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A few weeks with the Pocket 386, an early-‘90s-style, half-busted retro PC
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Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away
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Ryzen AI 300 performance review: Impressive CPUs, even if you don’t care about AI
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Microsoft strips ads from Skype in a move toward “user-centric design”
Enlarge / A marketing image by Microsoft for the desktop version of Skype. Microsoft If you’ve used Microsoft’s Skype in recent years, you’ve probably noticed that the user experience is less than ideal because of the pervasiveness of ads in the software. Fortunately, that’s going to change in a new update coming to all platforms…

Apple Intelligence features reportedly won’t be ready for iOS 18’s launch this fall
Apple Apple spent a lot of time at its Worldwide Developers Conference this year talking up the new iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 features powered by Apple Intelligence, the brand name Apple is using for various generative AI features. But beta testers still haven’t been able to use any of these features for…