At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Highly automated and effective data removal Extremely easy to use Transparent removal tracking and progress Strong privacy standards Cons Verification of data removals is limited Ultimate plans are expensive Our Verdict Incogni’s automated data removal service expertly leverages privacy laws to compel data brokers to delete your personal information across hundreds of sites. The service is easy to use, secure, and effective at large-scale data deletion, though users must extend some level of faith in its confirmation process and pay a premium for the full feature set. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today 1 month$15.98/month12 months$95 ($7.99.mo)See all plans & pricing at Incogni Incogni in brief: Data removal sites: 420+, plus an additional 2,000+ custom removals Data removed information: Yes, for every site Identity monitoring: No Free version available: No Cost: $15.98 per month, or $95 for one year Most people are unaware of just how much of their data is out on the web available for anyone to buy and sell. Most of this is done by data-aggregator and data-broker websites which hoover up as much info as possible about as many people as possible. They then match this data to each individual to create personal profiles that are then packaged and sold online. There are so many of these data-broker sites now that it’s nearly impossible to remove your data from each on your own. As a result, a number of personal data-removal services have cropped up to help customers with this process. Incogni, from the famous VPN Surfshark, is probably the most famous and popular data-removal service—at the time of this writing it has processed over 245 million removal requests It makes the entire process of removing your data from these sites easy and effective. All requests are automated and the service even continually sends new requests to make sure your data never reappears in the future. What are Incogni’s features and services? Incogni is a personal data-removal service that delivers in an easy and automated format. Using its database of more than 420 data-broker websites, it sends removal requests on your behalf and requests that your data be added to suppression lists so it doesn’t reappear, and follows up every 60 to 90 days for as long as you’re subscribed. The service takes advantage of privacy laws in both the U.S. and EU to force data brokers into compliance. It leverages these legal frameworks in a really clever way too—the removal of your personal data is not only a request, but actually a compulsory legal requirement. All of the removal requests and their progress can be found under the Dashboard in your Incogni account on its website. Each request is shown as “In progress” or “Completed” based on whether the data broker has processed and confirmed the removal. Incogni shows detailed information relating to each removal request including when it was processed and completed, plus what data was removed. Sam Singleton You can click on the drop-down next to each request to see more detailed information including the data removed and a summary of the data-broker site itself. Each request comes with a unique ID and shows the last time it was updated and the average resolution time for the request as well. Incogni will follow-up with additional removal requests periodically to ensure your data doesn’t reappear on that site in the future. If you opt for the Ultimate or Family Ultimate plans, you’ll also gain access to Incogni’s Custom Removals feature. With this tool you can manually add your own data broker or public search sites not covered by the service’s automatic removals. When I reached out to Incogni about this tool, a representative assured me that each individual Custom Removal request is personally handled by an Incogni agent. As far as I know, there is no other service on the market that gives its customers the same individualized attention. That alone should be applauded. Incogni’s Custom removals are easy to set up and each request receives individualized attention. Incogni Custom removals can also cover sites outside of data brokers and traditional public search sites. This includes business and company information sites, legal resources, limited court record sites, and more. Not everything can be removed, but Incogni will give it a try if it can. As you are allowing Incogni to handle a lot of highly personal data, you want to make sure your data is in safe hands. According to its privacy policy, Incogni only shares your personal data to process a removal request with each data broker.  It does not sell, nor ever has sold, the personal data of customers. It complies with all personal rights according to U.S. and EU data protection laws. Customer data is only retained for a maximum of 12 months after you cancel the service. Finally, Incogni underwent a third-party security audit by Deloitte in August 2025 and the firm gave it a successful third-party assurance rating. These all lead me to believe that Incogni is doing its part to maintain the integrity of the vast user data it’s privy to. How much does Incogni cost? Incogni offers four subscription tiers: Standard, Unlimited, Family, and Family Unlimited. Each tier is offered in either a monthly plan or annual plan.  The Standard and Family plans are nearly identical, as are the Unlimited and Family Unlimited. Opting for the “family” versions of each provides the same service for up to five members on a single plan. The Standard plan is offered for $15.98 per month or $95 annually (at $7.99 per month), which is a 50 percent discount. With the Standard plan you get access to automated removal requests for over 420 data broker sites, up to three different emails, phone numbers, and addresses per person, plus recurring removals as long as your subscription lasts. The Ultimate plan is $29.98 per month or $179 annually (at $14.99 per month). If you opt for the Ultimate plan, you’ll get everything from the Standard plan plus unlimited custom removal requests for over 2,000 additional sites, plus live phone support. While the monthly price does seem expensive, the annual plans are much more affordable. Additionally, while data brokers have between 30 and 45 days to respond to a removal request, Incogni will continue to finish up any outstanding removals even if your subscription runs out.  Incogni also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on all plans, which is even more incentive to give it a try if you’re curious. Incogni: Getting started You can add up to three emails, addresses, and phone numbers to your Incogni profile. Incogni Getting started with Incogni is pretty straightforward. After sign-up you can create your account and begin entering your personal data. This includes emails, addresses, phone numbers, and names or aliases you may be associated with, plus your birth date.  