Need to quickly turn on your PC from another room in your house? With Wake-on-LAN, you can. Here's how to set it up and why ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

This year my laptop turns six–a relatively young age in the grand scheme of things. Sure, it’s gotten slower and the battery life has taken a hit, but since I don’t use it for advanced video editing ...

If your computer won’t start you might be pulling out your hair at the prospect of losing all your precious data. But all isn’t necessarily lost. If the drive is corrupted or dead, you are in a pickle ...

Earlier this year, I impulse-bought a tiny, inexpensive desktop PC for research purposes. I didn’t expect it to change my entire computing setup. But here I am now, using the $319 Beelink SER5 Mini PC ...

My next door neighbors recently welcomed triplets. As you can imagine, their trash cans fill up rather quickly. Recently, the husband approached me to ask if I could do him and his wife a favor. There ...

Linux has plenty of office suites to choose from. You'll find both open-source and proprietary options. Most of these are free to install and use. I've used Linux for ...

Question: What should I do with my older computer that can’t run Windows 11? Answer: Now that the October 14, 2025 deadline has passed, Windows 10 is officially retired, meaning Microsoft will no ...