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At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Essential password management features Easy-to-use interface Affordable pricing Cons No desktop app No web interface No family support Our Verdict Bitdefender Password Manager is a solid option for securing your login credentials, but more advanced users may find its capabilities limited. Price When Reviewed 2.99 per month Best Prices …

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It’s a big day for Nvidia! Not only are the first GeForce RTX 4080 and 4090 laptops hitting the streets today (with absolutely eye-watering performance), but Nvidia also rolled out a feature-packed new driver that unlocks support for those GPUs, more DLSS 3 games, and a lot more. The one thing missing right now? Nvidia’s …

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Image: Michael Crider/IDG If you’ve been following tech news at all for the last few months, you’ve no doubt heard that AI-powered text generation is kind of a Big Deal. ChatGPT and its alternatives are beginning to change the way we do a lot of things, like generating lists of instructions, planning vacations, or cheating …

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Image: Clackeys I’m sorry to crack your rose-tinted glasses, Gen Xers, but the cartoons of the 1980s aren’t as good as you remember them. Put something like Thundercats next to the 90s Batman or Gargoyles and it just looks like a toy commercial. But I will begrudgingly admit that the toys themselves were awesome, and …

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos. The news: Our brains exist in a state somewhere between stability and chaos as they help us make sense …

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China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. First of all, I’m still processing the whole “Chinese spy balloon” saga, which, from start to finish, took over everyone’s brains for just about 72 hours and has been one of the weirdest recent events …

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For over a decade, we’ve heard that small reactors could be a big part of nuclear power’s future. Because of their size, small modular reactors (SMRs) could solve some of the major challenges of traditional nuclear power, making plants quicker and cheaper to build and safer to operate.   That future may have just gotten a …

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Our brains exist in a state somewhere between stability and chaos as they help us make sense of the world, according to recordings of brain activity taken from volunteers over the course of a week. As we go from reading a book to chatting with a friend, for example, our brains shift from one semi-stable …

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video What’s happened: Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year’s breakout text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has released an AI …

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Image: Windows Want Windows 11 on a PC with paltry memory? You’re out of luck—unless you try Tiny11. Tiny11 is a stripped-down custom build of Windows 11 that includes everything you need without all the extra bloatware that often comes with a regular Windows 11 install. It’s designed to run on less powerful computers, requiring …

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