The service allows each user to enter up to three emails, phone numbers, and home addresses—each email needs to be verified though. I would recommend that everyone take advantage of this and fill up these extra data points, even if you haven’t used these old addresses or numbers in a long time. Old data has a funny way of following you around years or even decades later. After you enter in this information, Incogni will ask you to grant it the power to make requests on your behalf and away you go. Incogni will take over at this point and begin automatically sending out removal requests to known data-broker sites. You can see each request and its progress on the dashboard. The number of requests will balloon quickly. Just on my first day alone Incogni had sent out 585 requests, and each time I reloaded the page more and more were marked as completed. I received a few emails such as this directly from data brokers confirming my data was removed.Sam Singleton Once the requests begin, you may receive some emails from data brokers themselves verifying that they have removed your data from their sites. For me personally, I only received two or three over the course of a few weeks. The vast majority of these verification emails are sent directly to Incogni so you won’t be spammed. How are Incogni’s results over time? From day one Incogni was showing results. This honestly surprised me as data brokers have a month or more to respond to data removal requests. Additionally, Incogni itself shows the “Average resolution time” for each data broker under the Requests tab and most of them have averages in the two to three week range. Still, after just 24 hours I already had multiple pages of completed removals. Flash forward to a month later and I now have 743 requests sent, 662 removals completed, and 81 still in progress.  The Incogni Dashboard shows a graph displaying requests, time saved, and suppression list entries. Sam Singleton A neat little addition that Incogni includes on the dashboard is the amount of “Time saved” which is based on an estimate of how long it would take to submit each request manually. In just this short amount of time it claims to have saved me over 496 hours—which amounts to an insane amount of overtime I’d have had to put in just to do this myself. Another useful thing that Incogni does is request not only that your data be removed, but also a request to suppress your data. This means that a data broker has agreed to never re-collect any of your personal information in the future.  As of the time of writing, I have 102 suppression list entries, meaning that I’ll never have to worry about those sites collecting my data again. This is, at least, in theory. While I can dig into the requests page and see which brokers are suppressing my data, I would need to individually reach out to each to confirm this. Something that I, and most other people don’t have the time to do. It should be noted that while Incogni does not verify that your data has been removed on private data broker sites, it does verify removals on public search sites. In fact, this is the inherent problem with Incogni’s service: As most removal confirmations are sent to Incogni, you have to trust that the data it claims it removed has actually been removed. Of course, Incogni isn’t the only personal data-removal service that has this problem—it’s inherent to the entire industry.  To Incogni’s credit, they do this on purpose so that you aren’t spammed with hundreds, or even thousands, of removal confirmation emails. Out of curiosity, I visited a few public search sites at random from the list of those confirmed to be removed by Incogni just to check if my data was truly wiped.  All except one, Spokeo, had indeed removed any trace of me from their website. Spokeo still had a profile on me, but due to it being behind a paywall I wasn’t able to verify what data it had. This isn’t exactly an issue with Incogni’s service, rather these public search sites that don’t agree to suppression often re-add profiles over time.  Incogni tries to keep these recurrences to a minimum by periodically resubmitting new removal requests. And indeed, a new pending request by Incogni was already underway for Spokeo when I checked. Incogni occassionally asks you to verify records it found that may be associated with you in order to further enhance its services. Sam Singleton At the top of the Incogni Dashboard, I occasionally found a red banner indicating that Incogni found additional records that might belong to me. When I clicked on the banner, it took me to a “Verify your record” screen where I was asked to double-check some possible aliases that Incogni had identified as potential matches.  Most of these were only tangentially related to me—same first name, similar ages, etc. Some of them were obviously not me with completely different info that left me baffled as to why they would be potential matches.  When I questioned Incogni about this they said that the record verification tool is constantly learning and improving upon itself. As it’s still relatively new, it may produce results that seem puzzling. They assured me that over time—and with enough user input—the tool would become much more precise. So for now, users have an incentive to sort through the head-scratchers in order to improve the algorithm and receive more accurate results in the future. What data does Incogni remove? Incogni checks for personal data on both public search sites as well as private data brokers. As mentioned previously, this list currently totals over 420 sites.  The type of information that Incogni sends removal requests for include any current or former names, physical addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers associated with you. The more information you provide to Incogni, the more effective it is at removing all of your data. This is why it’s always a good idea to fill in all available physical address, email, and phone number slots allowed on your profile in Incogni.  For public search sites, Incogni checks for your information first, then sends a removal request. Once the removal has been confirmed, Incogni verifies the removal and provides you with all of the information removed. As for private data brokers, the process is a little trickier. These companies have the ability to stock up a lot more data on an individual user and generally keep their practices (and clients) hidden. Consequently, it’s next to impossible for Incogni to verify your data with these sites. Instead, it takes a shotgun approach by sending out mass removal requests to all the private data brokers it tracks, requesting that your data be removed. It doesn’t check that your data has been removed; it just marks the status as “Completed” when the broker confirms the removal. While this might seem unreliable, most of these data brokers are located in the U.S. or EU where there are massive fines for mishandling removal requests thanks to laws such as the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act). Therefore, it’s safe to assume that these removal confirmation responses that Incogni receives are true. Is Incogni worth it? Yes, Incogni is absolutely worth using for anyone who values their privacy. Keeping personal info off the internet is an important step in combating identity theft, scammers, harassment, and more. Incogni automates the entire process making it dead simple to use—it’s as easy as just setting and forgetting. It can be hard to justify another monthly (or yearly) subscription in today’s world, but the payoff in privacy with Incogni can be huge. I do wish that there was a way to see removal confirmations from each site rather than just trusting Incogni that it received them on your behalf. Still, that’s a minor gripe and if you put in the legwork you can probably verify this yourself. Overall, the service works quickly and efficiently to remove and suppress data brokers from collecting and selling your personal information. When it comes to data-removal services, Incogni is the one to beat. Editor’s note: Because online services are often iterative, gaining new features and performance improvements over time, this review is subject to change in order to accurately reflect the current state of the service. 