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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti: Hobbled and wildly overpriced

With prices like these, who needs scalpers?

Acer Swift Edge: An extremely light and thin OLED laptop

Light as a feather.

Perfect Backup: Perfect? No, but darn close

This free file and folder backup program is far more versatile than the integrated Windows File History, even backing up to popular online services.

Acer Chromebook Vero 514: never looked Sustainability so good

The first of its kind.

The Steam Deck’s button mapper is the best feature you're not using

How to make pretty much any PC title work with a game controller.

Is gigabit internet worth it? Only if you meet these 3 criteria

You'll probably be fine with much slower speeds.

How to add check boxes to Microsoft Word documents

Are you making a list and checking it twice?

How to use two-factor authentication to lock down your accounts the right way

The best 2FA methods don’t depend ona phone number. Here’s what to use instead.

HOW MASTODON AND FEDERATED SERVICES PUT SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE PEOPLE'S HANDS

TWITTER'S TROUBLES SPARK A NEW OLDSCHOOL REVOLUTION.

5 must-know GeForce RTX 4080 details: Overpriced by $500

The RTX 4080’s performance went up over the RTX 3080, but its price went up waaaaaaaaaay more.

If your kids love Roblox, check their browser for this malware

The popular SearchBlox Chrome extension appears to be harvesting user data for potential digital theft.

Windows 11's borked gaming performance is mostly fixed, Microsoft says

If you’re suddenly seeing that big update hit your desktop, that’s why!

Chrome now supports passkeys, the password killer

Chrome will support passkeys on Windows, Android, and iOS.

ChatGPT is the dazzling, scary future of Al chatbots

This feels like what Google, Siri, and Alexa hope to be one day.

Your laptop's battery life may be dropping faster than you think

One test showed a laptop's battery life dropping by as much as two and a half hours in about a year’s time.

Game over? FTC sues to block Microsoft's $69 billion Activision Blizzard takeover

Proposed 69 billion acquisition would harm consumers, FTC says.

Google Chrome is a memory hog, but it's going on a diet

Chrome’s upcoming memory and energy savings will be on by default.

Don't get scammed: Why you can't trust Elon Musk's Twitter right now

Parody and fake accounts have always existed on Twitter, but this kind of mayhem takes all that to a different level.

THE BEST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OF 2022

THE BEST OF THE BEST, AS CHOSEN BY THE PCWORLD EDITORS.

Google's first Pixel Watch is also the ultimate Fitbit

The pricey smartwatch includes all of Fitbit’s most popular features, but that 24-hour battery life presents a high hurdle.

USB logos finally make sense, thanks to a redesign

For years it’s been obvious this change was needed.

Testing shows SSDs are now more reliable than hard drives

Backblaze tested thousands of SSDs for four years, and the results are surprising.

Google has unveiled a wave of cloud-gaming Chromebooks

Acer, Asus, and Lenovo are shipping gaming Chromebooks backed by free trials of Amazon Luna+ and GeForce Now.

Intel unleashes 13th-gen Core CPUs with more cores, face-melting speeds

Intel's Core i9-13900K offers eight more cores and GOOMHz more turbo boost speed than its 12th-gen predecessor

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: Fantastically, futuristically fast

The monstrous GeForce RTX 4090 delivers luxuriously fast frame rates and futuristic features, but DLSS 3 may be the real star.

Don’t buy Intel’s Arc graphics cards without knowing these 7 key details

The future of discrete graphics cards looks exciting and full of interesting competition.

Windows 11 2022 Update: Subtle upgrades in weird places

Microsoft's new rollout schedule means these problems can be fixed.

The best ultraportables: Best overall, best battery life, and more

It's important to travel light.

WE TESTED 43 OLD USB-C TO USB-A CABLES1 WAS GREAT, 10 WERE DANGEROUS

HERE'S WHY YOU MAY WANT TO DESTROY YOUR ENTIRE COLLECTION OF USB-C TO USB-A CABLES.

WHY I SWITCHED TO BITWARDEN FOR MY PASSWORD MANAGER

BITWARDEN IS A GREAT FREE OPTION FOR PASSWORD MANAGEMENT, ESPECIALLY WITH SOME SETTINGS TWEAKS.