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Computing is the foundation on which the rest of technology is built, but it’s also the lens through which we see the future. That’s why we take it seriously at Digital Trends. Our approach includes coverage of the hardware and software of PCs, but also the larger ecosystem of everything that plugs into them. Windows, Macs, laptops, graphics cards, CPUs, gaming monitors, and yes — even printers. And that’s just scratching the surface.
Through covering the latest news and performing the hands-on testing ourselves, we’re able to offer the best PC buying advice you’ll find on the internet. We do our own in-depth testing on everything from the battery life of laptops to monitor image quality. We even delve into the expanding world of the PC gaming tech with ReSpec, our biweekly deep-dive column on making your PC games look and play their best.
So, whether you’re shopping for your next laptop, reading up on the latest GPU news for your next upgrade, or just trying to take a screenshot on Mac, you’ve come to the right place.
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After four years on an M1 MacBook Air, I upgraded to the M5. Here’s exactly what changed, from battery life to Chrome tab limits to price.
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New players are shaking up the memory industry, but even Apple can’t strong-arm the RAM crisis for your wallet
Apple turned to CXMT for cheaper DRAM, only to discover that even its enormous order volumes no longer guarantee favorable pricing.
ChatGPT enables unlimited chats on free accounts and upgrades to newer models
For free accounts, there is no longer a restriction on text-based conversations, despite the switch to a newer and more powerful GPT-5.6 Luna model.
Adobe is putting its entire creative ecosystem inside ChatGPT with one unified plugin
Adobe launches a unified plugin for ChatGPT, giving users access to more than 70 tools across Photoshop, Premiere, and other Adobe apps.
Microsoft is teaching AI to find the bottlenecks buried inside Windows 11
Microsoft is connecting AI assistants to Windows’ advanced performance-analysis tools, helping engineers investigate CPU spikes, memory pressure, driver problems, and other causes of sluggish PCs.
Study finds AI-generated animal stories rarely have a female lead
A new University of Washington study found that when AI models write stories about talking animals, the lead character is rarely ever female.
Meta confirms its AI hacked another company’s system, and the pattern is anything but Irregular
Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models hacked into another company's system during a security test, making it the third company to report this kind of breach in recent weeks.
Scam Uber emails are targeting users with fake payment alerts
A convincing fake Uber email claims your payment method has expired. Here's how to identify the phishing scam before it steals your payment details.
OpenAI’s AI models secretly built a message board to coordinate hacking
OpenAI's AI models quietly swapped hacking tips through an internal message board weeks before two of them broke into Hugging Face, researchers revealed at Black Hat this week.
Asus and Gigabyte just made your next RTX 50 GPU even more expensive
Asus and Gigabyte officially raised prices across their RTX 50-series and Radeon lineups, with some cards now costing nearly 50% more than they did last year.
Huawei made an utterly sleek laptop that’s 35% lighter than MacBook Air. Too bad you don’t need it.
Huawei’s latest MateBook fits a 14.2-inch OLED touchscreen and 54Wh battery into a 798-gram chassis while adding a privacy display for working in public.
Wispr Flow launches an AI note-taker that works without joining calls
Wispr Flow has launched Notetaker, an AI meeting assistant for Mac that records calls without joining as a participant and turns conversations into transcripts, summaries, and follow-up notes.
Google Assistant finally has a shutdown date, and it’s only weeks away
Google will begin phasing out Assistant on eligible mobile devices from September 4, replacing it with Gemini while leaving some unsupported devices, cars, and smart-home hardware temporarily unaffected.
ChatGPT Atlas is shutting down and it has some homework left before you migrate
OpenAI will shut down ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, and users must manually rescue bookmarks, tabs, browsing history, and other important data before migrating.
Google quietly rewrote Chrome’s AI documentation with important answers to on-device AI downloads
Google quietly expanded Chrome's On-device AI help documentation, detailing a 20GB free disk space requirement and device eligibility.
Huawei made its giant folding laptop faster and tougher, but the pen is the real upgrade
Huawei’s refreshed MateBook Fold retains its enormous 18-inch OLED and remarkably light chassis while adding a faster Kirin processor, tougher glass, and proper stylus support.
Study finds readers rate AI-written stories higher, but still trust the “human” label more
A new study has found that readers not only struggled to tell AI-written stories from human ones, they often rated the AI versions higher, at least until they learned who actually wrote them.
Once again, OpenAI and Anthropic AI models are going rogue and hacking services
A new AISI report details how AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unauthorized actions in security testing when given access to the open internet. OpenAI separately disclosed that one of its own models hacked a real website after a testing lab accidentally gave it internet access.
Motherboards may be the next PC component to get a massive price increase
A new report suggests Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte are preparing motherboard price hikes that could make building a new PC significantly more expensive.
Deepfake bosses are crashing video calls, and researchers are trying to expose them
Fraunhofer researchers are developing a real-time warning system for deepfake video meetings, targeting scams where AI-generated bosses and coworkers pressure employees into costly decisions.
Apple will finally stop making iPhone-to-Windows copy-paste such a chore
Apple has agreed to build a developer framework that could finally enable seamless iPhone-to-Windows clipboard syncing, though its first beta will arrive sometime after fall 2027.
Chrome wants more extension reviews, but good ratings won’t keep malware out
Chrome may soon make extension reviews easier to find, but strong ratings can still hide malicious behavior introduced through later updates or compromised listings.
Passkeys were pushed as a safer future. Hackers have figured out ways to break those synced to Google
Researchers found three ways malware on an already compromised Windows PC can hijack Google-synced passkeys, bypass user checks, and extract every private key in the vault.
Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit just tripped over an embarrassing wrong-recipient email
OpenAI has published emails and messages challenging Apple’s trade-secret allegations, including an awkward exchange in which Apple’s outside lawyer contacted the wrong person.
Google Drive steps up its video collaboration game with timestamped comments
Google Drive now lets you pin comments to exact moments in videos with timestamped timeline markers.
Apple is finally bringing one of my favorite Continuity features to Windows
Apple is reportedly building a way to copy on your iPhone and paste on a Windows PC, thanks to a request from Microsoft, but you'll be waiting until 2027 or later.
MSI’s new 4K 120Hz OLED monitor uses inkjet tech that could make premium screens cheaper
The world’s first 27-inch 4K 120Hz inkjet-printed OLED monitor has arrived, although MSI has not revealed its price or release date.
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