Here’s the scene: I’m at the 2025 RSAC Conference, in a session about home network security. Some of it is complicated—layers designed to protect high-profile targets like CEOs from attacks. But even for us normies, you’ll end up spending time on necessary maintenance. I’ve long accepted this as normal, even with the voluntary extras I’ve […]

Is AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card the one you want? Our review shows that AMD’s latest GPU should be pretty perfect for 1080p gaming, basically matching the performance of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, VRAM excluded. And boy, does the market know it. Street prices of the RX 9060XT are quickly climbing. Adam

Every smart home deserves a smart pool cleaner, and with Dreame’s Z1 Pro you can strike off your list the most tiresome job of all. Summer should be a time for having fun and chilling out, but pool cleaning is the persistent headache that never goes away. Skip a week in the maintenance schedule, and

Doomscroll on TikTok long enough, and you’ll come across an ad for AI video apps. In one ad, a stereotypically nerdy girl puckishly smirks as she uploads a picture of herself and her much more handsome crush. Boom — suddenly, thanks to AI, they’re smooching. In another, I’m shown a woman in a blouse and

Buying a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet without a pen or keyboard is like buying a Mercedes without wheels. The engine runs just fine, and the seats are as luxurious as you could imagine. But wouldn’t you feel cheated if you couldn’t go anywhere? Most of the 16 iterations of the Surface Pro adopt the same

If the (hang on, let me count) 16 different Lego sets in my office alone are any indication, then PC gamers and Lego fans have a big overlap in the middle of their Venn diagram. Alienware knows this, and has released an official, adorable set that lets you recreate an Area 51 gaming desktop in

I have always had a soft spot for the Surface Pro X. It was the thinner, lighter, and fanless Surface tablet that I had always wanted Microsoft to make, but when it came out nearly six years ago, Windows wasn’t ready to handle the Arm chip inside — and vice versa. Sluggish performance and app

VPNs, or virtual private networks, are one of the most effective ways to stay safe online. Not only do they allow you to stay anonymous, but they can help safeguard your data and keep intrusive trackers at bay. Plus, they allow you to get around region blocks on streaming services and avoid ISP throttling. However,

TL;DR: Transform complex data into easy visuals with a lifetime license to Microsoft Visio, now only $14.97 (reg. $249.99). On their own, numbers only tell half the story. If you want to make data effective, it’s worth it to spruce it up with a few good visuals. If you haven’t spent years studying as a designer, that

In the last few days, AI-generated text-to-video has taken off, with Google’s lifelike Veo 3 model generating video and dialogue that approach realism. Now Microsoft has entered the fray, by offering the video-generation portion for free with Bing Video Creator. Unfortunately, the new Bing Video Creator is accompanied by a cadre of compromises, although the