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Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the controversial topics on our YouTube show or hot news from across the web? You’re in the right place. Want this newsletter to come directly to your inbox? Sign up on our website!  I like owning things. The recent AMD driver kerfuffle has me wondering what that really means these days. I’m old enough to remember when buying a physical item meant you had it for life. It would run as advertised until it could no longer—perhaps a part would break, a motor would burn out. Even then, things were mechanical enough that you could open them up and tinker, in an effort to fix them. Now with so much software required to make hardware perform intended function, that line has become blurry. We depend on companies to keep products functional. We are expected to trust that a company will support a product for a reasonable amount of time. AMD’s confused messaging around driver support for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 graphics cards shook that trust. At first, it seemed that GPUs just three years old were already getting the axe—Team Red would no longer provide updated drivers for new game optimizations. Then, after this stance was seemingly confirmed by AMD statements to the press (causing more furor), AMD finally issued a clarification via a blog post. The drivers would branch, but baseline support for first- and second-generation RDNA wouldn’t end yet. The Full Nerd crew and I discuss the whole episode in more depth in the show, including the nuances of the situation. The reputation of AMD Radeon’s division obviously plays a role in all this, as does the current environment of GPU prices and availability. But even with the resolution of this PR hiccup, the fundamental issue remains. Chromebook lifespans have improved, but that’s only for newer models. Own an older one and it’s likely EOL now. That sucks.IDG / Matthew Smith Companies can now kill their products at any time—even when you have them in your hands. Once software support gets dropped, it’s over. I have a drawer full of phones that Google and Apple no longer provide security patches for. Older Chromebooks got a similarly raw deal. You can argue that you can still technically use these products, and sure, that’s true. But in today’s environment, a lack of security patches is asking for a headache. No driver support for new games means you won’t get to play them. Etc. I’m grateful that people donate their time to alternative software, like LineageOS and Linux, to help keep perfectly usable hardware still chugging along. (I’m about to try this to breathe new life into a beloved, now-unsupported Chromebook.) But that doesn’t change the fact that we’re at the mercy of companies’ willingness to maintain a product or even whole product line. And I hate that. I’m willing to sign up for software-as-service. I think of it as renting tools. But my hardware? I bought it for its known properties. I bought it for its specific features. I bought it so it would keep doing what I needed it for. If it stops working because the software is gone, what did I actually own, then? In this episode of The Full Nerd  In this episode of The Full Nerd, Adam Patrick Murray, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Will Smith hash out their feelings about the weekend’s RDNA 1 and 2 driver support debacle and how many Windows PC games run Linux now. On the AMD front, Brad pulls out what he thinks AMD meant to say, but can’t. Meanwhile, I get fussy about chart interpretations and headlines. Not hatin’ on Linux, just the implied takeaway in the coverage. Oh, and I get to show everyone my latest fashion acquisition. Is it fashionable? No. Am I pleased that I had a good reason to own AMD-branded socks? Kind of yes. (Very yes.)(Full disclosure: The socks were a gift from one Adam Patrick Murray. I have a whole collection of various tech-branded ones from him, possibly because I’ve talked about buying socks during Black Friday so often over the years.) Willis Lai / Foundry Missed our live show? Subscribe now to The Full Nerd Network YouTube channel, and activate notifications. We also answer viewer questions in real-time! Don’t miss out on our NEW shows too—you can catch episodes of Dual Boot Diaries and The Full Nerd: Extra Edition now! And if you need more hardware talk during the rest of the week, come join our Discord community—it’s full of cool, laid-back nerds.  This week’s stirring nerd news Might have to start handling memory with this much care, given how expensive it is to replace any that goes bad or dies.IDG Thanks to the AMD Radeon hullabaloo, everything else feels relatively quiet—despite being noteworthy. AMD CPUs helped the company hit new records, for starters. And I got pretty invested in not one, but two different robot vacuum stories. Also, I realized I’ve failed to adequately sound the alarm when giving buying advice in the last week or so. Some component prices already hurt, and it got bad so fast. (Hopefully you don’t need more memory any time soon.) Proving a point: In stark contrast to the Radeon side of things, AMD’s Ryzen CPUs remain steady, propelling Team Red to loftier and loftier heights—desktop CPU share has climbed almost 10 percentage points since 2024, according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su. This is some bull$*(%: Not the engineering to bring the robot vacuum back online, but the manufacturer’s decision to remotely brick the device. (Also, this is why we use guest networks for IoT devices.) Filed under “Asked if they could, not if they should”: Look, I’m just as guilty of doing things just to see if it’s possible. I still snort-laughed about squeezing an operating system so small, it becomes unusable. Science + efficiency = I click: Humans creating better ways to deal (and reuse) the materials they create? Sounds good to me. How far the Internet’s come: From data dropouts that cause typos to memes that load in bare seconds. (Can’t say we’ve used the improvements for best impact, but that’s a thought for another day.) Venus’s mysteries will remain so to us for a while longer.Planet Volumes / Unsplash Enjoy your privacy, fair Venus: The loss of the last remaining satellite is sad for us. I’m telling myself a planet named for the goddess of love probably needs a break from prying eyes for a bit, though. I really want to know about the 5% of humans who failed: Were they distracted during Butter Bench? Was their native language different than how the benchmark was administered? Did they just not care? And yes, I did feel kind of bad about this robo vacuum’s internal meltdown. We’ve all been there, buddy. I needed this 15 years ago: A black & white mode for Google Maps to eke out that much more battery life from a dying phone? Better late than never, I guess. (Though it’s not officially real yet.) Ouch, that hurt faster than expected: Memory prices have shot up abruptly—and it’s not just DDR4 affected. If you need more RAM right now, gird yourself for as much as 100 percent (or more) price increases. I don’t think Black Friday will save us from this. I have a secret—I’m apparently one of the lone people who likes the “fall back” to Standard Time in the U.S. The early dark evenings make stew and soups feel perfect. (Definitely come share your favorite recipes with me in The Full Nerd Discord’s #food-chat channel.) Catch you all next week! ~Alaina This newsletter is dedicated to the memory of Gordon Mah Ung, founder and host of The Full Nerd, and executive editor of hardware at PCWorld. Read...

