PC ports need to be better in 2024. Here’s how

Digital Trends I’ve said it once, and I’ll saw it again: 2023 wasn’t a great year for PC gaming. We saw some excellent games, but most were marred by poor ports that exhibited performance issues, bugs, and other game-breaking problems. Even at the end of the year, though, things are looking up, and I hope … Read more

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group gets approval for no-controller status, ending Jack Ma’s reign before seeking IPO

China’s central bank has agreed that Ant Group’s mobile payment app Alipay has no controller, a crucial step in the fintech giant’s overhaul deemed necessary to put its much-anticipated initial public offering back on track. The billionaire’s share of the voting rights are now divided among Hangzhou Junhan Equity Investment – owned by Ma and … Read more

HP’s end-of-year sale gets you a gaming PC for under $500

HP You don’t need to spend a fortune on gaming PC deals in order to get a decent machine, especially since there are offers like HP’s $300 discount for the HP Victus 15L. From $780, the gaming desktop is down to a very affordable $480, but only if you’re able to take advantage of the … Read more

Save $600 on the Dell XPS 17 laptop in Dell’s new year sale

Mark Coppock/Digital Trends / Mark Coppock/Digital Trends If you’ve always loved how thin and light MacBooks are but don’t necessarily want to buy into the Apple ecosystem, then the Dell XPS lineup is really the way to go. Even worse, if you’re looking to buy something with a larger screen, your only option is either … Read more

Get this Lenovo all-in-one PC while it’s discounted to $549

Lenovo If you’re planning to purchase from desktop computer deals, here’s an offer that you wouldn’t want to miss — the Lenovo ThinkCentre M90a all-in-one PC for an affordable $549, following a $1,190 discount from Lenovo on its original price of $1,739. The 68% discount isn’t going to last forever though, so you’re going to … Read more

This Chromebook turns into a tablet, and it’s $290 right now

Digital Trends While a Windows laptop can be great, it tends to cost a lot if you want to get something that’s even remotely powerful, and a lot of that is due to the fact that Windows tends to be rather resource-hungry. A solid alternative is going for a Chromebook, which runs on ChromeOS and … Read more

Generative AI big year meant profit for Nvidia, experiments elsewhere

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted that he was surprised by the popularity of ChatGPT, which was released as a research project a little more than a year ago. His … Read more

Brother MFC-L3780 CDW review: quick color

Brother MFC-L3780 CDW MSRP $499.99 “Brother’s MFC-L3780 CDW is big and robust, for those that need it.” Pros Fast, reliable printing at 31 ppm Quick, high-resolution scanner Duplex printing and scanning Includes over 1,000 pages in toner Easy setup Cons iPhone and iPad app is surprisingly slow Photo-quality isn’t great It’s a heavy printer that … Read more

Best color laser printers for 2023: tested and reviewed

The best color laser printers can be a great investment, saving you quite a bit of time and money. For shoppers worried about the long-term ink costs, you’ll find color laser printers surprisingly affordable. Laser prints use toner which lasts a very long time, delivering a low cost per page for monochrome documents and affordable … Read more

How the two biggest crypto billionaire CEOs proved the critics right

Combination showing Former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (L) and Zhao Changpeng (R), founder and chief executive officer of Binance. Getty Images | Reuters After a brutal 18 months of bankruptcies, company failures and criminal trials, the crypto market is starting to claw back some of its former standing. Bitcoin is up more than 150% this … Read more