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PC Pro

Nov 01 2021
Magazine

The UK’s biggest selling PC monthly magazine, and your source of professional IT news, reviews and tests. Combining in–depth industry comment and analysis with rigorous product testing.

HIGHLIGHTS THIS MONTH • Full contents overleaf

Bye bye data: when the awful truth syncs in

CONTRIBUTORS

PC Pro

Windows heads into the cloud • After the success of Azure and Office 365, will Windows 365 be the new normal for Microsoft’s operating system?

Twitter puts bounty on spotting algorithmic bias • To make sure instances of bias don’t recur, Twitter offered cash rewards to those identifying bugs

Join the Restart Party

Will Britain’s “right to repair” law fix anything? • A new law is designed to make it easier to mend broken tech, but experts say it doesn’t go far enough. James O’Malley fixes his attention to it

The A-List • The best products on the market, as picked by our editors

Rendered speechless by deepfake speech • Bad news for voice actors: if the tech firms have their way, this decade’s documentaries and films will be voiced by AI

Physical cash should never be obsolete • Paying with a wave of a phone or card is convenient, but Covid-19 won’t wipe out cash payments

The secret security firm that you pay for • Why won’t the Home Office reveal more about the mysterious Vivace? Unlike the Ministry of Defence, if I could tell you I would

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Readers’ comments • Your views and feedback from email and the web

Readers’ poll • Windows 11 will be arriving soon – see our main feature on p26 for advice on how to prepare – but will PC Pro’s readers be upgrading?

Get ready for Windows 11 • Barry Collins shows how to prepare your PC for the first new version of Windows in five years

THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER • The industry-creating IBM Personal Computer 5150 turns 40 inOctober. Tomark the occasion, Tim Danton reveals the story of its birth–and destroys one long-running myth in the process

HOW TO TRACK ANYTHING • Whether you’ve lost your phone, your laptop or your pets, technology can find out where the yare. Nik Rawlinson goes in search of tracking solutions

8 things you never knew about PCI EXPRESS • To most of us, PCI Express just means that big old slot where your graphics card sits. Darien Graham-Smith discovers that this ingenious interconnect has hidden depths

Norton 360 Premium 2021 • Two years of protection for up to ten family devices for just £24.99, saving 86% on the RRP

Samsung GalaxyZ Fold3 5G • It’s third time lucky for the Fold, with a more durable design and thoroughly likeable form factor

How we test

What our awards mean

Lenovo Yoga AIO 7 (27in AMD) • Ano-bar PC that exudes the right places quite perfect

MSI Modern AM241P 11M • This compact all-in-one has decent performance and good connectivity, but important caveat apply

MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo • A powerful ultraportable with a superb screen and even better battery life – and it flips for good measure

Samsung Galaxy Book Go • A budget 14in Windows laptop with a Snapdragon CPU, a 4G modem and a few too many flaws

HP Pavilion 14 (2021) • A delightful notebook for a surprisingly low price: only the lacklustre display gives away its budget

Asus Chromebox 4 • Capable, affordable and packed with features, butit falls short of mini PC perfection

Epson EcoTank ET-8550 • A versatile six-colour A3 ink tank printer that prints photos well and is good value – if you print in volume

Asus TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A • One of the new wave of HDMI 2.1 gaming monitors, there’s much to like here – apart from the price

Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 • A super...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 132 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Nov 01 2021

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: September 9, 2021

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OverDrive Magazine

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Tech & Gaming

Languages

English

The UK’s biggest selling PC monthly magazine, and your source of professional IT news, reviews and tests. Combining in–depth industry comment and analysis with rigorous product testing.

HIGHLIGHTS THIS MONTH • Full contents overleaf

Bye bye data: when the awful truth syncs in

CONTRIBUTORS

PC Pro

Windows heads into the cloud • After the success of Azure and Office 365, will Windows 365 be the new normal for Microsoft’s operating system?

Twitter puts bounty on spotting algorithmic bias • To make sure instances of bias don’t recur, Twitter offered cash rewards to those identifying bugs

Join the Restart Party

Will Britain’s “right to repair” law fix anything? • A new law is designed to make it easier to mend broken tech, but experts say it doesn’t go far enough. James O’Malley fixes his attention to it

The A-List • The best products on the market, as picked by our editors

Rendered speechless by deepfake speech • Bad news for voice actors: if the tech firms have their way, this decade’s documentaries and films will be voiced by AI

Physical cash should never be obsolete • Paying with a wave of a phone or card is convenient, but Covid-19 won’t wipe out cash payments

The secret security firm that you pay for • Why won’t the Home Office reveal more about the mysterious Vivace? Unlike the Ministry of Defence, if I could tell you I would

Star letter

Readers’ comments • Your views and feedback from email and the web

Readers’ poll • Windows 11 will be arriving soon – see our main feature on p26 for advice on how to prepare – but will PC Pro’s readers be upgrading?

Get ready for Windows 11 • Barry Collins shows how to prepare your PC for the first new version of Windows in five years

THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER • The industry-creating IBM Personal Computer 5150 turns 40 inOctober. Tomark the occasion, Tim Danton reveals the story of its birth–and destroys one long-running myth in the process

HOW TO TRACK ANYTHING • Whether you’ve lost your phone, your laptop or your pets, technology can find out where the yare. Nik Rawlinson goes in search of tracking solutions

8 things you never knew about PCI EXPRESS • To most of us, PCI Express just means that big old slot where your graphics card sits. Darien Graham-Smith discovers that this ingenious interconnect has hidden depths

Norton 360 Premium 2021 • Two years of protection for up to ten family devices for just £24.99, saving 86% on the RRP

Samsung GalaxyZ Fold3 5G • It’s third time lucky for the Fold, with a more durable design and thoroughly likeable form factor

How we test

What our awards mean

Lenovo Yoga AIO 7 (27in AMD) • Ano-bar PC that exudes the right places quite perfect

MSI Modern AM241P 11M • This compact all-in-one has decent performance and good connectivity, but important caveat apply

MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo • A powerful ultraportable with a superb screen and even better battery life – and it flips for good measure

Samsung Galaxy Book Go • A budget 14in Windows laptop with a Snapdragon CPU, a 4G modem and a few too many flaws

HP Pavilion 14 (2021) • A delightful notebook for a surprisingly low price: only the lacklustre display gives away its budget

Asus Chromebox 4 • Capable, affordable and packed with features, butit falls short of mini PC perfection

Epson EcoTank ET-8550 • A versatile six-colour A3 ink tank printer that prints photos well and is good value – if you print in volume

Asus TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A • One of the new wave of HDMI 2.1 gaming monitors, there’s much to like here – apart from the price

Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 • A super...


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