Have you ever deleted a file you didn't think you'd need, only to find yourself looking for it weeks later? You're not alone, and it's no fun realizing you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you had been more careful. Thankfully, when mistakes like this happen in Windows 11, you can try and recover the files you deleted accidentally or absent-mindedly.

Microsoft's Surface devices are some of the best laptops on the market, featuring premium designs, great displays, and generally high-end performance. Whether it's the Surface Pro 9, which is arguably the best Windows tablet on the market, or the Surface Laptop Studio 2, which has one of the most unique designs for a laptop, there are a lot of good things to say about Microsoft's lineup. However, ports tend to be one area where the company falls a little flat.

The iPhone has some neat options you can use in the Photos app. New ones have arrived with iOS 17, which ships by default on the newest iPhones. One of the tools that has been around for a few generations is called Markup. With this creative and useful tool, you can do tons of things both with your photos and documents. You can create fun photos to post to social media and share with friends, sign documents, add relevant details, and more. Want to learn more about what you can do with Markup on an iPhone? Heres a comprehensive guide that covers it all.

Google has two big operating systems; Android and ChromeOS. The former is mostly found on portable devices, while the latter usually appears on larger devices like ChromeOS tablets, PCs, and laptops. And while the two of them happily live separate from one another, the tech giant wants both of them to work together well. This has prompted Google to show off ChomeOS running off of an Android phone, but don't expect to see it on your own portable devices anytime soon.

Remember when comparing Google's Gemini to ChatGPT just how much faster Gemini was? OpenAI clearly didn't like that, because GPT-4o is so much faster than GPT-4 ever was that it makes GPT-4 look archaic in comparison. We've been testing out GPT-4o for a little while since it launched, and the difference is staggering. As you can see even in the above video, asking GPT-4o to generate a CSV took less than a minute, whereas GPT-4 took nearly as long to just generate the cities being used in the example.

April 2024 was the month of AI hardware, and it did not go well at all. Both the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 were recently released as AI hardware devices promising to change the way we interact with the world. As you can probably infer from the title of this post, both devices failed to live up to their ambitious claims. While first-gen products aren't usually the best, there's a much deeper problem going on here.

Depending on why you ask, there are numerous reasons why some people believe that Microsoft Edge is the best web browser. On the contrary, though, there is another set of people that outright reject it for issues like not being able to easily change the default browser as well as the search engine. While time will tell whether Microsoft manages to address major issues in the Edge browser, the software giant is actively working on removing the creator-tracking feature for allegedly putting users' privacy at risk.

From new iPads to cool new Raspberry projects, a lot happened last week in the realm of tech. Microsoft had a great week, too. The Redmond tech firm offered new Windows Insider builds with features like Start menu Companions, QR code detection in Snipping Tool, and more. In addition to announcing new capabilities for Windows, Microsoft kept us updated about changes coming to Microsoft 365 in the coming months. And we're at it again, giving you a digest of everything important added to the Microsoft roadmap website last week.

With games such as Assassin's Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 4 coming to iPhones and iPads, now is the perfect time to enjoy mobile gaming. There's just one small problem: the touchscreen controls. While these controls are often serviceable, they can often be awkward and unintuitive. This is especially true for big-budget AAA games. If you have a PS5 controller around somewhere, you can connect it to your iPhone or iPad in order to enjoy a more comfortable experience.

Dell unveiled its 2024 laptop lineup at CES in January. Among its new offerings is the Alienware x16 R2, a second-gen refresh of one of the best gaming laptops of 2023. It's not a redesign and only features some spec bumps under the hood, but are the upgrades worthwhile? Let's look closer at the Alienware x16 R2 and x16 R1 and see whether or not the new model deserves your cash.

Photo by Noam Galai / Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative Melinda French Gates has stepped down from her position as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. French Gates, who will officially leave on June 7th, will continue her philanthropy elsewhere, to the tune of $12.5 billion. The money stems from an agreement with her ex-husband, Bill Gates, and does not come from the foundation’s endowment. In her X post, she says she will focus on programs “on behalf of women and families.” “This is not a decision I came to lightly,” French Gates says. “I am immensely proud of the foundation that Bill and I built together, and of the extraordinary work it is doing to address inequalities around the world.”French Gates and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates divorced in 2021. At the time, the two... Continue reading…

Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images Independent presidential candidate and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing Meta for allegedly violating the First Amendment and engaging in “election interference” because it removed a video about him.The lawsuit is not likely to advance far, considering that the First Amendment bars the government — not companies — from censoring speech. Plus, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act effectively insulates online platforms from being sued for how they choose to remove or limit content on their sites.Keep in mind this is the same candidate who has claimed that part of his brain had been eaten years ago by a parasitic worm (he told The New York Times he’s recovered from symptoms including memory loss related to the... Continue reading…