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If you’ve ever played video games on a laptop that sounded like a small aircraft trying to take off, Intel has heard you (and your laptop). The company’s Chinese division has launched “AI Quiet Plus,” a new certification and optimization program for gaming laptops (via VideoCardz). As the name suggests, the feature uses artificial intelligence to dramatically reduce fan noise and surface heat while maintaining performance. Video Cardz / Intel How does AI Quiet Plus actually work? It might be a bit confusing at first, since AI Quiet Plus isn’t a chip or a software update that you can download…
A slide from Snap’s investor update on highlights AI-driven efficiency gains, saying more than 65% of new code is generated by AI. Snap is cutting 95 jobs in Washington state as part of a broader restructuring that will eliminate about 1,000 positions, or 16% of the company’s full-time workforce. The Snapchat parent company filed a WARN Act notice with Washington’s Employment Security Department on Wednesday, showing layoffs across its offices in Bellevue, Seattle, and Vancouver, Wash. The cuts take effect between April 16 and June 16, according to the filing. A filing with the state shows that the affected roles…
If you don’t know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen Transcend 32. This 4K 240Hz monitor is a favorite among PC gamers, even among the huge amounts of OLED options out there. It can hit a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits in HDR, bringing scenes in games to life in vivid detail.Or if you’re on the other side of the budget spectrum and just need…
Apple’s MacBook Neo is a $600 (or $500 for students) shot across the bow at affordable Windows laptops, and it seems like Microsoft has ready its first response. The newly announced “Microsoft College Offer” is a bundle of Microsoft 365 Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, custom Xbox controller and discounted laptop that the company thinks could woo students away from Apple’s new deal.With the purchase of a discounted machine directly from Microsoft, retailers like Amazon and Best Buy or PC makers like HP, ASUS and Acer, you can get what the company says is an extra $500 of value from…
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced an overhaul of how it processes cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its National Vulnerability Database . NIST is abandoning its longstanding goal of fully analyzing every submitted Common Vulnerability and Exposure in favor of a risk-based triage model that prioritizes the most dangerous flaws. The change, which took effect today, is the result of the sheer volume of CVE submissions that NIST has been receiving and the number is high. Between 2020 and 2025, CVE submissions surged 263% and in the first quarter of this year, they were nearly one-third higher than the same…
When AT&T recently revamped its unlimited phone plans, the top-level Premiere 2.0 plan cost more than the Unlimited Premium PL plan it replaced. (The Extra 2.0 and Value 2.0 plans came in as less expensive options than their predecessors.) And then the company raised the costs of “retired” plans, encouraging subscribers to switch over — but not giving folks willing to pay for top-tier plans much incentive to do so. Now it looks like AT&T is going to add a pricier unlimited plan that includes more hotspot data to the top spot of its lineup. As reported by Android Authority referencing a…
Bluefish is on the verge of an AI-powered breakthrough- helping organizations appear on search conducted on LLMs. Recently, the organization raised $43 million in its Series B funding. This is a huge milestone for Bluefish. “Having reached over 1 billion MAU within 12-months of launch, AI is clearly the next major marketing channel on the internet, just like search, social, or mobile before it,” said Alex Sherman, co-founder and CEO of Bluefish. “To manage this critical new channel properly, enterprise brands are looking for agentic marketing technology partners with the same enterprise-grade sophistication that they expect across their existing marketing stack. From day one, Bluefish has focused exclusively on building the most comprehensive agentic…
If you have ever finished an audiobook and wished you owned the book, Spotify has an easy solution. The company now lets you buy physical books directly from its app in the U.S. and the U.K. How to buy physical books in the Spotify app? Spotify has partnered with Bookshop for the sale of paper books. When you browse an audiobook on Spotify, you will now see an option to buy a copy. Once you tap it, Spotify redirects you to Bookshop’s website to complete the purchase. This means Spotify does not process payments itself. Instead, it acts as a…
1 in 5 Singaporeans are overqualified for their jobs, according to a new MOM study Singapore workers are better educated than ever, but that doesn’t always translate into the jobs they take. A new Ministry of Manpower (MOM) study, released on Apr 14, finds that nearly one in five (19.4%) of resident workers held qualifications higher than what their jobs required in 2025, up from 16.3% in 2015. And most of them chose this path voluntarily, with about nine in 10 underemployed workers—equivalent to 17.7% of the resident workforce—saying they had done so by choice. Many were motivated by factors…
Other Standing Desks to ConsiderPhotograph: Nicole KinningLuxor Compact Electric Standing Desk for $200: The Luxor is a no-nonsense standing desk that does exactly what you expect and takes up minimal space. It’s perfect for students, small apartments, and anyone who needs a compact, budget-friendly setup. At 23.5 inches deep, the tabletop is shallow enough to fit into tight corners or shared spaces. The electric lift moves steadily at an inch per second, whisper-quiet, and the 154-pound weight capacity can handle a laptop, monitor, and a few textbooks with no sweat. The lift mechanism is exposed underneath, so you’ll want to…