Surface Laptop 4 long-term review: If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway

TheSurface Laptop 4isn’t the most exciting laptop I’ve ever reviewed. Testing it gave me a serious case of déjà vu; its design has barely changed since I first went hands-on with the original in 2017. The most obvious exterior change on my 13-inch review unit — other than being a different shade of blue — is that it comes with a USB-C port instead of a Mini DisplayPort. That’s it....

9 min · 1788 words · Edward Farrell

Surface Laptop Studio hands-on: My perfect laptop doesn’t exi—

My eyes may or may not have welled up when I first laid my hands on the Surface Laptop Studio. I was only able to spend about 20 minutes with Microsoft’s most powerful laptop, but it is as if the company had combed through my brain and made the PC of my dreams — or something very close to it. Rather than creating a Surface Book 4 with a detachable tablet, the new laptop takes a cue from the desktop Surface Studio....

9 min · 1834 words · Emily Roberts

Surfshark VPN offers full protection for 3 years for under $60

TLDR:Get full VPN coverage with a 2 or 3 year subscription to one of the most popular VPN services around these days, Surfshark. The threats to your security are out there…and they are very real. Even if they aren’t targeting you specifically, make no mistake — shadowy forces on the web are taking aim at the very infrastructure you enjoy. Cyberattacks aren’t just going after banks and tech giants anymore. In fact, U....

3 min · 533 words · James Ramirez

Surprise surprise: Facebook is ignoring Instagram’s harmful impact on teens

Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the social media platformmost used by adolescents– is harmful to teen girls’ body image and well-being but swept those findings under the rug to continue conducting business as usual, according to a Sept. 14, 2021,Wall Street Journal report. Facebook’s policy of pursuing profits regardless of documented harm has sparked comparisons to Big Tobacco, whichknew in the 1950s that its products were carcinogenicbut publicly denied it into the 21st century....

5 min · 869 words · Tracy Mosley

Surprise! An investigation into Tesla’s gaming feature made people angry (Update: Tesla gives in)

Surprise, surprise: Tesla’s under formal investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTHSA) again. This time, the NHTSA is investigating the Passenger Play feature. This “allows the gameplay to function on the front center touchscreen while the vehicle is in motion and may present a distraction to the driver,” according to the agency’sofficial report. As a result, on Wednesday the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened a Preliminary Evaluation (PE), covering 580,000 Tesla Model 3, S, X, and Y vehicles from 2017 to 2022....

4 min · 831 words · Keith Medina
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