These days, if you’re still relying on the charger block that came with your laptop, you’re behind the times. Those things are bulky at best, slow and inefficient at worst. What you really need is a power-efficient, space-efficient GaN charger that charges fast—and not just that, but can charge multiple devices at once. You’re missing out! Right now, Amazon is selling the Ugreen Nexode 4-port GaN charger for just $49.98, and you’re gonna want it at this price. View this Amazon deal So, what makes this charger stand out and worth getting? For starters, the retractable USB-C cable! When you need to charge your phone or laptop, you just pull out the cable and plug it in. So easy, so convenient, and it extends up to 29.5 inches. Plus, when you have multiple devices to charge, you just plug them into the extra 2 USB-C ports and/or USB-A port. That’s right—this thing can charge up to 4 devices at a time. All of that is great with this charger’s max output of 100 watts, which is super fast (so you can juice up your phone in well under an hour) and enough to handle most laptops (including MacBooks). The GaN technology inside means it doesn’t waste energy, doesn’t overheat, while remaining super compact and portable. It’s perfect to take with you on travels—an all-in-one charging solution for your gear. And now that it’s on sale for $49.98, you’re gonna want to jump on it before the price shoots back up again. Snag this charging accessory with this limited-time deal while you can! This 4-port 100W charger with retractable USB-C cable is awesomeBuy this GaN charger block on sale Read...

Well, it had to happen eventually — ChatGPT is now showing ads. “Our goal is for ads to support broader access to more powerful ChatGPT features while maintaining the trust people place in ChatGPT for important and personal tasks,” the company said. Only the Free and Go tiers of ChatGPT will see ads, OpenAI said. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers will not have ads. Ads will not influence the answers ChatGPT provides, and conversations won’t be disclosed to advertisers. When ads do appear, OpenAI says they’ll be clearly labeled as sponsored and visually separated from organic answers. Still, it’s a bum deal for users who don’t want to see ads, or who rely on ad-blocking software to avoid them. The only way out is upgrading to a paid ChatGPT tier (ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per user per month) or settling for “reduced messages.” Unfortunately, that’s been left deliberately vague. OpenAI isn’t saying how many messages you’ll get, whether limits will vary by user or time of day, or how many ads you’ll actually see. The company says ads are necessary to keep providing “broader access to AI.” Just a year ago, OpenAI raised a massive $40 billion funding round. But a paid ad for an enchilada kit is going to keep the lights on? Okay. Read...

Today’s a great day to score a proper gaming laptop that’ll handle almost anything you throw its way, from the newest triple-A 3D titles to your daily work tasks to all those Netflix binging sessions. B&H is currently selling the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI for just $1,299.99 with a “DealZone Savings” promotion knocking $550 off its original price. That’s crazy good—and there’s “limited supply” at this price. View this gaming laptop deal Powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor with 24 cores, a hefty 32GB of DDR5 RAM, a spacious 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and a cutting-edge Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card, this laptop can handle pretty much anything and everything. Windows 11 is no problem, plus you get to enjoy all the features of DLSS 4 for an awesome gaming experience. It’s future-proof for years to come, that’s for sure. The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI is a gorgeous laptop with a 16-inch IPS display at a 2560×1600 resolution and a 240Hz refresh rate. With up to 500 nits of brightness and an anti-glare coating, it’s easy on the eyes in any environment. It’s also smart with its connections: Thunderbolt 4, USB-C 3.2 with 90 watts of power delivery, dual USB-A 3.2, one USB-A 3.0, a microSD slot, plus HDMI 2.1 for video output, 2.5Gbps Ethernet for stable internet, and a 3.5mm audio jack. Other niceties include a 1080p webcam, a reliable 90-watt-hour battery for comfortable usage between charges, RGB backlit keyboard, and support for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4. It’s a little heavy at 5.95 pounds, but that’s to be expected for a gaming laptop of this caliber. Grab this Acer gaming laptop for $1,299.99 while this deal’s still available! Your purchase even comes with a free 6-month subscription to Bitdefender Total Security for 5 devices. If you still want to keep your options open, see our picks for the best gaming laptops. This 16-inch Acer laptop with RTX 5070 is crazy good for the priceBuy this gaming laptop for $550 off Read...

