PC Magazine - USA (2019-06)

GOOGLE MAPS AR If you own a Pixel phone, you can now enjoy AR-powered walking directions on Google Maps, which will allow you to ...

MORE CONTROL OVER YOUR DATA Google servers house a lot of your personal information, which is used to serve up targeted ads and ...

M a x E d d y A mong other things, I’m a VPN reviewer for PCMag, and that means I spend a lot of time trying to explain to peopl ...

operation. Commentators hold up one VPN review site as an example of rectitude; others say the same site is secretly run by a VP ...

we be sure the company isn’t selling our data or LQMHFWLQJDGVLQWRRXUZHEWUḊF"(YHQFKHFNLQJ that a given VPN product is en ...

buy VPNs and that everything else is just window-dressing to give them an air of legitimacy. Second, the global rise of far-righ ...

As mentioned above, PCMag’s parent company j2 Global recently established a connection to the VPN market with the purchase of ,3 ...

TRUST BUT VERIFY Consumer journalism faces this problem all the time. Only the vendor knows what its processes really are unless ...

G aming is moving to the cloud, at least according to Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The tech giants are going in hard with gamin ...

In that regard, I root for cloud gaming, because VRPHRILWVEHQH¿WVDVZLWKDQ\RWKHUWHFKQRORJ\ could spill over into unfor ...

concerned about than latency (though that is important!) since this is an area outside of Apple, Google, and Microsoft’s control ...

re-upping the Ferrari license, the gaming community often puts in the work and care to ensure that others can play the game in t ...

A new breed of “invisible” malware, is on the march, and if it strikes your servers, there may not be much you can do about it. ...

of methods to determine when an attacker is at work. “The development of EDR [software] makes the black hat respond, and create ...

than most and can sometimes detect when PDOZDUHLVDWWDFNLQJWKH%,26RU¿UPZDUH on a machine. Chris Bates,Global Director of P ...

“This is a technology where, if there’s some sort of injection of malicious code, then the BIOS can respond,” explained Stephani ...

warfare, according to Knight. It won’t stay the purview of state-sponsored actors forever. STEPS TO TAKE So with the future this ...

EDITOCHOICERS’ Virtual reality has a Goldilocks problem. On one side, you have tethered headsets with all the processing power a ...

But now there’s the Oculus Quest, a standalone VR headset that embodies the best of both worlds. It doesn’t require a separate c ...

Like Windows Mixed Reality headsets and the Rift S, the Oculus Quest has four cameras arranged on its front edges. These let the ...