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Qualcomm’s latest salvo in the PC silicon wars brings the company’s Snapdragon X2 family downmarket with a purpose-built part for mainstream Windows 11 Copilot+ laptops: the Snapdragon X2 Plus. Announced around CES 2026, the X2 Plus packages the same Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) class used in Qualcomm’s premium X2 Elite chips, while trimming CPU cores and GPU clocks to hit lower price and thermal envelopes — a move designed to put meaningful on‑device AI into laptops that cost...

TCL’s CES-era reveal that the Xbox app will arrive on its new X11L Google TV line later this year marks the clearest signal yet that Google TV is finally being folded into Xbox Game Pass’s living-room playbook — an over‑the‑air update for TCL’s flagship models will convert those sets into console‑free gaming screens and closes a conspicuous gap between Google’s platform and rival TV ecosystems already hosting Microsoft’s streaming app. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming...

LG’s return to the Wallpaper TV concept with the OLED evo W6 is as much a design manifesto as it is a technical statement: a 9 mm-class, wall-hugging OLED that promises true wireless video and audio, dramatically higher brightness, and gaming credentials that push the concept beyond art-piece status into the realm of high-performance living-room hardware. Background The Wallpaper TV was first introduced by LG in 2017 as an audacious experiment in how a television could disappear into a...

A recent hands‑on comparison that installed Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, 10 and 11 on identical Lenovo ThinkPad X220 notebooks found Windows 11 finishing near the bottom in most real‑world responsiveness tests, while Windows 8.1 emerged as the most balanced performer on the vintage hardware used — a striking reminder that modern OS design assumptions have tangible costs on older machines. Background The testbed was six identical Lenovo ThinkPad X220 laptops equipped with an Intel Core i5‑2520M...

Windows 11’s real productivity story isn’t flashy animation or rounded corners — it’s the small, well-integrated tools that quietly shave minutes off everyday workflows and add up to hours saved over weeks. Built‑in features like the Snipping Tool, the modern clipboard, Snap Layouts, Focus Sessions, and Microsoft’s PowerToys transform routine tasks (screenshots, window arrangement, notification control, and quick text capture) from friction points into near‑invisible parts of a productive...

Microsoft hasn’t said “Windows 12” out loud — and yet everything from Copilot’s widening footprint to a new class of Copilot+ PCs points to a single, strategic truth: Windows is being rebuilt into an AI-first platform, and Microsoft is deliberately choosing to evolve the experience inside Windows 11 rather than rush a numbered sequel. Background / Overview Microsoft’s public posture has been consistent: invest in Windows 11, continue annual feature updates, and shepherd customers off Windows...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus arrived at CES as the company’s strategic mid-tier salvo in a rapidly intensifying arms race for Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs — a chip designed to deliver sizable on-device AI performance, multi-day battery life, and mainstream price accessibility without surrendering the premium features that defined Qualcomm’s earlier X2 Elite launches. Background The Snapdragon X2 Plus is the newest member of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Series, introduced at CES 2026 as a complement...

The long-running feud between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell has entered a new, surreal phase: a public “bot war” in which generative AIs — prompted from a partisan archive and then set against one another — openly contradict, correct, and amplify contested claims about events that began in the 1990s. What started as litigation over promotional ideas and allegations of surveillance has become a modern stress test for model grounding, corporate communications, and journalistic...

Zenity’s warning that Microsoft Copilot’s Connected Agents can create an “invisible control plane” — where a privileged or shared agent enables other agents to reuse tools and knowledge without clear logs, attribution, or native visibility — has pushed a fresh, urgent wrinkle into the enterprise AI security conversation: agent-to-agent connectivity is no longer an abstract capability, it is a new attack surface that organizations must govern, observe, and defend in real time. Background /...

NVIDIA’s Rubin platform — unveiled at CES 2026 — is being pitched as a generational leap in rack‑scale AI computing: a six‑chip, tightly co‑designed system that promises dramatically lower inference token costs, exaflops‑scale rack throughput, and a reimagined storage layer for long‑context, agentic workloads — and Microsoft has already positioned its Fairwater datacenter program to accept Rubin racks at hyperscale. Background NVIDIA presented Rubin as Vera Rubin, an integrated system that...

