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So you need a budget laptop? Good, because nowadays you can find a perfectly serviceable or downright solid laptop that will cost you a relative pittance considering the gross prices of other, top-of-the-line machines. We’ve already offered you the best laptops you can buy at any price point, but there are far more that meet or even beat expectations for what you can get at bottom-rung prices.The HP Spectre Fold: One Device, Three Modes, All MehThere are plenty of laptops that do fine for everyday tasks below the fabled…

Acer has commenced its Republic Day Sale in India, offering a plethora of discounts on gaming, non-gaming, and business laptops, as well as monitors. The sale,…

Acer has kicked off its Republic Day Sale in India. The sale is currently live on the company's online store and exclusive retail stores and will go on till January 26. A slew of gaming, non-gaming, and business laptops and monitors are available at discounted prices during the sale. Acer Predator Helios, Nitro series, Aspire 5 Gaming laptops, and Acer TravelMate series are listed with discounted price tags. Acer's Republic Day special sale also brings free accessories, extended warranties, and no-cost EMI options.…

Without a new generation of NVIDIA GPUs to accommodate, this year at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, laptop manufacturers have been forced to come up with other ways of getting attention. Some OEMs have opted for complete redesigns while others have introduced smaller (and super light) versions of existing models. But on the 2024 Predator Helios 18, Acer has opted for the flashiest method yet, featuring a captivating new hinge along with updated specs.Compared to last year’s model, the outside of the Helios 18 doesn’t look that…

NASA’s iconic space probe is having trouble communicating with its home planet due to a computer glitch, forcing engineers to resort to decades-old manuals to come up with a way to fix the 46-year-old mission.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedLaunched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away from Earth. The spacecraft has been exploring the outer regions of the solar system, but it is recently unable to send back any science or engineering data due to an…

At 12 billion miles (20 billion kilometers) from Earth, Voyager 2 is so far that it takes more than 22 hoursfor NASA’s signals to reach the probe. With its power gradually diminishing, mission planners thought they might have to shut down one of its five scientific instruments next year, but a newly implemented plan has resulted in a welcomed delay.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their ViewA recent adjustment, in which the probe redirects a tiny amount of power meant for an onboard…

Acer has expanded its gaming laptop lineup which comes with new designs and the latest chips. These laptops are powered by 13th gen Intel Core processors and Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs. Acer claims that the new Predator Triton 17 X and Predator Helios Neo 16 are “made for gamers and creators alike,”. The sleek Predator Triton 14 is designed for work or play, while its design makes it ideal for any environment. Lastly, the Predator Helios 3D 15 SpatialLabs Edition brings glasses-free, stereoscopic 3D to the world of…

All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing. There's a vast gulf between the dreamy notion of glasses-free 3D – extra visual depth without any clunky eye-wear! – and the reality: fuzzy imagery, buggy execution, and headaches. Oh, the…

Do you know how many moons Saturn has? The planet has a total of 83 moons, out of which 63 moons are confirmed and named. While, the other 20 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and official naming by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), according to NASA. Today's NASA astronomy picture of the day is about one of Saturn's moons named Hyperion. It is the largest of Saturn's irregular, non-spherical moons, and has odd craters.Captioning the image of the day titled 'Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd…

What Is Distributed Tracing? The rise of microservices has enabled users to create distributed applications that consist of modular services rather than a single functional unit. This modularity makes testing and deployment easier while preventing a single point of failure with the application. While applications begin to scale and distribute their resources amongst multiple cloud-native services, tracing a single transaction becomes tedious and nearly impossible. Hence, developers need to apply distributed tracing…