The laptop market has become impossibly crowded with dozens of brands and hundreds of models, which makes it very difficult to know where to start. If you want a safe bet backed by decades of reliability and support infrastructure, Dell remains one of the smartest choices you can make. Within Dell’s lineup, there’s something for every budget and every use …
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The first generation of Apple Silicon chips took other chip makers by surprise. While everyone knew it would be good, the M1 chip was so far ahead of its competitors in both power and efficiency that there must have been a lot of worried faces in Intel and Qualcomm’s respective boardrooms. Three generations later, Qualcomm appears to have finally caught …
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Looking for a new gaming laptop but can’t stand the edgy gamer aesthetic? You might check out the Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10 (7/10, WIRED Review) in a sleek, all-white look. Best Buy is offering $220 off the list price of this attractive gaming laptop, bringing the price down to just $1,650. It boasts an excellent screen. Photograph: Luke Larsen …
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You’ll then be prompted to insert your USB drive and choose it from the drop-down list on screen. Do make sure you select the correct USB drive, and not an external disk that has information on it that you need. Eventually, you’ll be told your USB installer drive is ready: The necessary downloading and installing took 30 minutes or so …
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Humain has unveiled the Horizon Pro PC, a laptop powered by agentic AI and a Snapdragon chip that the company claims “can operate 100 times faster than human thought.” The laptop, powered by a first-generation Snapdragon X Elite processor from Qualcomm, was shown using Windows 11 at the Snapdragon Technology Summit, hosted by Qualcomm in Maui. The Horizon Pro laptop …
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You might think you know PCs, but I can guarantee you haven’t seen one exactly like this before. A new laptop unveiled here at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii is a dedicated AI machine, designed to put AI agents at the heart of your computing experience. The Horizon Pro PC is the first piece of consumer hardware from the Saudi …
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Apple’s latest MacBook Air (launched in March) has been among the company’s most popular laptops for some time now, but price has usually been the stumbling block. On Apple’s website, this MacBook Air with the M4 chip in its base configuration (16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD storage) starts at $999. But today, Amazon has knocked everyone back by lowering …
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Two ‘fans’ corresponding to the two main areas DESI has observed, above and below the plane of our Milky Way (see this map). DESI is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab. DESI has made the largest 3D map of our Universe to date …
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As you might imagine, mapping the universe on the largest of scales and tracing threads of the cosmic web is no mean feat. To do so, you’d need to take observational evidence and combine it with theoretical models such as the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS). Only then would you be on the road to developing a statistical …
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The new Asus ProArt P16 notebook aims at the Apple MacBook Pro, promising to deliver the powerful performance high-end PC notebooks are known for while maintaining a sleek style that is much rarer in the PC space. Powerful PC notebooks aren’t just for gamers, after all. The ProArt P16 is a thin, lightweight creator-focused laptop with some serious power under …
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