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LG is taking aim at Samsung’s long-running lifestyle TV crown with the new Gallery TV, a Mini‑LED, 4K “art television” that LG will unveil at CES 2026 and which pairs a glare‑reducing matte canvas, magnetic snap‑on bezels and a curated art service called Gallery+ to turn a living‑room wall into a digital gallery. The set arrives in 55‑ and 65‑inch sizes, runs webOS and uses LG’s Alpha 7 AI processor to drive image tuning and picture optimization for both video playback and static artwork...

MSI’s Claw arrives as a confident — if imperfect — reimagining of the Windows handheld: hardware that reads like a gaming laptop shrunk to your palms, a comfortable Xbox‑style grip, and Hall Effect sticks that promise to solve the drift problem that’s haunted other handhelds, but it still carries the familiar tradeoffs of Windows‑on‑a‑tiny‑screen — battery limits, driver variance, and software polish that can make or break the day‑to‑day experience. Background / Overview The MSI Claw is...

Bringing the macOS "Quick Look" experience to Windows has quietly become one of the most useful productivity upgrades power users can add — it converts a routine file-browsing chore into an instant, keyboard-driven glimpse that saves time and mental context switching. Background macOS’s Quick Look has long been a simple, elegant solution: select a file, press the Spacebar, and a lightweight preview appears without launching a full application. Windows has historically offered similar...

Satya Nadella’s short new blog post asking people to “stop calling AI ‘slop’” is less a PR flourish than a strategic pivot: the Microsoft CEO has framed 2026 as a test year in which the industry must move from dazzling demos to dependable systems that deliver measurable, real‑world outcomes. His argument marries product strategy and public policy — urging engineers, customers, and regulators to insist on utility, instrumentation, and governance rather than applause‑driven launches. The plea...

Windows 11’s dark theme has hit another visible milestone: the classic Run dialog and the long-neglected Folder Options panel are now being rendered in Dark mode in recent Insider preview builds, closing a glaring visual inconsistency that has frustrated dark‑theme users for years. This change is rolling out in Dev and Beta channel builds and—because Microsoft is gating the visuals server‑side—some Insiders see it immediately while others must wait; power users can force the visuals today...

Steam’s final Hardware & Software Survey of 2025 produced a decisive pair of storylines that set the tone for PC gaming in 2026: AMD closed significant ground on Intel in the CPU race among Steam users, and Windows 11 expanded its lead over Windows 10 inside Valve’s gamer‑centric sample—movements with immediate implications for builders, developers, and platform strategists. The numbers are not a full market census, but they are a high‑signal snapshot of the gaming population that drives OEM...

Investors with deep pockets moved loudly in Microsoft’s options market on January 2, and the footprint they left is worth more than a headline—it’s a layered signal that demands careful decoding before anyone copies the tape. Benzinga’s options scanner flagged 19 “uncommon” trades in Microsoft (MSFT) on that date, splitting roughly 52% bullish to 10% bearish, with about $1.15 million of call premium and $598k of put premium reported across the prints. Those trades concentrated attention in a...

The idea that video games are a brain-rotting pastime is finally giving way to a more nuanced reality: under the right conditions, video games can measurably improve attention, learning speed, and indicators of brain health — but those benefits depend on game type, practice structure, novelty, and moderation. Background / Overview For two decades neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists have studied whether the fast-paced demands of action and strategy games translate into improved mental...

Satya Nadella’s year‑in‑review blog landed with an unexpected echo: readers and even Microsoft’s own Copilot detected a voice that felt mechanized — polished, abstract, and heavy on jargon — prompting a fresh conversation about when a CEO’s thought leadership becomes indistinguishable from the output of the very AI he champions. Background / Overview Satya Nadella’s end‑of‑year reflections framed 2025 as an inflection point for generative AI: a period moving from discovery to widescale...

Sony’s next console could slip off the 2027–2028 roadmap and drift into 2029 as an industry‑wide RAM squeeze forces hardware makers to rethink production schedules and price targets, a scenario now circulating across trade press and the gaming press landscape. The memory crunch is not a single‑vendor hiccup but a structural reallocation of wafer capacity toward high‑bandwidth memory and AI datacenter customers — a shift that has already driven supply shortages, supplier strategy changes, and...

