Stories by Mark Hachman

Google's Chrome 79 will warn you if your password has been stolen—or will be

Google's Chrome 79 browser contains some worthwhile safety precautions, protecting your password as well as limiting Chrome's hunger for memory.

Microsoft will check off Wunderlist in May 2020

After letting it languish for literally years, Microsoft will kill off Wunderlist next May in favor of To-Do.

Windows 10 Mobile is finally dead: How to take your data and move on

Support for Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile officially ends on Dec. 10, 2019. Here's what this means for you, as well as a guide to moving your data onto a new phone.

Hands on with the Snapdragon 8c and 7c, Qualcomm's value-PC play

What's it like to use a PC based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c and 8c? We go hands-on to find out.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 7c and 8c aim for low-end and midrange PCs

Qualcomm has expanded what it's calling the Snapdragon Compute platform, adding the Snapdragon 7c and Snapdragon 8c to address low-end and midrange PCs.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2 platform takes aim at true mixed reality

Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2 mixed-reality platform combines 5G with a Snapdragon mobile chip capable enough to handle both augmented and virtual reality.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865: Four of its best new features

We capture Some of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865's best features on video, from super super slo-mo to on-chip, real-time language translation.

Inside the Snapdragon 865: Qualcomm reveals the features you'll find in 2020's best Android phones

Qualcomm details all of the new features inside the Snapdragon 865, 765, and 765G, including the camera capabilities, new gaming features and more.

Project Athena notebooks perform better on battery, and Intel has the numbers to prove it

Intel says the design work that it's doing on Project Athena notebooks is paying off, with better performance under battery power than competing laptops.

The 5G phones you really want are coming in early 2020

Senior Qualcomm executives explain why early 5G phones supported mmWave or sub-6GHz, and when you'll able to buy a phone that supports both.

Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon 865 mobile chip focuses on 5G

Qualcomm announces its Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 765, and Snapdragon 765G smartphone chips, with AI, 5G, and mobile gaming as their focus.

Microsoft Surface Pro X review: This isn't the long-lasting tablet we were hoping for

Microsoft's Surface Pro X reimagines the Surface Pro tablet line, but its battery life misses the boat, and bugs and other issues narrow its usefulness.

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 15-inch (Core i7) review: This is the one you should buy

Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 with Intel's 10th-gen Core i7 processor, Ice Lake, combines exemplary performance with all-day battery life.

We benchmark AMD's mobile Ryzen 7 vs. Intel's mobile Core i7: Which is the best laptop processor?

We benchmark two Microsoft Surface Laptop 3s, one with AMD's latest mobile Ryzen 7, the other with Intel's Core i7 Ice Lake. Which comes out on top?

The best Black Friday deals on laptops and Chromebooks from Dell, HP, Acer, and others

We've scoured Black Friday deals to bring you the top deals on laptops and Chromebooks from Dell, HP, Samsung, Lenovo, Acer, and other big brands.