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Worst rain expected to hit Auckland during school drop-off and morning commute
It follows a night of heavy rain, with weather warnings in place.

Bruce Springsteen to release seven 'lost' albums
The star has uncovered more than 80 archive tracks, most of which have never been heard before.

Get this excellent Acer Swift laptop with 16GB RAM for just $549
I don’t think you should try running Windows 11 on less than 16GB of RAM, especially with how reliant we’ve become on memory-hungry web browsers. But finding a Windows laptop with that much RAM at an affordable price is becoming harder. Today, B&H has an Acer Swift Go 14 for just $549—an impressive $400 off the list price. This 14-inch laptop looks a little dull, but its solid specs and excellent battery life earned it a four-star rating when PCWorld reviewer Josh Hendrickson checked it out last year. The model on offer at B&H is a little different, with a 16-core Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor and “only” 512GB of storage, but it should have similarly excellent battery life. Other highlights include a 1920×1200 touchscreen, plenty of ports including double USB-C, double USB-A, full-sized HDMI, and an integrated microSD card slot. With integrated Intel Arc graphics, the Swift Go 14 should be able to handle just about any 2D game, plus a few rounds of Fortnite or Minecraft. Just don’t try to throw something like Cyberpunk 2077 at it. But for pretty much any standard office, web, or video purpose, it’s an ideal machine for the task, especially if you’re looking for smooth performance on web-based activity. At 3.05 pounds and a little over an inch thick, it’s no featherweight, but it’s not bulky either. This is one of B&H’s “Deal Zone” promotions, so it’s only good for today—that’s April 3rd, 2025—until midnight Eastern time (9 PM Pacific). Get an order in fast if you want one, though be aware that with a discount this steep, stock might disappear before then. Get an Acer laptop with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 16GB RAM for $549Buy now from B&H

Lenovo spills the beans on RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti cards ‘coming soon’
By this point, you’re probably not surprised that Nvidia is working on cheaper RTX 50-series GPUs. Even if you haven’t seen the various leaks, the fact that the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti exist (along with equivalents from previous generations) sets up a fairly obvious precedent. Even so, we’re grateful to Lenovo for dropping all pretense and showing off the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti graphics cards in a brand-new desktop. The Legion Tower 5i Gen 10 is an upcoming desktop PC in Lenovo’s Legion gaming sub-brand, pre-assembled with “up to Intel Core Ultra i9” processors. It’s a fairly straightforward design with a small-ish, transparent case and an air CPU cooler in the promo photos, though liquid cooling is also mentioned. The rest of the specs are typical, with what appears to be an X870 micro-ATX motherboard, 32GB of DDR5 RAM (up to a maximum of 128GB), and up to 2TB of PCIe Gen4 storage in the pre-configured version. (The hardware itself supports Gen5 speeds and up to three M.2 drives at once, though.) It’s nice, but nothing spectacular. It looks like a mid-range desktop build for those who don’t want to sully their hands with a screwdriver. What caught the eye of VideoCardz.com, however, is that the graphics card options include the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, the RTX 5060 Ti, and the RTX 5060. The last two on that list don’t officially exist yet, even though they’ve been popping up in regulatory listings for the last few weeks. It’s also weird that Lenovo would offer the 5070 Ti without the 5070 as another option, but whatever. Supplier stuff can get weird. Lenovo isn’t forthcoming on the specs for those cards, indicating that perhaps the marketing copy was written up with the intention of being published after a yet-to-surface Nvidia announcement. We had heard that the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti were headed to add-in-board and OEM partners last month. There’s no price or release date for the Legion Tower 5i Gen 10, only that it’s “coming soon.” With the RTX 5070 using 12GB of video memory, it seems unlikely that the RTX 5060 Ti would use any more than that, and I’d be shocked to see the RTX 5060 at anything but 8GB. The retail prices of both would obviously come below the RTX 5070’s $550, but who knows by how much… especially with the Trump regime’s tariffs causing price chaos in the US and beyond, not to mention the usual AIB pump-ups. It’s possible these cheaper cards will only be “affordable” in a purely relative sense.