FastCopy is a small, focused utility that quietly solves one of Windows’ most maddening problems: unreliable, slow bulk file transfers that drag down productivity and risk silent failures on large backups and migrations. Background / Overview When Windows Explorer is adequate, it’s delightfully simple: drag, drop, done. But at scale — moving hundreds of gigabytes, large media projects, or thousands of small files — Explorer’s copy engine shows its limits: long “Calculating time remaining”...

AI has stopped being a nice-to-have in Windows and is now the operating system’s defining architecture: Copilot, smarter search, on-device neural processing, AI actions in File Explorer, and security systems informed by machine learning are reshaping how people interact with their PCs — and sparking one of the largest debates in Windows history about privacy, hardware gatekeeping, and platform control. Background — why this moment matters Windows has always been an OS of incremental shifts...

The LG OLED65G5 arrives as a statement: an OLED that pushes brightness, packs full HDMI 2.1 gaming credentials and layers in LG’s latest webOS + AI features — but it arrives into an ultra-competitive field where picture nuance and built-in audio increasingly decide buyers. This review-based feature pulls together the Trusted Reviews assessment of the OLED65G5, verifies the headline specs against LG’s product messaging and independent reporting, and places the G5 in context for buyers who...

Fall River Electric Cooperative has opened two front-line positions in Ashton, Idaho — an IT Specialist to support and maintain the cooperative’s technology stack, and a Conservation Specialist / Member Services Representative to deliver energy-efficiency programs and customer-facing services — signaling a targeted hire drive that blends technical modernization with member engagement at a rural electric cooperative. Background Fall River Electric Cooperative is a member-owned utility...

Steam’s December 2025 Hardware Survey delivered a clear — and somewhat abrupt — message: Windows 11 is now the dominant OS among Steam users, vaulting to 70.83% of respondents in the month’s survey while Windows 10 receded and Linux’s slow momentum stalled. The survey also captured consequential shifts in hardware: 32 GB of system RAM is closing in on parity with 16 GB, NVIDIA’s RTX 3060 is the single most common GPU in the Steam sample, and Meta’s Quest 3 sits at the top of SteamVR’s device...

If your laptop touchpad suddenly stops responding in Windows 11, the immediate workaround—plugging in a USB or Bluetooth mouse—only masks the problem. The real solution is a methodical troubleshooting flow that separates quick fixes from deeper driver, firmware, and hardware interventions so you can restore reliable cursor control without unnecessary risk or costly repairs. This article packs a practical, step‑by‑step troubleshooting guide, explains why touchpads fail, highlights safer vs...

Satya Nadella closed 2025 with a short, polished note about where Microsoft is headed in 2026 — and the company’s chief executive made it plain that the answer is AI, again and still, even if a loud and growing chorus of users respond with mockery and the one-word verdict “slop.” Background Microsoft’s leadership framed the coming year as a shift from spectacle to substance: a move away from model-level demos toward engineered systems that deliver measurable, real-world outcomes. Nadella...

Seize the extra room now: Amazon and other retailers are rolling back prices on Seagate’s officially licensed Xbox Storage Expansion Cards just as 2026 looms with a torrent of storage-hungry AAA releases, making this one of the more practical — if still expensive — upgrades you can buy for an Xbox Series X|S. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Xbox Series X|S architecture introduced a compact, high‑speed proprietary storage expansion format — the Storage Expansion Card — to give players a...

Google’s onstage tease at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has moved from industry whisper to a concrete roadmap: the company is formally re-basing ChromeOS on Android and pushing a unified, Android-powered desktop platform that brings Gemini AI, native Android apps, and Arm-first hardware to laptops and desktops — with the first devices targeted for 2026. Background Google’s dual-OS strategy—Android for phones and tablets, ChromeOS for laptops and desktops—has shaped the PC and mobile landscape...

Analytics Insight’s roundup of the “Top 50 Information Technology (IT) Firms in the US” captures more than a ranking — it’s a snapshot of an industry reshaped by generative AI, cloud scale, and the services required to turn model prototypes into repeatable business outcomes. Background / Overview The United States remains the epicenter of corporate IT innovation, hosting hyperscale cloud providers, global consultancies, specialist ML platforms, and nimble engineering boutiques that together...