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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Don’t Use Facebook? Here’s How to Check if It Has Your Phone Number and Email, and Delete Them
When you sign up for Facebook, Instagram, or any other social media app, it typically asks you to upload your contacts. Doing so helps the app find and surface friends who have accounts, but there’s a tradeoff: your contacts often contain a trove of data about people who don’t use their apps.
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Developers Are Making the Notorious Fyre Fest Island Into a Crypto ‘Paradise’
A cohort of real estate developers and crypto bros have joined forces to create what earnestly sounds like one of the worst places I can imagine. It’s a — get this — “luxury crypto community,” composed of 60 properties on an island that will only be for sale via NFTs.
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This Windows Dev Kit Is the Mac Mini of the PC World
Apple has seen a lot of success with its M series chips. These SoCs now power nearly the company’s entire suite of Mac computers, ranging from the original and capable M1 to the overpowered M1 Ultra. But Apple isn’t the only company eyeing hardware based on Arm architecture. Microsoft also wants in, and wants to…
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10 New Google Docs Features Worth Trying Out
Sometimes it feels like Google Drive has been stuck in time. Certainly the program looks and functions more or less the same as it did seven years ago — and how much innovation can you expect from a word processor, anyway? More than you might think. While the fundamentals are the same (why fix what…