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Secure Email and Cloud Alternatives to Gmail and Dropbox
Back in June last year, confidential documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicated that major email a...
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Should You Be Wary of All the Free Games?
It's not every day that you can get a free AAA game like GTA 5, Batman Arkham Knight or Star Wars Ba...
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How USB Works
Editor's note:An updated version of this article has been published.For 25 years, the USB port has b...
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What Ever Happened to Winamp?
Recently I had a friend over to whom I offered to audition my DIY PC speaker system. The first thing...
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Why Incognito Mode and Private Browsing are Not Private
Are you expecting to have complete privacy when you enable incognito mode or private browsing within...
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Then and Now: 5 Generations of Radeon Graphics Compared
Last month we compared half a decade's worth of DirectX 11-capable GeForce cards in the latest and g...
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Not Intel, Not AMD: Alternative CPU Architectures from Around the World
It's easy to think of the desktop CPU space as a duopoly: on the one hand you have Intel finally tra...
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Finding the Right Components for a Well
There was a time when the phrase 'gaming laptop' was something of a contradiction in terms. Back the...
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The 10 Worst Things About Building a New Gaming PC
Building a gaming PC can be difficult and stressful. There are a thousand things that could go wrong...
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Explainer: What is an API?
Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these, you might have even usedthem before, but...
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How USB Works: From 'Plug and Pray' to Being Everywhere
For a quarter of a century, the USB port has been a faithful old friend. Connecting and powering our...
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Cyrix: Gone But Not Forgotten
Most of you are no doubt familiar with Intel and AMD, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and possibly even...