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iPhone 12 Pro review: The iPhone that’s future proof

This year’s high-end iPhone is full of potential that has yet to be fully realized.

Google Pixel 5 Review: Soft Reboot

Ultimately, Google’s latest Pixel is more interested in being better value than just plain better.

Oppo Watch review: A masterclass in imitation

How the Xbox Series X (and xCloud) saved me from buying a gaming PC

M1 Mac users are reporting excessive SSD wear and tear

If M1 Macs are performing too many writes on the SSD, that could lead to drive problems down the road.

Send texts on your own time with Android's new Schedule Send feature

Google is adding a new feature to Android, called Schedule Send, that allows you to send texts to other people on your own time.

Google adds Password Checkup to Android

Google already checks your passwords to see if they've been compromised on your PC's Chrome browser. Now your Android phone will add the same Password Checker feature.

Samsung just out-Googled the Pixel at guaranteeing Android updates

Samsung is promising four years of security updates for more than 130 Galaxy phones.

Fitbit teams with Deepak Chopra to bolster its Premium membership

Fitbit is launching a new Mindful Method series featuring sessions from Deepak Chopra as part of its Premium subscription.

Lenovo's new ThinkPads offer better screens and Ryzen 5000 CPUs

Lenovo's spring ThinkPad lineup features a choice of Intel’s 11th-gen Core or AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs, plus better webcams and taller screens in some versions. The laptops will ship over the next few months.

HP Spectre x360 14 review: Luxurious, with long battery life

The HP Spectre x360 14 is the first of its family to sport a 3:2 display. It also delivers sizzling performance and great battery life.

Spotify will roll out CD-quality audio streams later this year

Spotify HiFi will arrive next year in “select markets,” although there’s no word on how much the new audio tier will cost yet.

Grab a 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro at Apple’s refurbished store and save some money

The refurbished store is a good way to save on the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro with more memory and higher-capacity SSDs than the standard configurations. You can get a refurbished model with a 2TB SSD and 16GB of memory for $1,949. That's a $350 savings that's significant.

Microsoft will add predictive typing to Word in March

Microsoft plans to add predictive typing, also called text prediction, to Microsoft Word beginning in March, 2021.

30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why

Security researcher Red Canary has discovered a new malware target at Macs running both Intel and M1 chips but there’s a twist.

OWC Envoy Pro FX SSD review: Speedy cross-platform T3/USB external storage

OWC's Envoy Pro FX reads and writes at 2GBps via Thunderbolt 3 and 1GBps via Gen 2 (10Gbps) USB for speedy transfers and backups with both Macs and Windows PCs.

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra review: All of Android for somewhat less

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is less expensive than the S20 Ultra, and it's still Samsung's best and most full-featured phone to date. It is very big, though.

At BlizzConline 2021, Diablo: Immortal Rose From The Ashes

With both Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 unlikely to arrive until 2022, Immortal may yet ink a legacy for itself as the company’s biggest release of the year.

Sylvanas will fall, Shadowlands will evolve in Chains of Domination

When Chains of Domination eventually arrives, almost every part of Shadowlands’ endgame will get touched up in one way or another.

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Shining a light on creativity

MSI has long pushed the boundaries of invention with its ever-evolving range of laptops but it has now pulled off a world first with the new MSI Creative 17.