desktop
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“This house was the desktop image on my computer years before I bought it,” the musician told Rolling Stone in a 2014 interview.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
In South Korea, Starbucks has told customers to stop bringing "bulky items" into their stores, after some patrons reportedly hogged seats with printers and desktop computers in tow.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Dots aren’t even OpenAI’s first cute little things: It launched an optional “pet” for its desktop app last spring.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Apple unveiled two desktop computers in September, the Mac mini and Mac Studio, which it touted as powerful new options capable of processing AI software locally.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
I dug the little yellow box of worry dolls out of my bag and dumped them onto the desktop.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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The chip shortage is pushing people to buy cheaper laptops than desktops, which can last up to a decade, said Brousse, in Tokyo on his honeymoon.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Cybersecurity startup Ent has raised $100 million in seed funding to help companies gauge unusual behavior on desktops, laptops and other devices, shutting down potential data risks at lightning speed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
The Nvidia chip will be released in the fall, and will power desktops from companies including Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
Once students started using desktops from prison classrooms, he pre-loaded academic articles onto thumb drives they could explore offline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
The other two interviewers had asked a bunch of questions about how he’d handle various repairs of the company’s numberless desktops.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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