Enlarge / You can’t see the part number which distinguishes the newer, slower drive from the older, faster one on the box—you need to check the PN field in the top center of the label on the drive itself. (credit: Jim Salter) Recently, major SSD vendors Crucial and Western Digital have both been caught swapping […]
Enlarge / Microsoft won’t officially support running Home windows 11 on old PCs, but the company won’t stand in the way, either. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Microsoft officially announced some small additions to Windows 11’s official CPU support list today, along with additional details about the operating system’s security requirements . But another, quieter announcement should […]
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Windows 11 promises to refine window management, run Android apps, and to unify the look and feel of the particular operating system’s built-in apps after years of frustrating hodgepodge. But none of that matters if your computer can’t run the software , and Microsoft has only promised official Windows 11 support for […]
Enlarge If you were hoping for Microsoft to backtrack on Windows 11’s stringent security-focused new system requirements, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that a small handful of 7th-generation Intel Core processors have been added in order to the support list , and systems that use those chips will officially […]
After prying off the screen and a graphite cover over the battery, the main guts of the -pixel 5a look like this. [credit: PBKreviews ] iFixit seems to have given up on full teardowns for the particular Pixel line, but we still have YouTubers! PBKreviews has ripped apart typically the Pixel 5a on camera, exposing the […]
The YouTube Music app, finally on Wear OPERATING SYSTEM, but only version 3. [credit: Google ] After almost a year of not providing a music service to its smartwatch users, Google will once again give its smartwatch OS users access to the company’s music service, although that move comes with a lot of caveats. Youtube […]
Enlarge / This is definitely not a Razer mouse—but you get the idea. (credit: calvio via Getty Images ) This weekend, security researcher jonhat disclosed a long-standing security bug in the Synapse software associated with Razer gaming mice. During software installation, the wizard produces a clickable link to the location where the software will be […]
Enlarge / Newer versions of Western Digital’s WD Blue SN550 may perform worse than older ones. (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital’s WD Blue SN550 budget SSD is a well-reviewed, popular NVMe device that has regularly shown up on various sites’ “best SSD” lists since it was released at the tail-end of 2019. The drive uses […]
Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) As Apple and other big tech companies postpone their planned returns to physical offices, a survey has found that workers around the United States would give up a lot to stay remote. As previously reported by ZDNet, GoodHire published a survey […]
Enlarge / The Internet is unfortunately packed full of criminals seeking to steal sexual (or sexualizable) images from privately held cloud backup accounts. (credit: 1905HKN via Getty Images / Jim Salter ) The LA Times reported this week that Los Angeles man Hao Kuo “David” Chi pled guilty to four federal felonies related to his […]