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6 days ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
Microsoft has been bringing a number of new features to the Outlook email app lately. Just the other day, the tech giant announced that you’ll soon be able to switch freely between the new and classic Outlook apps, and now they’ve announced that soon you won’t need to be connected to the internet to manage your Outlook calendar.
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6 days ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
Call it a first-world problem if you want, but we’ve all been there: listening to our favorite songs so many times on repeat that we actually get sick of them, despite how much we once enjoyed them. Spotify is working on a solution to this very problem. The music streaming service announced yesterday that it has started testing a new feature that you can use when a song is played too often. It’s a 30-day snooze that temporarily removes the song in question from your recommended Spotify playlists.
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2 weeks ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
Earlier this month, we heard rumblings that Google had plans to launch a more child-friendly version of its AI chatbot Gemini, and now 9to5Google reports that the tech giant has confirmed in an email to parents that the kids’ version of Gemini is officially in the works. Children under the age of 13 will be able to start using Gemini in the coming months via a supervised account, and parents will be able to manage their children’s usage via Google’s Family Link app.
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2 weeks ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
Update on April 25, 2025: As of yesterday, Microsoft has confirmed the issue and implemented a fix, but that fix won’t actually roll out until “early May” (Beta Channel), “mid May” (Current Channel Preview), or “late May” (Current Channel). If you absolutely can’t wait that long for the update, you can revert to version 2405 of classic Outlook, but you’ll be giving up several important security fixes.
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2 weeks ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that the Xbox app has been made available on select LG smart TVs. Through the Xbox app, you can take advantage of Xbox Cloud Gaming, which lets you stream hundreds of Xbox games without needing an Xbox console. All you need to stream Xbox games on your LG smart TV is an Xbox controller with Bluetooth support, an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, and an LG smart TV that supports the Xbox app.
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3 weeks ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
Tired of having to switch between tabs when you have a YouTube video playing in one while working on something else (or reading an article, or browsing your emails, or chatting on Messenger, etc.) in another? An upcoming Chrome update may have the solution for you. Leopeva64 tweeted (spotted by XDA Developers) that Chrome is testing a new automatic picture-in-picture mode with YouTube videos.
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3 weeks ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
The past year has been anything but positive for tech giant Intel. The company has suffered nightmarish processor woes, been eliminated from the dedicated graphics card market, and, to add insult to injury, laid off 15,000 employees last year. Unfortunately, those layoffs weren’t the end of it and more appear to be in store for the company. Bloomberg reports that Intel plans to lay off another 21,000 employees, or about 20 percent of its entire workforce.
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3 weeks ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
With the end of Windows 10 support fast approaching, Microsoft has been stepping up efforts to entice Windows 10 users to make the switch to Windows 11—even if it means ditching your current PC and buying a new one that’s capable of running the newer operating system. The company’s latest attempt comes from earlier this month, in the form of a newly published page extolling the virtues of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and how it makes Windows 11 better and more secure than its predecessor.
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4 weeks ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
If you’re still using Microsoft’s classic Outlook app for your emailing needs, you may have noticed that your computer hardware behaves a bit strangely when using the app—most notably when typing. Earlier this week, Microsoft issued a warning and confirmed that the classic Outlook app can cause your computer’s CPU usage to skyrocket. Processor usage can spike by 30 to 50 percent when writing an email, and also increase your computer’s power consumption.
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1 month ago | 
pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee
If you use Google Chrome on your mobile phone, or if you have a modern Android phone, then you’ve probably stumbled across the Discover feed at some point. The Discover feed is available on Chrome’s mobile New Tab page, in the Google app, and on the home screen (by swiping right). Soon, it’ll also be available on desktop PCs.Google Discover is a personalized recommendation engine that shows you articles from around the web that Google thinks you’d be interested in.
