Month: February 2020
Acer Swift 5 (late 2019) review: light on your back, lighter on your wallet
If you’re buying the Acer Swift 5, you’re buying it for the size. Specifically, this 14-inch laptop weighs just over two pounds. For context, it’s more than half a pound lighter than the 13.3-inch Macbook Air or the Dell XPS 13. It’s lighter than the 13.5-inch Surface Laptop 3. You’ll…
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8 Best Smart Speakers (2020): Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri
Smart speakers with Google Assistant, Alexa, and Siri are popular, but which one is right for you? Source
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New Windows 10 patch is the latest to cause more problems than it solves
Windows 10 recently received an update which promises to cure long-standing bugs in the search function, but in a not unfamiliar scenario, this update has broken other bits of the OS and indeed is causing serious crashing issues for some PCs. To compound the grief, it doesn’t fully resolve all…
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BlackBerry phones could disappear as TCL partnership ends
The brand keeping BlackBerry phones alive across most of the globe, TCL Communications, plans to stop selling BlackBerry phones later this year. In a tweet this morning, TCL announced that it “will no longer be selling” BlackBerry-branded phones as of August 31st, 2020, because it will no longer have the…
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Apple News adds coverage of 2020 U.S. presidential election, including guides to candidates, issues & news literacy
As it has done in previous election years, Apple today has added special coverage of the 2020 US presidential election to its Apple News app. The coverage includes curated news, information, and data related to the election from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FiveThirtyEight, Fox News, NBC News, ProPublica, Reuters,…
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What the Iowa Caucus means for getting Iowa online
If you need to get online in Winterset, Iowa (population 5,200), you head to the library. Free Wi-Fi has been in place for a while, but starting this week, the library is lending out ten Sprint mobile hotspots in hardshell cases, prepped for students and residents who can’t count on…
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