PCs & Laptops: The Latest Computing News
PCs, laptops, Microsoft, Apple and everything in between. Here you’ll find all the latest computing news – from the gaming, to benchmarks to raytracing. You’ll also find stories about security, privacy, hacking and the dark web.
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Google Is Reportedly Building Its Own ARM-Based Chips for Chromebooks
Taking a page from Apple’s playbook, it looks like Google is working on its own processors for Chromebooks and tablets. And according to a Nikkei Asia report, we could see in-house Google chips as early as 2023, and devices powered by those chips soon after.
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Climate Progress Is on Fire
This piece was originally published in the Daily Poster, a grassroots-funded investigative news outlet. Click here to become a subscriber.
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Here’s Why Instagram Is Now Demanding to Know Your Birthday
As part of a broader effort to make its platform safer for young users, Instagram will now require everybody to share their birthday. If you don’t want to give that data to Instagram, you eventually won’t be able to use the app at all.
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 Workaround for Unsupported PCs Means You Won’t Get Software Updates
Microsoft is cautioning that those who take an alternative road to installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware won’t receive software updates.