Author: Awais
I review a lot of impressive and expensive tablets and laptops at CNET, but sometimes it’s great to find a fantastic tech device that fills a need without breaking the bank. And It’s even better when that tablet-laptop combo is half off for Black Friday.The Lenovo Duet 11 Chromebook, a CNET Editors’ Choice Award winner, definitely fits that bill of more for less. It might not be powerful enough to act as your only computer, but as a sidekick on a daily commute, a second screen on the couch or taking notes during a work meeting, it’s hard to beat. I especially appreciate…
A new analysis from SE Ranking suggests the llms.txt file isn’t delivering measurable benefits yet. After examining roughly 300,000 domains, the company found no relationship between having llms.txt and how often a domain is cited in major LLM answers. What The Data Says Adoption Is Thin SE Ranking’s crawl found llms.txt on 10.13% of domains. In other words, nearly nine out of ten sites they measured haven’t implemented it. That low usage matters because the format is sometimes described as an emerging baseline for AI visibility. The data instead shows scattered experimentation. SE Ranking says adoption is fairly even across…
Social media used to be straightforward. Brands posted content, reached audiences, handled the occasional customer service issue. If someone had a problem with your product, they vented to friends over dinner. Not anymore. One viral post can spike demand overnight or crater your stock price by lunch. One unresolved complaint can become a reputation crisis before your team even knows it’s happening. What people say in comment sections, in influencer reviews, on Reddit threads shapes perception more than any billboard, ad campaign or website copy ever will. This is the era of social media intelligence. The brands that win aren’t…
its latest LLM: Gemini 3. The model is long-awaited and has been widely discussed before its release. In this article, I’ll cover my first experience with the model and how it differs from other frontier LLMs. The goal of the article is to share my first impressions when using Gemini 3, highlighting what works well and what doesn’t work well. I’ll highlight my experience using Gemini 3 in the console and while coding with it. This infographic highlights the main contents of this article. I’ll discuss my first impressions using Gemini 3, both through the Gemini console and from coding…
Task automation uses technology to manage your to-do list and keep it in sync with the rest of your productivity tools. Instead of manually creating tasks, sending reminders, or updating project trackers, you can set up automations that trigger tasks based on actions or deadlines—helping you stay organized and focused on higher-impact work.I love a good to-do list. (Whether I actually follow that list and check things off in a timely manner is my own business.) And most of the joy of managing tasks, at least to my nerdy soul, is in using automation to make sure everything from work…
AI search company Perplexity launched its Comet browser today on Android. The startup first debuted the AI-centric browser in July on desktop with AI-powered search. The company is bringing most of the desktop version’s capabilities to Android. People can use Perplexity as the default search engine, and they can also mention tabs to ask questions to the assistant. They can also use the voice mode to ask questions about all open tabs. Plus, the assistant can summarize searches across all tabs. Perplexity said the browser can research and shop on your behalf as well, and you can look at what…
Byte-Sized Brief Ulticam IQ V2 adds edge AI and Gemini intelligence.4K camera supports Matter 1.5, ONVIF, PoE, and Wi-Fi.Free 7-day cloud storage plus SD support up to 512 GB. Xthings introduced the Ulticam IQ V2 today, a 4K security camera that mixes on-device AI and Gemini-powered cloud tools. It handles person, vehicle, pet, and package detection on the hardware itself, then uses Google’s AI for scene analysis and natural language lookups. It can also alert you about crying sounds and smoke alarms. You can ask it to find moments by description, and it can stitch clips into a single timeline…
Key Takeaways The cost of Thanksgiving dinner for six to eight people is around $53 at one major grocery store—$8 less than the nearest competitor.Walmart is the cheapest for 10 out of 19 Thanksgiving ingredients, but Target is the cheapest for cinnamon and sweet potatoes.Walmart, Target, and Fred Meyer are among nine leading grocery stores where a turkey costs under $12. Are you busy counting down the hours to Turkey Time? Anyone going to a Thanksgiving feast this year is definitely excited to indulge. If you’re hosting, though, you could probably use a few more days between now and the…
At 29, I wasn’t just finalizing a divorce. I was entering a new era of contractual self-protection. That meant completely rewiring how I think about partnership, boundaries, and my own value.
As part of the upcoming release of Firefox 147, Mozilla has resolved a bug report about missing support for Freedesktop’s XDG Base Directory standard. The report had been open for a whopping 21 years, and the fix will make Firefox installation files cleaner and more organized. Bug 259356, created in September 2004, outlined how Firefox was not following XDG Base Directory specifications, which directs application developers to put configuration, data, and cache files in subdirectories already created in the user’s home directory. These directories are ones you might already know, like ~/.config and ~/.cache, and they’re integrated in Linux as…