I’ve been using Delta Chat for a while, and I even made my own server for it (see: How to make your own Delta Chat Email Server and compete with WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram), but after I did …
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Author: Adam Z. Lein
Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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Dynabook’s extremely lightweight 855-gram Portégé X30L-M
Today Dynabook announced a new extremely lightweight 855 gram laptop called the Portégé X30L-M; the world’s lightest 13.3-inch premium-performance business laptop. This laptop has a magnesium alloy chassis meeting MIL-STD-810H durability standards. The dark blue …
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How to keep communicating when your internet is disrupted
People love sending electronic messages to each other on their smartphones these days, but in times of conflict and societal struggle, secure, private, & fast communications can save lives. There’s hundreds of electronic messaging apps …
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Asus Chromebook CM3001DM2 Review: A Cute Little ChomeOS Tablet
The little Asus Chromebook CM3001DM2 is absolutely adorable. It’s a smaller Microsoft Surface style tablet with thin removable keyboard cover and magnetic rear kickstand cover. It runs the regular version of Chrome OS, not the …
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HP Chromebook Plus x360 Review: a 2024 convertible ChromeOS tablet PC
This year everyone’s adding “artificial intelligence” features to basically everything. Google is no exception with their new Chromebook Plus updates that bring a Gemini app as well as some other AI integrations, and today we’ll …
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Another new AI-powered laptop: Dynabook’s Portégé X40-M
With the new Intel Core Ultra series processors being available now, everyone is releasing new computers that make use of the new processors and their new Neural Processing Unit chips that are designed to help …
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Dynabook announces new Tecra A-Series AI-Powered laptops
Today, Dynabook announces new Tecra A-Series laptops with Intel Core Ultra processors that include neural processing units for improved local machine learning model processing. The new NPU helps with video conferencing camera effects and can …
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TECNO Camon 30 Premier 5G Review
TECNO has been working really hard to progress in the smartphone industry by providing some really innovative, well-designed, interesting smartphones at much more budget-friendly prices than the competitors. The TECNO Camon 30 Premier 5G is …
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Hands on with Google’s new 2024 Chromebook Plus
Everyone in tech is really busy trying to keep up with the Artificial Intelligence hellscape by adding all sorts of AI features to anything they can get their hands on. Google is no exception of …
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You’ll probably feel stupid for using Whatsapp, iMessage, and dozens of other messaging apps… after trying Spike.
The messaging mess is worse than ever these days. Everyone is falling for the proprietary messaging app scams that always follow the cycle of enshittification. These messaging apps are designed to collect a large user …
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