GOOGLE IS to start charging for Google Photos from May 31 if you want to store more than the free 15GB that comes with every Google account (which is shared by Google Drive, Gmail, and Photos). Currently images uploaded at high compression don’t coun

Haha, fit a graphical OS on a floppy disk, crazy talk, right? It is until you go and look at http://menuetos.net which is a graphical OS that fits on a floppy disk. Like many of these alternative tiny operating systems, it’s entirely written in assem

I AM still ever fighting my darn MacBook, trying to find the ultimate mouse to satisfy my clicky needs: Seriously if anyone’s used a 3D touch trackpad on one of these things, you’ll know, if you’re a regular Windows user at the very least, it’s about

HERE WE GO AGAIN, Sony and Microsoft go head to head with new consoles. Microsoft is historically the underdog, while the PlayStation has an excellent track record. The PS2 dominated the original Xbox, the PS3 eventually outsold the Xbox 360, and the

If all of this sounds super-crazy, back in 1983 Richard Stallman created the GNU Project (GNU is Not Unix), and the first items to be developed were the GNU C compiler GCC (it remains one of the leading compilers today), the EMACS text editor, the GN

LET’S CUT TO THE CHASE: The performance of the Ryzen 9 5900X and AMD’s latest Zen 3 architecture is good. It’s really good. It pretty much delivers on the promise that AMD laid out at the chip reveal on October 8, and if nothing else that should make

BEFORE YOU CAN DO ANYTHING you’ll want to start the ISO downloading for the Arch Linux install image. Head to www.archlinux.org/download and grabone of the torrents, or else scroll down to one of the localized mirrors. Best practice is to run an inte

IT SEEMS LIKE every new generation of GPU from AMD is supposed to be the chosen one. Navi, Vega, Polaris, Fiji, Hawaii, Tahiti, Cayman—if those names don’t mean anything to you, they’re the codenames for everything from HD 6000 up through to RX 5000.

CREATIVE INGENUITY and the ability to cram a network stack into the smallest of things have gifted us, over the past few years, some pretty cool home innovations. Legacy (classical?) home dwellers may see little merit in upgrading to a smart home, bu

THE GEFORCE RTX 3070 is round three of Nvidia’s Ampere architecture. All of the core features are present, and yet Nvidia dials things back quite a bit from the earlier outings. We weren’t expecting RTX 3090 levels of performance for $500. Still, hav

TO THE CYNIC, all this new smartification of everyday items seems to involve putting networked computers in places where they’re not needed, and needing dozens of companion apps on your smartphone to keep tabs on all these smart things—and in so doin

ALL-IN-ONE PCS can be a tricksy business. Towers with discrete monitors are generally considered the norm, and any AIO computer draws obvious comparisons to both Apple’s successful iMac range and desktop-replacement Windows laptops. They also have in

8 LOGITECH G15 2006 Blue backlighting and a built-in LCD panel with macro support? The G15 was ahead of its time, but it does look truly dated. 7 CORSAIR VOID PRO 2017 Our resident staff writer was actually present at the Gamescom launch of this head

THE OPEN HOME AUTOMATION BUS, (openHAB) can connect all the diverse IoT appliances that may or may not be beginning to proliferate around your home. Typically these devices all have their own, often proprietary applications, but under the hood they u

IF YOU’RE IN THE MARKET for a monitor, it’s hard to avoid all the hype. Dubious claims of HDR capabilities, ridiculously high refresh rates—it all seems rather tangential to, you know, getting something worthwhile done on your PC. We love PC gaming,

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LOOK AT THAT CASE THERE, crisp, standing pristine in the light, the soft-lit gradient running down the front panel, glinting off the top left of that tempered glass. It’s modest, refined, and simple, at least at first glance. Our photographer’s skill

IT FEELS LIKE an old and tired mantra at this point, but it’s fair to say that 2020 was an awful and very challenging year. It’s shown us just how dependent we are on that humble transistor. Life has changed, for better or worse, and the world we onc

NEXTCLOUD JUST GETS BETTER—the latest edition of the self-hosted storage and sharing platform sees it transformed into a complete collaboration hub. If you already have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or equivalent stack set up on a home server or

HYPERX’S HEADSETS are frequently a good bet, and the new Stinger S addition to its Cloud line is no exception. The Stinger S goes in the opposite direction to the Stinger Core, which was a cheaper alternative to the original Stinger. At $60, the Stin

STEELSERIES is no stranger to the gaming peripheral scene, but this is its first foray into the ultra-light mouse sector. Ultralight mice have increased in popularity in recent years, and love them or hate them, they don’t seem to be going anywhere a