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Logitech MX Master 4 vs. The World: Ultimate Productivity Mouse Showdown

Logitech MX Master 4 vs. The World: Ultimate Productivity Mouse Showdown

Logitech MX Master 4 – A New Flagship for Productivity Logitech’s MX Master series has long been the gold standard for productivity mice, and the MX Master 4 is its most advanced iteration yet. Announced in late 2025, this flagship mouse “carries over everything we loved about the 3S” – such as the comfy sculpted shape, dual scroll wheels, multi-device pairing – “while adding haptic feedback and an ‘Action Ring’ menu” for shortcuts tomshardware.com. Key Features & Improvements: The headline addition is customizable haptic feedback, a first for any MX mouse ir.logitech.com. A vibration motor in the thumb rest provides subtle tactile
30 September 2025
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Meet Opera Neon: The $19.99/Month AI Browser That Does Your Browsing For You

Meet Opera Neon: The $19.99/Month AI Browser That Does Your Browsing For You

Opera Neon’s debut signals a bold gamble: the company calls it its “first fully agentic browser,” designed to “browse with you or for you” and handle tasks instead of just displaying pages blogs.opera.com. In Opera’s vision (coined the “agentic web” or “Web 4o”), AI agents in the browser could plan trips, shop online, or even build things on your behalf – not just fetch information blogs.opera.com blogs.opera.com. EVP Krystian Kolondra explains that Opera “built [Neon] for ourselves – and for everyone who uses AI extensively in their day-to-day life” techcrunch.com, underscoring that the browser targets users who want more than
30 September 2025
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Microsoft’s Copilot Unleashes AI ‘Office Agents’ That Write Your Spreadsheets and Slides

Microsoft’s Copilot Unleashes AI ‘Office Agents’ That Write Your Spreadsheets and Slides

Microsoft bills this era of AI-assisted work as “vibe working” – akin to its earlier “vibe coding” for apps. As Corporate VP Sumit Chauhan explains, “in the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts” theverge.com. In practice, that means you start with a simple prompt (“Create a budget workbook and chart for me…”) and the AI agent orchestrates the multi-step process. The Microsoft blog calls it “the new pattern of work for human-agent collaboration” microsoft.com theverge.com. In Excel, for example, Agent Mode can automatically apply financial formulas, build
29 September 2025
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Paperless, Colorful, Focused: reMarkable Paper Pro & ‘Move’ Reinvent the Notepad

Paperless, Colorful, Focused: reMarkable Paper Pro & ‘Move’ Reinvent the Notepad

Key Facts Meet the reMarkable Paper Pro & Move – Digital Notebooks for the Modern Age reMarkable’s paper tablets have earned a cult following for their singular focus: replacing your notebook and printouts with a digital equivalent that feels just like paper, minus the clutter. The new Paper Pro Move is the latest iteration of this vision, taking the technology of last year’s flagship Paper Pro and shrinking it down to a more portable form. As Wired puts it, the Move is “the classic reporter’s notepad turned digital”. It’s roughly one-third the size of its big sibling, truly pocketable at
3 September 2025
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Slack vs Discord vs Telegram in 2025: Which One Is Really Best for You?

Slack vs Discord vs Telegram in 2025: Which One Is Really Best for You?

Slack (launched in 2013) is primarily a workplace collaboration tool with structured channels and threads, and in 2024–25 reported roughly 65–79 million monthly active users and 42–47 million daily active users. Discord (launched in 2015) focuses on real-time voice and video for online communities, with a default server member limit of 250,000 (raiseable) and around 200 million monthly users in 2024, including servers that reach millions. Telegram (launched in 2013) blends private messaging with large broadcast channels and groups up to 200,000 members, plus unlimited channels and Topics in Groups introduced in 2023. Slack’s ecosystem is an integration powerhouse with
22 August 2025
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Cloud Storage Showdown 2025: Google Drive vs Dropbox vs OneDrive – Which Reigns Supreme?

Cloud Storage Showdown 2025: Google Drive vs Dropbox vs OneDrive – Which Reigns Supreme?

Google Drive offers 15 GB of free storage shared with Gmail and Google Photos, while OneDrive provides 5 GB and Dropbox 2 GB. Paid 2 TB plans typically run about $8.33 per month for Google Drive and OneDrive when billed annually, while Dropbox charges around $11.99 per month for 2 TB. Dropbox and OneDrive use block-level syncing to speed updates, while Google Drive does not use block-level diffing. Dropbox is the only one among the three with an official Linux desktop client, whereas Google Drive and OneDrive do not. OneDrive supports files up to 250 GB, Google Drive up to
22 August 2025
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Ultimate Productivity Mouse Showdown: Logitech MX Master 3S vs Razer Pro Click V2 vs Keychron M6 (2025)

Ultimate Productivity Mouse Showdown: Logitech MX Master 3S vs Razer Pro Click V2 vs Keychron M6 (2025)

