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 out there that depend on the internet. Most are designed in a centralized way so that the owning company can be in control of its users (and maybe spy on them or censor them or profit off of them). Things …

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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 “Plus” version, so there aren’t any “artificial intelligence” features, but most people aren’t interested in those anyway.  Specs The Asus Chromebook CM30 has a MediaTek Kompanio 520 2.0 GHz(1M Cache, up to 2.0 GHz, 8 cores) processor with ARM Mali-G52 …

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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 look at that along with the HP Chromebook Plus x360; HP’s latest tablet PC convertible Chromebook.  Specs The 2024 HP Chromebook Plus x360 has an Intel Core i3-N305 processor, 8Gb of RAM, 128Gb of storage, and an FHD IPS 14″ …

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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 with machine learning model processing which everyone is calling “AI” these days. Most of these new laptops also come with a new key on the keyboard that’s made for launching Microsoft’s Copilot app, and the Portégé X40-M is no exception. …

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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 also be used with NPU compatible local AI model generative software that you might be able to install yourself. These new Dynabooks also have a nice dark metallic blue chassis that makes it stand out from the boring silver, grey, …

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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 the latest model with 3 great quality Sony camera sensors on the back. Its design is more like a camera as well with a big circular Oreo cookie hump similar to what Xiaomi and Huawei are also doing.  Specifications The …

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