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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Apple Shipped 40% Fewer Macs in the Start of 2023
None of the big PC makers have managed to crawl out of the muck of 2022 declines, and new data shows that Apple’s been among the hardest hit. According to an industry report, Apple has significantly scaled back shipments of its MacBooks and other computers in the first few months of 2023, pointing to a…
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Inside Google’s Plan to Kill the Cookie
Next year, Google will get rid of third-party cookies, the tracking tool marketers and data hogs have used to follow you around the web since 1994. To replace the cookie, Google has an offering for the world. It’s called “Privacy Sandbox,” a set of proposed changes to Chrome and Android which — according to the…
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Seagate’s Star Wars Lightsaber SSDs Are an Elegant Storage Solution for a More Civilised Age
There was a time in the evolution of the desktop PC that it didn’t really matter what the insides looked like, because they were always hidden away behind a beige metal box. Now, the insides of many high-performance PCs are flashier than their outsides. Seagate wants to make sure the guts of your gaming rig…
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Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody
Meta has some big AI ambitions, even as it seems like it’s long been playing catch up to OpenAI, Microsoft, and even Google. To make a bit of a splash, on Wednesday the company showed off its new AI-based Segment Anything Model that’s surprisingly capable of identifying and separating specific objects in images and video.…