Logitech MX Master 3S uses a Darkfield optical sensor up to 8,000 DPI and a 125 Hz polling rate. It weighs 141 g and contains a 500 mAh battery rated for up to 70 days on a full charge, with about 3 hours of use from a 1-minute USB-C fast charge. The MX Master 3S has a dedicated horizontal thumb wheel for horizontal scrolling, adjustable in Logitech Options+. Razer Pro Click V2 uses the Focus Pro 30K Optical Sensor up to 30,000 DPI with 550 inches-per-second tracking and 40G acceleration, and supports 1000 Hz polling. It can connect to up
17 August 2025
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AI Coding Assistant Showdown: GitHub Copilot Enterprise vs Google Gemini vs Amazon Q Developer Pro

AI Coding Assistant Showdown: GitHub Copilot Enterprise vs Google Gemini vs Amazon Q Developer Pro

GitHub Copilot Enterprise runs on OpenAI Codex and GPT-4, provides real-time code suggestions and can generate entire functions from natural language prompts, with a six‑month enterprise trial showing 94% of developers staying “in the flow” and 88% of Copilot’s suggestions kept in final code. Copilot Workspace is planned to enable multi‑step tasks and autonomous code changes across a codebase. Copilot Enterprise is priced at $39 per user per month, launched as GA in early 2024, includes admin controls and privacy commitments, and does not train on private code unless explicitly opted in. Google Gemini Code Assist uses the Gemini family
14 August 2025
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Work Smarter, Not Longer: 12 Real AI Automations That Free Up Your Week

Work Smarter, Not Longer: 12 Real AI Automations That Free Up Your Week

In 2023, a McKinsey study estimated that AI could automate up to 45% of repetitive tasks, potentially saving hours for workers. Salesforce data from late 2023 shows marketers using generative AI saved about 5 hours per week on content creation tasks. HubSpot reports that sales reps using AI save 2 hours 15 minutes per day, roughly 11 hours per week overall. JetBlue’s live AI chatbot implementation reportedly saved about 4.7 minutes per chat and about 73,000 agent hours in a single quarter. Unilever’s AI hiring program reportedly saved over 50,000 hours of candidate interview time over 18 months and cut
14 August 2025
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Ultimate 2025 Showdown: iOS vs Android vs HarmonyOS — Which Mobile OS Reigns Supreme?

AI at Work: 12 Real Automations That Save 5–10 Hours a Week

AI-Powered Meeting Summaries & Action Items: Otter.ai, Zoom AI Companion, and Microsoft Teams Copilot transcribe meetings and generate summaries, with Microsoft data showing heavy users saving about 8 hours per month and typical users saving 3–5 hours per week. Automated Email Drafting & Responses: Gabrielle, a freelance branding consultant, uses ChatGPT in Gmail to draft client FAQs and replies, saving about 4–5 hours per week. Marketing Content Creation: Notion AI, Jasper, and ChatGPT generate first drafts for blogs and social posts, cutting writing time by roughly 40% and turning a 1,500-word blog from about 4–5 hours into around 2 hours
14 August 2025
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Battle of the 2025 Ultrabook Flagships: MacBook vs Windows vs Chrome – Which Reigns Supreme?

Battle of the 2025 Ultrabook Flagships: MacBook vs Windows vs Chrome – Which Reigns Supreme?

Mid-2025 flagship ultrabooks span macOS, Windows 11, and ChromeOS, including Apple’s MacBook Air and Pro lines plus Dell XPS 13 Plus, HP Spectre x360 14, Lenovo Yoga 9i 14, ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED, Microsoft Surface Laptop 5, and HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook. MacBook Air 13″ (M2/M3) features a 13.6″ 2560×1664 IPS 60Hz display, weighs about 2.7 lb, and starts at $999 with an M3 16GB/256GB configuration. MacBook Pro 14″ (M3 Pro/Max) uses a 14.2″ 3024×1964 mini-LED panel with 120Hz ProMotion, weighs about 1.6 kg (≈3.5 lb), and can last around 18 hours web use, starting at $1,599. Dell XPS
9 August 2025
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AI Humanizer Showdown: Humanize AI vs QuillBot vs Grammarly – Which Tool Makes AI Text Sound Human?

AI Humanizer Showdown: Humanize AI vs QuillBot vs Grammarly – Which Tool Makes AI Text Sound Human?

Humanize AI is marketed as an “AI to Human Text Converter” that can rewrite input from ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing, Jasper, Grammarly, or QuillBot into “100% human-like” content, with no sign-up required for basic use and paid tiers for higher volumes. It offers multiple tones and modes—Standard, Formal, Informal, Simple, Flowing—and two rewrite depths called Basic and Ultra. It advertises AI detection shielding, claiming to bypass detectors such as Originality.ai, GPTZero, and Turnitin, while preserving SEO-critical keywords. It supports multilingual output (English, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, and more) and bundles a grammar checker, plagiarism checker, and its own AI content
7 August 2025
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