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10 Best Chromebooks of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Luke Larsen 2026-02-19 08:30:00

The price for Chromebooks can range wildly, from $150 up to $800, and therefore the specs can also vary. Processor: For the best experience, you should avoid older Chromebooks with Intel Celeron processors. The Chromebook Plus specifications offer a good baseline to guarantee speedy performance, and I’d recommend going with at least an Intel Core i3, Core i5, or AMD Ryzen 3 7000 processor. Just watch out for overspending on configurations with Intel Core i7 processors unless you need the extra

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12 Best Cheap Laptops (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Luke Larsen 2026-02-19 09:00:00

For our full take on what to look for in a laptop, see our guide on choosing the right laptop. Your budget is the most important factor, as it determines what you can expect out of the device you're purchasing. But you should consider display size, chassis thickness, CPU, memory, storage, and port selection. While appropriate specs can vary wildly when you're considering laptops ranging from $200 to $800, there are a few hard lines I don't recommend crossing. For example, don't buy a laptop if

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Claude Code now supports hooks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 04:01:15

Customize and extend Claude Code’s behavior by registering shell commands Claude Code hooks are user-defined shell commands that execute at various points in Claude Code’s lifecycle. Hooks provide deterministic control over Claude Code’s behavior, ensuring certain actions always happen rather than relying on the LLM to choose to run them. Example use cases include: Notifications : Customize how you get notified when Claude Code is awaiting your input or permission to run something. : Customi

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Elon Musk's xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-02-20 02:37:27

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was clinched through secured notes and term loans, while a separate $5 billion was secured through strategic equity investment, the bank said on Monday. The funding gives xAI more firepower to build out infrastructure and develop its G

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This $649 Windows laptop competes with my MacBook Air (and does a few things better)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-20 06:20:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook A14 with 16GB of memory is on sale at Best Buy for $649 - the lowest price we've seen yet. It's a fantastic balance of innovation and value with a brilliant OLED display, competitive hardware, and a satisfying physical form. While its use case is clearly defined, the laptop has its limits when it comes to high-end performance. View now at Best Buy When Asus officially announced the Zenbook A14 at CES this year, I wasn't the only one to be low-key enamore

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Claude Code now supports Hooks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-20 04:01:15

Customize and extend Claude Code’s behavior by registering shell commands Claude Code hooks are user-defined shell commands that execute at various points in Claude Code’s lifecycle. Hooks provide deterministic control over Claude Code’s behavior, ensuring certain actions always happen rather than relying on the LLM to choose to run them. Example use cases include: Notifications : Customize how you get notified when Claude Code is awaiting your input or permission to run something. : Customi

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My Database Is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-20 11:06:11

My Database is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL Sat May 10 2025 • duckdbsqlwebhooks Back Imagine you need to build a system for processing incoming webhooks. You're probably picturing a familiar setup: a lightweight web server (FastAPI, Flask, Express.js, etc.), some Python (or Node.js, or Go) handlers to parse JSON, a sprinkle of business logic, and then maybe persisting data to a traditional database like PostgreSQL or MySQL. Perhaps you'd toss events onto a messa

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Apple to Release Cheaper MacBook Air Powered by iPhone Processor, Analyst Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 12:00:00

Apple will release a cheaper MacBook Air laptop powered by an iPhone processor, according to a Monday post on X by respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities. According to the report, the 13-inch thin-and-light laptop will enter production in late 2025 or early 2026 and will be powered by the A18 Pro processor, the same chip powering the iPhone 16 Pro. This laptop might also give you more color options, including pink and yellow, along with the standard silver. Apple is targ

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Ask HN: 80s electronics book club; anyone remember this illustrator?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 10:46:18

In the early 80's in the US, a popular DIY electronics magazine had a book of the month club that I loved. Most were small and leather bound hardback with topics like: make your own hydrophone; augmented reality (required a full room and a boom arm, sadly); an LCD model rocket launcher ignition; computer vision; lots and lots of robots. One book I remember (large, softcover, yellow cover) featured black and white, pen and ink illustrations of fantastically complex robots and machines. One that

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Robinhood gives out tokens of OpenAI and SpaceX in Europe. Stock hits record

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-02-21 14:30:25

CANNES — Robinhood stock climbed 10% to an all-time high Monday after the company rolled out tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX to users in Europe as part of a larger crypto rollout. It is the company's first move to make private equity accessible via blockchain. The announcement, which came Monday during the company's product showcase in Cannes, is part of a broader push to expand Robinhood's crypto footprint globally. The tokenized assets will be available exclusively through Robinhood's

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My favorite bone-conduction headphones are comfortable, durable, and on sale

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-02-21 14:03:07

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Shokz OpenRun Pro The bone-conduction headphones offer a more comfortable fit but stay durable after continuous use. While this is the first-gen product, it still remains as good as the later iterations. The Shokz OpenRun Pro headphones in Steel Blue are on sale for $110 (save $50) at Best Buy. Headphones don't have to be over your head or in your ear. There's a headphone technology that you might not have heard of that allows you to keep your ea

