Since the Xiaomi 17 Ultra was released, I’ve been looking for reviews that really talk …
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HP Envy 6552e Printer Review: a consumer all-in-one printer with instant ink
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 series printer holds up. What’s in the Box The packaging includes the printer, quick start …
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The HP OmniBook 5 Next Gen AI Laptop looks really nice
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 the Snapdragon X Elite processor with the ARM architecture and Windows Home for ARM operating …
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NVIDIA shows off AI image generation speed on their mobile RTX 5090
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 smaller models that can actually run locally and can run pretty nicely if you have …
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If Pavel Durov really believed in the free exchange of information, Telegram wouldn’t exist
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 privacy violating technologies such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning …
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There is Such Thing as a Phone That’s Too Thin
Thin is in again. Apple used to brag about the thinness of the iPhone 5, 6, and now the iPhone Air. But is there such a thing as being too thin? I think so. A smaller surface area is slippery Usually people hold a phone in a hand with fingers wrapping around the side. It’s the natural way to hold something, but when something is too thin, there really isn’t enough surface area on the …
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WhatsApp’s 2025 Ad Campaign is probably a lie. Here’s how to tell. UPDATE: It is a lie.
UPDATE Jan 27, 2026 – even more lawsuits now Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption | PCMag New Lawsuit Claims that Meta Can Read All the WhatsApp Users Messages Lawsuit Claims Meta Can See WhatsApp Chats in Breach of Privacy – Bloomberg Meta can access all WhatsApp chats, lawsuit claims; Company replies – The Times of India Meta sued over claims that WhatsApp messages are fully secure – The Economic Times UPDATE Oct …
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