Instagram added several new features in 2024 to please its users. Here's a wishlist of some new features Instagram can add in 2025 to improve the user experience on its platform and fix bad stuff.
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The DOJ recently expressed that it wanted Google to sell its popular Chrome browser. If that goes ahead it could lead to more choice and innovation in the browser market.
With Windows 10's end-of-life less than a year away, up to 240 million PCs could be expedited to landfill. Here are some ideas to delay that end well past 2025.
From Men in Black's Neuralyzer to Minority Report's Precogs, sci-fi's wildest gadgets are closer to reality than we think, and leaping from the screen into our everyday lives, faster than expected!
The Windows Insider Program recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and it appears to be in dire need of some changes.
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Meta says the candidates are subject to the same rules as regular users. It's a blatant lie
Meta is failing its users by not fact-checking Trump and other political figures. It does so under the false argument of free speech and self-imposed reach limitations that it can easily lift.
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In this piece, I explain with data why when testing a CPU's gaming prowess, we pair powerful flagship tier graphics cards, like an RTX 4090, and run them at lower resolutions like 1080p or 720p.
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Forget Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, what you really want to download this month is Fedora Silverblue 40
Fedora Silverblue 40 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will both be out this month. In this piece, I outline why most end users should opt for Fedora Silverblue 40 over Ubuntu despite the latter's popularity.
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As a photographer, I used only my Galaxy S24 Ultra on holiday to The Algarve, it was great!
I put the Samsung S24 Ultra cameras to the test in actual real-world situations, like going on holiday, not for point and shoot, but for proper photography. Come closer and check out my findings.
A journey of discovery through social media support, being handed off to no less than nine different people, all eager to help, but ultimately underlining the incompetence of Samsung customer service.
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10 years after The Fappening literally everyone can recreate it. And it's as dark as it gets
Opinion: In 2024, artificial intelligence allows you to strip celebrities of their dignity. But unethical or straight up malicious uses of AI extend far beyond the seemingly innocent ones.
On December 5, 2023, Microsoft announced that after October 2025, Windows 10 would get three more years of extended support. However, this time, regular customers can get them too. That is a problem.
Based on all the hands-on reports coming from WWDC on Monday, the Apple Vision Pro packs tons of great hardware in the headset. But I wonder why Apple wanted to push it out at this moment in time.
From leveraging AI in its productivity suite to exploring the possibilities of techno-humanism, Microsoft continues venturing into the AI era as it embraces its power in its products and services.
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Editorial: It's right that big tech leans up with layoffs, focusing on profitable activities
In this editorial, I argue that big tech companies are making the right decision by making sweeping job cuts, despite being hard to do and hard on the people whose lives are affected as a result.
In this editorial, I go over a few valuation metrics to see whether NVIDIA is trading at a fair price after its recent price explosion. When buying stocks, it is important not to pay over the odds.
From shader and traversal stutters to GPUs that are sleeping at the wheel. We take a look at what's going on with the growing trend of releasing high-end PC games with little to no optimisation.
Although Microsoft is winding down support for Windows 10, the vast majority of its customers still use the OS. Based on the lukewarm response to Windows 11, it's unlikely that this will change soon.
Rumors claim that Microsoft's next major update to Windows will arrive in late next year in the form of "Windows 12". But what should we expect from this purported OS come 2024? Read my thoughts here.
With E3 2023 canceled, and hopes for a 2024 edition very low, I decided to look back at my memories of attending various E3 events over the years, starting way back in 1997 in Atlanta.
The prevalence of generative AI in the form of chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing Chat in the past few weeks have taken the world by storm. I have used them fairly regularly recently, and that scares me.
Once upon a time, cyborgs and black matter supercomputers could only be a reality in the science fiction world. Now, it seems everything is coming to life one by one. This is techno-humanism for you.
Microsoft latest endeavor into the AI-powered chatbot space has proven that the company is still grappling with the inherent challenges of the technology, such as curation, biasness, and accuracy.
Following the sudden wave of ChatGPT news, I can't help but think of how similar a lot of its features are to other AIs I have read about in various science-fiction novels over the years.
Security practitioners have been giving all sorts of advice for decades about how to avoid getting your resources infected from downloads. But how clear and how relevant is that messaging today?
Windows 11 is now finally being offered to both my work and personal Windows 10 PCs but I've been struggling to convince myself to upgrade to the latest OS. Find out why in my latest piece.
I recently bought a Mac Mini and gave macOS a try. I wanted to love it and thought it would make computing exciting once again. But little did I know it would make me love Windows even more.
With 2022 now over and new feature updates for Windows 11 looming over the horizon, let us look at five significant changes, improvements, and new features Microsoft brought to its operating system.
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I've been a Microsoft 365 subscriber for the past few years and I've begun to realize that it's easily my favorite Microsoft product. Find out why and whether it could be worth your money too!
Xbox Live Gold (and Games with Gold) and Game Pass currently co-exist in the Microsoft ecosystem at different price points and value offerings. But this town ain't big enough for the two of them.
The game that many, including myself, had spent most of the year looking forward to, only to be slapped in the face with poor performance and broken/missing features. Here's the lowdown.
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Debates about what is an advertisement versus a recommendation in Windows spark from time to time. In this piece, we discuss how unsolicited ads make sense for Microsoft but are detrimental to the UX.
Windows 11's virtual desktops are a feature I use daily to keep myself from growing in layers of open apps and windows. I like the idea, but I cannot say I am a fan of the implementation.
Microsoft started rolling out the Windows 10 2022 Update (version 22H2) just a few days ago, but the company has been mostly silent about what's new. So we dug around a bit and this is what we found.
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Microsoft may be missing out on the perfect opportunity to get people excited about Windows 11 updates and have them actively search for updates. We believe we may have a solution to this problem.
Let's forget for a moment about the crippled taskbar in Windows 11 and talk about the five changes I think Microsoft needs to implement to make Windows 11's UI better and more consistent.
Have you ever copied some text on Windows to the clipboard, only to have something old show up when you paste it? It seems Microsoft may have made the clipboard unreliable a while ago.
Microsoft has returned a relatively basic functionality to Windows 11 after months of requests and complaints by users who had become accustomed to using it on Windows 10 and older operating systems.
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Microsoft has committed to a more flexible process for delivering Windows feature updates and new functionalities. I think this is a win-win situation for both the company and its customers.
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Microsoft integrated Teams at an OS-level with the launch of Windows 11. However, in the past year or so, we've barely seen any improvements in the communication app or evidence of market traction.
WhatsApp to stop supporting older Android phones starting January 2025, check full list here
Microsoft posts official uninstall and recovery guide for botched Windows 11/10 update
ASUS ZenWiFi Mesh Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 systems discounted at Amazon
Microsoft lists a reason why TPM, Secure Boot are required on Windows 11 in 2024-2025
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