Not everyone gets a stimulus payment at the same time. Sarah Tew/CNET If a second stimulus check is finally approved, the IRS may once again use a system of priority groups to issue payments to eligible people, which is what happened after the first stimulus payment was authorized by the CARES... Read more

In context: Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox Series X and S consoles are just around the corner now. When they launch in a few shorts weeks, thousands of gamers will be entering the new Xbox ecosystem. There will be a totally new UI to get used to and a host of... Read more

Stimulus checks for dependents were rife with issues, with some parents receiving no payment and other parents each getting $500 for the same child. Angela Lang/CNET While a second stimulus check is being bandied around, awaiting resolution, you may still have questions about the finer points of the first direct payment,... Read more

Following up to last week’s load time battle feature, we tested several storage drives ranging from your run-of-the-mill hard drive, up to the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs you can buy in the market. The idea was to see how storage performance affected game loading times and if super-fast PCIe... Read more

Stimulus checks for dependents were rife with issues, with some parents receiving no payment and other parents each getting $500 for the same child. Angela Lang/CNET While a second stimulus check is still being bandied around, awaiting resolution, you may still have questions about the finer points of the first... Read more

Today we’re completing our testing of AMD’s Ryzen Mobile 4000 APUs with a look at the Ryzen 7 4700U and Ryzen 5 4500U, two mainstream chips in the series that have become available in a wider range of laptops in the past few weeks. Testing all of AMD’s Zen... Read more

The MagSafe is one of the quietly coolest features on the new iPhone 12.  Apple Apple’s MagSafe, which allows you to magnetically snap on attachments, may be the new feature in the iPhone 12 family that provides you with the most immediate impact. And that’s knowing that the company — and... Read more

The big picture: JavaScript continues to be the most popular programming language amongst developers, according to the findings of a recent survey which included over 17,000 responses from developers in 159 countries. The increasing popularity of Python saw it gain second-place for Q3 2020, while the third most popular... Read more

Angela Lang/CNET Researchers at a major US university are in a face-off with Facebook over a project they launched to surface information about political ads on the social network. The company sent a letter last week to researchers behind the NYU Ad Observatory platform, part of New York University’s... Read more