Hardware is the physical part of a computer system, while software is all data-based Computer hardware refers to the physical ...

Laptops quietly monitor their own health, but most people never tap into the tools that can warn of trouble long before a crash or data loss. Built-in hardware diagnostics sit below the operating ...

I review a lot of laptops here at PCWorld, and I’m always surprised when I unbox one without biometric hardware. Fingerprint readers and infrared (IR) cameras for facial recognition are both great—and ...