How to extend your gaming laptop’s battery life
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…
How To – Windows, PC & Laptop
How To – Windows, PC & Laptop
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Nostalgia? Pfft. These 7 retro PCs are still doing serious work today
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…
4 exotic phishing scams are on the rise. Here’s how to identify them
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)…
ChatGPT’s advanced AI costs $200/mo. It’s now free for Windows users
Microsoft is taking an aggressive step towards lowering the price of top-tier AI reasoning, placing what appears to be unlimited access to OpenAI’s o1 model directly within Copilot’s new “Think Deeper” feature. What’s important here…
What does a $2500 GPU get you? A look at MSI’s liquid-cooled RTX 5090
If you can afford a $2000 RTX 5090 graphics card — and you can find one — you can probably afford an even more expensive one. So why not go all out, with a liquid-cooled,…
uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but its successor still lives on
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…
Amazon hiked Music Unlimited prices. Here’s why Apple and YouTube are next
For video streamers, another price hike just means it’s Tuesday. For music streaming, however, price increases are bigger deals, and they tend to reverberate for everyone. Take Amazon, which just hiked the price of its…
Microsoft’s latest AI feature may just stop working. Here’s why
Microsoft is indeed making access to OpenAI’s 01 AI reasoning model completely free — but there’s a limitation and one which Microsoft is refusing to tell you about. Microsoft said Wednesday that it would provide…
Aosu SolarCam P1 SE System review: A budget-priced winner
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Integrated solar panels keep camera batteries topped off Very good video quality, with color night vision Local storage eliminates the need for an optional subscription App is easy to…
This compact OLED gaming laptop with RTX power is $500 off today
Even in 2025, it can be hard to find a gaming laptop on the smaller side. That’s why the 14-inch Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is so popular. And right now, the 2024 model of this…