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Software developers spend hours moving between lines of code. Designers jump from one creative workflow to another across multiple screens. Remote professionals move through packed calendars of virtual meetings, while gamers can remain seated through entire evenings without stepping away from their setups. Different routines, different demands, but a shared reality: the chair has become one of the hardest-working pieces of equipment in the modern workspace. Productivity discussions often focus on faster hardware, smarter software, and AI-powered tools. Physical comfort rarely receives the same attention, despite playing a direct role in how people feel and perform throughout the day. Long…

Commodore is bringing back the flip phone for people who want fewer screen traps without giving up every useful app. The Commodore Callback 8020 uses a custom Sailfish OS build and supports many Android apps through Linux, which gives it more range than a typical minimalist handset. The retro look does a lot of the selling. You get a clamshell body, T9-style texting, a small front status display, dome LED notifications, and color options that echo old Commodore hardware more than modern glass-slab phones. Commodore also keeps the everyday tools most people would miss. Its feature list includes messaging, maps,…

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is set to help kick off the Halloween season thanks to the reveal of its launch date. The survival horror adventure set in the popular Hellraiser universe is coming on October 8.The single-player first-person adventure features an original story, with players controlling Aidan as he must rescue his girlfriend from the hellish Labyrinth. Naturally, the infamous Pinhead is front and center, with original actor Doug Bradley reprising the role. Gameplay sees Aidan wielding guns and supernatural abilities such as pyrokinesis, telekinesis, and Hell Chains to battle supernatural threats. Check out the game’s latest trailer below. Clive Barker’s…

Microsoft just launched the Surface Laptop 8. It now runs on the Snapdragon X2 chip (replacing the X Elite on the previous generation), but that’s not the most interesting bit.  The lineup consists of two variants, wherein the 13.8-inch model claims to provide up to 20 hours of battery life on a single charge. What does the new Surface Laptop bring to the table? The Laptop 8 is available in two screen sizes: 13.8-inch and 15-inch (both touchscreens). A new Jade color joins the 13.8-inch lineup alongside the existing options. Under the hood, both models run on the new Snapdragon…

If Windows Widgets have been stressing you out with too much information to handle, all those red badges, random pop-ups, and a panel that opens every time your cursor drifts close to the taskbar, Microsoft has finally heard you.  A new Beta build is rolling out a full “quiet by default” overhaul to Widgets. What’s interesting is that the list of things being turned off is longer than the list of things being kept as is. So what exactly is Microsoft turning off? Quite a lot of things. Microsoft is disabling Open on Hover and Taskbar badging. It is also…

Intel‘s rumored NVIDIA RTX chip could make the PC graphics fight a lot more complicated. Erdi Ozuag, a former editor at Turkish tech site DonanimHaber who now reports on tech through YouTube, says that Intel’s current roadmap lists its first x86 client processors with NVIDIA RTX graphics for the first quarter of 2028. That timing lines up with a possible CES 2028 announcement, but Intel hasn’t confirmed a product name, specs, configuration, or launch date. Özel Haber: Intel’in güncel yol haritasına göre, NVIDIA grafik birimine sahip olan yeni nesil işlemciler için hedeflenen tarih 2028 ilk çeyreği, planlar değişmediği takdirde CES…

Intel’s rumored Serpent Lake processors may have a launch window. According to hardware tipster FX57, Intel is targeting the first quarter of 2028 for processors featuring Nvidia graphics technology. If the schedule remains unchanged, the chips could debut at CES 2028. The leak does not mention Serpent Lake directly, but previous roadmap reports have linked the codename to a future Intel SoC that pairs Intel CPU cores with an Nvidia RTX graphics tile instead of the company’s own Arc graphics technology. What Nvidia-powered Serpent Lake could mean for Intel Serpent Lake first surfaced in leaked roadmaps earlier this year and…

If you use an iPhone, you have probably collected a few of Apple’s privacy email addresses without thinking much about them. Soon they will all look the same. Apple has confirmed in a developer post that it will fold Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email into one shared domain (private.icloud.com), later this summer. It’s a small backend tweak that saves you from having to remember both. What is changing with Apple’s private.icloud.com domain? Right now, these two features hand you addresses on totally different domains. Sign in with Apple gives you a masked address on privaterelay.appleid.com when…

If you’ve been relying on ChatGPT or Claude to help you with your writing, a new study suggests the polished output you’re getting may be giving you false confidence. Research published in the Computers and Composition journal found that AI writing tools create a “fluency trap,” where refined, confident-sounding output masks shallow thinking and gives writers a false sense that the work is done. Fluent doesn’t mean finished Abram Anders, associate professor of English at Iowa State University, and co-author Emily Dux Speltz, assistant professor at the Department of Humanities and Communication at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, followed 38 undergraduate…

A new Mac app is betting that the reason your hydration reminders fail is that they are too easy to ignore. Apps like Loook take a gentle approach, nudging you to hydrate alongside reminders for posture and eye breaks. Hydration Hostage takes the opposite stance. Built by a solo developer, the app sits in your menu bar and takes over your screen on a predefined schedule until the camera confirms you actually drank water. How it works Hydration Hostage uses Apple’s Vision framework to handle verification. Given that the app requires camera access, the developer has been upfront about the…