There’s hope for the market yet: PC sales boom before tariff hammer comes down and HP expects 90% of its US PCs will be made outside of China by the end of the year

Serial PC hardware market watchers and soothsayers Canalys has dumped its latest set of PC hardware sales data. And the raw numbers are good, with total PC sales up by nearly 10% for the first quarter of a 2025 compared to the same period last year. But with Trump’s China tariffs escalating by the minute,…

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The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings

Just listen to that short clip above. Go on, I’ll wait. That, my friends, is the sound that began some of my early computing experiences, when this hardware writer was a mere whelp dipping his toes into the wonderful world of personal computing. Whaddaya mean you don’t recognise it? It’s the Windows 95 start-up sound,…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, April 11

Don’t worry if you’re feeling a bit stumped by Friday’s Wordle, because we’ve got everything you need to win right here. Start with our general tips and see how you go, knowing our clue for the April 11 (1392) puzzle’s here to help if you need it. Need more? You’ve got it. The answer to…

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Developer of ‘non-consensual sex’ game removes it from Steam entirely after it’s banned in the UK, Canada, and Australia: ‘We don’t intend to fight the whole world’

Valve stopped Steam sales of adult game No Mercy in the UK this week following a complaint from UK technology secretary Peter Kyle, who insisted that the “deeply worrying” game be removed due to its extreme content, as reported by news outlet LBC. No Mercy includes “incest,” “blackmail,” and “unavoidable non-consensual sex,” according to the…

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