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Computers

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10% of desktop PCs now run Windows 8

Pete Pachal Microsoft Windows 8 is slowly but steadily spreading to more of the world's PCs, though its predecessor Windows 7 is still the version of choice for most users.

Computers

Chromebook sales up sharply in 2013

Chromebook Pixel laptop

Salvador Rodriguez While Apple and Microsoft's share of laptops sold in the US decreased in 2013, Google dramatically increased its portion of sales.

Computers

Brain-like computers are learning from experience

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John Markoff Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.

Computers

Apple Mac Pro review: a sleek computer with power inside

Mac Pro

Molly Wood The Mac Pro is daring, extravagant and elite - or maybe it's just for the elite.

Review

Google Chromebooks do the simple things well

Chromebook

Paddy Wood Google's Chromebooks are no-frills laptops. They're light, simple, fast and cheap.

Privacy

Researchers activate Apple iSight webcams without warning light

iSight

Ashkan Soltani, Timothy B. Lee If a laptop has a built-in camera, then someone can access it to spy on the user at any time, and the user would never know.

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Computers

LG unveils Chromebase, an all-in-one Google Chrome OS desktop PC

LG Chromebase

Salvador Rodriguez The new LG Chromebase is the first Chrome OS desktop PC with a built-in monitor.

Computers

New menu for custom-built PC connoisseurs

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BLEEDING EDGE Building your own PC has become even better value, as specialised components filter down to the mainstream.

Computers

Windows 8 a certifiable flop

Windows 8

Will Oremus "You'll Hate Windows 8," my former colleague Farhad Manjoo predicted last June. He was right.

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Google

Overheating reports suspend HP, Google Chromebook 11 sales

Chromebook 11.

Aaron Ricadela and Brian Womack Google and HP halt sales of the Chromebook 11 laptop after some users reported overheating power supplies.

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Computers

Limelight for Apple's MacBook Pro

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MACMAN As iPads continue their invasion, desktop PC sales are assuming the trajectory of a brick.

Computers

Dell offers to fix laptops that smell like cat pee

Dell cat

Salvador Rodriguez Everyone knows the internet is all about cats, but Dell may have taken that too literally with one of its new computers.

Computers

Apple iPad Air, OS X Mavericks review

Because the Air is considerably lighter than its predecessors, we're more comfortable in bed; always a good thing.

MACMAN Ten days into my marriage with the iPad Air, the euphoria of the honeymoon remains.

Computers

Asus Transformer Trio: some heavy hardware

The Asus Transformer Book Trio can change between a laptop, a tablet and a desktop PC.

KATIE CINCOTTA Asus's new Transformer Book Trio can change between a laptop, a tablet and a desktop PC.

Computers

Apple Mavericks OS X: top 10 features to try

Apple emoji

Salvador Rodriguez Even though Apple's new Mavericks OS X - the latest version of its operating system for Macbook laptops and Mac desktop computes - is seen as an evolutionary upgrade, there are a few cool new features you'll want to try.

Computers

Windows 8.1 update offers desktop choice

Windows 8.1: Critics heard.

ADAM TURNER Microsoft has curbed some of its more radical changes with the free Windows 8.1 update.

Computers

Microsoft releases Windows 8.1, a year in the making

Windows 8.1

Ryan Nakashima Microsoft is releasing its long-awaited Windows 8.1 upgrade as a free download starting Thursday night.

Gadgets

Google unveils new HP Chromebook 11

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Anick Jesdanun Google's new plastic Chromebook is a cheap gateway into its cloud services that borrows features from higher-end models.

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