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How Ransomware Conquered the World
Ransomware can hit anyone, but hackers are increasingly targeting people who are more willing to pay up.
10+ min |
May 2016
PC Magazine
Learn How to Recycle Your Technology
Do your part by donating our old technology or getting rid of it in an environmentally friendly way.
7 min |
April 2016
PC Magazine
Is Gesture the Future of Computing?
With its Project Goa, Nod Labs hopes to make gesture control more powerful and portable than ever.
4 min |
April 2016
PC Magazine
Movies-Brought To You By Satellite
Movies-Brought To You By Satellite
3 min |
August 2017
PC Magazine
Nintendo 2DS XL Supports Thousands Of Games
Nintendo 2DS XL Supports Thousands Of Games
6 min |
August 2017
PC Magazine
Dell Value-Priced 2-in-1 Can Run With Costlier Rivals
Dell Value-Priced 2-in-1 Can Run With Costlier Rivals
5 min |
August 2017
PC Magazine
Google Tackles AI, Robotics Safety to Prevent Future Toasters from Killing Us in Our Sleep
Humans have been afraid of the dangers posed by AI and hypothetical robots or androids since the terms first entered common parlance.
4 min |
August 2016
PC Magazine
Intel Is Opening 3 Project Athena Labs For Advanced Laptop Testing
Back in January, Intel announced Project Athena as a way of defining the next generation of advanced laptops. Now the chip company is preparing to open the labs required to test and approve components for use in Project Athena-certified laptops.
1 min |
June 2019
PC Magazine
Should You Buy STEM Toys For Your Kids?
As Joey Fortuna found out, it doesn’t matter how educational a toy is if kids don’t want to play with it.
10+ min |
June 2019
PC Magazine
Oculus Quest: True, Affordable, Wire-Free VR
Virtual reality has a Goldilocks problem. On one side, you have tethered headsets with all the processing power and position tracking you need to create an immersive virtual experience—but they’re expensive and require awkward cables to physically connect you to a computer or game console.
10 min |
June 2019
PC Magazine
How To Stay Connected Abroad
We all rely on our smartphones, and there’s no reason we shouldn’t keep doing so while we’re traveling. Mapping and translation apps have opened up the world in ways that weren’t possible before, and major cities across the globe now have 3G and 4G networks.
2 min |
June 2019
PC Magazine
Virtual Health Service: How VR Is Helping Patients Face Their Fears
A tree is growing in the middle of a shopping mall.
5 min |
February 2019
PC Magazine
Does Windows 10's Security Boost Make Antivirus Obsolete?
Not so long ago, the venerable Windows Defender got a new name—Microsoft Windows Defender Security Center—and made a leap in functionality.
4 min |
February 2019
PC Magazine
The State Of Internet Freedom Around The World
Global access to the internet has jumped by leaps and bounds in the past decade, but how free and open the web is varies significantly from country to country.
2 min |
May 2019
PC Magazine
Google Home Max: A Smart Speaker With Serious Audio Performance
Finally, there’s a smart speaker where the “speaker” part is as important as the “smart.”
8 min |
February 2018
PC Magazine
Hiri Makes Email Less Horrible
For working people, email is still a necessary evil. A whole class of productivity apps has emerged to mitigate some of email’s inherent problems, and Hiri is one such contender. This downloadable app is an alternative interface for your Microsoft email account. It adds a wealth of tools designed to make email better.
7 min |
February 2018
PC Magazine
Razer's Terrible New Rewards Program Mines Cryptocurrency On Your PC
The internet can be a dangerous place, and if you’re not careful, you could end up unknowingly running crypto-miner malware.
2 min |
January 2019
PC Magazine
Lego Makes Learning Fun With Duplo Stories Alexa Skill
Lego has launched an Amazon Alexa skill that’s designed for children aged 2 to 5. The free skill, which is available via any Amazon Alexa-enabled device including the Echo and Echo Dot, offers fun stories that encourage your kids to participate using the Lego Duplo toys they already own. The stories are designed to spark your little one’s imagination while helping to teach them numbers, colors, and language skills.
1 min |
June 2018
PC Magazine
Fast Forward: Are Smartphones Hurting Our Kids?
Fast Forward is a series of conversations with tech leaders hosted by Dan Costa, PCMag’s Editor-in-Chief. Costa’s guest for this episode was Dr. Jean Twenge, who recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic called “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”
4 min |
October 2017
PC Magazine
Curiosity Rover In 7th Year On Mars, Still Going Strong
It was a crazy idea on the face of it—sending a $2.5 billion robot to another planet with a complex rocket-sled contraption to get it safely to the surface.
2 min |
September 2018
PC Magazine
8Bitdo DIY Mod Kit For Snes Classic Controller
Game controllers have come a long way since the 8-bit era, but there’s still something satisfying about the classic gamepads of the early ‘90s.
5 min |
September 2018
PC Magazine
Acer Swift 7 (2018): World's Thinnest Laptop
Acer’s Swift 7 ultra portable is back, and at just over a third of an inch thick, it’s holding on to its bragging rights as the world’s thinnest laptop.
8 min |
September 2018
PC Magazine
Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700: Terrific Audio Performance
For years, Bose has ruled the active-noise-cancellation (ANC) market with its QuietComfort series of headphones.
8 min |
August 2019
PC Magazine
Roundup: The Best Password Managers
Everyone needs a password manager.
9 min |
August 2019
PC Magazine
LG V50 ThinQ: First 5G Phone We've Tested
The LG V50 ThinQ joins a small number of phones with 5G connectivity.
6 min |
August 2019
PC Magazine
Head To Head: Apple Iphone 8 Plus Olympus Pen E-PL9
Can a phone camera rival a mirrorless camera in photo quality? We pitted these two devices against each other to find out.
6 min |
August 2018
PC Magazine
How To Transfer Photos From Your Pc To Your Mobile Phone
You may already have a method for sending photos from your mobile phone to your computer, but what about the reverse trip? Perhaps there are photos on your computer that you want to use as phone wallpaper, or maybe you want to copy certain personal photos from your PC to your phone.
4 min |
August 2018
PC Magazine
Amazon Fire TV Cube: Just Add Alexa
Amazon’s Fire TV devices have offered the Alexa voice assistant, voice search, and voice commands for a few years now. All you have to do is press the button on the remote and speak into the pinhole microphone to control the Fire TV with your voice.
9 min |
August 2018
PC Magazine
How To Clone A Hard Drive
Plenty of great services can back up your files, but sometimes you need something more bulletproof.
4 min |
October 2018
PC Magazine
Peloton Bike Brings Spin Class to You
Love taking spin classes but hate going to the gym?
7 min |