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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The New Pavilion Aero Is HP’s Lightest Consumer Laptop Ever
Superlight notebooks are becoming a growing trend among laptop makers with systems like the LG Gram, the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro, and others, and now HP is trying its hand at making its own ultra portable with the new Pavilion Aero.
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U.S. Judge Tosses Antitrust Lawsuit Brought By the FTC Against Facebook and Instagram
A U.S. federal judge on Monday dismissed an antitrust complaint brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against Facebook, claiming that the evidence presented by the agency had not sufficiently proven that the social media giant held monopoly power over other social media platforms.
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Cops Want More of Our Social Media Data Than Ever Before
Law enforcement doesn’t have much trouble getting access to data from social media companies. In fact, over the first half of last year, authorities in the U.S. made close to 118,000 requests for user information from tech companies — a number that’s more than twice the number of requests thrown at these companies since 2015.…
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It’s Time to Treat Social Media Like the Climate Crisis, Researchers Argue
Mark Zuckerberg needs to hand over the keys, a team of researchers argues. In a new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), a diverse group makes the case that the social media problem rises to the level of urgency that climate…