MSI’s top-end 17-inch Raider GE76 gaming laptop comes with state-of-the-art components that let it fly. It’s stacked with an Intel Core i9-12900HK CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU. That processor is the newest Intel mobile Alder Lake architecture, which splits the cores into performance-optimized and efficiency-optimized (like Apple’s M1 chips). And while the RTX …
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Apple is bullish on lidar, a technology that’s in the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro, and Apple’s iPad Pro models since 2020. Look closely at the rear camera arrays on these devices and you’ll see a little black dot near the camera lenses, about the same size as the flash. That’s the lidar sensor, and it delivers a …
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Whether you’re using your PC to get work done or have fun, a slow computer can make life way more frustrating than it needs to be. Laggy performance speed can render your computer pretty much useless — especially when you can barely open a window, load a website or even start up your system. If you’ve been suffering lately, now’s …
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Sometimes, finding that one crucial email in your overflowing inbox can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. And there’s a unique panic that comes with not being able to find it. If you want to avoid that hassle altogether, an email back-up system is an easy way to give yourself peace of mind. Right now at StackSocial, …
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A group of 35 states, along with Microsoft, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other organizations, have thrown their support behind Epic Games in the Fortnite maker’s legal battle with Apple. In a brief filed Thursday with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, attorneys general for the states argued that the court should overturn the earlier ruling that …
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Ever since Apple‘s value blew past a trillion dollars a few years ago, analysts and tech industry experts alike have frequently wondered aloud, “How much larger can it get?” We’ll get an answer Thursday, when Apple announces its fiscal first-quarter sales and tells us how many iPhones, Macs and other products it sold during the holiday shopping season. Apple has …
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Apple’s iPhone marked its 15th year on the market with its strongest sales ever, helping push the tech giant’s sales and profits to all-time highs despite the continued spread of the coronavirus pandemic and supply chain constraints. The demand for Apple’s smartphone, in a line ranging from the $699 iPhone 13 Mini to the $1,099 iPhone 13 Pro Max, was so high during …
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Update, Jan. 24: While we’ve heard isolated reports that a handful of users had issues with this deal over the weekend, our team has independently tested and verified the process and that the deal is still available as of Monday evening. Apple computers are hard to beat, but Microsoft Office is still the standard software for a lot of our day-to-day …
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Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 next month, Windows boss Panos Panay revealed in a blog post Wednesday. It’ll be a public preview, meaning the feature is still in beta testing and will likely be tweaked before its official release. The update will include taskbar improvements with call mute and unmute, a weather widget and easier window sharing. …
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The Surface Pro X is Microsoft’s attempt to create a two-in-one laptop that doesn’t have to sacrifice power for versatility. And based on Dan Ackerman’s Surface Pro X review, it did just that. The key was ditching the Intel processor found in more affordable laptops in favor of a more powerful and efficient Arm chip. There are two models available …
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