Ho ho ho, is it Christmas already? In Battlefield 6, the snow is falling on the brand new Manhattan map Empire State, jingle bells are blaring from the speakers and it feels like a nice flashback to The Division. It was snowing in New York there too — and it was utilized in a smart way. In Battlefield‘s version, we can anticipate enemy movements better because we can see footprints in the snow. And there is an ice axe. I wonder if we can use it to climb up the icy Brooklyn Bridge? Or what has DICE come up with here? We’ll find out from 9 December, but Season 1 is already in full swing! Here are 10 pro tips for staying at the top of the leaderboard in Battlefield 6 . Like Bruce Willis, we’re celebrating Christmas in the Big Apple this year with Battlefield 6 and DICE is promising a whole host of new gameplay features. Cold and heat are set to play a major role..Foundry 10 pro tips for Battlefield 6 Season 1 Glistening HDR sunshine and the royal blue pool invite you to relax in this magnificent villa neighbourhood. It’s just a shame that Bradley armoured personnel carriers are already starting to blow down the palm trees and redecorate the roofs. Foundry The Golden State Eastwood map is reminiscent of Beverly Hills: finely manicured gardens, huge mansions, the main house of which is connected to guest houses on the left and right and really big. The vehicle fleet includes 2 helicopters, 3 tanks, 3 troop transporters and 12 golf carts. Pro Tip 1: Golf carts are the ultimate tank killers The Hollywood map introduces golf carts, which are amazingly efficient. Because they have four seats: One drives, one shoots forwards, at the back two soldiers can hedge to the sides or repair the vehicle with a soldering iron. It’s not armored and offers no protection, but it’s pretty fast. We can really speed around with it. If an Apache chases us, the two squad members in the back each unpack their rocket launchers and try their luck with the unguided rockets. This works even better with the FIM 92 Stinger, which fires heat-guided missiles. Experienced squads even transform their golf cart into a real tank killer: if we speed towards a Leopard battle tank or M1 Abrams M4 from the side, the machine gunner usually needs a few seconds to aim at us. Meanwhile, we already land the first RPG hit. If we now race past the tank at full speed, the two soldiers behind can also fire a rocket. Three RPG hits will blow up any armored vehicle and score a lot of points. A tank kill like this earns 400 XP. Pro Tip 2: The new Traverser APC is a mobile fortress with 3 MG guns and perfect for capturing flags The Traverser Mark 2 is the new APC (Armoured Personal Carrier) and has some of the best armour in all of Battlefield. It is significantly faster than a main battle tank, but also needs three direct RPG hits. The driver and three passengers are also protected by thick armoured glass. You can kill the driver with a sniper, but assault rifles have little effect. As the Traverser has a remote-controlled machine gun turret, which the Gunner operates from the safe protection of the armored SUV, machine gunners are much better protected than in the Bradley or main battle tank. As two additional gunners with mini-guns can also cover the flanks on the left and right, there is currently no better vehicle in Battlefield 6 for capturing and guarding flags. We simply smash through the walls of the large main villa and can use the three MG guns to provide 360-degree cover. Pro Tip 3: Season 1 brings Smart Rockets that can be steered around corners with the mouse Golden Eastwood should make everyone happy who longs for larger city maps: The villas are arranged along a long street and are each separated by golf courses, tennis courts or smaller hills. Foundry Golden State Eastwood is one of the largest maps in Battlefield 6 and winds its way through a complete residential area on the outskirts of Los Angeles, including tennis courts, a golf course and plenty of pools. There is a mountain range at the edges, helicopter pilots can hide from the many RPG units here, because rockets are zooming towards us from virtually every balcony on Eastwood and the skybox is relatively low. So we can’t avoid the high ground. However, we can fly low and use the new Smart Rockets – laser-guided missiles that we can aim with the mouse. This also works behind houses or mountain ranges. DICE has probably added this function because helicopter pilots have complained about the very limited types of attack. With Apaches, for example, you had to dive to launch in order to land missile hits. An Apache is not really a dive bomber and the low overflights make it difficult to defend the helicopter from the many RPG units everywhere. Los Angeles will most likely be the Battle Royale map, and we’re looking forward to it: Battlefield 6 needs more variety in architecture, colour palette and how terrain is used. Foundry Pro Tip 4: The new DMR Mini Scout is surprisingly effective against helicopters The new DMR will come as quite a surprise to some: It can be used to pluck helicopters out of the sky with just a few hits. Foundry Quite exciting: the new DMR Sniper Mini Scout is surprisingly efficient against helicopters: three direct hits and the Black Hawk crashes. Apart from that, it is optimized for quick-scoping, i.e. aiming is particularly fast and we don’t have to leave the scope when reloading. A surprising bonus from DICE, because the BF6 maps are heaven for snipers anyway. There’s no need to make it any easier for snipers. Tip 5: The Traverser APC serves as a mobile spawn point for the whole squad The new APC (Armoured Personal Carrier) can be upgraded to a mobile command station. This allows us to capture points more quickly. Extremely practical, because the Traverser can withstand 3 RPGs or several frontal hits with a tank. Foundry The new Traverser APC is not only heavily armored, DICE has also come up with a number of upgrade paths. For example, we can install a medbay, i.e. a mobile infirmary. This is extremely exciting because it not only replenishes the health of all soldiers in the MRAP relatively quickly, but also in our immediate vicinity. If other units use our armored troop carrier as cover, for example to fend off an enemy assault on a flag, their health is continuously replenished. Not as fast as if they were in the vehicle, but it works. Pro tip 6: The B flag at the golf course has enough space to capture it quickly with a helicopter Right at the starting point, the best helicopter pilot in the squad should grab the Black Hawk and fly it to the B flag at the golf course. The Eastwood map is quite densely built up overall, so helicopter pilots must be able to fly very low. However, the B flag is too far away for the enemy squad at the beginning, so you can take it quite easily with a short landing. One of the squad should definitely pack the Stinger, as the only danger is from the enemy Tiger helicopter on the Pax Armata side. A landed Black Hawk is sitting on a platter and cannot shoot down any Flairs. Pro tip 7: Golf carts are the new C4 buggies and brilliant for Battlefield moments Although golf carts offer no protection, they are very maneuverable. With good timing, for example, we can race over a hill, grab the C4, jump out – press the button and boom goes the Leopard.Foundry In our Battlefield 6 guide, we already mentioned that the Traverser Mark 2 is one of the biggest threats to infantry. It is significantly more maneuverable and faster than a main battle tank, but has similar firepower and almost as strong armor. Accordingly, DICE has built in the ultimate counter: the C4 golf cart. The ingenious thing about it is that C4 only activates when we press the button. So we can stick C4 packs to the front, shoot over a hill, fly towards a tank, jump out and only then press the button to turn every armored vehicle into a wall of fire. Ideally, we should crash into the rear of the Traverser, as this is where it is least heavily armored. Pro Tip 8: Fly like in Top Gun Maverick: fighter jets win dogfights with rollovers There’s that iconic scene in Top Gun Maverick where Tom Cruise brakes his F18E Super Hornet in mid-air, pulls the bird up and sits behind his opponent with a rollover. We can also do this in Battlefield 6 by braking and firing the afterburner at the same time – this is called Thrust Vectoring. We can use this to fly very tight turns, for example to keep a flag point under fire for a longer period of time. And also to win dogfights. However, the whole thing also has a disadvantage, because this maneuver puts the entire width of the jet in the air for a short time – for experienced RPG gunners, this means we offer a maximum attack surface. Pro tip 9: Whoever fires their flares first loses This pro tip isn’t the most polite, but this is Battlefield after all. As soon as we lock on to an enemy fighter jet or helicopter, it receives a missile warning. Most pilots fire their flares straight away. So if we wait until they fire their flares and then send the missile on its way, the enemy has no time to react. Pro tip 10: Did someone say C4 drone? Okay, we still have one slightly dirty trick: up to four C4 packets can be placed on the drone. That’s pretty nasty when we use them to crash into the flag point on the Hollywood map in the villa. These have enough explosive power to cause the upper floor to collapse. Depending on how many opponents are guarding this point, several squads can be eliminated with one attack. Incidentally, this also works wonderfully when the enemy uses the new Traverser APC as a mobile fortress: simply land on the roof while driving, press the button – BOOM. Read...

