In the past couple of days, Microsoft has published roundups of all the new features it added to Excel and Teams in January 2025. Today, as we head towards the end of the month, it has done the same for Microsoft 365 Copilot, just like it does every month. This time around, there are nine new capabilities in total: three for admins and six for end users.

If you're looking for a compact laptop that has plenty of power under the hood, we recommend going with the Surface Laptop. The laptop offers a modern design and features Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processor. Furthermore, it can now be had for less, with a $200 discount that drops it down to the lowest price we've seen at Best Buy.

Well, it's been one turbulent week in tech, hasn't it? In case you haven't heard of DeepSeek, it's an LLM from China that has been around for a little while, but hit the public eye last Sunday. What followed was a whirlwind of activity: shareholders panicking and removing $1 trillion in stocks from the US AI and power market (about $600 billion of which was Nvidia stock), then DeepSeek was accused of training off ChatGPT's data, and then Microsoft added it as a supported model. All in a week! Incredible.

So, how have you been enjoying Windows 11 24H2? Released back at the start of October 2024, the 24H2 build has had its ups and downs. On the plus side, it seemed to make Windows 11 run even better on older hardware; on the other, it came with its own share of bugs and issues.

Nvidia announced the Blackwell-powered RTX 50 series of graphics cards at CES 2025. This new generation of GPUs brings numerous benefits, including the latest iteration of DLSS (with multi-frame generation), improved CUDA and Tensor cores, more advanced memory, and beefier RT cores. Nvidia introduced Blackwell as an architecture for generational AI and the company's entire CES presentation was about AI. You'd be forgiven for believing Nvidia was an AI-only company if you're new to the GPU space. The RTX 5080 is a mid-range GPU, sitting below the flagship (and incredibly expensive) RTX 5090. But how does it compare to the outgoing RTX 4080?

Over the last few weeks, I've been busy consuming all kinds of reactions and opinions about Nvidia's new RTX 50 series cards and their heavy reliance on Multi Frame Generation (MFG). From being uninterested to passionately opposed to these "fake frames," gamers haven't shied away from making their feelings known. I think I'm finally ready to share my own opinion on the entire thing.

PC gaming is great, but not everyone has a rig that can play the latest and greatest games. However, just because you can't run Cyberpunk 2077 on max settings doesn't mean you need to sit out. There are plenty of amazing games out there that can run on a weak PC, and they're well worth your time. As such, here are a few games you can play on a potato that are both rated "overwhelmingly positive" on Steam and titles that I've played extensively enough to form a personal opinion about.

Managing a handful of containers isn’t a big deal when you’re just starting out. But once your experimentation server is packed with virtual machines and containers, it gets hard to keep track of the uptime of all your services. That’s before you include the extra hardware, network devices, and firewalls you’d want to run 24/7 on your home lab.

Nvidia's DLSS 4 is here, promising better AI-powered upscaling, ray reconstruction, and even more AI-generated frames. It still has some controversial edges, but that's been true for the technology since the first version came out in 2018. The quality of the features shows that it's here to stay. What's more, as when it first came out, the latest version of DLSS won't fully have an impact until some point in the future, as game developers get to grips with optimizing for the tech. Until that point, we can still get a view of what the future of gaming holds for the best GPUs, at least from Nvidia's perspective.

We love seeing different ways people find to display their favorite games. A few months ago, we saw someone playing Doom on a volumetric display, which gave it a cool hologram-like look. Now, someone has constructed something a little easier to build with a 9x9x9 cube of LEDs that you can game on.

Remote work has become permanent for many professionals, and it's not going anywhere. However, working remotely comes with many challenges, especially when it comes to productivity. Fortunately, Windows 11 and 10 come with some amazing settings and built-in features that will keep you away from distractions and make you more productive.

Meanwhile, YouTube is allowing Dr Disrespect to remonetize his account.Midnight Society, the game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect (real name Herschel “Guy” Beahm) has shut down, killing the first-person shooter title it was developing. The studio made “significant” layoffs in September after terminating its relationship with the controversial streamer in June due to “inappropriate” messages he exchanged with a minor. YouTube, which also took action against Beahm in June by demonetizing his account, has now reinstated the streamer’s ability to make money on the platform. The decision was made after “careful review of the channel’s recent activity,” according to a statement YouTube provided to Kotaku. “If there are further violations, we’ll take appropriate action.”Midnight Society was co-founded in 2021 by Beahm, former Call of Duty creative strategist Robert Bowling, and former 343 Industries lead sandbox designer Quinn Delhoyo.“We are actively seeking other game studios that would be interested in offering employment opportunities to our talented team members,” Midnight Society said in its shutdown announcement on X. “We express our sincere gratitude to each and every one of our community members and deeply sorry we were unable to reach our ultimate goal.”pic.twitter.com/26DK9pWCaR— Midnight Society (@12am) January 30, 2025The “ultimate goal” mentioned in Midnight Society’s departing message was Deadrop — a free-to-play vertical extraction shooter that was initially funded by selling NFTs at the height of the blockchain gaming frenzy. Deadrop was expected to release in 2024, and was the only game being developed by Midnight Society.