Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

We test dozens of laptops every year here at ZDNET: from the latest MacBooks to the best Windows PCs, aiming for a dual approach. On one hand, we run a series of benchmarking programs to gather ...

How do you test the latest Minecraft features? These snapshots are the very first iteration of Minecraft updates and are a way for Mojang to test out bug fixes, technical changes, and even new blocks, ...

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High-yield savings accounts are generally recommended as a vehicle to stash your savings, including your emergency fund. And while some checking accounts, like the Ally Bank Spending Account or the ...

In November 2022, Intelligencer published this story about MIT’s decision to require applicants to submit SAT and ACT scores again, two years after nearly every elite college in the country made test ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for. Solar prominences and their associated ...

The last total solar eclipse happened on April 8, 2024, covering areas of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. Since then, the world has been treated to two partial solar eclipses, one March 29, 2025, and the ...

If it feels like everyone is getting the flu, you're not imagining it. This is shaping up to be another severe flu season. That's why it's important to take advantage of every tool we have to keep the ...

Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...