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Windows 11 quietly ships with a performance lever few users notice: a hidden “Ultimate Performance” power plan that can be unlocked and activated with a single administrative command — and when used correctly, it can reduce micro‑latency and make demanding workloads feel snappier without buying new hardware. Background Windows power profiles are more than battery‑saving toggles — they configure dozens of low‑level scheduler, throttling, and device‑idle behaviours that shape how aggressively...

You’re not alone: Windows 11’s Clipboard History can feel intermittently unreliable, and Microsoft’s own developer documentation explains why the feature sometimes misses items you believed you copied — especially when you copy things quickly, copy large or complex data from apps like Excel, or rely on apps that use delayed rendering to supply clipboard content. Background: what Windows 11 Clipboard History is — and what it’s not Windows 11’s Clipboard History (Win + V) is a convenience...

Samsung’s CES 2026 unveiling of a 130‑inch Micro RGB TV (model R95H) is a deliberate, theatrical push to reframe the television as both an ultra‑premium color instrument and an architectural object, combining Samsung’s new Micro RGB backlight architecture, an AI‑heavy image pipeline, and a gallery‑style “Timeless Frame” to present a 130‑inch panel that the company calls the world’s first of its size and class. Background / Overview Samsung introduced the R95H at CES 2026 as the largest Micro...

LG’s CES 2026 resurrection of the Wallpaper TV is more than nostalgia — it’s a deliberate engineering and marketing gambit that blends extreme thinness with a wireless-first architecture, higher sustained brightness, and modern AI-driven services. The new LG OLED evo W6 promises a “9mm-class” panel that mounts virtually flush to the wall while moving HDMI and source connections into an external Zero Connect Box that streams visually lossless 4K video and audio up to 10 meters away. LG...

Samsung’s CES 2026 showcase opens with a bold claim: the R95H is the world’s first 130‑inch Micro RGB television, a purpose-built, gallery‑style giant that Samsung positions as its most advanced large‑format display yet and as a new milestone in color fidelity and AI‑enhanced picture processing. Background Samsung’s Micro RGB story began as a step beyond mini‑LED backlights—an architecture that places individually controlled red, green and blue micro‑LED sources in an ultra‑fine array behind...

Satya Nadella’s year‑end blog is less a plea for kinder language than a strategic reset: stop calling generative output “AI slop,” build reliable systems around models, and make 2026 the year AI proves its value in the real world. Background / Overview The word “slop” became shorthand in 2025 for the tide of low‑quality, mass‑produced generative content flooding feeds, and Merriam‑Webster captured that cultural moment by naming slop its 2025 Word of the Year. That choice crystallized a...

Samsung’s 130‑inch R95H is a theatrical first impression: an ultra‑large Micro RGB television that promises unprecedented color fidelity by combining microscopic RGB emitters, AI‑driven image processing, and a gallery‑style Timeless Frame designed to make the display read like architectural glass rather than a slab of electronics. The set was unveiled as Samsung’s headline display ahead of CES 2026 and carries a string of bold technical claims — including VDE‑verified 100% coverage of the...

Microsoft is rolling Copilot’s distinct visual language into Edge, testing a Copilot-inspired redesign in Canary and Dev that reshapes the new tab page, settings, and context menus and brings rounded corners, new colors, and fonts to the browser chrome. Background Microsoft announced a strategic reorganization that brought Mustafa Suleyman and several members of the Inflection AI team into a new Microsoft AI organization in March 2024, a move that has influenced Copilot’s product direction...

Cognizant has completed its acquisition of 3Cloud, adding a concentrated bench of Azure‑native engineers and delivery IP to accelerate enterprise AI delivery on Microsoft Azure and to deepen its strategic partnership with Microsoft. Background 3Cloud, founded in 2016 by former Microsoft executives and headquartered in Chicago, built its business as a pure‑play Microsoft Azure services firm focused on modern data engineering, cloud‑native application development, analytics, and managed Azure...

A compact, crowd-pleasing speed comparison that installed Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, 10 and 11 on identical Lenovo ThinkPad X220 notebooks produced a surprising and repeatable outcome: Windows 8.1 came out as the snappiest overall on this vintage hardware, while Windows 11 finished near the bottom in most real‑world responsiveness and resource‑efficiency tests — a result that is technically defensible on the testbed but easy to misread outside that context. Background / Overview The...

