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Best early Prime Day laptop deals: Gaming notebooks, 2-in-1s, and

Best early Prime Day laptop deals: Gaming notebooks, 2-in-1s, and

Image: Rob Schultz/Foundry Amazon Prime Day 2025 is nearly here, and if you’ve been eyeing those juicy laptop deals, now’s the time to commit and jump in. This year, Amazon’s switching things up. Instead of the usual two-day event, Amazon has lengthened it to four days (July 8th to July 11th), giving you more time

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Is Windows’ Alt+Tab shortcut broken for you? A rogue update

Is Windows’ Alt+Tab shortcut broken for you? A rogue update

Image: Ham Patipak / Shutterstock.com Last week, Microsoft released a new optional patch for Windows 11 called update KB5060829. Since then, users have been reporting that the update is causing problems with the Alt + Tab keyboard shortcut. According to Windows Latest, the issues don’t just stop at the popular productivity shortcut either. Other issues

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Lifetime access to the full MS Office Suite is just

Lifetime access to the full MS Office Suite is just

Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for just $39.97 (reg. $219.99) and install it on one Windows PC. It seems that monthly software fees are getting out of hand. If you’re tired of watching those auto-renewals chip away at your bank account, this one’s for you. Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows

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3 things Rhiannon Williams is into right now

3 things Rhiannon Williams is into right now

The last good Instagram account It’s a truth universally acknowledged that social media is a Bad Vibe. Thankfully, there is still one Instagram account worth following that’s just as incisive, funny, and scathing today as when it was founded back in 2016: Every Outfit (@everyoutfitonsatc). Originally conceived as an homage to Sex and the City’s

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Microsoft kills the iconic Windows ‘Blue Screen of Death.’ It

Microsoft kills the iconic Windows ‘Blue Screen of Death.’ It

Image: Mashka/Shutterstock.com Almost every Windows user has encountered the legendary “Blue Screen of Death” (or BSOD for short) at least once. More than anything else, the infamous error screen is characterized by its bright blue color, the sad smiley face, and the bluntly plain “An error has occurred” message, which combine to make the screen

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Don’t toss your Windows 10 PC! Try switching to KDE

Don’t toss your Windows 10 PC! Try switching to KDE

Image: KDE Come October 14th, Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows 10. That means no more new features or improvements, no more security fixes (though you can extend those another year by using Microsoft services), and the gradual loss of apps as they also stop supporting Windows 10. Microsoft wants you to upgrade to

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The latest Fire TV Stick 4K is half off ahead

The latest Fire TV Stick 4K is half off ahead

Brandt Ranj Brandt Ranj is a commerce reporter for The Verge writing about the best deals and gadgets. He previously wrote for Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Futurism, and Popular Science. Streaming sticks can breathe new life into an older TV, and help you get even more out of a modern one. Amazon’s Fire TV Stick

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Lenovo promises 17 hours of battery life on its new

Lenovo promises 17 hours of battery life on its new

For years now, most Chromebooks have run some variety of Intel or AMD processor. The occasional device used a MediaTek chip, but they were often underpowered and cheap devices that were hard to recommend. ARM-based processors have worked tremendously well for Apple on the Mac, and they’re being used in more and more Windows PCs

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Microsoft’s Family Safety app is blocking Chrome on Windows PCs

Microsoft’s Family Safety app is blocking Chrome on Windows PCs

If your PC won’t open Google Chrome, there may be a culprit: Microsoft. Google determined that Microsoft’s Family Safety app is blocking Chrome, though the company hasn’t discovered how or why. “For some users, Chrome is unable to run when Microsoft Family Safety is enabled,” Google support engineers posted on the company’s support blog. The