The year is 1987. Beverly Hills Cop II is the highest-grossing movie. "Walk Like an Egyptian" is the hottest song. The Iran-Contra scandal dominates American political headlines, while Konami’s Contra sucks up coins in arcades. But towering above them all is the watershed moment of Jaws arriving on the NES. ("This time there's no escape!", warned the box art.) Now, 38 ye [...]
Portable storage devices and external hard drives may not be the sexiest hardware on offer this Prime Day, but anyone who's used one to boot an operating system or reduce a game's load times knows what a difference they can make. Anytime you work with massive files — and most of us do, given the size of software these days — a solid-state drive (SSD) can improve on a built-in hard dr [...]
Windows 11 has had plenty of negative press thanks to 24H2 bugs, but PowerToys is bringing positives to the OS in its next update. [...]
The iPhone Air is a device with shorter battery life, fewer cameras and a price tag that’s $200 more than a base iPhone 17. Sure, it’s got a bigger screen and it's unbelievably sleek, but no matter how you slice it, that value proposition doesn’t make sense. At least on paper. That’s because as soon as you hold an iPhone Air, you instantly get a sense that this handset represents much [...]
Imagine you do two things on a Monday morning.First, you ask a chatbot to summarize your new emails. Next, you ask an AI tool to figure out why your top competitor grew so fast last quarter. The AI silently gets to work. It scours financial reports, news articles and social media sentiment. It cross-references that data with your internal sales numbers, drafts a strategy outlining three potential [...]