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This Lenovo Chromebook easily replaced my Windows laptop for work - and I can't go back

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-21 14:17:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is available now, starting at $649. It's the most powerful Chromebook Plus device yet, and earned our Editor's Choice award for its fantastic battery, lovely OLED display, and ultraportable form. There's a limit to its performance capabilities, and utilizing ChromeOS to its fullest comes with a learning curve. View now at Best Buy It seems like every few months we're seeing new Chromebooks pushing the limits of what the devices can do. Their

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I love this wireless remote for more productive workouts, plus it's 20% off

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2026-02-21 18:11:00

Allison Murray/ZDNET Get 20% off this TikTok Remote Control that comes in six different colors when you buy it at Amazon this week. Also: The best July 4th tech deals available now Let's face it, scrolling through our phones is like breathing in this day and age. Whether your preferred scrolling time is spent on TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, or a chatbot, it's begrudgingly become a daily habit for many of us (I'm looking at you, Millennials and Gen Z). No, it's not the most useful way to spend

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The best (and worst) in-flight Wi-Fi service on airlines, ranked

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-02-21 18:25:00

Westend61 / Getty Images I sometimes try to squeeze in work during a long airline flight, and for that I typically need to tap into the in-flight Wi-Fi. How do today's airlines fare at providing good wireless access? A new report from Speedtest app provider Ookla looks at the best and worst of in-flight Wi-Fi. To compile its report, Ookla analyzed the data collected by its Speedtest app during the first quarter of 2025. The results included Wi-Fi performance for individual airlines, as well as

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First reference to MacBook with A18 Pro discovered in Apple code

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-21 23:42:16

Earlier today, Ming-Chi Kuo reported that a new, cheaper MacBook would include the iPhone’s A18 Pro chip. Now, the first reference to the device has been discovered in Apple code. Mac with iPhone chip seemingly confirmed by Apple code Last summer, Apple inadvertently leaked future product listings in code related to Apple Intelligence. As shared by Aaron Perris at the time, the code leaked several iPhone 16 and 17 models, plus referenced a variety of Mac and iPad models. Nearly a year later,

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Lenovo 14-Inch IdeaPad Slim 3 Touch Screen Laptop Is Almost 60% Off, Making It Cheaper Than AirPods Pro

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-02-22 04:40:27

Touchscreens have been available on laptop computers since 1983, believe it or not. But it took decades for them to become widely available and, more importantly, affordable. Now we appear to have moved from “affordable” to “absolutely dirt cheap,” if Best Buy’s $169 sale (58% off) on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook is any indication. See at Best Buy This incredible price for a 14-inch full-HD Chromebook with a 2.05 GHz processor, integrated graphics, 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage is

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My Friends Always Ask Me What MacBook to Buy. Here's What I Tell Them

wired.com Luke Larsen 2026-02-22 04:00:00

We all have that one friend who's tech-savvy that everyone turns to for advice, especially ahead of big sale events like Amazon Prime Day. Well, that's me. I'm that guy. When people find out what I do for a living, everything gets turned up to 11. I review laptops for my job, and almost everyone needs one. If people don't know where to begin, here's how I guide them through the process of picking the right Apple MacBook—where I recommend you start. Start With the MacBook Air You might think n

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I replaced my Windows laptop with a 'premium' Chromebook - and can't go back

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-22 09:00:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is available now, starting at $649. It's the most powerful Chromebook Plus device yet, and earned our Editor's Choice award for its fantastic battery, lovely OLED display, and ultraportable form. There's a limit to its performance capabilities, and utilizing ChromeOS to its fullest comes with a learning curve. View now at Best Buy It seems like every few months we're seeing new Chromebooks pushing the limits of what the devices can do. Their

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Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 Review: A Game-Changer

wired.com Luke Larsen 2026-02-22 09:00:00

Amazingly, the base configuration has 12 GB of RAM. That’s not quite as much as the 16 GB you get in some Snapdragon X-powered Windows laptops like the forthcoming HP Omnibook 5 16—but for ChromeOS, it’s more than enough. Meanwhile, the base configuration comes with 128 GB of storage, and the upgraded model has a 256-GB solid state drive. Performance is solid. Speedometer is a benchmark that tests performance in the browser, which is important for ChromeOS since it's all built around the Chrome

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What can we expect from Apple’s rumored new 2026 MacBook, with an iPhone processor?

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-02-22 14:31:56

Analyst Ming–Chi Kuo has suggested that Apple plans to launch an all–new MacBook next year, powered by an iPhone processor. Specifically, he expects it to have the A18 Pro chip which currently powers the iPhone 16 Pro line–up. While there’s no word on pricing, the only way the report makes sense is if Apple is targeting an even lower price than the $999 starting–point of the current MacBook Air. Indeed, if you factor in discounted pricing on that, then it would have to be significantly cheaper.

