Why it matters: Laptop sales have gone through the roof, setting a new ten-year growth record. This is according to data compiled by Canalys, which highlights that the emerging trend is primarily driven by a change in learning and working dynamics.

More people are working from home due to coronavirus social distancing measures, thereby increasing laptop sales. As a result, major PC purveyors such as HP,

We’ve all been hit with the realization that our once mighty and honorable desktop has seen better days. Whether your gaming machine is no longer able to deliver respectable frame rates in your favorite titles, encoding jobs are taking far longer than they should and costing you money, or you’ve just noticing a general slowdown when trying to be productive, it's possibly time you consider a major overhaul in order to remedy those shortcomings.

This doesn’t necessarily mean a full-on new PC build is the

In a nutshell: Razer is releasing two premium PC cases, an ATX model for $200, and a Mini-ITX model for $180. The standout feature is the enormous tempered glass doors that flank both sides of the cases, and open from a swiveling mount at the rear. And an excess of Razer's special RGB, of course.

Although Razer's never officially released a case to market, it is perhaps a little disingenuous to call these Razer's first-ever

The big picture: Alibaba’s share price has climbed by 42 percent this year, bringing its valuation to $800 billion. The growth has boosted investor confidence in the company, which is projected to climb to even greater heights in the mid to long term. With over 750 million users in China, will it be able to sustain this growth rate?

Much of Alibaba's success can be attributed to the flexible nature of its core business model. Compared to major US e-commerce

Forward-looking: HTTP/3 over QUIC is the replacement for the only thing that hasn’t changed on the web in the last thirty years; TCP (transmission control protocol). QUIC uses UDP (user datagram protocol) instead of TCP and is thus simpler and faster.

QUIC was invented by Jim Roskind in 2012. It’s been under active development at Google since its announcement in 2013, and over the last couple of years Google has implemented it into Chrome and other

What just happened? It’s official – Amazon’s Crucible, the free-to-play multiplayer shooter that launched in May following years of development, has been cancelled after poor reviews, a near absence of players, and a return to closed beta.

Crucible launched on Steam back in May and promised users a team-based, third-person, sci-fi shooter which would be free-to-play. At face value, Crucible appeared to be interesting, with its diverse environments and hero-

Something to look forward to: The iPhone 12 launch event is right around the corner, and if recent leaks are to be believed, there will be four different iPhone models ranging from $649 to $1099, all with 5G connectivity, more powerful internals, a refreshed design, and new accessories. A new "mini" model will arrive and come as a