I used Microsoft's free Windows 11 battery health tool to diagnose my PC - and got helpful results

Windows 11 has a built-in report that provides insight into your laptop's battery status, including whether a replacement is actually needed.
PBS

Fact-checking Trump's claims after U.S. strike on Venezuela and capture of Maduro

This article originally appeared on Politifact. President Donald Trump said a U.S. military assault succeeded in capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, both facing U ...
MUO on MSN

I didn’t know Windows kept a reliability score for my PC

The simplest way is to use Windows search. Open the Start menu, type reliability, and click the View reliability history option. Windows will open the Reliability Monitor, and after a second or two, ...
PCGamesN

26 years later, this legendary computer speaker system is finally getting an update

Computer speakers are one of those PC products that see very slow development, with products sometimes hanging around for decades. There's hardly a finer example of that than the Klipsch ProMedia. The ...
Wall Street Journal

The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived

Quantinuum, the $10 billion firm that’s become one of the biggest players in quantum computing, unveiled its latest computer Wednesday. The Helios machine represents an important leap in terms of ...
The Conversation

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

Doug Jacobson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
New Scientist

Google says its quantum computer can reveal the structure of molecules

Researchers at Google Quantum AI have used their Willow quantum computer to help interpret data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a mainstay of chemistry and biology research. The ...
Network World

IBM unveils advanced quantum computer in Spain

The Basque Government and IBM unveiled the first IBM Quantum System Two in Europe at the IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computational Center in San Sebastián, Spain. Credit: IBM. El ordenador Quantum System Two ...
E&E

Fact-checking Chris Wright on energy

The Energy secretary’s talking points are often heavy on data. Here’s what those numbers say. There’s no clean energy revolution afoot, and climate change isn’t an existential crisis. You’re just ...
NPR

United Airlines flights grounded nationwide because of computer problems

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of United Airlines flights were disrupted on Wednesday evening as the carrier grappled with a major computer system outage. "The underlying technology issue has been resolved, ...
Computer Weekly

Fujitsu outage crashes Post Office Horizon system

Post Office branches were unable to do business for hours today following a major outage at a Fujitsu datacentre. The nationwide outage meant subpostmasters were unable to use the Horizon computer ...