Apple or Android? Whether you’re looking for a big or small phone, entry-level or top-of-the-line, Android offers options for everyone. And unlike Apple’s rigid release cycle, Google’s hardware partners unleash a seemingly endless stream of new devices year-round. But therein lies the problem: With so many options out there, how do you settle on the […]
Enlarge / The LG 34GK950F, our favorite ultrawide gaming monitor. Valentina Palladino Welcome to Ars Gaming Week 2019! As a staff full of gamers and game-lovers, we’ll be serving up extra reviews, guides, interviews, and other stories all about gaming from August 19 to August 23. Any monitor can work for gaming, but a good […]
You’ve heard it a million times: “The best camera is the one you have in your hand.” Well, kind of. The reality is different cameras suit different genres, and deciding which camera to put in your hand certainly has an impact on the pictures you can take. When it comes to street photography, you’re going […]
Alienware’s completely redesigned gaming desktop looks like it comes from the future, and can pack the best parts available in the present. PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. The Alienware Aurora R9 is the latest rev of the company’s premium gaming desktop […]
Labor Day 2019 lands on Monday, September 2 this year, marking the final hurrah of summer sales. Labor Day was originally organized as a celebration of various labor unions’ contributions to the U.S. economy, but it has since become somewhat of a buying holiday for consumers. With Prime Day in its wake and Black Friday […]
The Top Phones You Can’t Get in the US The Chinese smartphone market is much more robust than what we have here in the US. There are dozens of phone manufacturers in China that release amazing handsets that never make their way to the States. As a US-based publication, we don’t typically review phones or […]
Finding a deal on a MacBook isn’t easy. They’re high-end machines, and Apple keeps a pretty tight watch on how it is priced around the internet. On top of that, there’s a large selection of models, including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and 12-inch MacBook, as well as different sizes and configurations, to consider. Throw […]
Related Adobe Lightroom is a powerful RAW processor with some advanced editing tools, but an equally important feature is its ability to organize large collections of photos, making it possible to find that one specific picture you took on a trip three years ago that’s only named “DSC_3245.” Lightroom is now two applications: the newer […]
Bill Roberson/Digital Trends Photoshop is to photo editing what Xerox is to photocopying. Beyond the professionals who use the program, the word itself has become part of the popular lexicon and is often used as a verb, as in, “Can you Photoshop this to make it look better?” More often than not, when flipping through the […]
The elitist idea that gaming is something you can only do on a flashing, multicolored PC or on the box under your TV is dead. Mobile gaming is here to stay, and it has lured millions of people in with a wide range of challenges that go all the way from matching three fruits to […]
Enlarge / Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks at the Microsoft Annual Shareholders Meeting in Bellevue, Washington, on November 30, 2016. Jason Redmond / Getty Images Microsoft has reported its financial results for the final quarter of the 2019 fiscal year. The tech giant saw notable gains in sales for Azure in its Intelligent Cloud […]
Envy, as you probably know, is HP’s upscale-but-not-deluxe brand, positioned above its Pavilion PCs but below its Spectre models. You can think of the new Envy 13 (starts at $ 749.99; $ 1,199.99 as tested) as a replacement for the much-missed Spectre 13 ultraportable—while it has a touch screen, it’s a clamshell laptop that doesn’t […]
Document scanners and photo scanners are not created equal. For quickly digitizing large collections of prints, the best photo scanner is the Epson FastFoto FF-680W. It offers more resolution and better color reproduction than a scanner designed for text, along with photo-editing features that will make you as happy as the woman in the above […]
Enlarge Ars Technica Greetings, Arsians! Your friendly neighborhood Dealmaster is back and reporting for bargain-hunting duty—and boy, is he going to need some extra coffee. That’s because today marks the start of Amazon Prime Day 2019, the increasingly misnamed sales event that sees the nation’s largest online retailer discount products beyond number to Black Friday-level […]