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If you’re happy with your TV’s size and display but wish it had more features, you don’t need to upgrade the whole thing. Consider starting with a much cheaper investment like a streaming dongle. The Amazon Fire TV Stick HD is on sale for 43% off right now, bringing it down to just $19.99 from its original $34.99. View this Amazon deal The Fire TV Stick HD is a nifty little device that’s so easy to use. Just plug it into your TV’s HDMI port—which it should have if it was made in the last two decades—and connect it to your Wi-Fi network. You’ll instantly unlock access to numerous streaming platforms, including Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Prime Video, and several live TV services. One of the best things about using a Fire TV Stick HD is that you can take all of your subscriptions with you even when you travel. Going to stay in a hotel for the weekend? Plug the stick into the hotel’s TV and you can resume where you left off. It also comes with an Alexa Voice Remote, allowing you to search for content and launch apps using voice commands as well as control Alexa devices on your network. This Fire TV Stick HD is the latest model, but note that it’s limited to 1080p video. If you want to step it up, you’ll need either the Fire TV Stick 4K (on sale for $24.99) or Fire TV Stick 4K Max (on sale for $34.99). If you’re happy with 1080p, you can’t go wrong with the Fire TV Stick HD, especially now that it’s just $19.99. That’s a crazy good price for something you’ll be using all the time. Save 43% on this streaming stick that works with any TV with HDMIBuy now on Amazon Read...

If you buy The Outer Worlds 2 or any number of major Microsoft-published games, you can play them on both Xbox and PC with the same purchase. Now that Sony is all in on supporting the PC platform with its first-party games, it might just be planning to support a similar cross-platform purchase system between PC and PlayStation 5. Newly uncovered assets indicate that it’s in the works. Leakers on social media are showing a “Cross-Buy” logo from files uncovered on the PlayStation Store with a combined “PS5/PC” logo attached. While it’s far from definitive, that sure sounds like a buy-it-once, play-it-anywhere approach to me. “Anywhere” might include streaming options, which Sony has just recently expanded to its Portal handheld device, but is unlikely to include an actual Xbox home console. As Tom’s Hardware notes, this isn’t the first time that the “Cross-Buy” label has been used by Sony. Back when the PS Vita was still kicking, you could buy some games and have them available on your handheld, PS3, and PS4. But Sony moved away from that when it ceded the handheld market to Nintendo. All PS4 games can play on the PS5, and some can be “upgraded” to the more powerful hardware with extra graphical features. Since I have both a gaming PC and a PS5, the idea of owning games across systems is particularly exciting for me. I’ve often had to weigh buying a game on the more powerful PC hardware or the system sitting in my living room that’s much better for multiplayer. It sure doesn’t help that we seem to have fully embraced the idea that $70 is an acceptable price to pay for a new game. Getting access to it on PC and console with one purchase would help a lot to ease that sting in my wallet. Read...

Ring’s AI event notifications are handy when it comes to getting text descriptions of what’s happening around your abode, but too many of the AI-generated pop-ups can get annoying fast.  To cut down on the chatter, Ring is debuting a new feature: AI Single Event Alert, which takes multiple AI notifications from related motion events captured by your Ring cameras and combines them into—you guessed it—a single alert.  The feature, which is slated to begin rolling out today for subscribers to Ring’s priciest subscription plan, joins a couple of other Ring AI tools that were first introduced last fall: Video Descriptions, which employ AI to write brief summaries of video events, and Smart Video Search, which allows you to comb through your saved videos using natural-language queries.  AI Single Event Alert works by taking multiple Video Descriptions, analyzing their summaries to pinpoint “patterns and similarities that signal one ongoing activity,” and then combining those summaries into a single notification.  AI Single Event Alert takes multiple AI notifications from related motion events and combines them into a single alert. Ring In other words, instead of getting peppered with pop-ups like “A person is walking a brown dog in the grass,” “A person and a brown dog are playing in the yard,” and “A person and a brown dog are walking on the grass,” you’ll just get a “single event” alert that reads, “A person is playing with a brown dog in the yard.”  The individual motion events will remain in your video history, Ring says, adding that “you’ll simply be alerted in a more efficient, intuitive way.”  Before you can enable AI Single Event Alert, you’ll need to sign up for Ring Home Premium, the priciest of Ring’s subscription plans.   Ring Home Premium costs $20 a month, and it includes features such as the aforementioned Video Descriptions and Smart Video Search, along with 180 days of video history, 14 days of 24/7 video recording for supported Ring cameras, the ability to request emergency responders directly within the Ring app, and local microSD video storage on the Ring Alarm Pro security system.  Also available for $200 a year, a single Ring Home Premium subscription is good for all your Ring cameras within a single location, and it includes the same features as the less expensive Ring Home Standard and Home Basic plans, including AI object detection for people, packages, and vehicles, live picture-in-picture views, daily event summaries, and more.  This story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best security cameras. Read...

