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The new streaming sticks from Roku are portable.

With its newest streaming players, Roku is going small. According to the firm, its new pair of sticks is up to 35% smaller than its rivals. The Roku Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus, which were unveiled Wednesday at a press conference in New York City, are made for streamers who are constantly on the go and have slimmed-down profiles that should not interfere with other HDMI connections. Additionally, a USB-C to USB-A adapter is included, and the players are…

Google paid Samsung to install Gemini AI and preload it on phones.

If you have an Android phone, you have undoubtedly noticed that Google’s Gemini AI assistant appears everywhere, just as it has been showing up in YouTube, Docs, Google Search, and other places. Even if you’re not using a phone that bears the Google logo, this is still the case. As it turns out, Google is paying Samsung a lot of money to ensure that Gemini is prominent on its phones, so it’s no coincidence. Testimony in the ongoing and potentially…

Apple TV’s “Severance” served as the inspiration for this vintage keyboard.

Old, historical keyboard designs are popular among mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, and Severance, the popular, high-concept sci-fi series on Apple TV that takes place in a dystopian office, is no exception. When Atomic Keyboard created the MDR Dasher, a reimagining of a vintage Data General Corporation design from the 1970s, it chose to incorporate these ideas. Many enthusiasts of vintage keyboards adore the Data General’s Dasher terminal series, especially its large layout and chunky blue keys. Though they feature a different…

Business PCs are still installing Windows 11 even if administrators have blocked it.

Although the end of support for Windows 10 is quickly approaching, there are compelling reasons why small and large enterprises should not make the hasty transition to Windows 11 just yet. For this reason, a lot of people use Microsoft Intune, a cloud-based program that lets managers control several devices and set up rules for things like upgrades. However, despite the update being prevented, devices are upgrading to Windows 11 due to an Intune problem. BleepingComputer noticed a post from…

Microsoft confirmed that it will soon discontinue Edge’s outdated PDF viewer.

Microsoft updated the integrated PDF reader in the Edge browser two years ago; however, many users have stuck with the outdated legacy PDF reader to this day. Adobe’s PDF engine was replaced in Edge in 2023; however, the rollout simply changed the default engine on consumer devices. By adjusting a browser flag option, consumer devices could revert to the old engine, while business machines had to choose to use the new one. According to Windows Latest, Microsoft has now reaffirmed…

HP settles a $4 million class action lawsuit alleging false advertising.

Gosh, figuring out the true cost of things is becoming more and more difficult. And I am not even referring to the craziness of international trade conflicts, tariffs, and taxes; I am talking about how businesses will just lie about their true prices to make “discounts” appear favorable. HP is reportedly paying impacted customers a cool $4 million for what it allegedly did. That concludes a class-action lawsuit that began more than four years ago when two plaintiffs from the…

Nvidia confirms that some RTX 50-series GPUs missing ROP technology.

If you recently spent over a thousand dollars on a new graphics card and it doesn’t perform as you expected, you may be disappointed. Due to reports of missing ROPs on recently released cards, many buyers of new RTX 50-series GPUs are currently experiencing this. A recent statement claims that it is a manufacturing problem that is covered by the warranty. There should be 176 ROPs (or “Render Output Units”) on the RTX 5090 and 96 on the RTX 5070…

Interactive experience with the latest Asus RTX 50 series graphics cards

Every graphics card available seems to come in a million different varieties. There aren’t, however, based on the Amazon search results for “4070,” you may assume that there are. Speaking of which, Asus debuted the new Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs at CES 2025 in five different flavors. Adam from PCWorld managed to obtain them all for your enjoyment. (To be clear, the film below was sponsored by Asus. It costs a lot to send a group of live reporters and…

Nintendo has released a preview video for the Switch 2, which will be released this year.

The eagerly awaited announcement has finally arrived, even though I was about to give up on it happening. Nintendo formally unveiled the Nintendo Switch 2 today, January 16, 2025. Despite having a larger display, better internal hardware, and larger Joy-Cons that attach and detach magnetically rather than sliding on rails, the successor to the Nintendo Switch has a remarkably similar appearance. Additionally, the video immediately announces the debut of a new Mario Kart game on the Switch 2! Naturally, that…

With new Qualcomm CPUs, $600 Snapdragon PCs should to become a reality.

Today, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X CPU at CES. The company hopes to deliver quick performance and long battery life to a larger market by building the processor with mainstream and low-cost laptops in mind, potentially paving the way for $600 Snapdragon PCs. This is great news because we have witnessed how battery-efficient Snapdragon laptops are. For instance, in our extensive battery test, the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 operated for nearly twenty-four hours. Pardon me as I raise my…