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Microsoft doubled-down on AI this year, and the resulting backlash marked one of the biggest stumbles for the company.

Objective To examine whether a multicomponent commercial fitness app with very small (‘micro’) financial incentives (FI) ...

I have been a Windows user for as long as I can remember. It all started with a cheap PC, but in recent years, I’ve been ...

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

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A simple tool for pinning files and folders to the taskbar. It looks like this: This tool can create a shortcut to a file or folder that can be pinned to your taskbar. It can also create a separator ...

The Wild West era of 3D printing, which early adopters like me have enjoyed for so long, is fading away. But as the industry ...

A report says Lenovo may unveil a Legion Go 2 SteamOS variant at CES 2026, keeping Ryzen Z2 Extreme and the 8.8-inch 144Hz ...

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There are situations where you may want to temporarily disable Windows' built-in security feature. I'll show you how to do it safely.

The AI race between OpenAI and Google is heating up with the release of GPT-5.2. How does it compare to Gemini 3? Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images OpenAI's latest AI model ...