The most expensive laptops often have vivid, beautiful, high-resolution OLED panels that look fantastic. But those OLED screens are almost always glossy, and that means they suffer from glare and reflections. Out in the real world, I prefer matte IPS displays—they don’t look as good in perfect lighting, but they’re more usable everywhere else. If your laptop lives at your desk in perfect lighting all the time, then OLED is an excellent choice. But if you’ll be taking it outdoors, the sun is kryptonite for flashy OLED panels. That premium OLED display option? It doesn’t always feel premium in real-world conditions. Glossy panels are the real problem I keep saying OLED, but the core issue here is the display’s coating: glossy versus matte. A glossy display is more vivid and shiny, but it also produces more glare in sunlight, in overhead lighting, and in other challenging lighting conditions. I often find glossy laptop screens to be impossible to read outdoors while matte panels are still fine. Unfortunately, OLED panels are almost always glossy. The one exception I know of is the Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 desktop monitor, which has an OLED panel with a matte coating. I myself own one of these and I use it on my office desk—I wouldn’t want to use a glossy panel in a room with that much natural light! Matthew Smith / Foundry But even if you opt for an IPS panel, you aren’t quite out of the woods. IPS panels are available with both matte and glossy surfaces, with some of the nicer laptops I’ve reviewed offering anti-reflective coatings that go the extra mile. Sadly, many IPS laptops have glossy displays, too. IPS displays can be glossy, too — especially ones with touchscreens If a laptop has a touchscreen, it probably has a glossy surface. Whether you’re looking at a touchscreen clamshell laptop, a 2-in-1 convertible, or a device with pen input, the glass layer tends to be glossy and smooth so you can have a smooth surface to touch. A matte finish just isn’t as smooth, so it’s not the ideal fit for a touchscreen display. Glossiness isn’t always associated with price, by the way. Lots of laptops with cheaper IPS panels are paired with glossy finished, and I’ve personally used cheaper laptops with matte finishes. Laptops with IPS panels and matte finishes are particularly common in business laptops, which are mostly used to get work done in rooms with suboptimal lighting, whether that’s outdoors or under overhead fluorescent bulbs. That said, “premium” and “high-end” business laptops do tend to have glossy touchscreen OLED panels with stylus input. Glossy vs. matte panels: It’s a trade-off There’s no one best solution. Glossy displays are shiny and vivid, and in ideal lighting conditions—a dark room, for example—they’ll likely wow you. Heck, they often impress me when I use them indoors. But with laptops designed for portability, that glossy appeal fades as soon as I take them outside and the glare of the sun hits the screen. Even with manufacturer-applied anti-reflective coatings, there’s a glare. A glossy panel looks vivid—and so do its reflections.Chris Hoffman / Foundry Meanwhile, matte displays aren’t as impressive at first glance. Side by side in ideal lighting conditions, you’ll find matte displays to be more “dull” and nowhere near as colorful. But once you step into challenging lighting conditions—outdoor sunlight, overhead fluorescent lighting, or any room with overly bright or dark lights beyond your control—matte displays prove their value as far as readability, reflections, and eye fatigue are concerned. A matte panel won’t win beauty awards, but it’s less harsh on the eyes.Chris Hoffman / Foundry So, pick one: a vivid display with more shiny reflections and eye-fatiguing glare, or a duller display with less vibrant colors that’s easier on the eyes in challenging lighting situations. The good news is, if you’re looking for a high-performance gaming laptop that stays on your desk in a your room with great lighting, this isn’t a problem. It’s mainly a concern if you need a portable machine that’s going to be taken into a variety of situations. Thinking of buying an OLED laptop? Here’s what else you need to consider Not all glossy OLED displays are unreadable outdoors. If you do want a glossy OLED, one thing I can recommend is a brighter panel. The brighter the display can get, the better it can overpower harsh lighting conditions and stay readable. (This is true for matte IPS displays, too.) Brightness is an incredibly important spec when using an OLED laptop outdoors. A screen that only reaches 400 nits of brightness is going to be harder to read in bright conditions than one that can hit 800 or even 1,000 nits. The more brightness you have available, the better and more adaptable—but that’s a brute-force solution. Also, while it’s possible to get OLED panels with anti-reflective coatings or surface treatments, those coatings and treatments aren’t all equal… and some are more expensive than others. Each one is its own compromise. For example, if you’ll always use an OLED laptop in perfect lighting conditions, you don’t want an anti-reflective coating because it’ll hamper the vivid picture you’d get with that shiny screen. Valve I own a 1TB Steam Deck OLED, and while the higher-end OLED model features “premium anti-glare etched glass” that produces fewer reflections and less glare, the image on the standard OLED model (without the etching) looks a tad more vivid. Similarly, my Samsung G80SD monitor gives me a nice big OLED display in my office where I don’t have window sunlight making it hard to read. In short, if you’re getting a laptop with an OLED screen for use in challenging lighting conditions, make sure to get one with plenty of brightness and anti-reflective coatings or surface treatments. Glossy vs. matte: I love them both “Glossy” and “matte” are words that usually aren’t highlighted on spec sheets. But for a portable device like a laptop, the reflectivity of the display matters a lot even if it doesn’t get top billing. I love OLED displays. I really do. When I review a high-end OLED laptop and the lighting is perfect, I get why people are willing to put up with the reflections. But then the sun peeks through the clouds… If you’re buying a laptop and plan to use it outdoors, think twice before buying the high-end glossy OLED model. A cheaper matte IPS display could actually feel like a much more premium experience. Read...

