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Robinhood plans to start a cryptocurrency wallet next month, the company announced on Wednesday. The tool will allow you to send and receive digital currencies, as well as trade them and move them off the app. If you want to take part in the test, you’ll need to join a waitlist. Robinhood plans to trial the feature with a small number of users first before expanding availability to more people gradually.

The company told The Verge it expects everyone will have access to their own wallet sometime in 2022. In the meantime, you can see progress on the wallet by following Robinhood’s Twitter account and blog. The company promised to share whatever feedback early users provide on the product with the community. Initially, the wallet will support Bitcoin, Ethereum and even Dogecoin.

The wallet will use a custodial system, which means Robinhood will manage the keys you need to unlock it. That said, you’ll have the option to move your cryptocurrencies to other platforms should you so choose. Other security features include support for multifactor authentication, in addition to both email and phone verification. While waiting for Robinhood to roll out the wallet feature to everyone, you can start using the recurring crypto investment tool it announced at the start of the month.

There’s no shortage of ways to capture YouTube videos on the web. Take your pick of dangerous websites, or just go old-school and record a video of your desktop. Now, YouTube is finally offering a simpler solution for computer users: A download button. As Android Police reports, it’s currently available as an experimental feature for Premium subscribers. That’s not a huge surprise, as YouTube already offers mobile video downloads for subscribers too. 

Once you’ve flipped it on, you’ll see a download button right next to the share option below videos, or alongside the three dot menu when browsing. After downloading a video, it gets placed in your offline YouTube library. You can choose to grab videos in resolutions from 144p to 1080p — sorry, 4K fanatics. At this point, there doesn’t appear to be any size limit, aside from your available storage.

From my quick tests, the feature works as advertised on Safari and Chrome. Personally, it’s not something I’d use as often as mobile downloads, but it’s a nice option to have for future trips.

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Microsoft just launched the Surface Laptop Studio, a mobile version of the Surface Studio desktop computer primarily aimed at Creative users.

The most visible difference with potential competitors is how the screen goes from laptop to tablet mode, and the images below are worth a thousand words.

Having the display rest above the keyboard is an exquisite way to achieve this, in my opinion, and you don’t have keyboard keys resting on the table’s surface.

There’s also an intermediate “Tent” position that could be cool for watching movies (with quad-speakers audio), playing games, or working with a mouse and keyboard. Small magnets make sure that the display will remain in place until the user moves it again.

The display’s dual-hinge is a concept popularized by ACER in the ConceptD Ezel series, but it seems like a good idea to take this route for a Creative laptop.

The primary downside of the Surface Laptop Studio is the overall thickness. Its base does not occupy the whole width and height of the chassis, perhaps to make it appear thinner than it is, but the 18.94 mm thinness is very acceptable.

That creates an excellent opportunity to store the magnetic Surface Pen ($129.99) in a location that won’t be easily dislodged. I have not tested it, but I wonder if the shape makes it more (or less?) comfortable.

Design aside, does it have the chops to be a great Creative laptop? The mere presence of an NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti GPU is a good sign because having a fast discrete GPU is a requirement in this category. If you need certified CAD/pro drivers, there’s an RTX A2000 SKU as well.

The CPU options are the Intel i5-11300H or i7-11370H, both of which are 35W TDP processors that are more powerful than the typical 15W+ processors used in thin and light laptops. If you have heavy multithread workloads, opt for the i7.

Thanks to the dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, you could easily create a fixed workstation with a TB dock such as the Anker PowerExpand Elite to connect more monitors and external storage.

Overall, this new Surface Laptop Studio (official page) is a good addition to the Surface Book 3 as it covers a very different use case. I suspect that it has a much better Creative experience than Surface Book 3, and for simple sketching, the new Surface Pro 8 (or an iPad Pro 12.9) could be your go-to device.

Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio: New Design For Creative Users

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