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The Z Fold8 Widens Samsung’s Foldable Range
Samsung expands its portfolio by adding a new form factor to the Galaxy Z family. The original Z Fold becomes the Z Fold8 Ultra, the Flip remains as the Z Flip8, and the new Z Fold8 slots in between. The lineup now offers three distinct experiences, positioned around productivity, content discovery,
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GPT-5.6, the Diligence Stack Agent Bench, and Why Practical Agent Benchmarks Need to Get Real
Most AI benchmarks still do a mediocre job of explaining how useful models are in the kinds of agentic workflows businesses actually care about. That is not because benchmarks are useless. They are useful. But many of them are still optimized around narrow tasks, coding-heavy environments, academic-
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Intel’s New G3 Extreme Shows Why PC Handhelds Will Keep Growing
I have a habit when I review gaming hardware: I use the review as an excuse to finally play something I have been putting off. The RTX 5090 was my excuse to play Alan Wake 2, and I loved that game. The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ became my excuse to restart Marvel’s Spider-Man 2,…
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The Web Was Not Built for Agents. AWS Is Starting to Fix That
The web’s transaction model was designed for humans. You visit a page, see an ad, click a link, or buy something. Every monetization mechanism built over the past three decades, advertising, subscriptions, paywalls, affiliate revenue, assumes a person made a choice. That assumption is breaking. At A
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WWDC 2026: Apple Kept It Real
No Overpromising, Meeting Users Where They Are At WWDC, the expectation is for a long list of new features rolling across every OS Apple supports in its portfolio. This year, Apple reframed that. Rather than leading with what is new, the keynote centered on perfecting and homogenizing the experience
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A Transformed Cisco Steps Into a Familiar Role
At Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas last week, Jeetu Patel took the stage as President and Chief Product Officer in front of 20,000 attendees from 75 countries and delivered on a prediction he made two years ago: that Cisco would be unrecognizable as a company. The portfolio on display made the case wit
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Boring is Best: The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is My Default Snapdragon Laptop
I’m now on day three of product reviewing, and today I’m looking at the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x with the Snapdragon X2 Elite. This is a laptop that gets almost everything right. Good products tend to be boring, and that’s exactly what makes this machine so impressive. I was watching the movie The Hitman
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The Asus Zenbook A16 is the first premium Snapdragon laptop, if you buy the right one
Normally I don’t talk about specs in a review. The spec sheet is not the product. The overall experience is the product, and the overall experience on this laptop is good. Not my favorite in the world, but good. I’m breaking my rule this time because the person considering this laptop is the most sp
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The Dell XPS 14 Is Back, and Dell Nailed It
I have had the new Dell XPS 14 for a few months now. Let’s get the big statement out of the way first: this is the first Windows laptop I’ve used in a long time that feels like they cared about the user experience. Saying a Dell feels as nice and premium as a Mac…
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The PC Built for Agents
The RTX Spark is Microsoft and Nvidia’s joint statement about what the PC needs to become, and who gets to help define that. Microsoft Build, running this week in San Francisco, made the software half of that argument explicit. The Machine Behind the Agent The chip, formerly codenamed N1X, combines
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Qualcomm at Computex: A Decade-Long Bet Starts Here
Cristiano Amon called 2026 the Year of the Agent. The label is directionally right, but it suggests a milestone that has been reached rather than one that is still being built toward. What Computex actually showed is a company positioning itself for a transition that is only beginning, one that will
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Microsoft Build 2026: RTX Spark and Windows’ Apple Silicon Moment
Microsoft Build 2026 was the week Windows stopped trying to win on the spec sheet and started trying to win on the thing that makes a computer worth using. For years the Windows answer to the Mac was some version of “we can match that.” A faster chip here, a borrowed feature there. This was…
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