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Update: The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta has now ended. The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta weekend was expected to come to a close this…

Gaming continues to improve on Windows 11 PCs powered by Snapdragon X chips. A recent Adreno GPU driver improves stability and quality for several titles, though the exact changes you’ll…

Nobody can accuse Lenovo of lacking imagination. Over the last several years, the company has become the PC industry’s unofficial concept lab, routinely showing off hardware that seems pulled from…

If you’re not a keen follower of the AI space, then the name Hugging Face may not mean anything to you. But the company has just been acquired by NVIDIA,…

Microsoft promised to make Windows 11 more stable, but issues with recent Windows updates are hurting its reputation yet again. We previously found a bug that broke the cursor, which…

New Delhi, Sept. 3 — Sony and Microsoft have asked US courts to dismiss class-action lawsuits accusing the companies of failing to pass tariff refunds on to consumers after raising…

Windows 11 will soon let apps verify user age groups without exposing birthdays. Microsoft is overhauling how Windows 11 handles child safety and account privacy by moving age verification directly…

Windows 11’s built-in photo viewer, ‘Microsoft Photos,’ is getting a big update with a cleaner look that drops Copilot-related features and even removes shortcuts to other apps from the toolbar….

In true Atlanta fashion, the next step in a public-private development partnership between the city and a global tech behemoth will include a big outdoor party.  The City of Atlanta…

The Microsoft Xbox logo at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, on Aug. 26, 2026. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft’s Xbox unit said Thursday that…

So let’s talk about how to get OneDrive to do what you want it to. Welcome to PCWorld’s newsletter, Smart Mode! The focus of this newsletter is productivity: from software…

NVIDIA has confirmed new details and availability info about its upcoming RTX Spark SoC for Windows 11 devices. At IFA 2026, the company announced that it expects the first RTX…

I’ve seen a lot of concept PCs over the years. Most are fascinating engineering exercises that are never destined for store shelves. They’re designed to spark conversation, generate headlines, and…

Competition for Apple’s MacBook Neo is heating up. Just days after Dell unveiled a new 14-inch laptop designed to take on Apple’s latest mainstream notebook, Lenovo is entering the fight…

As someone who actually hails from Birmingham, UK, finding out there was a medieval zombie survival game set in my hometown was morbidly fascinating. Naturally, I had to check it…

Microsoft has confirmed its Saudi Arabia East data center region will be available to customers in November 2026, enabling government and private sector organizations to access supported Microsoft cloud and…

Xbox’s disc-to-digital program was revealed in full last week, and at first, it seemed too good to be true. Codenamed Positron, Xbox’s disc-to-digital program lets Xbox gamers unlock digital rights…

Microsoft will start switching on memory integrity by default for eligible Windows 11 devices from October 2026, arriving through that month’s Patch Tuesday update on October 13. The feature has…

Windows 11’s Start menu has taken up close to 90% of the screen on plenty of PCs since last November, and I have been complaining about that since we first…

There are at least three issues affecting Windows 11, and Microsoft has acknowledged two so far. One is a bug where the cursor either disappears, appears broken, or loses customization….

Microsoft has launched its Fabric data platform in Government Community Cloud High on public preview, with general availability from 1 October, pitched at agentic AI workloads. Europe has no equivalent…

Microsoft Teams will soon let you temporarily pause notifications for a set period of time. Teams already has a variety of mute functions, but the new feature should make it…

Microsoft Edge will stay outside the European Union’s toughest tech rulebook. The bloc’s General Court on Wednesday rejected Opera’s challenge to the European Commission’s decision not to designate the browser…

BlizzCon 2026 is almost here, and Blizzard Entertainment is getting fans prepared for the event with a step-by-step tutorial of its programming guide, floor plan map, viewership guide, and more…

With the 2026 Tokyo Game Show drawing near, Capcom is metaphorically and literally putting on the turbo boost for revealing new gameplay for Monster Hunter Wilds‘ Ascendence DLC expansion by…

Dell just announced a new laptop to take on Apple’s MacBook Neo. The Dell 14S is a colorful laptop designed for college students and young adults, which helps the PC…

Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data across the places a company keeps its work: local disks, Windows file…

Key Takeaways: September 2026 security updates will require Hotpatch-enabled devices to reboot. October 2026 already includes a scheduled baseline update that also requires a restart. Microsoft expects the reboot-free Hotpatch…

TL;DR: Get a lifetime Microsoft Office Professional 2021 license with eight apps for one Windows PC for $29.97 through tonight, September 1. If you’re still paying for Office every month,…