When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Microsoft has arguably done more to shape the evolution of the PC than any other company. This week, Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 4, 2025. Fifty years is a long time for anyone, ...

With how much the world of video games has evolved over the last 15 years, revolutionary consoles like the original Nintendo Wii are often lost in the shuffle. The Wii, which hit store shelves in 2006 ...

Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine. This ...

If you decide to open your wallet, download and launch the app. Insert a DVD (the program doesn’t support Blu-ray discs) into your drive and click Play. You'll have access to the usual array of ...

J.T. has more than 20 years of experience in the tech industry and specializes in technical support and educating users. He has made a career of helping people understand technology to improve both ...

J.T. has more than 20 years of experience in the tech industry and specializes in technical support and educating users. He has made a career of helping people understand technology to improve both ...

On December 9, 2021, Apache disclosed CVE-2021-44228, a remote code execution vulnerability – assigned with a severity of 10 (the highest possible risk score). The source of the vulnerability is Log4j ...

One of the great joys of constantly checking out new or obscure Linux operating systems is finding some insane innovations that stand out from the crowded collection of distros. The current release of ...

This week, Billboard is celebrating the music of 20 years ago with a week of content about the most interesting artists, albums, songs and stories from 1998. Here, we present a chronological run… By ...

There is no doubt that DVD is dying out from the home media. These days, stream media is the most popular way to watch movies, TV shows. Let alone that increasing PCs aren’t equipped with the disc ...