Can AI Make Jokes? PLUS: The History of Laptops and How VPNs Have Improved
This week’s podcast brings you a collection of in-depth explainers, which will show you how AI can (or cannot) create jokes, a look at the earliest portable computers, and the ways in which VPNs have evolved and improved.
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This week, we bring you the following tech explainers, tips, and tricks:
Christian Cawley, Gavin Phillips, and Ben Stegner host this week’s podcast. You can contact them on Twitter:@thegadgetmonkey,@gavinspavin, and@stegnersaurus, with your suggestions for future topics.

Windows is great, but adding this makes it unstoppable.
Don’t let aging hardware force you into buying expensive upgrades.

Some subscriptions are worth the recurring cost, but not these ones.
It saves me hours and keeps my sanity intact.

I gripped my chair the entire time—and then kept thinking about it when the screen turned off.
Flagship price, mid-range phone.
