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Nov 1, 2026There is no lack of frustrating and unwanted features on Windows, and Search is perhaps one of the worst offenders. Your experience with Windows Search has probably revolved around irrelevant results, missing files, and painfully slow performance. Wh...
Nov 1, 2026### Summary - Andy's Tech Lab turned an Echo Dot 3 (2018) into a local Home Assistant voice satellite by replacing Amazon firmware. - They soldered a USB to a Dot's board, then rooted it and used Claude to make the Echo Dot Assist software. - This...
Nov 1, 2026I've seen this happen more than once: a laptop with a beefy RTX 40-series GPU chugs through a game or renders video like it's running on a toaster. The culprit is almost always Windows happily defaulting to the integrated graphics. Laptops from best ...
Nov 1, 2026### Summary - Konsole is nearly 30 years old; Kwi is a fresh, experimental terminal for KDE. - Kwi uses Qt Quick GPU rendering and libghostty-vt, claiming 3-35x faster rendering than Konsole. - It's an experiment, easy to embed in Qt Quick apps ...
Nov 1, 2026### Summary - Jet Studio delivers a Godot-like editor for building and flashing 2D/3D games to the ESP32-S3. - Demos hit high frame rates: a 2D shooter hit 85 FPS, an Outrun-style racer at 65 FPS, and a 3D physics test at 55 FPS. - The editor has ...
Nov 1, 2026One busy week after another for Apple has left our heads spinning, with this week seeing several Mac updates as well as a revamped iPad mini. All of this week's craziness comes right on the heels of last Friday's iPhone Duo launch, not to mention al...
Nov 1, 2026Apple has published an EU energy label for the iPad mini 8 that reveals the device has a battery capacity of 4,900 mAh, which is slightly lower than the 5,034 mAh capacity of the previous model's battery. Apple's website lists identical battery life...
Nov 1, 2026Broadcasts app developer Steve Troughton-Smith has shared a Halloween treat for us today: a tour of the software on Apple's upcoming HomeView smart home hub. Apple has already demoed the HomeView to selected tech reporters and content creators, but T...
Nov 1, 2026Until the end of today, Performance Knit and UltraPlush ear cushions with matching headbands for the Beats 360 are available on Apple's online store in the U.S. for $9.99 each, with customers limited to three kits per order. Lower pricing extends to ...
Nov 1, 2026The Apple Watch Ultra 4 has dropped to $699.99 on Amazon, down from $799.00. This is a match of the all-time low price on the new Ultra 4, which just launched in September. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you...
Nov 1, 2026### Tom's Hardware Verdict The ASRock B860 Challenger Wifi is a solid $149 budget motherboard that handles our Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus without issue, but its USB is capped at 5 Gbps, sports weaker power delivery, and its BIOS is behind the times....
Nov 1, 2026Grab a new 3D printer this Halloween weekend, with prices as low as $199 — big discounts from Elegoo, Creality, Prusa and more, with filament and resin printers and consumables on sale Upgrade your hobbyist setup with one of these 3D printer sal...