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This is why your laptop battery dies fast

Quick, what is the biggest drain on your laptop’s battery? If you answered “the display,” you’re right — for the most part. The single biggest occupier of battery resources, day in and day out, is your laptop’s display. More specifically, it’s the that energy goes into powering the backlight that illuminates the pixels on your laptop’s display. The obvious move …

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Apple Music may be set for interface makeover in June

Apple Music will get a new interface at the company’s developer conference in June, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The year-old music streaming service, which is a competitor to the likes of Spotify, Tidal and Pandora, will become more intuitive to use and will be better integrated with iTunes, Apple’s music download business, the report said. …

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Backpack sports phone charger, anti

If you’re one of the increasing amount of people who’s more about working from a cafe than an office, this Indigogo project will be of interest to you. The Lifepack is a spacious-looking backpack with two main distinguishing features: a removable solarbank USB charger, said to be able to power up an iPhone 6S Plus 12 times, and an integrated …

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Put Cortana on your lock screen

Now playing: Watch this: Cortana gets some new tricks in Windows 10 2:30 You can now have deep, meaningful conversations with Cortana without even unlocking your device — if you’re a Windows 10 Insider, that is. Microsoft dropped a big update to its flagship OS in one of the most recent Windows 10 Insider Preview builds (Build 14328), but regular …

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Now you, too, can try out IBM’s quantum computer

Curious about quantum computing? IBM launched a new cloud-based service Wednesday that gives anyone access to a five-qubit quantum computer located in a New York City suburb. IBM’s Jay Gambetta uses a tablet to interact with the world’s first quantum computing platform delivered via the cloud. IBM Unlike regular computers that process information in 1s and 0s, quantum computers are …

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