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The Alienware 15 is a fine gaming laptop priced into irrelevance

How much should a gaming laptop cost? The answer is—depressing and unhelpful as always—”it depends.” If you insist on an Alienware logo on the top and you’re looking at the Dell shop today, then the answer starts at a hefty $1,299. That gets you a relatively recent CPU… and an RTX 4050 graphics card from 2023. The Alienware 15 is ostensibly what’s replacing the Dell G series of…
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Using Functional AI to Automate Document Workflows

A recent study conducted by Nitro found that 75-95% of the employees and executives surveyed use AI for document processing—including data extraction, PDF tasks, and contract summaries.To reinforce the importance of providing teams with the right AI tool for the right job, let’s look at the difference between chatbots and functional AI in terms of automating document workflows. However, when…
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Copilot is replacing Edge’s browser history with AI slop

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld reports that Microsoft Edge’s new AI-driven ‘Journeys’ feature is replacing traditional browser history with AI summaries that often omit direct website links. This change frustrates users by hindering their…
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Googlebooks aren’t just Android laptops. They’re a Trojan horse for Gemini

We’ve been hearing about Google’s push to unite Android and ChromeOS into a new laptop operating system rumored to be called “Aluminum” for a while now. A week before this year’s Google I/O conference, the company is ready to talk about it. And to the surprise of absolutely friggin’ no one, these seem more interested in Gemini “AI” than the actual product. The newly-minted…
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I stopped chasing OLED laptops for one reason: Glare

The most expensive laptops often have vivid, beautiful, high-resolution OLED panels that look fantastic. But those OLED screens are almost always glossy, and that means they suffer from glare and reflections. Out in the real world, I prefer matte IPS displays—they don’t…
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pCloud online backup review: An affordable lifetime of secure files

pCloud greatly resembles services like Dropbox and OneDrive in its implementation, with Windows Explorer integration and full web-browser functionality. That said, it’s also a bit easier to get up to speed with than those others. pCloud is also touted as uber-secure. I even like its lifetime pricing, as opposed to the usual monthly rate. Let’s cover that first. After our original review…
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