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The article from Macworld - Digital Edition discusses the shortcomings of Apple's Messages app despite its popularity and recent updates. The author highlights the overwhelming nature of new features like Tapbacks, which generate multiple notifications and distractions. The article suggests that Apple should provide users with more control over notifications, allowing for customization and intelligent management of message threads to reduce interruptions. The author emphasizes the need for a more nuanced notification system to enhance the messaging experience without overwhelming users. [Extracted from the article]

Apple has made a change to its packaging for the new iPad Pros and iPad Airs, removing the small sheet with two Apple logo stickers that were traditionally included. This change is part of Apple's environmental push to eliminate plastic from its packaging. While Apple stores will have stickers available upon request, it is unclear if third-party retailers will have them. This change may go unnoticed by many, but it marks the end of another benefit that Apple customers have enjoyed. [Extracted from the article]

Microsoft has released guidelines for what constitutes an "AI PC," but the definition is mostly focused on branding. According to Intel, vendors will need three specific components to advertise their machines as AI PCs: NPU, CPU, and GPU powered silicon. An NPU, or neural processing unit, is a processor designed for specific AI tasks, although its exact capabilities are unclear. Microsoft also requires that an AI PC include its Copilot assistant, with a dedicated button on the keyboard. However, it is not clear how an AI PC is better than a regular PC for consumers. [Extracted from the article]

A designer lovingly recreated a classic beige box PC in miniature on YouTube, right down to the stickers and CD-ROM volume wheel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here's what you need to know about that Energy Star sticker you've seen on laptops and what it means. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This fanciful laptop was shown off at Computex, billed as a way to customize the look of your device without applying stickers or using power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intel has added a new Evo Edition badge for premium Core Ultra laptops, requiring they offer long battery life, AI, and a quiet working environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Protector case has a safety orange version with a two-part design that lets the AirTag Apple logo peek through a circular cutout. That lets you replace an AirTag battery without removing the adhesive, or you can remove the AirTag. Some AirTag cases are made for hiding; some are made to submerge for half an hour, meters below the surface; some to make the AirTag unremovable. [Extracted from the article]

Windows 11 offers a deeply hidden feature for beautifying the desktop with colorful clipart stickers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Orange you glad you read this short guide on which stickers indicate "real" AMD Ryzen 7000 hardware with Zen 4 chips? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AM5 motherboard buyers were shocked and angry to find their RAM slots damaged after removing a warning sticker [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PC gamers are reveling in full shelves and sane sticker prices, as GPU costs have been sliced in half. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If you want to make your coworkers' lives miserable, use a Clippy sticker on Microsoft Teams. Here's how to do it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Steam Sale runs June 24 through July 8, with great discounts on many major games. Here are all the details. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Best Buy is selling the Logitech C920S for $25 off the sticker price. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Acer Swift 3 packs in plenty given its $700 sticker price, boasting a 10th-gen Intel Ice Lake CPU and a sub-three-pound weight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amazon's one-day sale on Tile gear includes deep discounts on Tile Sticker, Tile Mate, and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sticker Eye eliminates many of the bothersome aspects of camera ownership without sacrificing the security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Expensive as ever, Astro's redesigned A50 nevertheless makes a case for its sticker price with a sleeker charging cradle, a return to the more reliable 2.4GHz band, and a refined audio profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Expensive as ever, Astro's redesigned A50 nevertheless makes a case for its sticker price with a sleeker charging cradle, a return to the more reliable 2.4GHz band, and a refined audio profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amazon is selling a 4-pack of the new Tile Sticker and an Amazon Echot Dot for just $60. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tile have refreshed their existing product range and introduced the new Tile Sticker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Get $15 off the sticker price of a solid previous generation AMD Ryzen CPU and 16GB of RGB RAM from Newegg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Asus ROG Phone II leaves no spec unturned, but we really want to know how much it costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Audeze's debut gaming headset, the Mobius, boasts sound quality that justifies its high sticker price—but it's undermined slightly by some first-time-out errors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the Artificial Intelligence-powered custom selfie stickers introduced in Google Allo by Google.

The article presents a video which shows that stickers, bigger emojis and cute effects are not enough for a useful iMessage experience in iOS 10.

The article offers brief information about the wireless charging stickers by the Energysquare.

Evaluates various products to dress-up an iPod. Features of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s removable stickers to temporarily personalize one's iPod; Advantages of Creative Minds' iStyle skins to protect one's iPod from scratches; Key features of MacSkinz's Podskinz, which are thin, hard-plastic shells that cover and protect one's iPod; Use of static cling by Graphic Collective's Graphic Cling to wrap around the sides of an iPod.

Vodafone has backed an idea floated by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that would see NBN Co introducing a speed 'buffer' so that a household's broadband connection more closely matches its wholesale speed tier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on circuit board fabrication through a home inkjet printer by scientists from software research firm Microsoft Research presented at the Computer Human Interaction 2014 (CHI) conference in Toronto, Ontario. It mentions that application of circuit stickers for creating electronics by binding circuit elements onto photo paper. It also notes the utilization of a silver nanoparticle ink in the printer cartridge costing $500 per bottle.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including file organization and computer interfaces, the use of Microsoft Office on Apple computers, and the use of computer company Apple Inc. stickers on the back of automobiles to represent what Apple products the driver owned.

The article evaluates vinyl decal laptop stickers from MacSlaps Decals.