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MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar26d ago
Summary - GPT-6 Astra streamed Minecraft 141 hours, built a semi-automatic blaze farm and got Ender Pearls. - A Creeper blew up its storage chest; Astra lost loot, then stalled and farmed potatoes.
MakeUseOfby Sponsored26d ago
You know how most meetings could have been an email? Well, besides the time it would save, the other major advantage of email is that it's already written down from the start.
MakeUseOfby Christine Persaud26d ago
Apple finally graced us with a foldable phone via the iPhone Duo. The smartphone has a 5.4-inch screen that opens to reveal a larger 7.6-inch inner screen.
MakeUseOfby Yasir Mahmood26d ago
I pay for both Claude and Gemini, and for months I opened each one the same way, with a paragraph explaining my background, what I'm working on, and how I want answers structured.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha26d ago
When it comes to internet connectivity, you ideally want some kind of wireless functionality. For laptops, the choice (or lack thereof) is quite simple — you use whatever Wi-Fi card is bundled with...
MakeUseOfby Chris Hachey26d ago
Household tasks can be complicated. They aren't all emptying the dishwasher or doing the laundry (which can be challenging in its own right if you don't know how to read labels.)
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar26d ago
Summary - Android’s Pause Point adds a brief pause before opening distracting apps to make you reconsider.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef26d ago
Windows ships with the Restore Point setting turned off, and for a good reason. First, Windows doesn't want to decide how much storage to reserve for a restore point, and second, System Restore can...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage26d ago
Summary - BOOX launches three Android 16 ePaper devices: Note Air6 C, Note Mini C, and Palma 3. - Note Air6 C (10.3-inch color) and Note Mini C (8.5-inch) offer stylus, multitasking, 6GB RAM; Air6...
MakeUseOfby Chifundo Kasiya26d ago
Excel has a wide range of useful built-in functions, but that doesn't mean you should use them indiscriminately.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke26d ago
Tom Cruise is easily one of the biggest movie stars alive today, and he's been at it a long while.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips26d ago
Everyone's biggest question about the Domain Name System concerns speed. What is the fastest DNS provider? They're often asking the wrong question.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi26d ago
Claude Code may be marketed as an agentic coding tool, but that description massively undersells it.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips26d ago
Whenever I drive a hire car, one of my favorite bits of the process is having Android Auto. My regular car is old and doesn't support Android Auto, which is a pain — and something I'd really love...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage26d ago
Summary - Automated morning newspaper prints emails and calendar as a broadsheet, so you can skip morning screens.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi26d ago
If you right-click a file in Windows and open Properties, you’ll see perfectly ordinary dates for when it was created, modified, and accessed.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah26d ago
Smart TVs are usually all about streaming apps, but that’s not where the story ends. There are all kinds of useful TV apps that solve very specific problems.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura26d ago
Ryobi's green tools sit in the bargain corner at every Home Depot, and for years I shopped them that way, grabbing one when I wanted something cheap that I half-expected to replace.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu26d ago
Several backup services make it easy to hand over your files and let someone else handle the storage. You're entrusting their safety to whoever is storing them, hoping they stay private.
MakeUseOfby Adaeze Uche27d ago
For years, I believed that creating a strong password meant forcing together a chaotic mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, at least one number, and at least one special character.
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