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This $2 app made my AirPods finally play nice with Windows

The MagicPods app unlocks the full capabilities of your AirPods on a Windows PC. Once installed, it can detect your AirPods ...

Android 16 Update Just Dropped for OnePlus 11 — Here’s Everything New

The OnePlus 11 is now getting the Android 16-based OxygenOS 16 update, following newer OnePlus flagship smartphones.
BGR

5 Essential Security Apps That Actually Protect Your Computer

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today more than ever, it is of the utmost importance that you have one or more security apps protecting your computer's sensitive inner ...
Cartoon Brew

Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...
Mint

5 Windows apps to install first on a new PC and what each one does for you

Every new Windows laptop starts the same way. It looks tidy, but within a day you notice the small annoyances. Finding files takes too long, multitasking feels clumsy, and some formats still need ...
The New York Times

Animation Hasn’t Been the Same Since ‘Toy Story’

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...
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5 Free Windows 11 Apps You Should Always Install First On New Computers

Windows 11 is a solid operating system that offers some benefits over its predecessors. It features a fresh design, solid gaming performance, and offers much better multitasking over the prior version ...
PC World

Get these three apps before getting a new computer

TL;DR: The PC Transfer Kit Bundle gives you three apps to move, backup, and permanently erase files, and it’s only $30. Moving to a new computer doesn’t have to be annoying. The PC Transfer Kit Bundle ...
PC Gamer

OpenAI's new video generation tool Sora 2 is here, but don't worry, Sam Altman says it will avoid the 'degenerate case of AI video generation that ends up with us all being ...

Sora 2, the latest model of OpenAI's text-to-video tech, has now launched alongside a dedicated app. Besides spitting out all of the soulless, AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style animation one could ever ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...
The Verge

Microsoft’s Xbox PC app adds Steam games and access to other stores

The Xbox app is now a launcher for all of your PC games. The Xbox app is now a launcher for all of your PC games. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, ...
ZDNet

This is my new favorite way to run Windows apps on my Linux PC - how it works

Winboat is a new technology to run Windows apps on Linux. The app is currently in beta, but shows real promise. If the developers can deliver, this will be a game changer. Also: I've used Linux for 30 ...