Foxit PDF Editor 13 review: Ready for business
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Powerful editing, redaction, and AI-assisted tools Familiar, intuitive interface Integration with cloud storage and eSign Cons Some advanced features only available in Editor+ plan Our Verdict Foxit PDF Editor is a fantastic Acrobat alternative for business users who work regularly with PDF documents. It provides all the tools you need to edit content, protect sensitive information, and collaborate with other document stakeholders. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Editor’s note: This review was updated April 3, 2025 to reflect the most current features and pricing. Foxit is well known in business circles for its innovative PDF products and services. Its flagship PDF Editor is now available in two streamlined versions for individual users, business teams, and educational institutions: Foxit PDF Editor and Foxit PDF Editor+. Both include cloud storage and mobile access, while the Editor+ plan adds eSign and AI-powered tools. Read on to learn more, then see our roundup of the best PDF editors for comparison. Foxit PDF Editor design and features Foxit PDF Editor uses the familiar Office-style ribbon interface. A row of task-specific tabs—such as Convert, Edit, Comment, and Organize—runs across the top, and each tab reveals a contextual set of tools for that function. This keeps the layout streamlined and easy to navigate, particularly for users accustomed to Microsoft Office. Upon launching the app, you’re presented with a home dashboard that includes tool shortcuts for common workflows, a list of recently opened files, and access to your Foxit Cloud documents. This hub view also appears whenever you close an open document. Editing text within a PDF feels intuitive, much like working in a word processor. You select the Edit tab, click Edit Text, then click on the text block you want to modify. You can type directly into the document, remove or highlight text, and adjust fonts and formatting from the context-sensitive Format panel on the right. You can also resize or rotate individual text boxes by dragging their borders. Text editing remains box-based, meaning text is confined to the original text container. If you want to link multiple text boxes so text can flow between them, the Link & Join Text tool on the Edit toolbar lets you connect them in the order you choose. To flow added text from one page to the next, you have to use the editor’s Link & Join Text feature. Michael Ansaldo/Foundry Foxit PDF Editor supports creating PDFs from Microsoft Office files, web browsers, scanned documents, or any print-capable application. It also allows conversion of PDFs to multiple formats including Word, Excel, HTML, and plain text. Collaboration features are robust. The Comment tab includes sticky notes, callouts, text markups, drawing tools, and stamps. You can highlight, strike through, or replace text to provide clear feedback when reviewing shared documents. New in recent versions is deeper integration with Foxit Cloud, enabling smoother cross-device editing and sharing. Users on the Editor+ plan also have access to Foxit’s AI Assistant, which can summarize long PDFs, rewrite sections, or translate selected text—adding powerful new functionality for business and academic users alike. ChatGPT integration enables you to get document help from an AI assistant. Michael Ansaldo/Foundry Foxit includes a full set of annotation tools for collaborating with others in the Comments tab. Business extras Foxit PDF Editor includes a strong set of security tools to help businesses protect sensitive data. The Protect tab offers multiple redaction options, including Whiteout, which permanently erases content and replaces it with a blank background, and Mark for Redaction, which blacks out selected text or images. You’ll also find tools to sanitize PDFs by stripping hidden data such as metadata, embedded links, and bookmarks. Documents can be secured using password protection, encryption, and custom security policies, and administrators can apply batch processing to multiple files at once. Foxit continues to support integration with popular cloud services and enterprise storage platforms, including Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, Box, and Dropbox. Files stored in these services can be accessed directly from within the editor, making document workflows smoother for remote and hybrid teams. Should you get Foxit PDF Editor? Foxit PDF Editor is available in two editions for both Windows and Mac. The standard Foxit PDF Editor includes the full desktop editor, 20GB of cloud storage, and access to the web-based Foxit PDF Editor Cloud. It’s priced at $129.99 per year or $10.99 monthly. Foxit PDF Editor+ adds advanced features such as Smart Redaction, Foxit eSign with 150 envelopes per year, the AI Assistant, full access to the mobile app, and 150GB of cloud storage. It’s available for $159.99 per year or $13.99 monthly. Both plans include a 7-day free trial that gives full access to all tools and cloud features, so you can evaluate whether it suits your workflow. If you’re an independent professional or small business owner who regularly works with PDFs, Foxit PDF Editor remains a powerful, affordable alternative to Acrobat for modern document workflows.