PCs & Laptops: The Latest Computing News
PCs, laptops, Microsoft, Apple and everything in between. Here you’ll find all the latest computing news – from the gaming, to benchmarks to raytracing. You’ll also find stories about security, privacy, hacking and the dark web.
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Microsoft Offers Pirates a Discount to Get Them to Use Microsoft 365
Microsoft is using an unconventional method to make an ally out of a longtime enemy: offering people who use pirated copies of its Office suite apps a 50% discount on a legitimate version.
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Roku and YouTube End Their Dumb Feud
Roku and Google have signed a multi-year extension deal for both YouTube and YouTube TV on the streaming platform, effectively skirting a December contract deadline that, had it expired, would have seen YouTube removed from Roku’s app store.
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AWS Outage Takes Down Amazon, Disney+, and Venmo
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the engine that powers many of the internet’s most-trafficked websites and apps, appears to be experiencing a widespread outage that is bringing down several popular services.
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Google’s Pixel Watch Just Leaked, and My Anticipation Is Now Dangerously High
As a longtime Android user, I’ve spent the better part of a decade on the sidelines of an entire product category, awaiting a wearable that could rival the Apple Watch. From startups to traditional watchmakers, many companies have promised a worthy alternative, only to release smartwatches with crippling compromises. Each failure dimmed the hopes for…