From PC World: As Microsoft Word and PowerPoint continually improve their feature sets, the two apps are slowly strangling one of Microsoft’s traditional Office apps: Microsoft Publisher.

Microsoft now says that Microsoft Publisher will disappear in October 2026, where the (ahem) “perpetual version...

From PC World: Slowly but surely, OLED monitors are dropping down to attainable prices. Dell and Alienware consistently deliver some of the best prices in the category, and Alienware’s new 27-inch 1440p OLED is the cheapest yet. The new design debuts this summer with a price of just $549.99.

That’s...

From Tom's Hardware: TSMC's chief executive and chairman, C.C. Wei, said at a press conference in Taipei on Thursday that the company is expanding its production capacity in the U.S. due to customer demand and extraordinary booking through late 2027. According to Reuters, Wei stressed that the...

From PC Mag: YouTube today officially launched Premium Lite in the US for $7.99 per month.

The new tier offers the same ad-free streaming as the standard YouTube Premium, except for music and music videos. The Lite version also doesn't support downloads and background play.

"We’ve been testing...

From PC Mag: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped its lawsuit against Early Warning Services, the company that runs peer-to-peer payment platform Zelle, CNBC reports.

The lawsuit was brought in December, after the CFPB found that Zelle had failed to implement effective safeguards...

From PC World: Unless you’ve spent the last twelve hours or so in a tent outside a Best Buy, you probably don’t have a new Nvidia card in your hands right now. In a depressingly familiar sight, the RTX 5070 has immediately sold out at every online retailer, following the same pattern as the RTX 5070...

From CNET: The MacBook Air has finally caught up to the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro. Apple on Wednesday announced its 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air models have been upgraded to its M4 processor. The iPad Pro was the first Apple device to receive the M4 treatment last May, and the MacBook Pro followed...

From PC Mag: If you enjoy using widgets on your Android phone, Google on Monday announced that it is adding three new features to improve widget discovery. These include a dedicated widget search filter, widget badges on app info pages, and a curated widgets editorial page.

"Historically, one of...

From CNET: Apple has upgraded its iPad lineup -- the Air and entry-level models, at least. The new iPad Air now has an M3 chip compared to the M2 it had last year. It also gets a Magic Keyboard upgrade with added rows of function buttons. But Apple also updated the basic iPad, adding more storage...

From PC World: How fast is too fast for a monitor? If you ask Samsung, then 500 refreshes every second still isn’t too fast for PC gaming. That’s the speed of the latest OLED monitor panel the company is showing off in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2025. The 27-inch 1440p display is aimed right...