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TL;DR: For two days only, you can get a lifetime license for Visual Studio Pro for only $15. Writing and testing code can be complex enough without the added friction of limited tools or slow environments. Visual Studio Professional 2022 is a comprehensive development platform built to support modern workflows across web, mobile, and desktop projects. It’s also only $14.97 …

A Visual Studio Pro lifetime license is only $15 until September 14 Read More »

It was nearly four years ago that Spotify touted its next big feature for music lovers: lossless streaming, aka Spotify HiFi.  Finally, Spotify Premium users would get the chance to “upgrade their sound quality” from Spotify’s lossy 320Kbps Ogg Vobis codec to lossless CD-quality audio, with Billie Eilish and Finneas extoling the virtues of lossless …

Spotify’s HiFi strategy was a good one. Apple and Amazon ruined it Read More »

Image: PC för Alla You might have played around with God modes in PC games before, where you type in a code to get supernatural powers that defy the normal physics of the game or make you invincible. Surprise! Windows 10 and 11 has one of those too. In Windows’ case, though, you don’t get …

I’m obsessed with Windows 11’s secret God mode Read More »

Image: Foundry If you read PCWorld, odds are pretty good that you like to build desktop PCs, or at least have a passing interest in it. We love building PCs—and in fact, we’ve built dozens of them live on air over at the PCWorld YouTube channel. And today, we’re at it again… except this time …

Watch PCWorld build a new studio PC for live streaming Read More »

The Steam Deck starts at $400. That’s one of its most appealing aspects, even years after it launched. The new Lenovo Legion Go 2 starts at $1,050, and it goes up to $1,350 if you really want to max its specs. Perhaps that’s an unfair comparison, but it’s one that plenty of fans are making …

Legion Go 2’s high price draws backlash. Lenovo’s response isn’t helping Read More »

(Image credit: MINISFORUM) Minisforum G7 Pro delivers laptop-level performance in a compact Mini PC chassis NVIDIA RTX 5070 Laptop GPU powers desktop-class graphics in a small device Dual-channel DDR5 RAM and two M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots support heavy workloads At IFA 2025, Minisforum unveiled a series of mini PCs, including the G7 Pro, which uses …

This ultra slim mini PC is essentially a Core i9 laptop with an RTX 5070 laptop GPU, but sans a battery, keyboard, and screen Read More »

(Image credit: Apple) BMW’s Senior Vice President of UI/UX reveals key details about CarPlay usage The German brand recently said it would not go ahead with CarPlay Ultra There’s a “CarPlay Myth” on the internet, BMW exec claims Stephan Durach, BMW’s senior vice president of UI/UX development, has argued that there is a “CarPlay myth” …

BMW says Apple CarPlay popularity is a myth, as more manufacturers turn to built-in navigation systems Read More »

(Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia announces Rubin CPX GPU with 128GB memory built for enterprise AI workloads Vera Rubin NVL144 CPX rack delivers 8 exaFLOPs compute and 100TB fast memory Shipments planned for late 2026 with Rubin Ultra and Feynman already on roadmap Nvidia has announced a brand new GPU built on the Rubin architecture and …

Nvidia has launched a GPU with 128GB of GDDR7 RAM but yeah, there’s no way it will sell one to us to run games Read More »

(Image credit: Shutterstock) EggStreme is a stealthy, fileless malware framework used by a Chinese threat actor to target a Philippine military company It includes six modular components, enabling reverse shell access, payload injection, keylogging, and persistent espionage Attribution remains uncertain, but the attack’s objectives align with known Chinese APT tactics across APAC and beyond A …

China-related threat actors deployed a new fileless malware against the Philippines military Read More »

(Image credit: Future) Tineco Floor One S9 Scientist is a new wet-dry vacuum Magnetic flap at front of floorhead acts as a squeegee to remove excess water Also has a cool retro-style pixel display I saw a number of wet-and-dry vacuums at IFA 2025, but one that stood out from a design perspective is Tineco’s …

Tineco’s new wet-dry vac has a built-in squeegee so your floors won’t end up slippery Read More »