Wireless earbuds for listening to audio and using video conferencing software are very common these days. It seems like every tech company makes a variety of wireless earbuds in various price ranges as accessories for you to buy. So it’s kind of hard to differentiate. While something like the Angry Miao Cyberblades brings in a flashy Chroma flair paint job …
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I love it when electronic hardware manufacturers get innovative even if it’s already been done several times in the past. There’s a new Pocket PC or Ultra-Mobile PC or Mini-PC that’s gotten nicely funded over on Kickstarter. Traditionally, “Pocket PC” was Microsoft’s term for “Palm-sized PCs” running the Pocket PC operating system embedded on smartphone sized devices or PDAs (personal …
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In my experience, printers have always been the most annoying tech product to deal with. The moving parts, managing the ink levels, loading paper, connecting computers, installing software drivers, getting the settings right. It’s always been a complicated affair. Does the HP Envy 6500 series make things easier? Maybe a little. Read on to see how the HP Envy 6500 …
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I got a little hands-on time with the new HP OmniBook 5 AI laptop the other day and it looks really nice. First of all, it’s very light at 2.98 pounds. Secondly, it’s got the world’s longest battery life in a consumer AI PC laptop at about 34 hours of constant video playback. That’s pretty awesome, and it’s due to …
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We got to see a demonstration of a cool ComfyUI template that NVIDIA created to showcase how quickly their RTX 5090 GPU can process image generation locally on a laptop computer. Most people think we need a high-end server farm in the cloud to do all of these new “Artificial Intelligence” imagery, video, and text generation, but there are numerous …
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, recently tweeted a long post that complains about “What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.” He’s referring to the internet as a whole but may not realize the hypocrisy of his statements. A number of countries are starting to implement laws enforcing …
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