The most useful upgrade for my gaming rig wasn’t inside my PC
…has contributed to the world of AI and tech in a variety of ways including interviewing the CEO of Razer, AMD's Director of Product Marketing and the VP of Lenovo. Passionate…
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4 Pixel AI features I miss every time I use another Android phone
…Google AI gives Pixels an edge Consumers looking to buy a new phone know that hardware improvement has slowed to a crawl, as most brands focus on AI development. I could see…
I paid for Gemini, Claude, and Copilot for a month, but only one of them is worth the subscription
…It supports model switching, which is one of its competitive advantages. 05 / 8 Productivity When comparing AI coding tools over a month-long test, which metric is generally considered the MOST practical…
I switched from Claude Code to Codex for a week, and the trade-offs surprised me
Mahnoor Faisal Apr 21, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
The AI boom crushed PC building, but it's the best thing that happened to home labs
…Sign in to your XDA account The AI boom has made building a competitive new PC genuinely painful. Memory and storage prices have surged to levels we haven't seen in years…
I cancelled expensive subscriptions by using these amazing free alternatives
…I can create a new workspace and start adding relevant project-related pages like documentation, meeting notes, competition analysis, marketing, and more. I created a separate page just to draft a project…
5 reasons I am done with PC building
…What's the point of spending a bomb on a new graphics card or processor for essentially the same experience? Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs banked on AI-generated frames to market insane…
If Claude Code doesn't fix this one thing, I'm switching to Codex
Mahnoor Faisal May 31, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
Agentic coding ruined normal IDEs like VS Code, Zed, and PyCharm for me, and I don’t think I can go back
…I figured it was just the latest marketing buzzword to dress up what we already had. I was already using standard AI autocomplete tools, and while saving a few keystrokes or having…
The Googlebook could finally bring Linux to mainstream users, if Google gets out of its own way
…for the built-in AI capabilities, and I don't believe Google can change that. The real hurdle in Google's path to success in the PC market is the ability to…