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Tech Resolutions 2024 – 14 inspiring ways to boost your life with tech this year

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support No-one really wants to make a New Year's resolution, so this year we recommend committing to a tech resolution instead. These friendlier commitments aren't about self-improvement, giving up indulgences or hitting gyms – instead, they're little projects to help fortify you against the looming threat of January. And best of all, they all involve tech. We polled the TechRadar team and our many contributors to find out what tech resolutions they'll be making for 2024 – and the results are below. The ideas vary wildly, from an in-depth plan to get back into Blu-rays to another writer's vow to restore their family's old photos using Photoshop. For every laudable commitment to rediscovering comics on tablets or becoming a board games super-nerd, there are more sensible resolutions too – including one writer's explanation of how they're finally sorting out their passwords nightmare, plus another's plan to save money in

AMD in 2023: year in review

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support We’re almost done with 2023, and as ever at TechRadar, it’s time to look back at how the various tech giants performed over the past year. In AMD’s case, we saw some inspiring new products introduced for its consumer processor and GPU ranges, and renewed gusto in its pursuit of AI. There were also shakier times for Team Red, though, notably a string of blunders – the vapor chamber cooling debacle is one that springs immediately to mind, but there were other incidents, and a few too many of them. Join us as we explore the ups and downs of AMD’s 2023, weighing everything up at the end. (Image credit: Future/John Loeffler) Zen 4 gets 3D V-Cache One of AMD’s big moves this year was the introduction of 3D V-Cache for AMD’s Ryzen 7000 desktop processors. There were a trio of X3D models introduced, with the higher-end Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D hitting the shelves first in February. These were good CPUs and we liked them, particularly the Ryz

Forget the iPad Pro – Apple's ultra-portable iPad mini 6 is still on sale at Amazon

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support If you're keen to upgrade your tablet game in 2024 but missed out last month's Black Friday iPad deals, fear not: Amazon is still offering the excellent iPad mini (2021)  for a cut price in the final days of 2023. Apple’s latest pint-sized tablet – which is also called the iPad mini 6 – continues to be discounted to  $469 in the US  and  £531 in the UK  (from $499 and £569, respectively), and although neither price is the best we've ever seen, we don't expect either figure to improve in the coming months.  Why? Well, we’re hearing (via Bloomberg’s  Mark Gurman ) that Apple’s upcoming crop of next-generation iPads won’t include a new iPad mini, with Apple instead set to  refresh its tablet lineup with an M3-equipped iPad Pro and iPad Air in 2024.  Given the now-presumed absence of a new iPad mini model, then, there’s no reason to believe that Apple and/or Amazon will cut the price of the iPad mini (2021) even further before Black

The Roomba j9+ robot vacuum is back to its Black Friday price, and it’s a must-buy

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support The Roomba j9+ from iRobot is back down to its best-ever price at Amazon right now, so if you’re looking for a smart buddy to help you clean in 2024 this is the best time to buy one since Black Friday. Instead of its usual $899 price the Roomba j9+ self-emptying robot vacuum is down to $599 at Amazon – saving you $300, or a third off. As we’ve said already this is the cheapest this vacuum has ever been, and that’s especially good when you consider it only launched a couple of months ago. If you don’t just want a self-emptying vacuum but one with a mop too then the Roomba Combo j9+ is $999 instead of $1,399 at Amazon . This $400 saving is also the biggest discount we’ve seen since the same deal appeared during Black Friday. Today's best Roomba j9+ deals iRobot Roomba j9+: was $899 now $599 at Amazon This robot vacuum may have only launched a couple of months ago, but it's currently a third off at Amazon (its lowest-ever pric

You can save big on an Oculus Quest 2 and kick-start 2024 with a VR adventure

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Didn't get the VR headset you were hoping to get this Christmas? Or decided you want to start 2024 off right by going on some VR adventures? Well, you're in luck as the Oculus Quest 2 – Meta’s excellent standalone VR device – is $50/£50-off right now as part of this year's after-Christmas sales . This means that you can get the 128GB model for $249.99 at Target – instead of $299.99 – or, for those of you in the UK, you can get the same Quest 2 version from Currys for £249.99 . The same deal is also live at other retailers like Amazon and Walmart . Unfortunately, these savings aren’t quite as good as the best deals from Black Friday – which also net you cash back or a gift card worth $50/£50 – but it’s nevertheless a great saving. Today's best Oculus Quest 2 deals Oculus Quest 2 (128GB): was $299 now $249 at Target Meta's Oculus Quest 2 was, until recently, our favorite VR headset and right now it's down to

TechRadar's Year in Review: AI revolution, smartphone evolution, and visions of the future

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support If I had to sum up 2023 in one word it would be AI. Okay, technically that’s two initials, but let’s not quibble – because there’s no doubt that it provided the year in tech with its main story arc. Artificial intelligence was everywhere this year, as every company in the world gawped at the massive impact of ChatGPT, and decided they wanted to jump aboard that bandwagon. You could barely move for new chatbots, new image generators, and new AI-enhanced features in every device released in 2023. And there’s no sign of that changing in 2024; in fact, we expect it to be an even bigger deal. Elsewhere, phones and laptops did much the same as they had the previous year – well, except where they had new AI-enhanced features – so it was in the virtual reality space where bigger changes were afoot. If the Meta Quest 3 was impressive then the Apple Vision Pro looks to be genuinely game-changing, and we can’t wait to see what impact it has in the next 12 m