Dell We’ve been waiting for OLED panels to hit more mainstream monitors for years, and Dell answered our prayers at CES 2022. The Alienware AW3423DW is the company’s first monitor using the popular technology already praised in smartphones and high-end monitors, and it’s available today. Sort of. While Dell is selling the monitor on its…
Rob Schultz / IDG For all its positives, Windows sometimes acts in unexpected ways—like a sudden lack of audio. If your computer abruptly stops playing sound, try these easy steps to fix the issue: No sound in one app First, reboot your computer.Confirm the program’s volume isn’t turned down or muted. In browsers like Chrome…
Acer It’s a good day to get a premium laptop at a solid price. B&H Photo and Video is selling the Acer Swift 5 with 1TB of storage for $800. That’s $500 off the MSRP. The deal ends just before midnight Eastern time on Monday. This would make an excellent workhorse laptop, as it comes…
TL;DR: Just because there are more tech-savvy people around, it doesn’t mean the number of social media fraud victims is declining. According to new data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the number of users who reported being swindled through sites like Facebook and Twitter reached a record 95,000 last year, with total losses reaching…
In a nutshell: Google had recently made some changes to migrate free-tier users of G Suite to paid subscriptions with no clear path if they didn’t want to pay. After some backlash, it has now promised non-paid options for users who don’t want to lose their data. Google recently changed the FAQ page for upgrading…
Both AMD and Intel on Thursday said that the two companies had halted sales of their products to Russia and Belarus, an explicit commitment from the chip industry in taking action against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Microsoft also said it would halt “new” sales of Microsoft products. Nvidia said Friday that it has halted…
There’s a new Fitbit recall to know: Fitbit has just voluntarily recalled more than one million of its Ionic smartwatches after reports that overheating lithium-ion batteries had resulted in burn injuries. “The battery in the Ionic smartwatch can overheat, posing a burn hazard,” Fitbit said in a statement on their site on Wednesday. “The health and safety of Fitbit…
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In a nutshell: JEDEC has announced the HBM3 standard. And, like any good revision to a memory standard, it features a minor decrease in voltage, a slew of added conveniences, and a doubling of all the performance-related specifications. Bandwidth? doubled. Layers? doubled. Capacity? doubled. In numbers, an HBM3 stack can reach 819 GB/s of bandwidth…
Why it matters: A market analytics report by the NPD Group highlighted another big growth year for the PC gaming hardware and accessories industry. The more than 25 percent revenue increase was largely driven by continued Covid-related restrictions, forcing more people to seek alternative methods to work, play, and socialize. These increased revenues also contributed…
