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Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra

Poverty-spec model starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of RAM and 512GB of storage with 128 GB models topping $5,899

Personal Tech07 Oct 2026 | 29

Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels

Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel

Personal Tech07 Oct 2026 | 8

Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb

Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity

Science06 Oct 2026 | 128

Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50

Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM

Personal Tech02 Oct 2026 | 20

Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair

Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten

Personal Tech30 Sep 2026 | 1

AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified

Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap

Personal Tech29 Sep 2026 | 19

Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia

asia in brief PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on

Personal Tech28 Sep 2026 | 7

How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone

Your spare Android won’t come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should

Personal Tech26 Sep 2026 | 46

Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi?

We hope Zuck's Muse Charm doesn't die if you neglect it

Personal Tech24 Sep 2026 | 21

AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market

Sub-$200 shipments forecast to shrink 40% by 2030 as component costs climb

Personal Tech24 Sep 2026 | 6

HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app

Customers say the unannounced change also cut off web access that relied on mobile authentication

Personal Tech24 Sep 2026 | 60

Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds

Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain

Personal Tech21 Sep 2026 | 49

Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing

'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains

Personal Tech21 Sep 2026 | 49

Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on

Who, Me? Attempt to prove procurement prowess ended up gathering dust

Personal Tech21 Sep 2026 | 233

If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots

personal tech 'Intern 2' offers an isolated environment and cloudy inference to automate your world

Personal Tech16 Sep 2026 | 20

Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy

PERSONAL TECH It looks like you're trying to write some code. Perhaps a shortcut is in order?

Personal Tech16 Sep 2026 | 43

Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again

personal tech Nitter's repository archived as of September 11, 2026

Personal Tech15 Sep 2026 | 16

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Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage

Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand

Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system

Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra

Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels

Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb

Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50

Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair

AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified

Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia

How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone

Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi?

AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market

HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app

Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds

Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing

Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on

If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots

Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy

Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again

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Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules

At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills

Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good

Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year

Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed

Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best

AI memory crunch takes a bite out of PC shipments

DRAM prices are killing the cheap smartphone

Broadcom and Apple extend custom silicon pact to 2031

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

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David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC