Amazon Prime Day is the ideal time to buy your first mini-PC
Sure, there are mini-PCs for $800 but you don’t need to spend a fortune to get your first mini-PC. That’s crystal clear with the deals up on Amazon right now for Amazon Prime Day. Right…
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Microsoft slyly claims 93% of Windows Arm time is on native apps
Windows machines running on Arm are here! Actually, they’ve been here for years. But don’t call it a comeback, because those laptops based on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors—which Microsoft pushed so, so hard last year—aren’t selling…
iPhone season is the worst time of year
Fall is almost here, and with it, the silliest season of them all. No, the Macalope is not talking about the ongoing reign of terror of pumpkin spice-flavored… well, everything. He’s talking about the endless…
Microsoft Excel now uses AI to auto-suggest formulas in real time
Wouldn’t it be great if you could be an Excel wizard without putting in all the time and effort needed to learn how to get around Excel and make it do what you want it…
It really happened! Someone made it to the end of the iPhone alarm time picker
What’s the most important iPhone feature? Based on the impact when it goes wrong, there’s a solid argument for the alarm clock. But even now, after countless billions of successful alarm experiences, it turns out…
It’s time we blow up PC benchmarking
Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the burning topics on our YouTube show or the latest news from across the web? You’re in the…
I haven’t been this hyped for an iPhone event in a long, long time
iPhone launch events have generally become predictable and mundane. Many of the hardware upgrades leak months (or even years) in advance, minimizing our enthusiasm during the official keynote. That’s not to mention the smartphone’s maturity,…
It’s about time! Firefox starts testing support for progressive web apps
In recent years, Mozilla Firefox has lost a good deal of market share in the web browser space. It’s hard to pin that loss on any one factor, but part of it has been its…
College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history
A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 London—events the developer didn’t know…
Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer’s network with a ‘kill switch’
A former software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his former employer’s network after leaving the company. Davis Lu, 55, was convicted of installing a “kill switch” on the network…