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Phones, chips, displays and robots — the hardware, what it costs and whether it is worth it.
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Lenovo’s leaked Googlebooks include a tablet, and that’s the surprise
Google never showed a tablet. Every image the company used to introduce its Android-based rework of ChromeOS in May pointed at one thing: a laptop, unnamed, generic, doing…
Google’s AirTag rival leaked before its own launch event
A Slovenian retailer appears to have posted a product page for a Google item tracker that Google hasn’t announced, doesn’t officially sell and reportedly didn’t exist a few…
AMD’s price hike lands 2 days after its 4GB card, and the timing isn’t an accident
AMD waited. That’s the part worth sitting with. According to hardware leaker Harukaze 5719 on Twitter, AMD has reportedly told its AIB partners that GPU prices go up…
Samsung says the RAM crunch gets worse in 2027, not better
Samsung makes about a third of the world’s memory chips. Its own forecast for that market is the least reassuring thing you’ll read this quarter: the RAM shortage…
Nvidia’s next price hike hits every card, not just the $5,000 flagship
The RTX 5090 could hit roughly $6,500. That’s the number to sit with. Taiwan’s Economic Daily News reports that Samsung, which supplies the memory chips Nvidia puts in…
The FCC just banned foreign robots, and US robotics may pay for it
The federal ban on foreign-made robots that took effect July 28 doesn’t stop at Chinese humanoids. It reaches your next vacuum. That’s the part most coverage skipped. The…
Apple just quietly took the crown back from Nvidia [and it barely tried]
Apple is back at number one on the list of the world’s most valuable publicly traded companies, and it got there by doing less than everyone else. The…
I charged my phone overnight for years [and the science says relax]
The thing that wrecks your phone battery isn’t the eight hours it spends plugged in. It’s the pillow you left it under. That’s the short version of what…
Google just admitted the Pixel 11 will cost you more
Google isn’t even pretending anymore. Shakil Barkat, the company’s Vice President of Devices and Services, told 9to5 Google that the next Pixel phone will cost more than the…
