When it comes to building your own PC, picking the case is just as important as choosing your CPU, motherboard, RAM, GPU, and so on. This is because the size of your case will also determine the size of the motherboard, power supply, GPU, and so on, along with the overall aesthetics.

The concept of our smartphones possibly powering our laptops is one that has been explored before. A good example was about 7 years ago when Motorola took the wraps off the Lapdock which when connected to a Motorola smartphone, allowed it turn into a laptop of sorts with a bigger display and a physical keyboard.

Apple’s new MacBook Pros with the Touch Bar aren’t cheap, although for the price that you pay, some level of quality is expected, right? Unfortunately for some 2018 MacBook Pro owners, it doesn’t seem that  way because there are a few reports of these owners experiencing crackling speakers.

It is understandable why Apple would swap out the USB 3.0 ports on the MacBooks for USB-C. This is because USB-C is expected to be the new standard in the future and Apple is preparing for that. However as to why Apple did away with the other ports, such as an SD card reader is anyone’s guess.

New code has been spotted which reveals that portrait mode is being tested for Chromebooks, the HP Chromebook X2 to be precise. A new commit in the Chromium Gerrit reveals that portrait mode is headed to the HP Chromebook X2. It appears that Google may be moving ahead with plans to integrate its Google Camera app with Chromebooks other than the company’s own Pixelbook.

Speakers built into laptops, TVs, monitors, and all-in-one desktops aren’t usually the best-sounding speakers. However for the most part, Apple has done a decent job at making them sound better than you would expect, and now it looks like the company is exploring more ideas.

Google has been preparing for the upcoming fall semester by adding new features to Classroom over the past couple of months. The features are available on the Acer Chromebook Tab 10 as well which is the first tablet to be powered by Google’s web-based Chrome OS. The company has now announced that it’s adding support for its ARCore augmented reality platform to the tablet.

Firefox has launched a new browser extension as an experiment. Called Advance, the extension will be able to provide personalized recommendations for websites and articles based on the user’s recent browsing history. The idea here is that the extension will surface additional content that the user may find relevant and thus make it easier for them to come across new content that they might appreciate.

As companies go through various iterations of their apps, naturally it means an evolution in terms of design and features, and it also means that eventually older versions will stop being supported. Such was the case with Microsoft’s Skype 7.0 (also known as Skype Classic) in which there were plans to stop supporting it.

Apple already provides a utility to make it easier for Windows users to ditch their platform and jump over to macOS. The company has now decided to more this feature more powerful. It’s going to ship an improved data migration tool with the upcoming macOS Mojave release so that Windows PC owners and transfer more data from their machines to their new Mac quickly and easily.

If you’re on the market for some serious performance and money is no object then consider AMD’s bonkers 32-core, 64-thread Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX chip which the company unveiled back in June. The chip is now available for pre-order. It’s based on AMD’s 12nm Zen+ core architecture and is fully compatible with existing X399 AMD motherboards.

Unlike Apple’s iPhones, the design evolution of the iPad has been more subtle where the changes made weren’t too drastic over the years. However given the direction that the iPhone seems to be headed at in terms of design, it wouldn’t be surprising if the iPad were to head that way as well.

Windows 10 actually makes it easy to find your MAC address. But, depending on what you want to do with the physical address or MAC address, there can be two different methods to approach.

Google Chrome’s black screen varies with your Windows build number or version (Windows 7/8), and the browser version. The black screen is normally encountered by users with older builds of Chrome running on early Windows 10 builds. And, if you bump into it with the latest software installed, you should try the solutions we recommend in this article.