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Apple today surprised us with a new Invites app, which is designed for planning events like birthday parties, vacations, and baby showers. We checked it out in our latest video to see how it works, what you can use it for, and to demonstrate all of the different features in the app.
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Are you paying for internet speeds your household doesn't need? Follow our simple guidelines to ensure you find the right speed for your home.
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What sets these chips apart is the incredible combination of power and efficiency - even amongst stiff competition from the latest generation of MacBooks and x86 Windows devices. Workers with high-powered laptops are used to having to plug them in regularly to maintain battery life and enjoy strong performance, but the latest generation Snapdragon laptops do things differently. With Windows on Snapdragon, you get incredible battery life with sustained performance even when unplugged, for a truly untethered, high-performance computing experience.
These are the kind of laptop devices which let your workers stay productive for longer, wherever they are, without constraint. Most laptop owners are used to staying near a charger for maximum performance and expect far less than 10 hours of battery life between charges. With the new Snapdragon X Series laptops, however, you can upend their preconceptions with a new tier of performance and longevity. Snapdragon X Series laptops can offer up to 22 hours of battery life. That's enough for multiple workdays, whether it's back-to-back meetings, long-haul travel, or home-office marathons (with a quick streamed movie in their downtime).
With its mobile heritage,
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Take this 27-inch Alienware monitor, for example. Amazon is selling it for just $199.99, a whopping $180 off the original retail price.
The Alienware AW2724DM is a relatively basic design that nails its core features. You get a 2560×1440 resolution, 165Hz of refresh (180Hz overclocked) for silky-smooth frames while gaming, and support for both AMD FreeSync and Nvidia G-Sync. And again, that IPS panel is far more accurate than the VA LCDs you usually see on budget gaming monitors.
Connections are fairly basic — just HDMI and double DisplayPort — but you get two USB-A ports on the bottom lip for accessories. And if you're looking to spruce up your desk or build a multi-monitor setup, it's compatible with a standard VESA mount for monitor arms. You also get a little lighting bling around the back with an illuminated Alienware logo and "27" badge.
Jump on this hot deal and get it for just $199.99 while you can. Amazon is matching Dell's online store for this price, so check there if it goes out of stock or the price goes up.
Get a 27-inch Alienware IPS gaming monitor for $200
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Opera is introducing Opera Air, a new web browser designed around mindfulness. The app has a "minimalist Scandinavian design" and frosted glass accents, which blend well with the mindfulness concept. While pretty, Opera Air has features for relaxation, concentration, resting, and more, which you normally only see in meditation apps.
There are four break modes: breathing, neck exercises, meditation and "full body scan." Breathing exercises and meditation can help calm you down by lowering stress levels, while neck exercises help loosen sore neck muscles. The full body scan is a different type of meditation that involves focusing your attention on various body parts and the sensations that arise. These breaks can be as short as three minutes or as long as 15. Breaks can be taken voluntarily or by setting a timer.
Opera Air also incorporates binaural beats as "boosts." Binaural beats are an audio illusion created when two slightly different frequencies are played in each ear, tricking the brain into "hearing" a third frequency. Opera Air has several boosts that improve creativity, help with focus and induce relaxation, among others. Opera even claimed that one can help users recall dreams.
According to Senior Director of Product at Opera Mohamed Salah, the web is beautiful, but the company wants to "look at science-based ways" to help users navigate chaotic (and sometimes hostile) internet content. While mindfulness apps like Headspace exist, Opera Air packs those features in the app many people use most frequently.
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 There are some gadgets we don't realize we even need until we see them, and this mini magnetic Bluetooth speaker - which is also a wireless charger, phone stand and personal light show - is one of them. What's more, it comes in a compact and lightweight package that's built for portability.
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 Adobe has updated the Acrobat AI Assistant, giving it the ability to understand contracts and to compare them for you. The company says it can help you make sense of complex terms and spot differences between agreements, such as between old and new ones, so you can understand what you're signing. With the AI Assistant enabled, the Acrobat app will be able to recognize if a document is a contract, even if it's a scanned page. It can identify and list key terms from there, summarize the document's contents and recommend questions you can ask based on what's in it.
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The feature can also compare up to 10 contracts with one another and be able to check for differences and catch discrepancies. When it's done checking, and if you're satisfied that everything's in order, you can sign the document directly or request e-signatures from your colleagues or clients. Adobe listed a few potential uses for the feature and said you can use it to check apartment leases, to verify out-of-country charges for mobile plans and to compare perks or amenities of competing services. It could be even more useful if you regularly have to take a look at multiple contracts for your work or business.
Of course, you'd have to trust the AI assistant to actually be able to spot important information and catch both small and significant changes between different contracts. If it works properly, then it could be one o
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 Apple today stopped signing iOS 18.2.1, which means that iPhone users who have upgraded to iOS 18.3 can no longer downgrade to the prior version of iOS 18. Apple released iOS 18.3 a week ago.
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 We're just over one week away from Valentine's Day, which falls on Friday, February 14, this year. Similar to years past, many third-party Apple resellers and accessory companies have opened up notable discounts on Apple products and accessories to coincide with the holiday.
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 There are more than 2.35 billion active iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices worldwide, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today in the earnings call covering the first fiscal quarter of 2025.
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