Starting Sunday, June 1, 2025, WhatsApp, the Meta-owned messaging platform, will stop support for several older smartphone models as part of its routine update cycle. This change, initially scheduled for May 5, 2025, was delayed by a few weeks to allow users additional time to prepare. Th list of impactedContinue Reading
These apps and tools will supercharge your Windows 11 experience from the moment you set it up. Although Windows 11 includes a slew of built-in tools, many of them fall short, either lacking essential features or delivering poor performance. Fortunately, there are more useful and feature-rich alternatives from the open-source community, third-partyContinue Reading
How many chargers do you own? We’re surrounded by rechargeable electronic devices – mobile phones, laptops, smart watches, headphones, e-bikes and more. You might have a phone charger plugged in next to your bed without ever bothering to switch it off at the wall or unplugging it when not inContinue Reading
USB, or — Universal Serial Bus to give it its full title — has been around since 1996. The now ubiquitous technology is built into innumerable electronic devices, including smartphones, computers, game consoles, and eBook readers, to name just a few. It wasn’t always like this; those of us longContinue Reading
HP claims up to 34 hours of battery life on the new Snapdragon laptops. It is definitely a contender as one of the best AI PCs. HP’s OmniBook 5 14- and 16-inch models were announced earlier this year at HP Amplify as budget-friendly AI PCs, with Intel and AMD chipsets powering the OmniBook 5 lineup. ButContinue Reading
There’s nothing that strikes fear into the heart of a PC gamer quite like a CPU bottleneck. Not only does a CPU bottleneck limit your performance in games, it can also be difficult to nail down and access the severity of. Thankfully, there are a handful of quick ways that youContinue Reading
Imagine a chatbot using your PC for you. That’s one of many visions Microsoft showed off at its developer-focused Build 2025 conference on Monday. And the vision, it would seem, is already almost here. Microsoft’s concept revolves around the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which was created by Anthropic (the company behindContinue Reading
Starting May 19, 2025, Google is rolling out Gemini’s Google Calendar controls to Gmail on Android and iOS. Users can now ask Gemini to create, edit, or delete calendar events directly from the mobile app. The same features recently launched on the web now work on mobile too. Tapping theContinue Reading
Android 16 is coming. Will your phone support it? It’s software update season, folks. Google confirmed on Tuesday that Android 16, the next release of its mobile operating system (and, confusingly for some people around my age, one of the best Dragon Ball Z characters) will launch in June. It brings plenty of newContinue Reading
A new feature for wireless PC-to-PC data transfers is being tested in preview versions of Windows Backup. Back in versions of Windows, there used to be a handy feature called Windows Easy Transfer that painlessly guided the process of migrating files and settings from one computer to another. Sadly, itContinue Reading