This year, four states have passed legislation to remove bans on local government providing inexpensive internet — but 18 states still face barriers.
Broadband has never been more important to daily life than it is right now. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are relying on their home broadband for almost every facet of their lives. Poor service can mean not being able to work or attend school. And while several broadband companies instituted measures at the beginning of quarantine to make their services a bit more affordable, those policies have largely been lifted.
Rather than leaving…
The four vulnerabilities involve a ‘low’ attack complexity, and can lead to remote code execution, enabling a hacker to infiltrate enterprise networks.
By Michael Kan
The US National Security Agency is warning that Microsoft Exchange Server has four serious vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take over company networks.
The NSA helped Microsoft uncover the software flaws, which affect Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. Whether the government agency ever exploited the vulnerabilities for its own purposes wasn’t directly answered. …
The new Surface Laptop 4 offers more AMD and Intel CPU options, and up to 19 hours of battery life in case your family relegates you to the patio during an important video call. Plus: New Surface headphones designed for Microsoft Teams.
By Tom Brant
Five years ago, Microsoft’s freshest products were niche PCs (the Surface Studio) and expensive, groundbreaking peripherals (the Surface Dial), designed to get digital artists’ creative juices flowing.
How times have changed. Redmond’s spring Surface lineup, unveiled on Tuesday, is a bet that the COVID-19-induced work-from-home era is here to stay. There’s nothing as out-there as…
The chip, codenamed Grace, is based on the ARM architecture. It’ll help fill out Nvidia’s product catalog for servers, and may pose a competitive threat to Intel.
By Michael Kan
Nvidia is breaking into the server CPU market with a new chip built on the ARM architecture.
The CPU, codenamed Grace, won’t arrive until early 2023. But according to Nvidia, the chip will deliver 10 times the performance over the leading x86 server chips when it comes to AI and large-scale data science workloads.
The product may pose a competitive threat to Intel, which has long dominated the server chip…
Frustrated by a silent soundbar? Here’s everything you can try before you have to call customer service.
Silent movies might have been a big hit back in the 1890s, but nowadays, it’s not very fun to watch a movie without audible dialogue. A thin flatscreen television may look great, but it often needs a high-quality sound system to get the audio it deserves. If you aren’t hearing anything from your soundbar, there are a few troubleshooting steps you can take to get your talkies up and running again.
Double-Check Your Inputs and Cables
This may seem obvious, but make sure the volume…
Apple’s iMessage is the only non-cross-platform messaging service. It makes business sense for Apple, but it’s a disservice to mobile users everywhere. It might even push me to switch to Android.
I’m a victim of Apple’s proprietary lock-in strategy. Yes, Apple makes fabulous phones with top specs and features, and most of my contacts use iPhones. This means I get all the benefits of iMessage—Memoji, great new group chat features, and the ease of switching a chat to a FaceTime video call or voice call. …
Within a few weeks, iOS and Android will ‘no longer support’ Google’s Shopping app.
Google is ditching its mobile Shopping apps in favor of a more comprehensive web search.
Following an update to Google’s iOS and Android Shopping platforms, users have begun receiving a “something went wrong” error message that says the app is “unavailable right now” and directs folks to continue browsing via shopping.google.com.
XDA on Friday spotted the change, which was later confirmed in a statement to 9to5Google. “Within the next few weeks, we’ll no longer be supporting the Shopping app,” the Google explained. “All…
As Zoom was becoming the most popular video-call platform in the world, Skype was busy losing its market share over the course of a year.
By Jason Cohen
Remote work has changed dramatically over the past year, and the platforms we use for collaborating have changed with it. Believe it or not, Skype was the most popular video call platform at the beginning of 2020. Now we’re all on Zoom.
EmailToolTester has the data to show that, before the pandemic, Skype owned a commanding 32.4% of the market in 2020 before losing 25.8% of its market share in a single…
This weekend is all about ladies with superpowers. Throw in a robbery, Yakuza, and Dolly Parton, and there’s plenty of crime to fight.
The content pile is vast and infinite, and you’ve got the whole weekend to decide how you want to slice it. We’re in the midst of the ever-intensifying streaming wars, and there are too many shows and movies to choose from, spread across too many video-streaming services. So we’re making it easier for you. Each week, the PCMag features team takes turns highlighting the streaming content they’re excited to watch or think you should…
The Bleep program will be available as a beta, and uses the AI processing on Intel-powered PCs to remove abusive language. You can also calibrate what kind of toxic speech the program filters out.
By Michael Kan
Tired of online gamers shouting racist or sexist slurs as you play? Intel is preparing to roll out a new program that can help users automatically filter out abusive language from their in-game voice chats.
The program, called Bleep, uses the AI processing on board Intel-powered PCs to remove the slurs before you have to hear them. Intel showed some screenshots of Bleep…
