OK, won’t lie. I first became aware of so-called “electric scissors” when I saw an influencer hawking them on the TikTok Shop. The basic promise is that you can break down cardboard boxes quickly – and without the safety risks of using a box cutter, Stanley knife or whatever else you call those slicey things in your neck of the woods.
I didn’t click the Tik
You probably know that it’s easy enough to fake audio and video of someone at this point, so you might think to do a little bit of research if you see, say, Jeff Bezos spouting his love for the newest cryptocurrency on Facebook. But more targeted scam campaigns are sprouting up thanks to “AI” fakery, according to the FBI, and they’re not content to settle for small-s
Microsoft dealt a heavy blow to Windows 10 with the most recent Patch Tuesday. May’s KB5058379 update is causing some annoying problems, like making Windows request the BitLocker recovery key on startup on some Windows
It seems that the end may be here for the Surface Laptop Studio, Microsoft’s targeted Surface series for creative work. According to The Verge, Microsoft has reportedly ended production of the Surface Laptop Studio 2 earlier this year.
The
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Acer’s new Aspire notebooks for Computex 2025 offer the choice of all three processor platforms, with either 14- or 16-inch display options. But there’s one big problem that the company can’t do anything about.
In a word? Tariffs. Acer’s Aspire notebooks typically are its most affordable, so America’s fluctuating import tariffs add a confusing wrinkle to an
Acer’s Swift Edge 14 AI laptops already feel like one of the standouts of next week’s Computex 2025 show, combining a matte OLED display with an incredibly light weight. If you’re constantly on the go, this might be a laptop for you.
All told, the Acer Swift Edge’s magnesium-aluminum chassis eliminates the vast majority of the weight. At 2.18 pounds, this p
Acer is launching two creator-class laptops at Computex 2025: the Swift X 14 and Swift X 14 AI, which give buyers the choice of either an AMD or Intel processor as well as an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070.
A creator-class laptop splits the difference between a traditional productivity laptop and a gaming device, with a midrange GPU that can handle both tasks, and
Acer’s most interesting gaming notebook for Computex 2025 isn’t necessarily a gaming notebook at all. The Predator Triton 14 AI is a surprisingly thin, creator-class notebook that includes both Intel’s Lunar Lake notebook CPU alongside an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU cooled by something new: graphene.
Acer also is announcing the Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 AI, a sli
