With the big AI providers cracking down on usage limits for their most powerful agentic features, it’s tempting to kiss our ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini subscriptions goodbye and go all-in with local AI–and it’s certainly doable, if you’re willing to pay for it.
AMD is the latest to step up to the plate with a local AI solution, a mini PC dubbed “Ryzen AI Halo.” At first blush it looks…
I don’t know how your tech drawers look, but mine are filled with wires I’ll likely never use again because technology has advanced quite a bit. Thankfully, USB-C seems to be here to stay since there is no wrong way to plug these things in. It’s not just smartphones…
Last week I spent a few days watching the Asus and Best Buy websites like a hawk, waiting for that slinky little Zenbook A14 to start shipping. It’s a really cool, lightweight laptop with battery life for days, literally. But it has one design problem that I see all too…
The latest version of Firefox for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android brings a number of improvements to privacy protection, the built-in PDF viewer/editor, and the VPN feature, plus fixes for over 30 security vulnerabilities. Updates are also available for the ESR versions.
The free VPN feature that was introduced back in Firefox 149 now offers a choice of several virtual locations. Firefox’s…
Samsung makes a darn good monitor, though it tends to make you pay for the privilege. The company was also at the forefront of the gaming OLED space, though again, it’s far from anything approaching “affordable” territory unless you find one on sale. That trend…
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PCWorld reports on the ZeroWriter Fold, a specialized laptop designed exclusively for distraction-free writing with an e-ink screen and mechanical keyboard.
Designer Adam Wilk emphasizes affordability and reliability, creating…
We’ve all been in this situation: You know what you want to say, but you’re too mentally exhausted, distracted, or confused to actually say it. Google’s new conversational AI, Docs Live, wants to help.
The metaphor Google is using here is a “brain dump,” and Google is applying this technique to Docs, Gmail, and Google Keep. Google’s trying to offload more of the “thinking” away…
One of the unsung productivity heroes of your laptop is the humble utility app. It’s the piece of software your laptop manufacturer installs to manage and customize your device.
At its best, it’s a fascinating, nerdy collection of tools and features–things you never…
It sucks when a failing battery or a slow PC lets you down at crucial moments—and Windows 11 in particular has repeatedly struggled with such issues. Microsoft now officially acknowledges that these problems appear to be linked to faulty drivers.
As reported by Windows…
You might be inclined to blame insufficient graphics performance for a Windows system’s failure to hit its limit during gaming. But often it’s memory and file access that slow things down. This is precisely where a so-called “dev drive” can help. This refers to a volume introduced by Microsoft based on ReFS (Resilient File System).
A dev drive is optimized for many simultaneous accesses to…
