Month: November 2024
The Verge’s 2024 holiday gift guide for moms
Azul If you’re looking to tear mom away from TikTok challenges and the endless cycle of scrolling, board games present an old-school solution. Azul, a four-player puzzle game that challenges you to tile mosaics in a palace, is one of the best. It’s a game of ornate patterns and quick…
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Casetify’s latest AirPods case is a giant Gundam head
Casetify has launched a new anime collection, this time based on the popular mecha series Gundam. And just like its collaboration with Neon Genesis Evangelion, its new collection of mobile accessories comes with an AirPods Pro case designed to look like a robot’s head. Specifically, it looks like the head…
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The 50 Black Friday tech deals worth shopping right now from Amazon, Walmart, Target, Apple and others
Black Friday is right around the corner, but the days in which you had to wait for Black Friday proper to get good deals have long been behind us. Now, the holiday shopping season has grown to basically be the entire month of November, and that trend has stuck this…
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Windows 11 Recall is misbehaving in testing, and the fix for the biggest issue is an age-old favorite: turn it off, then back on again
Recall has a number of bugs in initial testing (unsurprisingly) One glitch means it isn’t saving snapshots The cure for that is to reboot the PC (and it’s the fix for another bug, too) Windows 11’s controversial Recall feature is finally in play – well, in testing anyway – and…
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Dell and HP report revenue rises, but the outlook may not be quite as bright
Dell and HP both expect poor revenue growth in next quarters Computing giants say consumer market outlook for PCs is weak A shift to AI PCs may signal shift in outlook, however Two of the world’s largest PC makers have signalled caution for growth over the next few months as…
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TikTok will block beauty filters for teens over mental health concerns
TikTok is placing age restrictions on some of its beauty filters to address concerns about how they impact the mental health of its teenage users. Some of the changes rolling out “in the coming weeks” include preventing under-18s from using certain appearance-altering effects, and expanding filter descriptions to specify what…
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