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How to keep your Microsoft Teams status active
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The incredible 49-inch Samsung Odyssey G9 gaming monitor is $500 off
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The new iPad Pro would be perfect, if only it were a Mac
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Nvidia could flip the script on the RTX 5090
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A new standard is raising the bar for HDR on PC
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Save $450 on this 17-inch HP gaming laptop with an RTX 4060
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Usually $390, this HP 2-in-1 Chromebook is discounted to $270
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Luke Larsen is a Senior Editor at Digital Trends and manages all content covering laptops, monitors, PC hardware, and everything else that plugs into a computer. Luke joined Digital Trends in 2017 as a native Portlander, happy to join a media company that called his city home. His obsession with technology is in observing the ebb and flow of how technological advancement and product design intersects with our day-to-day experience of it. From digging into the minute details to stepping back and seeing the wider trends, Luke revels in telling stories with tech.
Before working at DT, he worked as Tech Editor at Paste Magazine for over four years and has bylines at publications such as IGN and The Oregonian. When he’s not obsessing over what the best laptop is or how Apple can fix the Mac, Luke spends his time playing designer board games, quoting obscure Star Wars lines, and hanging with his family.