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Some back-to-school purchases are no-brainers, like a new laptop or Chromebook. But other helpful products aren’t always as obvious. They can seem purely optional—stuff to buy when you have money to burn.

But don’t discount tech gadgets and accessories, especially if you’r

Anything that gets in the way of me hopping straight into a game is a killjoy. I’m talking about slow load times, controllers that need configuring between gaming devices, and those pesky disclaimer screens that are impervious to my button presses. Do we really need those?

Now while there may be nothing I can do about screens full of legalese jargon, at lea

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One of the handier features on new cars is the ability to remotely unlock and start them. Microsoft is adding the opposite — the ability to remotely lock your PC — to its Windows toolkit.

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Mozilla is bringing all kinds of new features and improvements with the latest Firefox 141 update, including the ability to organize tag groups with the help of AI and use the address bar as a unit converter.

In addition, the developers have addressed several security vulnerabilities per usual, in both Firefox and Firefox ESR versions.

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The niche, privacy-focused Brave browser will now block Microsoft’s controversial Recall function by default, the company said this week. But you really don’t need Brave to do it yourself, either.

Microsoft Recall is Microsoft’s otherwise useful tool

For me, the biggest difference between a “gaming” mouse or keyboard and a regular one is the software. Gaming accessories need a lot more customization options, and preferably a tool that lets you change settings automatically for each game. But mouse maker Endgame Gear distributed a little something extra with its mouse software: a remote access trojan.

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A brand-new Kindle Paperwhite will run you at least $160—more if you don’t want lockscreen ads—and it rarely goes on sale. When it does go on sale, the price doesn’t drop much. So being able to grab a Kindle Paperwhite for just $107 is a pretty sweet deal.

But there’s a catch here: this is a “Like

Microsoft has released update KB5062660 for Windows 11 24H2, and that means the iconic “Blue Screen of Death” has officially been replaced by the long-awaited “Black Screen of Death” (which coincidentally shared the same BSOD