Category: Hardware


  • Edge browser's new Copilot Mode lets you talk to AI about your tabs if you opt in — but it's only free for 'a limited time'

    Microsoft has been ramping up its Copilot AI assistant across its ecosystem, through Windows, Office, and Edge. Today, the company is announcing a new “experimental” Copilot Mode to Edge, which will combine chat, search, and navigation, as well as let you take certain actions. The opt-in feature will put Copilot in each new tab with…

  • Microsoft is testing its own AI browser via Copilot Mode for Edge

    Beginning today, Microsoft is debuting Copilot Mode for Edge, an experimental version of Edge that places Copilot front and center on new tabs and allows it to see the content on all of your open tabs. Tip-toeing into this space, Microsoft is describing Copilot Mode for Edge as “experimental” and “free for a limited time,”…

  • Microsoft mysteriously offers Windows 11 upgrade on incompatible PCs

    So many people haven’t been able to upgrade their older Windows computers to Windows 11 because of the latter’s TPM 2.0 hardware requirement. Learn more about why you need TPM 2.0 for Windows 11, why TPM 2.0 makes PCs better, and why Microsoft is adamant about not letting older PCs without TPM 2.0 run Windows…

  • On July 23, the Trump Administration released its long-awaited AI Action Plan. Short of copyright exemptions for model training, the administration appears ready to give OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other major players nearly everything they asked of the White House during public consultation. However, according to Travis Hall, the director of state engagement at the…

  • When Can You Get the iPhone 17? Here's What Date to Expect Its Release

    While leaks and speculation about the new iPhone have been popping up everywhere lately, one question could resolve all the others: When will the iPhone 17 be released? Once the rumored iPhone 17 — as well as the iPhone 17 Air, Pro and Pro Max — is revealed, we’ll be able to confirm speculation about…

  • Avatar: Fire and Ash brings war to Pandora in first trailer

    The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash is finally here, and it looks like James Cameron might have made another banger. Though Avatar: The Way of Water ended on hopeful note with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their family finding a new home with a different group of Na’vi, Fire and…

  • Best Buy has more stock of the Nintendo Switch 2: Don't miss out on this dorm-room doorbuster

    A new stock alert from Best Buy has notified us that there is a new shipment of Nintendo Switch 2s available to order online. They’ve been very rare since launching, due to the massive demand for Nintendo’s latest handheld gaming device. The Switch 2 has proven to be the must-have gaming item to own this…

  • Fermented meat with a side of maggots: A new look at the Neanderthal diet

    Scientists long thought that Neanderthals were avid meat eaters. Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed like they’d been feasting on as much meat as apex predators such as lions and hyenas. But as a group, hominins—that’s Neanderthals, our species, and other extinct close relatives—aren’t specialized flesh eaters. Rather, they’re more omnivorous, eating…

  • You Can See 2 Meteor Showers at Once This Week. How to Catch a Glimpse

    While meteor showers happen all year, a rarer occurrence is having two meteor showers that peak at the same time. It’ll happen this week, on Tuesday.  The shooting star show comes courtesy of the Alpha Capricornids and Southern delta Aquariids meteor showers. The former is already happening and runs until Aug. 12, with a peak on Tuesday.…

  • Reddit and Discord’s UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding’s photo mode

    You can point your phone camera at Sam to pass age checks. Enforcement of the UK’s new online safety rules started on Friday, forcing a variety of platforms to roll out mandatory age verification tools for Brits. We already know that the age-gating checks are easy to bypass with a VPN, but what we didn’t…