I spent a morning with Meta VR Glasses and wish I never had to take them off
Experience counts for something, and nowhere is that more evident than on the Meta VR Glasses I finally wore this morning. These lightweight, intuitive, and engrossing VR glasses shed the weight and overdesigned fussiness of previous VR and mixed reality…
Windows 11’s taskbar still can’t be dragged – here’s why that’s the case
The ability to reposition the taskbar came to Windows 11 in September However, you can’t drag the taskbar around as with Windows 10 – you must move it using a panel in the Settings app Some power-users want an option to drag it around the…
UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?
In 2023, malware tracked as BlackLotus became the first publicly documented in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing Secure Boot on fully updated Windows 11 systems. With the industry-wide chain-of-trust mechanism subverted, the malware was able to…
Our top Apple iMac alternative from HP drops by $1,350 – but the price cut definitely won’t last
Designed to take on the all-in-one dominance of Apple’s iMac, the HP OmniStudio X line is aimed firmly at everyday computing in style. And when we tested it out, we found it was “a great all-in-one for everyday computing.” Personally, I…
Microsoft boasts Windows 11 is now up to 40% faster for multi-tasking
Windows 11 got a major performance boost with its latest update, including 40% faster multi-tasking on an 8GB PC based on Microsoft’s testing That update is still a preview, mind, but the full release is coming next week, with other performance…
