At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Thin, light, and luxurious design Haptic touchpad and enjoyable keyboard Excellent 14-inch OLED with refresh rate up to 120Hz Future-looking connectivity including Thunderbolt 4, Wi-Fi 7 Cons Missing TrackPoint will divide ThinkPad fans Not the best performance for your dollar Modest battery life Our Verdict The Lenovo ThinkPad X9…
If you want a top-notch laptop with serious gaming chops, then you need to jump on this HP Omen 17 deal at B&H. It normally goes for $1,910, but right now it’s down to a mere $1,350. That’s an absolutely jaw-dropping $560 discount (29% off) for a high-performance machine! The Omen 17 runs on an…
Some PC gamers use the terms frame rate and refresh rate interchangeably. But while they’re related, your gaming PC’s frame rate and refresh rate measure two very different things — one fixed, the other varies. Frame rate explained The frame rate, which is measured in frames per second (FPS), indicates the number of images displayed…
Macworld This fall’s much-anticipated iPhone 17 Air launch could be the start of something even bigger, if a new report is to be believed. Apple, it’s claimed, is using the 17 Air as a testbed for far more radical changes in its wider design strategy, and if that device is successful we could see portless…
Macworld If you’ve got a to-do list this weekend, we’ve got one more item for it: update your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. An update was released this week that patches a vulnerability first spotted way back in December 2023. According to Apple’s release notes, the fix affects iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, and visionOS…
Macworld At WWDC 25 this summer, Apple Intelligence will celebrate a full year since it was first announced. Remember that flurry of hype and optimism last June? We were all younger then, and how we wanted to believe! But now we are older and wiser, and a great deal more cynical. How will we look…
This story originally appeared in The Debrief with Mat Honan, a weekly newsletter about the biggest stories in tech from our editor in chief. Sign up here to get the next one in your inbox. I’ve been mulling over something that Will Heaven, our senior editor for AI, pointed out not too long ago: that all the big players…
In August 2024, National Public Data (NPD), a background check company, experienced a massive data breach that impacted around 2.9 billion records with sensitive information. Millions of people’s full names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, and addresses were all up for grabs on the dark web. Faced with the overwhelming financial strain from numerous lawsuits…
Identity theft can sound like something straight out of a Hollywood thriller. A mysterious hacker breaking into a bank account or a con artist slipping through airport security with nothing but a forged passport. But in reality, identity theft is far less dramatic and far more common than movies make it seem. Every year, millions…
Imagine being woken up late one Tuesday night by a phone call from your young relative. They’ve been in a car accident and urgently need money sent to their phone, not having their wallet on them. The connection is bad but it does sound like them. Still groggy and confused, you start making the transfer….