AMD’s CES 2026 keynote pushed the Ryzen AI 400 family front and center — AMD says these Zen 5-based APUs deliver major Windows 11 performance uplifts and AI acceleration that put Team Red ahead in the new Copilot+ PC era, but the numbers and comparisons carry important caveats that every buyer and tester should understand. Background AMD used its CES stage to expand the Ryzen lineup into an AI‑first era, unveiling the Ryzen AI 400 family (and Ryzen AI PRO 400) and a set of Ryzen AI Max+ and...

Microsoft’s rise from “your parents’ software company” to the hottest — and most expensive — name in tech feels both inevitable and confounding: inevitable because the company now sells AI-driven productivity at enterprise scale, confounding because you’re paying a premium price to own a business that’s simultaneously a utility, a research lab, and a capital‑intensive infrastructure operator. Background / Overview Microsoft today is not just Windows, not just Office, and not just Xbox. Its...

Dell’s return to the XPS name at CES 2026 wasn’t a quiet rebrand correction — it was an admission of error, a design reset and a wholesale product reboot that readmits one of the PC industry’s most recognisable badges back into the premium Windows laptop arena. Background: why this matters (and why Dell reversed course) Dell’s 2025 simplification — collapsing long-standing families like XPS, Inspiron and Precision into a three-tier “Dell / Dell Pro / Dell Pro Max” naming scheme — was...

Microsoft’s recent roadmap for Windows 11 frames gaming performance not as an accumulation of single features but as a coordinated, cross‑stack engineering effort designed to make PC gameplay feel more like a console experience — smoother frame pacing, fewer shader hitches, and better battery‑aware performance on handhelds and laptops. Early previews and partner devices already show tangible gains, while Microsoft plans wider rollouts through 2026 that combine an OS‑level AI upscaler...

New TVs are getting physically bigger by the year, but the more consequential arms race is happening behind the glass: processors, on‑device AI, new backlight architectures and software ecosystems that determine whether a giant panel behaves like a window to the world — or an expensive paperweight. Background / Overview Manufacturers are racing on two fronts at once. One is obvious: larger diagonals and thinner frames. The other is less visible but more decisive: new panel chemistries and...

HP’s new "HP for Microsoft 365 Copilot" integration brings generative AI from the cloud to the printer panel, promising to shorten scanning workflows, automate file naming and storage, and deliver on-device translation — all tied into OneDrive and SharePoint for a seamless, Microsoft‑centric document lifecycle. Background HP announced HP for Microsoft 365 Copilot as a Workpath app slated for availability in Spring 2026. The offering embeds Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities directly into HP...

Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 series is the clearest sign yet that the PC industry is pivoting from raw single-threaded speed to an integrated vision of sustained performance, long battery life, and device‑level AI, and Samsung is staking that claim with new chassis engineering, Intel’s latest Panther Lake silicon (branded as Intel Core Ultra Series 3), and a deeper tie‑in to its Galaxy AI ecosystem. Background Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book6 family at CES 2026 as a three‑tier product line...

Sony Honda Mobility used CES 2026 to push the AFEELA project beyond a show car and into a near‑production reality, debuting a new AFEELA Prototype SUV while confirming concrete timelines, partners, and commercial plans that make the venture feel far more engine‑room than concept‑stage. Background / Overview Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), the 2022 joint venture between Sony Group and Honda Motor, launched AFEELA as a mobility brand that deliberately blends entertainment, AI, and automotive...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Plus chips shift the company’s Windows-on-Arm strategy from flagship proof-of-concept into a mainstream play, promising stronger single‑thread performance, a much larger on‑device neural engine, and noticeably better efficiency for Windows 11 Copilot+ laptops arriving in early 2026. Background Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon X2 family at CES 2026, and the X2 Plus is the mid‑tier SKU created to deliver advanced Copilot+ features to more affordable laptops. The...

The new year brings more than resolutions—it brings a clear opportunity to reframe your career, sharpen your marketability, and start the calendar with measurable momentum toward a better job. ABS-CBN’s January 6, 2026 feature by Aneth Ng‑Lim captures that urgency, offering practical pointers for job seekers aiming to upgrade roles, increase pay, or pivot into growth areas; this piece reinforces tactics that hiring professionals have repeatedly validated: tidy your résumé for...