At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Top notch motion clarity Professional design with significant use of metal Great image quality and color performance Broad adaptive sync support Cons Only 1440p resolution No USB-C HDR isn’t as bright as some OLED monitors Our Verdict The Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF is among the first 500Hz QD-OLED monitors. It doesn’t beat Asus’ take on the concept, but there’s a couple good reasons to buy the Samsung instead. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Best Prices Today: Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 Retailer Price $849.99 View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Best Prices Today: Check today’s prices The Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF is an unusual display, not just because it has a 500Hz QD-OLED panel. Though it has a super-high-refresh panel capable of handling world-class competitive esports, the G60SF also delivers a classy design and a matte display coat that maximizes usability in a wide range of lighting. Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 (G60SF) specs and features The Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF, known more simply as the Odyssey OLED G6, is all about the refresh rate, which reaches as high as 500Hz. As of late October 2025, it’s one of just three QD-OLED monitors to provide a 500Hz refresh. The others are the Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDPG, which I’ve previously reviewed, and the MSI MAG 272QP QD-OLED X50. Display size: 26.5-inch 16:9 aspect ratio Native resolution: 2560×1440 Panel type: QD-OLED Refresh rate: 500Hz Adaptive Sync: Yes, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, G-Sync compatible HDR: VESA DisplayHDR 500 Ports: 2x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x USB-B Upstream, 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 downstream, 3.5mm audio jack Audio: None Additional features: RGB-LED lighting ring on rear of monitor Price: $999.99 MSRP And it’s really the refresh rate that will carry the Odyssey G60SF to victory, or defeat, because it’s otherwise a typical QD-OLED monitor. It sticks to 1440p resolution and lacks USB-C. The monitor’s MSRP is $999.99, which is $100 more than the Asus alternative. Read on to learn more, then see our roundup of the best gaming monitors for comparison. Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF design The Odyssey OLED G60SF’s design is a win. Samsung switched to a new, more professional look a couple generations ago, and the Odyssey G60SF delivers the best rendition available. The rear of the monitor is made of sleek, silver metal—not plastic, like most competitors—and looks more like a high-end professional monitor than a gaming display. Whether you prefer the Asus or the Samsung depends on the aesthetic you’re going for but, personally, I like the Asus better. Though it’s mostly demure, the G60SF does add some flair with an attractive RGB-LED light ring. The ring can be customized and includes CoreSync, a feature that syncs the LED light with content shown on-screen for a more immersive experience. The LED lights are dim, though, so CoreSync isn’t that noticeable unless your gaming den is very dark. Matthew Smith / Foundry The G60SF is attached to a sturdy stand with a small, flat base that minimizes the space it occupies on your desk. Most competitors have swapped to this style of stand in recent years, but it’s still worth mention, as wider tripod-style stands are still found on some gaming monitors. The stand adjusts for height, tilt, swivel, and can pivot 90 degrees (up to 92 degrees, to be precise) for use in portrait orientation. A 100x100mm VESA mount is also available for use with third-party monitor stands and arms. Most 27-inch gaming monitors in this price range have the same features, but it’s good to see Samsung nail the fundamentals. Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF connectivity and audio The Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF’s connectivity is disappointing, though no more so than its competition. Video connectivity includes two HDMI 2.1 and one DisplayPort 1.4 for a total of three video inputs, which is typical for a gaming monitor. However, the monitor lacks USB-C and instead offers just two USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports, both driven by a USB-B upstream port. As mentioned, this is typical for a high-refresh gaming OLED. The Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDPG has the same port layout. The MSI MAG 272QP QD-OLED X50 does include a USB-C port, but it has just 15 watts of Power Delivery, which isn’t enough to supply a Windows laptop. Some 4K OLED monitors, like the MSI MPG 272URX, provide USB-C with 65 watts or 90 watts of Power Delivery, which is great if you want to connect a laptop alongside a desktop. The MSI is a 4K 240Hz monitor, so it’s not a direct competitor to the 500Hz Samsung—but it’s something to keep in mind. Speakers are not included. That’s common for a gaming monitor, as most gamers prefer to use a headset or desktop speakers. A 3.5mm audio pass-through is provided. Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF menus The Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF provides an easy-to-use joystick tucked slightly off-center behind the monitor’s right lower lip. It’s used to navigate a legible, well-organized menu system. The font size is slightly smaller than I might prefer, but should be readable for most people. I’m less enthused about the range of image quality options. Unlike the Asus XG27AQDPG, the Samsung G60SF doesn’t provide precisely targeted gamma or color temperature values and has a very slim number of image quality presets. As the SDR testing will show, this doesn’t mean the image quality is worse—but it does make the image quality a bit more annoying to tune. If you want a gamma of 2.4, for example, you can’t switch to that, but instead have to guess which of the provided gamma settings comes close to the gamma value you want to see. Samsung also lacks a Windows app that surfaces all or most monitor features within Windows itself. Most competitors, including Asus and Alienware/Dell, offer software with that functionality. Samsung does provide Samsung Display Manager, but it largely exists for Windows management, not control of monitor features. Matthew Smith / Foundry Together, the sometimes vague menu settings and lack of a Windows app for monitor control put the G60SF at a disadvantage. It’s not an issue if you tend to tune your monitor’s settings once and then never touch them again. But if you often change settings—perhaps because you want an AdobeRGB mode for work, but then a Game mode for play—the G60SF’s limitations could prove annoying. Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF SDR image quality The Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF has (surprise!) a Samsung QD-OLED panel. This type of OLED panel has become the gold standard for OLED monitors, with only LG’s WOLED providing competition. Which is extremely relevant, because some LG WOLED monitors achieve refresh rate up to 480Hz. Indeed, all the monitors I’ve included in the graph below are OLED or WOLED monitors with a refresh rate of 500Hz or 480Hz. Matthew Smith / Foundry The Odyssey G60SF gets off to a good start with an SDR brightness of up to 320 nits, which is a great result for an OLED monitor. As of 2024, a brightness of around 250 nits was more common—but we’re now starting to see 300 nits or more from flagship displays. A higher maximum brightness means the G60SF works better in rooms with bright lighting or many sunlit windows. Samsung’s matte display finish also helps with readability and provides an important reason shoppers might choose the G60SF over a competitor. Most OLED monitors have a glossy finish, which enhances perceived contrast and vibrance, at the cost of increased glare and reflections. The G60SF takes the opposite path, with minimal glare at