Rolling Stone Essentials 2026 is our roundup of the best tech gear, lifestyle brands and products of the year, based on editor testing and reviews.

The 24GB of DDR5 RAM gives you serious multitasking headroom that most budget laptops can’t match: You can run virtual ...

Netflix makes it easy to watch your favorite shows and movies, even when you don't have a stable internet connection.

If you're upgrading to Windows 11, Microsoft says the minimum requirements are 4GB of RAM, but I'd still recommend 16GB as the baseline standard. If you have more than that, even better, but for most ...

Federighi, Apple’s software chief, is the face of macOS and iOS, and one of the company’s most public figures thanks to his ...

As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative ...

UPDF is an intuitive, fast, efficient program for Windows, macOS, iOS & Android that gives you total power over PDFs, and ...

AI is no longer about demos and dev days. It’s a line on the income statement – and an even bigger one on the capex schedule.

Third-party developers are getting into the act, too. Adobe's most important creative apps, like Photoshop and Lightroom, are available in Arm-native versions. There are beta x86 versions for After ...

Affinity, from Canva, is a great alternative to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom. Learn how to use Affinity ...

Chances are, you're not making the switch to Windows 11 because you're excited about the new OS. Here are some apps that make ...