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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Someone Just Bought a Strip of Virtual ‘Land’ for Over $3 Million
In yet another example of virtual goods selling for sky-high prices for no discernible reason, an investment firm just dumped roughly $US2.4 (A$3.34) million on a giant plot of… virtual land. Isn’t the future great?!
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Super-Tall Vertical Monitor Is Perfect for Doomscrolling
The world may never know a distraction and procrastination tool as effective as the social media feed: an endless list of bad news, takes, comments, and ego-trips. It’s become so much a part of our lives that companies are now building computer screens specifically designed for doomscrolling, presenting these feeds like digital ticker tapes of…
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Windows on ARM Laptops Reportedly Hamstrung by Qualcomm, but That Might Soon Change
Let your Mac-owning friends boast all they want about the blinding speeds of Apple’s new M-series chips, because who needs fast performance when you have freedom of choice? That’s one of the benefits of buying a PC — or at least, it’s supposed to be.
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An Original Seiko ‘Apple Watch’ From 1988 Is up for Auction
After years of rumours, in September of 2014, the Apple Watch was officially revealed and while it was Apple’s first in-house digital wearable, 26 years earlier Seiko’s WristMac could actually be considered the first true Apple Watch. It was a digital watch that was years ahead of its time with capabilities that earned it a…