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Here are the top five tips for cybersecurity awareness month

We've teamed up with MacPaw to bring you some essential cybersecurity tips for the month of cybersecurity awareness. We could all stand to be more vigilant.
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This Alienware gaming laptop with RTX 4090 is $600 off today

Want to take your PC gaming on the go? Save $600 today when you order the Alienware m18 R2 Gaming Desktop through Dell.
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The Aurora R16 with RTX 4060 is $250 off, but act fast!

Be the best gamer you can be with the fast and powerful Alienware Aurora R16 Gaming Desktop, now on sale at Dell for $1,300.
The iBuyPower Scale Gaming Desktop.

This iBuyPower gaming PC deal is hard to beat

Invest in faster, better-looking, and better-performing gampleay with the iBuyPower Scale Gaming Desktop, now on sale at Best Buy for $750.
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This beloved Mac-only app has finally come to Windows

The Fantastical calendar app has been a fan favorite on Mac for over a decade, and now Windows users can finally join the club.
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Intel Core Ultra 5 245K review: where Arrow Lake breaks down

The Core Ultra 5 245K should be a value-focused midrange CPU, but it fails to deliver even a generational improvement over Intel's last-gen options.
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14 years later, the Mac mini has finally been reborn

The Mac mini has undergone a major overhaul, with a sleek new design and upgraded M4 chip bringing Apple’s smallest desktop computer up to date.
AMD logo on the RX 7800 XT graphics card.

AMD could swipe some of the best features of Nvidia GPUs

AMD is looking into new techniques for upscaling and denoising, possibly gearing up for the release of the next version of FSR.
AMD presenting its new Turin CPUs.

AMD may completely dominate CES 2025

AMD has a lot of new products up its sleeve, and they're all said to be making an appearance during CES 2025, including CPUs, GPUs, and APUs.
The Mac mini on a wooden table.

M4 Mac mini appears to have just been leaked by Amazon

Amazon appears to have accidentally leaked the specifications for the M4 Mac mini ahead of Apple's official unveiling this week.
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Early Black Friday Chromebook deals 2024: Save on HP, Lenovo, and Acer

We've picked out all the best early Black Friday Chromebook deals including the best brands like HP and Lenovo so you can save ahead of the big day.
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Best Buy early Black Friday laptop deals: Asus, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Apple

We've got our favorite Best Buy early Black Friday laptop deals gathered here, with discounts on devices made by brands like Asus, Lenovo, Dell, HP, and Apple.
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Early Black Friday Dell laptop deals: Latitude, XPS, Alienware and more

You don't have to wait because there are already some early Black Friday Dell laptop deals that you can shop right now, and we've gathered the best ones here.
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Early Black Friday Dell XPS deals 2024: XPS 13, XPS 14, desktop

There are some great Black Friday Dell XPS deals already and we've picked out some of our favorites along with buying advice.
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Alienware early Black Friday deals: Save up to $600 on RTX 4090 configuration

If you've always wanted an Alienware gaming PC, there's a lot of great Black Friday deals from Dell you can take advantage of.
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I love the RGB on this Alienware Aurora R16 gaming PC and it’s $700 off today

For a super powerful gaming PC for less, check out the Alienware Aurora R16 gaming PC while it's on sale now at Dell for $700 off.
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I have really good news about Microsoft Teams

The new merged view for Microsoft Teams is coming to public preview next month, and threaded conversations are due next year.
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One of the last floppy disk industries is finally modernizing

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using floppy disks to a more modern system.
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Google expands AI Overviews to over 100 more countries

Google announced on Monday that it is expanding its AI Overview feature to search result pages in seven languages and more than 100 countries.
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Best Buy is knocking $500 off the Samsung G8 gaming monitor

Game like a pro with the incredible Samsung 32-inch Neo G8, now on sale at Best Buy for $800. Act fast before this markdown disappears!
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Best Lenovo laptop deals: Save on Yoga and ThinkPad laptops

If you need a new laptop, you should take advantage of Lenovo's discounts. There are loads of Lenovo laptop deals out there, so we've gathered our top picks.
People using the Apple iMac with M4 chip.

