Renowned U.K. game developer David Braben set his game programming aside for a short while to create an amazingly affordable personal computer that he hopes will prompt an overhaul of computer ...

A Hong Kong-based technology manufacturer, USBKill.com, has taken data security to the “Mission Impossible” extreme by creating a USB stick that uses an electrical discharge to fry an unauthorized ...

Chinese device maker MeegoPad’s latest tiny computer is a PC stick with an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 quad-core processor, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage, making it one of the more powerful systems in its ...

The ol’booby-trapped-USB-trick just got a huge upgrade that does more than infect your computer with malevolent viruses; instead, it delivers a negative 220-volt electric surge that fries your ...

Thanks in large part to the Raspberry Pi, cheap little computers continue to be all the rage. Most of the time, though, these little computers aren't products of the big name hardware manufacturers.

A Russian security researcher known as “Dark Purple” has created a USB stick that contains an unusual payload. It doesn’t install malware or exploit a zero-day vulnerability. Instead, the customised ...

A computer stick is a single-board, palm-sized computer that resembles a media streaming stick (such as the Amazon Fire TV Stick or Roku Streaming Stick). They are sometimes referred to as compute ...

Beelink’s new stick computer based on Intel’s Compute Stick configuration is now on sale through the Stick PC Store for $293. Update: The Stick PC Store has stopped selling the device since it ships ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Every Windows PC usually starts from the built-in hard drive, as the term “Windows PC” implies. This is because the Microsoft operating system is not anchored in or with the hardware, but is installed ...