The four practical fixes below will get a sluggish SSD moving again on Windows or macOS — without instantly buying a new drive — and explain the why, the how, and the caveats you need to avoid making things worse. Background: why an SSD can feel slow even when it’s “fast” Solid-state drives (SSDs) replaced mechanical platters because they eliminate seek time and deliver massive improvements in boot speed, application launch times, and general responsiveness. The move from SATA SSDs to NVMe...

The playbook for protecting wealth and capturing upside in 2026 is less about chasing one hot tip and more about disciplined repositioning: tilt toward quality large caps, phase in global diversification, adopt a fixed‑income barbell, take measured exposure to precious metals, evaluate upgraded retirement options like the revamped NPS, and make practical, secure AI adoption part of your productivity toolkit. These ten smart money moves synthesize market signals, policy shifts and technology...

I switched my household from Windows 11 to Linux — and the change forced a hard rethink about what an operating system should do for you, who controls your data, and how much of your computing life you want to outsource to a single vendor. The move wasn’t a panacea, but it rescued three machines, brought faster performance to older hardware, and — importantly — put repair and ownership back in my hands in a way Windows hadn’t for years. Notebookcheck’s recent dispatch captures this same...

Samsung’s R95H — a 130‑inch Micro RGB television shown at CES 2026 — is less a conventional TV and more a manifesto about where large‑format displays, color science, and embedded AI might converge in premium homes and commercial spaces. Background / Overview Samsung unveiled the R95H as the crown jewel of its 2026 Micro RGB strategy, positioning the model as the largest Micro RGB consumer panel to date and a statement of engineering intent rather than an immediately mass‑market SKU. The set...

Microsoft’s message to designers is simple: treat Copilot as an ideation partner, not a replacement for craft. That shift—from blank-canvas anxiety to conversational collaboration—is the core promise behind the “Designing with Copilot” guidance, and it has immediate practical implications for anyone building visual identities, posters, social campaigns, or brand assets. Copilot can generate mood boards, suggest color palettes and typography pairings, and even draft on-brand copy, but the...

UK businesses are entering 2026 with a clear, measurable ambition: raise productivity by investing in artificial intelligence, technical infrastructure, and workforce skills—while confronting a widening talent shortage that threatens to slow or skew the benefits of automation. Background Lloyds Bank’s latest Business Barometer shows a marked shift in priorities for UK firms entering 2026: productivity is top of the agenda, with many firms planning targeted investments in training, AI tools...

Microsoft’s bet on turning Windows from an operating system into an agentic platform is the company’s boldest strategic pivot in decades: it reframes Windows as the orchestration layer for persistent AI agents that plan, act, and autonomously execute multi‑step workflows on behalf of users and organizations. The vision — promoted through 2025 previews, Insider builds, and enterprise briefings — couples new OS primitives (Agent Launchers, Agent Workspaces, an On‑Device Registry) with cloud...

A lively new speed comparison that installs Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, 10 and 11 onto identical Lenovo ThinkPad X220 notebooks has produced a striking headline — Windows 11 finishes dead last in many real‑world tasks — but the experiment’s design and the wider technical context reveal this outcome is neither surprising nor decisive. The test is an illuminating snapshot of how modern Windows’ richer feature set and security defaults trade raw responsiveness for capability, especially on...

Journalists and tech communities have rediscovered a deliberately hidden, last‑resort way to reboot a frozen Windows PC: press Ctrl+Alt+Del, hold the Ctrl key, then click the power icon in the lower‑right of the Secure Attention Sequence (SAS) screen to invoke an Emergency Restart that immediately reboots the machine and discards any unsaved work. Background / Overview Windows exposes multiple shutdown and restart pathways because different failure modes require different remedies. Ordinary...

Samsung’s headline-grabbing reveal at CES 2026 is a 130‑inch Micro RGB television — the R95H — a gallery‑scale statement that pairs a sub‑100 µm RGB backlight architecture, AI-driven image engines, and a refreshed “Timeless Frame” design aimed at redefining how premium TVs fit into the modern living room. Background Samsung introduced the R95H as the largest consumer Micro RGB panel the company has presented to date and positioned it as a halo product for its 2026 TV lineup. The company...