Apple’s M4 iMac brings next-gen power to your desktop

Apple has updated the iMac to come with a powerful M4 chip, giving its all-in-one desktop computer an upgrade ahead of more announcements this week.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a breath of fresh air on PC

I assumed Dragon Age: The Veilguard would have problems on PC, but I'm very happy to report that I was wrong.
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Best Buy laptop deals: Cheap laptops starting at $179

Best Buy is one of the best places to buy a laptop online, and with these Best Buy laptop deals it's one of the best places to save on a new laptop as well.
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D installed in a motherboard.

AMD CPUs just got a major performance update for games

A string of motherboard updates are rolling out that promise higher gaming performance on AMD CPUs, with boosts of up to 35%.
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Next-gen laptops may have a weird mix of components

Upcoming gaming laptops should feature a lot of updates, but it's possible that they won't be next-gen all across the board.
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Everything you need to know about buying a laptop in 2024

If you're unsure about what you need in a laptop, this laptop buying guide can help. In our breakdown, we'll explain specs, pricing, model types, and more.
The Mac mini on a wooden table.

Apple’s next-gen M4 Macs look set to embrace serious gaming

Apple's next-generation M4 silicon will serve ray tracing, even on the Mac mini. We might also get some relief with Apple's stingy RAM approach, too.
The back of the Core Ultra 9 285K CPU.

The death of Moore’s Law is finally starting to stink

The idea of Moore's Law has been a topic of debate for years, but we're finally starting to see the decline of pure PC hardware innovation.
A MacBook Pro on a desk with ChatGPT's website showing on its display.

GPT-5: everything we know so far about OpenAI’s next frontier model

GPT-5 is expected to be the next major iteration of OpenAI's large language model. Here's everything we know about it so far.
RTX 3080 Ti in front of a window.

It’s finally time to stop buying Nvidia’s RTX 30-series GPUs

Even though Nvidia's RTX 30-series once held some of the best graphics cards, it's time to stop buying these GPUs once and for all.

Early Black Friday RAM deals 2024: 33% off desktop and laptop RAM kits

If you need to grab some new sticks of RAM for an upgrade or new PC, there are some great Black Friday deals that you can take advantage of right now.
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Best early Black Friday 17-inch laptop deals 2024: Up to 37% off HP, Asus, LG, and more

If you need a laptop with a large screen during Black Friday, here are your best options from Dell, Lenovo, HP and more, plus our favorite deal of the day.
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15 early Black Friday deals for 2024: TVs, laptops, headphones

Black Friday will be here soon enough. We've picked out all the best early deals, whether you're looking for a laptop, TV, or something else.
Senior Editor, Computing

Luke Larsen is a Senior Editor at Digital Trends and manages all content covering laptops, Macs, monitors, PC hardware, and peripherals. Around here we call it “computing,” but here’s a good rule of thumb: If it’s a computer or something that plugs into a computer, you found your guy. Oh, and these days, AI too. So much AI.

After getting a degree in music from the University of Oregon, Luke started his career in media hoping to get into music journalism. But when the opportunity arose, he landed in tech and hasn’t looked back since. He has over a decade of tech journalism experience, first joining Digital Trends in 2017 as a native Portlander, happy to join a tech media company that called his city home. Before working at DT, he worked as Tech Editor at Paste Magazine for over four years and has bylines at publications such as IGN, TouchArcade (RIP), and The Oregonian.

In his years at Digital Trends so far, Luke has covered high-profile industry events such as CES, IFA, and Microsoft Build, delivering on-the-ground coverage, breaking news, and first-hand reporting. He’s hosted countless YouTube videos, made podcast appearances, and written over 600 articles.

Some of his earliest tech memories include learning HTML through his MySpace account and trying to play Baldur’s Gate II on his parents’ dusty old beige box. These days, his obsession with technology is in telling stories with tech — in finding the narratives that ebb and flow through both technological advancement and product design, trickling right on down to our day-to-day experience of it. He is convinced that we all spend too much of our time using technology and not enough time thinking about it — cue a healthy dose of navel-gazing and philosophizing.

When he’s not endlessly debating what the best laptop is, Luke spends his days being a dad and a husband. Oh, and when there’s time (which there isn’t), he’s an avid fiction writer, player of designer board games, and still occasionally makes some music.