the cost of reduced perceived contrast and vibrance. Personally, I prefer Samsung’s approach, though your opinion may differ. Keep in mind that the Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDPG, the other 500Hz QD-OLED currently available, has a glossy finish. Matthew Smith / Foundry Next up is contrast, where all the OLED monitors offer identical performance. They have an effectively infinite contrast ratio because they can reach a minimum brightness of zero nits. All of these monitors have an immersive, deep image, and they’re great for watching Netflix or playing darker games, like Path of Exile 2 or the latest Silent Hill. Samsung’s matte display finish helps with readability and provides an important reason shoppers might choose the G60SF over its glossy-finish competitors. As mentioned earlier, the G60SF’s finish has an impact on perceived contrast. This occurs because of how light scatters differently across a matte panel finish as compared to a glossy finish. This doesn’t change the minimum luminance of each panel, however. The practical effect is that the XG27AQPDG may seem to be a bit more contrast rich than the G60SF. I can notice this, but as mentioned, I personally prefer the reduced glare of a matte finish over the enhanced perceived contrast of glossy. Your mileage may vary. Matthew Smith / Foundry Color gamut is a win for the G60SF, which can display up to 100 percent of sRGB, 98 percent of DCI-P3, and 95 percent of AdobeRGB. The Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDPG, which has the same QD-OLED panel, is more or less tied with the G60SF. But competitors with the LG WOLED panel, such as the LG Ultragear 27GX790-AB, Asus ROG Swift PG27AQDP, and Sony M10S, all have a slightly more narrow color gamut at 96 percent of DCI-P3 and 88 to 90 percent of AdobeRGB. With that said, though, all of these monitors have a very wide color gamut, and all of them will generally look vibrant and vivid in colorful content. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend one over the other solely because of the color gamut. But if vivid color is your top priority, the G60SF will do the trick. Matthew Smith / Foundry The G60SF also delivers excellent color accuracy with a very low average color error and no single color showing an error value beyond 2, which is a great result. In general, the image looks incredibly lifelike and shows no obvious inaccuracies. To be honest, all OLED monitors tend to perform well here—but it does seem that the QD-OLED monitors have an edge over the WOLED competition. Gamma and color temperature were a slight miss for the G60SF. The default gamma value was 2.3, slightly off the target of 2.2, which means the image can look a bit darker than it should. Many OLED monitors have this problem, but the Asus XG27AQDPG managed to hit the target gamma of 2.2. The G60SF also displayed a color temperature of 6200K, which is a bit warmer than the target of 6500K. And because the G60SF’s menu has less precise gamma and color temperature options than the Asus, you may have more difficulty tuning these settings than you would with other displays. Sharpness is a weak point, as to be expected for a 1440p OLED display. While sharpness has improved in the latest panels, we’re still talking about a pixel density of about 110 pixels per inch across the 26.5-inch display. That’s not bad, but 4K ups that to roughly 163 pixels per inch, which is a big increase. And, of course, many 4K monitors are available at prices similar to, or less than, the G60SF. Still, the G60SF’s overall image quality is great, as typical for a QD-OLED display. It doesn’t perform any better than its competitors, but also no worse, and the matte display coat gives the G60SF a unique selling point that sets it apart from the alternatives. Samsung Odyssey G60SF HDR image quality I went into the Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF hot off my review of the Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDPG, the other 500Hz QD-OLED currently available. And the Asus was great in HDR, so I expected the same from the Samsung. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed. Matthew Smith / Foundry While I tried to coax the highest brightness possible from the G60SF with the monitor’s Peak Brightness setting and Active HDR tone mapping, the highest sustained brightness I recorded was 678 nits. The Asus, meanwhile, achieved up to 953 nits. It’s also brighter than the G60SF in all HDR scenarios. The difference was large enough that I could easily notice it in subjective viewing. The Asus’ brightness can strike like lightning—sometimes literally, as is the case in the “Into the Storm” scene from Mad Max: Fury Road. The G60SF still looks great, but it didn’t sear my eyes with the same brilliance. With that said, the G60SF’s HDR performance is still decent overall, and comparable to a variety of OLED alternatives. It’s a fine pick for HDR—but definitely not the best. Samsung Odyssey G60SF motion performance But odds are you’re not buying the G60SF for HDR. You’re buying it for motion clarity which, though not technically at odds with HDR, kinda is in practice—because most scenarios where you’d game at 500Hz are not scenarios where you’d want to be using HDR. Motion clarity is what matters most here, and the G60SF delivers. As I said in my review of the Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDPG, and in 480Hz monitors before that, the motion clarity of an ultra-high-refresh OLED really must be seen to be believed. Scrolling test images for a game like DOTA 2 shows that virtually all detail is visible, right down to the names above characters and the ticks in hitpoint bars. Samples of scrolling text also show incredible clarity. The text is nearly as easy to read as when it’s sitting still. To be clear, I don’t think there’s any noticeable difference in clarity between the new 500Hz QD-OLED monitors and the 480Hz LG WOLED monitors from 2024. Still, 500Hz is really something, and players who crave impeccable clarity for competitive esports play are going to love it. Frame pacing will be smooth, as well, if you engage AMD FreeSync Premium Pro or Nvidia G-Sync. Both adaptive sync standards are supported. While the G60SF is great for motion clarity, the Asus XG27AQDPG has an extra feature called Extreme Low Motion Blur. This inserts blank, black frames between existing frames which, due to how humans perceive motion, has the effect of reducing motion blur. ELMB doesn’t work beyond 240Hz, so it doesn’t provide the Asus an absolute motion clarity advantage. However, it does provide slightly improved clarity at lower refresh rates, like 120Hz or 240Hz. That can be helpful, because many games won’t render at a frame rate high enough to exceed 240Hz. That gives Asus an edge in overall motion clarity. It’s a small one, however, and does require that you take the time to activate ELMB, since it doesn’t engage automatically. Should you buy the Samsung Odyssey G60SF? The Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF is a great choice if you want an OLED monitor with excellent motion clarity. It provides a rich, vibrant, bright 1440p image at up to 500Hz. The G60SF faces only one problem: The Asus ROG Strix XG27AQPDG, which has the same Samsung QD-OLED panel, is slightly better overall. The Asus alternative provides better HDR performance, includes ELMB for better motion clarity at 120Hz and 240Hz refresh rates, and is a bit more feature-rich overall with extras like a tripod mount on the top of the stand and a Windows app for managing monitor features. With that said, I find myself in an odd position as a reviewer because, if I were choosing between these monitors today, I would personally buy the Samsung. I prefer Samsung’s design. I also prefer the matte finish on the Samsung panel over the glossy finish on the Asus. So, while the Asus inarguably offers more features at a lower MSRP, the G60SF is still a great 500Hz monitor—and it might be the one to buy, depending on your preferences. Read...