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WWDC 2026: Apple bets the house on Google to fix Siri and save your old iPhone

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Tim Cook’s WWDC 2026 keynote was not about one headline feature. It was about Apple admitting what it could not build alone, while quietly doing something remarkable for anyone who keeps their hardware longer than two years. After two years of promising an AI leap that never fully arrived, Apple changed strategy: it called in […]

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LEGO Sagrada Família 2026: 12,060 pieces make it the biggest set ever

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The first time I walked into the real Sagrada Família in Barcelona, the light hit different. Those towering columns branch upward like trees, and the stained glass throws color across stone in ways no photo can capture. I’ve personally visited inside and this is such a gorgeous basilica that words feel insufficient. LEGO has been

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ASUS Computex 2026 brings AI to every form factor in its lineup

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ASUS used its Computex 2026 keynote to show a full ecosystem rather than a single flagship. Every category received an AI upgrade, from creator laptops down to a new tablet and a desktop tower that could pass for furniture. It was a broad presentation. Headlining the lineup are the ProArt P16 and P14, which become

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Four Days Inside Xpeng: The Self-Driving Car That Fooled a 10-Year Skeptic

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I just spent four days inside Xpeng’s world leading up to the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, and I’m still trying to process what I saw. Cars threading through Beijing chaos like a taxi driver who’s been on the job for thirty years. Humanoid robots in active development. A flying car with 7,000 orders on the

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Qualcomm’s Computex spread runs from $300 laptops to humanoid robot brains

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Qualcomm came to Computex with two announcements that sound like they belong to different companies. One is a chip platform for $300 Windows laptops. The other is a ready-made brain for humanoid and industrial robots. The thread connecting them is Qualcomm’s pitch that intelligence now has to run everywhere, from the cheapest laptop to a

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NVIDIA RTX Spark is the AI PC that finishes your work instead of describing it

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For most of computing history, the deal with a personal computer stayed the same. You learned where the buttons lived, you clicked them in the right order, and the machine waited for your next move. Faster chips and brighter screens changed how quickly that dance happened, never the dance itself. The computer sat still until

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Aiper Experts Duo review: the two-robot pool setup that keeps your pool guest-ready 24/7

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Most pool robots promise to erase a weekend chore, then turn into another gadget that needs babysitting. You charge it, untangle it, fish it out when it dies in the deep end, and wonder why you didn’t bother with a manual pole. Aiper’s pitch with the Experts Duo is that one robot was never the

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MacBook Air M5 vs M4: The $100 Gap That Doubles Storage, and Which to Buy

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You’re shopping for a MacBook Air in 2026 and facing a rare choice: Apple’s still selling the M4 alongside the newer M5. At first glance the M5 costs $100 more, but it ships with double the base storage and Wi-Fi 7. With retailers already discounting the M5 below its launch price, the decision’s trickier than

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Narwal Freo Z10 Turbo review: flagship suction at $599

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We have been trained to think that a robot vacuum under $600 is a compromise, something that vacuums OK and mops badly until you can afford the real thing. The Narwal Freo Z10 Turbo does not play along with that assumption. It inherits CarpetFocus Technology, a 25,000 Pa motor, and the 12N EdgeReach mop arm

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Dreame FP10 Review: We Put Two Self-Cleaning Air Purifiers in Our Living Room for a Month and the Fur Situation Changed Fast

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Every pet owner has accepted a quiet lie. We tell ourselves that an air purifier can keep up with a heavy-shedding dog or a long-haired cat, and then we spend the next six months pulling matted fur off a clogged HEPA filter. Airflow drops. The room starts to smell worse than the air the unit

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Googlebook AluminiumOS Leak: First Look at Android 17 for Laptops

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Google wants us to believe the future of laptops is Android in a Chromebook shell. The 16-minute leak that dropped hours before the official Android Show tells a more complicated story. We sat through the full AluminiumOS walkthrough, and what stands out is not the Pixel desktop mode familiarity or the iPhone link promise. It

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Yoga Slim 7x Gen 11 Review: Best Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptop?

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There’s a moment, usually about a week into living with a new laptop, when you stop noticing it. The keyboard becomes muscle memory, the screen stops impressing you, the fan stops surprising you. With most laptops, that’s when the small irritations start surfacing. With the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen 11, that moment never really

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PongBot Aura is a $499 AI ball machine for tennis, pickleball, and padel

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PongBot has launched Aura, a ball machine that physically reconfigures for tennis, pickleball, and padel from a single chassis. The company set an introductory price of $499, which lands at roughly half the cost of the cheapest single-sport competitor currently on the market, with a planned $999 MSRP once the launch window closes. Early buyers

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Delugs is Developing a Wrist Strap for the Swatch x AP Royal Pop

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We spent the first 24 hours after the Royal Pop announcement trying to figure out if Swatch was playing a joke. A $400 ceramic pocket watch that looks this much like a Royal Oak, and you can’t wear it on your wrist? The lanyard is charming in a 1990s-keychain sort of way, but most of

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Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses Just Became a 007 Gadget, and We Saw It Coming

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After five months of wearing the Even Realities G2 in the real world, the news that it’s becoming an actual gadget inside 007 First Light doesn’t feel like forced product placement. It feels like the first time a smart-glasses maker understood the assignment: spy gear should be invisible, not a face-mounted camera that screams “I’m

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Googlebook Is Here and It Wants to Kill the Laptop As We Know It

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We’ve spent thirteen years reviewing Chromebooks as the budget machine you buy when $300 is the hard ceiling. Google’s new Googlebook, announced today at the Android Show: I/O Edition, is not that machine. It’s a premium laptop built on part of the Android tech stack and ChromeOS, with Gemini wired into the OS, a cursor

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The Value-Tier ThinkPad Where Intel and AMD Finally Tied

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The ThinkPad L-series sits in the part of Lenovo’s lineup that IT teams pick by the pallet and end users rarely think about. It’s been the value tier, the one priced for refresh cycles rather than headlines. The Gen 7 L14 is the one that changes that math without changing the budget, and it does

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The 30-Liter Tower That Pulls 4000 TOPS Without Calling the Cloud

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Workstation buyers spent the last few years watching the AI conversation drift to the cloud. Studios paid for instance hours, finance teams paid for inference latency, and design shops paid for the bandwidth to ship raw assets back and forth. The ThinkStation P4 lands in a 30-liter tower that says the math has finally shifted.

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The 13-Inch ThinkPad That Picks Pockets Over Posture, on Both Sides of the Silicon Aisle

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The 13-inch laptop spent the last three years quietly losing market share to 14-inch slim-bezel designs. Buyers wanted the bigger screen at the same travel weight, and 13 inches started feeling like a compromise. The ThinkPad X13 Gen 7 is the argument that you can still want the smaller machine for the right reasons, and

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A 16-Inch ThinkPad That Refuses to Cost Like a Workstation

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The 16-inch business laptop usually shows up with a flagship price tag attached. Lenovo’s been comfortable selling it that way through T16 and P16 generations. The ThinkPad L16 Gen 3 (AMD) is the one that puts the bigger screen in the value tier. It runs up to AMD Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series processors with

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