computing articles published May 17, 2026
May 17 articles
- Your next free Google account might only come with 5GB of storage
- 4 Laptops With The Best Battery Life In 2026
- Minisforum’s affordable M2 mini PC arrives carrying serious AI ambitions
- 4 useful Excel projects beginners can finish in under an hour
- Kioxia’s latest PCIe 5.0 SSD delivers massive speed gains
- Your old phone is a $300 Wi-Fi diagnostic tool in disguise
- China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores
- Acasis FlowCore Series pushes Thunderbolt 5 storage into silent RAID enclosures
- 4 Ways To Transform Your Old Monitors With A Raspberry Pi
- Razer’s new Blade 18 gets Arrow Lake refresh and a modest $3,999.99 starting price
- 6 Windows services I disabled to fix my sluggish PC
- Powerline adapters solve Ethernet's biggest problem for $60
- Windows 11 will clean up its own driver mess so you don’t have to
- Windows 11 looks and runs better without transparency or animations—here's how to disable both
- Minisforum launches SSD-only NAS lineup with fast networking
- Surface is being left behind while Xbox and Windows 11 get a second life
- Framework is raising the price of RAM and storage modules, again
- Xiaomi Pad 8 Pro Review: The Android iPad
- How to use Excel tables to automate formulas and prevent broken ranges
- The forgotten PC ports that completely embarrass modern USB
- Why Have Laptop Prices Spiked This Year? The Great RAM Crunch Explained
- "The lightest laptop I've ever used": Lenovo's Aura Edition laptop offers huge battery life, but there's a downside
- Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air
- AMD brings Zen 5 and 3D V-Cache to Ryzen Pro 9000 series workstation chips
- 4 game-changing Excel tools you won't find on the ribbon
- Do Ethernet Splitters Reduce Network Speed?
- I tried ditching my laptop for a more futuristic setup - and found 5 surprising alternatives
- Get Windows 11 Pro for $10 and make your older PC feel faster again
- Is your Mac slowing down? Try these 3 monthly resets before you give up
- Microsoft’s data center would require shutting down half of Kenya’s electricity supply
