the bubbling AI industry, new models are going out of stock in a matter of minutes — and it looks like the situation isn’t going to improve any time…
The long wait is over. After kinda-sorta-teasing the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT at CES 2025, AMD is finally pulling back the curtain on its next-generation graphics cards today, ahead of a March 6 launch date. Meet the rival to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50-series. AMD shuffled Radeon’s branding this generation to mirror Nvidia’s; the…
Encrypting your system’s hard drive is a great way to protect your laptop if it ever gets stolen. During the encryption process, readable data (aka plain text) is converted into unreadable character strings (aka cipher text). Only with the correct password can you reverse this process and restore the original data. It acts as a…