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Astract Japan has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its new mini-mouse CapacMouse Pro (spotted by Tom’s Hardware). As of this writing, the campaign has alrea
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I think it’s fair to say that people are frustrated with Google these days between the deluge of advertisements and AI-powered results of questionable utility. Normally, swearing at your computer only helps in a placebo effect, but it turns out that throwing in an F-
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Forget laptops. If you want a powerful yet affordable computer and you don’t need portability, then what you really need is a mini PC.
Right now, you can snag this crazy Beelink SER8 mini PC for $479 on Amazon, a massive discount from its original $749. This i
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Gaming laptops are mostly awesome these days — performance wise, that is. As an example, you can pick up a laptop like the Acer Nitro V 16 for less than $1,000 and know that it’s going to shred in most triple-A games. But as to battery life when you’re gaming unplugged — nope, laptops ar
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Last year, Google announced changes to its Chrome browser that signaled the end for popular extension uBlock Origin. The ad-blocker’s design put it at odds with Google’s new Manifest v3 requirements, with death as the likely outcome.
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Microsoft is no stranger to axing Windows apps and features. In the last year alone, we’ve seen the death of iconic WordPad, ab
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There are things in this world that you simply wouldn’t expect, like an aircraft carrier with Windows XP, a nuclear weapon control system on floppy discs, or a Commodore 64 as a cash register system in a bakery.
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Despite ever-improving junk mail filters and more sophisticated defense measures, phishing is still one of the biggest threats to cyber security and they’re becoming increasingly difficult to recognize. Criminals are using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT to formulate their emails, which results in largely error-free texts with correct gr