At this point, I’m about ready to give up on Microsoft Copilot entirely. It’s not just the “Microslop” tag that some have pinned on Microsoft or a dogmatic objection to artificial intelligence as a whole. More and more, Copilot just seems like a garbage buffet of artificial stupidity, licensing issues, and design decisions that don’t put users first. For years, all I have wanted to do was for some program to scan my Microsoft OneDrive account and search for duplicated files and photos. I’m well aware that there are “dedupe” services out there, but I’m still very leery of giving a third-party service access to the entirety of my cloud backups. So, when I saw that Microsoft now offers the ability to send Copilot agents into your OneDrive files (version 1.0!), I thought, hey, this was worth checking out. It was time for a good spring cleaning of my cloud storage. If only. This came just a day after Copilot supposedly gained the ability to set reminders (spoiler: while it claims it can, it can’t), following an effort last year to humanize the assistant by giving it a face and letting it remember things about you. On one hand, Microsoft wants this to be the next Cortana — after killing off the far more amiable Cortana — but in business, the focus is simply on making the tool as effective as possible, even as those subscriptions are constantly being tweaked. But I wasn’t focusing on that. All I needed, Microsoft told me, was OneDrive on the web… what else? A Microsoft 365 Copilot license. That meant switching from a work machine to a personal laptop, one with a paid Microsoft 365 family plan. Did I have a Copilot plan? I asked Copilot. “No. There is no email, file, or personal record in your Microsoft 365 data confirming that you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license assigned to your account.” Okay, that was straightforward. But was it right? Apparently not? I discovered that yes, Copilot could search my OneDrive account. I quickly turned up my file containing my benchmarks for Intel’s Core Ultra 300 or “Panther Lake” chips that I’d run at CES 2026. So, if that worked, Copilot should be able to see my Pictures folder and I could begin searching for duplicated files, right? Wrong. OK, let’s confirm… What? I went back and forth. Can you see this file? Yes. But you can’t see this folder? No. As it turns out, Copilot apparently could see everything on my “Home” page of OneDrive for the Web — with a bunch of recent, individual files — but it couldn’t see the folder structure of the “My files” tab on OneDrive.com. At all. Performing a quick edit of a photo in the Pictures folder to bring it into the home page didn’t work, either. So is Copilot an expert in finding random documents floating around the top level of my OneDrive account? Well, no, not really. As it happened, I had about a dozen files from 2023 in that space, so I asked OneDrive to find “all files from 2023.” It couldn’t find a single one. But it did dig through my Outlook and Calendar and give me a list of files from 2023 or referencing the year. Great. Solid work. Remember, this was all preliminary work, just to see if I could eventually create an agent to search for duplicate photos. Could I? Probably not. Microsoft’s example, below, shows off OneDrive’s ability to create an agent, something my version of OneDrive.com does not. But even if I could make it work, Microsoft’s example asks you to select a number of files, then use Copilot to analyze them. I wanted something different: analyze all my files, then pull out a few duplicates to be managed or discarded. Could I? I still don’t know! Cynically, I bet I wouldn’t have been able to. When it comes to Microsoft, “intelligence” doesn’t really equal choice. Microsoft still has PTSD from insane AIs proposing marriage to journalists, and everything still feels very limited and managed. It’s just a shiny new AI personality leading you through the same phone tree while you futilely shout “talk to agent!” I was left with many questions. Was this feature not yet available? Was it not yet available to me? Did I have the right subscription or did I need yet another one? Was Copilot working as intended, or was I prompting it incorrectly? I knew I had given Copilot permission to search my OneDrive, and it had done so. But why was it fixated on OneDrive.com’s Home screen and not the deeper “My files” structure? And why was I wasting so much time on something that clearly wasn’t going to work? At some point, trying to untangle the knot became exhausting. I hate having to accept when Microsoft says a new feature is available, it may still be gated behind a subscription, stuck in a preview, or simply not offered in a particular geography or to a specific customer. It’s so damn annoying to realize that Apple may have chosen the correct strategy by largely sitting AI out. An hour later, all I wanted to do was reincarnate Sam Kinison, march him into Microsoft’s offices, and have him yell “Fix it fix it FIX IT” until someone finally made it work. Sure, Copilot is fine for some things: advanced search, image generation, maybe some research. It works for some people. But for everything else? I think I may look elsewhere. ChatGPT dominates AI use, anyway. In the end, I wasn’t able to actually test-drive Microsoft’s agentic AI within OneDrive. I never got to that point. Instead, I found that the seatbelts didn’t latch and the door wouldn’t close, all before I even tried starting the engine. So why continue? Time to maybe just walk away. 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