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Trump says he has group of ‘very wealthy people’ ready to buy TikTok

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-02-22 23:22:57

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on April 4 that he would again postpone enforcement of a law banning TikTok unless its Chinese owner ByteDance divests from the platform. U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News in an interview aired on Sunday that he has a group of "very wealthy people" ready to buy TikTok, whose identities he can reveal in about two weeks. Trump added that the deal will probably need Beijing's approval to move forward, but said "I think President Xi will probably do it

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To the Postbox

news.ycombinator.com Zoe Guttenplan 2026-02-19 21:28:14

In the middle of March 1931, Virginia Woolf wrote a polite letter to a woman sixteen years her junior. The recipient, a feminist writer named Winifred Holtby, was embarking on a book-length study of Woolf’s work. ‘I should much prefer that the book should be, as you say written impersonally, from material in the British Museum,’ Woolf wrote. ‘My feeling is that when people are alive, so much personality is bound to creep in, that it is better for the critic to keep aloof as far as possible.’ By

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Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-22 16:52:21

Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok 4 hours ago Share Save Laura Blasey BBC News, Washington DC Share Save Future Publishing via Getty Images President Donald Trump has said he has a buyer for TikTok, the video-sharing app that was banned in the US amid claims it posed a national security risk. In a Fox News interview, Trump said he had a group of "very wealthy people" willing to acquire the platform. "I'll tell you in about two weeks," he teased. A sale would nee

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Melania Trump's Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-22 14:45:26

Let's get one thing straight: it's hard to be married to the president. From coming up with epoch-defining slogans like "Be Best" to decking the White House halls with bizarre Christmas decor, it's a tougher gig than most of us can imagine. Our current first lady, Melania Trump, is well aware of the challenge after her previous four-year stint in the White House. Notoriously private — or perhaps just too busy to make public appearances — the first lady's life has been shrouded in mystery. Howe

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-22 15:30:27

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw away all those millions of pages of the original te

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Trump claims a 'very wealthy' group will buy TikTok without revealing who

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-22 16:51:26

The U.S. president said in an interview that he would reveal the buyer in two weeks. The unending saga between President Donald Trump and TikTok may finally get some closure. In an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, the US president announced that there's a buyer secured for TikTok. "We have a buyer for TikTok by the way," Trump said in the interview. "I think I'll need probably China approval and I think President Xi [Jinping] will probably do it." When asked to identify the buyer, Tru

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Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks

news.ycombinator.com Remy Sharp 2026-02-22 16:52:02

Over the years we, as a family, have been moving our purchases away from Amazon, except in one single place: Kindle ebooks. For me it's that I'm incapable of reading physical books (but my kindle unlocked my reading), and with a Kindle, I was limited as to where I buy my books. When I read that it was relatively easy to jailbreak all the Kindle models I used this as my opportunity to move to buying epub books and hopefully more of that money goes to the authors (in an ideal world…). Here's how

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This Ninja 6-in-1 XL Air Fryer Drops to a New Prime Day Low, and It’s Rated 4.7 out of 5

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-22 16:10:26

The Ninja DZ401 Foodi 6-in-1 XL air fryer is the highest-rated air fryer available for purchase on Amazon, with over 37,000 reviews and an impressive 4.7 out of 5 stars. If you need an XL air fryer that can actually do it all, this is the one to buy. Ninja has become the brand of choice when it comes to air fryers, and this inaugural (early) Prime Day discount is open to everyone, not only Prime members. The price of $179, down from the usual $230, is the best deal for 2025 and an opportunity t

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This HP Laptop with Windows 11 and Office 365 Is Only $179, Lowest Price Ever for an HP Laptop

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-22 16:40:35

If you’re looking for a reliable computer without spending $1,000 or $2,000, HP is always a solid choice thanks to its wide range of dependable products. Right now, though, Amazon is offering a deal that’s hard to ignore: there’s an HP 14-inch laptop which is at an all-time low price, likely the lowest ever for an HP laptop of this kind. For just $179, a discount from the regular price of $230, you get a compact, lightweight laptop with Windows 11 Home preinstalled and one year of Microsoft 365

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Trump Says “Very Wealthy People” Are Ready to Buy TikTok

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-22 20:33:39

Just weeks after extending the deadline for its sale for a third time, President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he has found a buyer for TikTok’s U.S. operations. The popular social media app has been under intense pressure due to a law passed in 2024 that requires its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a nationwide ban. The legislation stems from bipartisan concern in Washington that the Chinese government could access the data of American users or use the app

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10 Best Chromebooks of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

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Claude Code now supports hooks

Elon Musk's xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI

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Claude Code now supports Hooks

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Robinhood gives out tokens of OpenAI and SpaceX in Europe. Stock hits record

My favorite bone-conduction headphones are comfortable, durable, and on sale

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I love this wireless remote for more productive workouts, plus it's 20% off

The best (and worst) in-flight Wi-Fi service on airlines, ranked

First reference to MacBook with A18 Pro discovered in Apple code

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Trump Says “Very Wealthy People” Are Ready to Buy TikTok

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