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Somehow, because time is an illusion, back-to-school season is already here. We’re in that brief window where picking the right laptop suddenly feels like the most important thing.

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If there’s one thing you absolutely need every day, it’s a fast charging cable for your phone and more—and you should be stocking up since you never know when you’ll need one or when tariffs might drive those prices up to insane levels. Thankfully, you can get

Beginning today, Microsoft is debuting Copilot Mode for Edge, an experimental version of Edge that places Copilot front and center on new tabs and allows it to see the content on all of your open tabs.

Tip-toeing into this space, Microsoft is describing Copilot Mode for Edge as “exp

Sam Altman, the face of ChatGPT, recently made an excellent argument for not using ChatGPT or any cloud-based AI chatbot in favor of a LLM running on your PC instead.

In speaking on Theo Von’s podcast (as unearthed by PCMag.com) Altman po

In 1924, an innocuous American house might’ve hidden a speakeasy, slinging illegal booze to thirsty patrons during Prohibition. In 2020, you might’ve found the same house hiding dozens of Bitcoin miners. But in 2024, an American house hid a d

Microsoft has tacitly confirmed that the mandatory Windows 11 24H2 updates from past months negatively impacted the operating system’s stability, which is bad timing for the company who recently claimed that Windows 11 is the “most reliable” versi

The prices for VPNs nowadays can vary widely from absolutely free to more expensive than a Netflix subscription. It’s easy to think that the more you pay, the better privacy and security you’ll get from a VPN provider, but that isn’t often the case. You don’t need to pay an arm and a leg to get top-quality protection.

Most of the

I wanted the Zenbook A14 ever since I saw it at an Asus press event. I finally pulled the trigger earlier this month when it went on sale for $650, and I’ve been having a blast using it as a writing machine that can go days without a recharge. Today you can get an even better deal, because