As cloud costs spiral upward, enterprises turn to a thing called

In the first few years of cloud computing, cost savings were the driving force behind cloud adoption. Nowadays, however, businesses are facing spiraling cloud costs. There’s even a term for the emerging process to tackle this: “FinOps.” Organizations continue to waste significant cloud spending, according to Flexera’s recently released 2022 State of the Cloud report, … Read more

How to Find Your iPhone’s MAC Address

How to Find Your iPhone’s MAC Address

Need to see your iPhone’s MAC address? Also called a Wi-Fi address, this is the code for how your phone is recognized on a network. Apple makes it easy to find your device’s unique ID, and we’ll show you how. What is MAC Address? A MAC (Media Access Control) address is a unique identifier for … Read more

Intel’s next-gen Raptor Lake PC chip is due for 2022 release

Intel's next-gen Raptor Lake PC chip is due for 2022 release

Intel’s next-generation PC chip, the Raptor Lake, isn’t for sale yet, but it’s mature enough to boot Windows. That’s the word of Intel’s PC chip chief Gregory Bryant at CES 2022 on Tuesday. “With our next generation of processors, code-named Raptor Lake, on track, already booting Windows, you’ll see performance coming later in 2022,” Bryant … Read more

At CES 2022, AMD hit all the gaming targets

At CES 2022, AMD hit all the gaming targets

Based on the CES 2022 product announcements, it looks like a busy start to the year for AMD, with a mind-melting array of things for everyone. AMD’s launch focused on better battery life during gaming, thinner gaming laptops, better gaming performance… a lot of gaming. The company also teased its next-generation Zen 4 desktop processor … Read more

Samsung’s QD-OLED TV tech explained

Samsung's QD-OLED TV tech explained

Samsung promises several image quality improvements compared to existing OLED TVs and monitors: higher brightness in highlights, better colors in bright areas where traditional OLED displays wash out to a white, better colors in dim areas where shadows swallow up rich colors. No dimming or color changes for people watching TV at an angle. Blacks … Read more

So long, BlackBerry. It’s been real

So long, BlackBerry. It's been real

Blackberry users are in mourning for just a few days in the new year. According to the company, support for BlackBerry 10 devices and devices running BlackBerry 7.1 OS or earlier software ended on January 4. That means the phones beloved by many Gen Xers and older Millennials will no longer use data, make phone … Read more

The Apple Watch got some new competition at CES 2022

The Apple Watch got some new competition at CES 2022

Garmin has always made excellent fitness-focused watches, but now it’s stepping up its smartwatch game at CES 2022 with the Venu 2 Plus and Vivomove Sport. The Venu 2 Plus has a speaker and microphone so you can take calls and use your phone’s voice assistant. on your wrist, while the Vivomove Sport blends smartwatches … Read more

Asus made a Zenbook that looks like a foldable phone

Asus made a Zenbook that looks like a foldable phone

Folding screen phones are an interesting niche market with at least some flagship products, such as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3. Folding screen laptops are pretty much conceptual. To date, only a couple have gone on sale, like the Lenovo X1 Fold. Most others, like Dell’s Ori concept, are still only prototypes. Asus dives … Read more